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QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 11 July 2017 QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz Archives The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles. This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil …
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Insights into Editorial: Internal insecurity Summary: The internal security situation of the country has not shown any marked improvement in the last few years. In the recent past, a growing number of incidents have led to increased visibility of the deteriorating internal security situation as well as signal, what could well be seminal …
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Insights Daily Current Affairs, 11 July 2017 Paper 2 Topic: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. India to join new global foreign exchange committee India will soon get a seat on the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC), a newly-constituted forum of central bankers and experts working towards promotion …
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[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 11 July 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read answers. General Studies – 1; Topic: Population and associated issues 1) What do you understand by replacement-level fertility? Analyse its trend in northern and southern states in India and importance of its trends to policymaking, especially …
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70 Days ETHICS PLAN Topic: Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions 8) Define ignorance, passion and fear. Examine how these influence human actions. (150 Words) Reference (Page 54, 55 and 56) Note: Tomorrow’s questions will be based on THIS document (Chapter 5)
Topic: Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology 7) How can India achieve the target of becoming a global manufacturing hub? Discuss. (200 Words) Livemint
Topic: Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these. 6) Do you think there is a need for codifying privileges and giving primacy to a citizen’s right to free speech over legislative privileges? Critically comment. (200 Words) The Hindu
Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests 5) What is the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)? What are its important features? Discuss its significance today. (200 Words) The Hindu
Topic: India and its neighborhood- relations 4) What is bottom trawling? Why did Sri Lanka recently ban this practice? How does this ban affect Indian fishermen and, in your opinion, what measures should Tamil Nadu government take? Discuss. (200 Words) The Hindu
Topic: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues 3) Discuss the significance of philosophy and objectives behind the Gandhian ashram. Do you think the Gandhian ashram experiment is relevant today? Critically comment. (200 Words) The Hindu
Topic: Population and associated issues 2) What do you understand by ‘population dynamics’? Why is understanding population dynamics important for Indian policymakers? Examine. (200 Words) The Hindu
Topic: Population and associated issues 1) What do you understand by replacement-level fertility? Analyse its trend in northern and southern states in India and importance of its trends to policymaking, especially development and migration planning. (200 Words) The Hindu
SECURE SYNOPSIS: 11 July 2017 NOTE: Please remember that following ‘answers’ are NOT ‘model answers’. They are NOT synopsis too if we go by definition of the term. What we are providing is content that both meets demand of the question and at the same time gives you extra points in the form of …
