Insights Daily Current Affairs, 12 Aug 2017

Insights Daily Current Affairs, 12 Aug 2017   Paper 1:   Topic: Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies. Odisha govt and Facebook launches ‘SheMeansBusiness’ programme   Odisha government has launched ‘She Means Business’ programme of Facebook for women entrepreneurs. Odisha government’s …

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 12 August 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz –  12 August  2017 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 services preliminary exam 2017. It is not …

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 12 August 2017

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 12 August 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read  answers.   General Studies – 1;   Topic:  Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.  1) Discuss the evolution and major trends in the Naxalbari movement. (200 Words) EPW   Topic:  Factors responsible for the location of primary, …

4) “The Forest Rights Act did not emerge from struggles for the control over forests alone, but was a product of an ongoing intersection between political conflict, features of Indian capitalism, and the conceptions of “environment” and “development” in India’s political discourse.” Discuss.

Topic:  Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.  4) “The Forest Rights Act did not emerge from struggles for the control over forests alone, but was a product of an ongoing intersection between political conflict, features of Indian capitalism, and the conceptions of “environment” and “development” in …

3) Do you think China has been able to convert its geo-economic power, as the world’s largest trading nation with huge investible dollar surpluses, into military might and geo-political clout? In the light of Doklam issue, critically comment.

Topic:  India and its neighborhood- relations.  3) Do you think China has been able to convert its geo-economic power, as the world’s largest trading nation with huge investible dollar surpluses, into military might and geo-political clout? In the light of Doklam issue, critically comment. (200 Words) The Indian Express

2) Groundwater over-exploitation poses a severe threat to food, water and livelihood security in India. Discuss critically the present approach groundwater regulation and in the light of interrelationship between groundwater, soil moisture and surface water, suggest what new approach is required for groundwater regulation.

Topic:  Factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India)  2) Groundwater over-exploitation poses a severe threat to food, water and livelihood security in India. Discuss critically the present approach groundwater regulation and in the light of interrelationship between groundwater, soil moisture and surface water, …

Insights into Editorial : Doklam, China’s Strategic Calculus and India’s Policy Options

    Insights into Editorial : Doklam, China’s Strategic Calculus and India’s Policy Options       Summary: Since the beginning of June, Indian and Chinese troops have been facing off across a small meadow called Turning Point at the end of that very valley — an 89 square kilometre pasture called the Doklam plateau, …