Insights Daily Current Affairs, 14 October 2017

Insights Daily Current Affairs, 14 October 2017   Paper 2:   Topic: Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.   IWAI raises Rs. 660 crore through bonds   The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has raised Rs. 660 crore through a bond sale to finance the development of national waterways. It is the second time …

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 14 OCTOBER 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz -14 OCTOBER 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 services …

Insights Learning (I-Learning) TEST 5 : 20 – 27 August, 2017

I-Learning Test 5 : 20 – 27 August 2017     Nuclear medicine   Background A radiopharmaceutical is a chemical substance that contains radioactive atoms within its structure and is suitable for administration to humans for diagnosis or treatment of disease What Nuclear medicine is the medical specialty, which utilizes the nuclear properties of radioactive …

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 14 October 2017

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 14 October 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read  answers.   General Studies – 1;     Topic:  Poverty and developmental issues  1) Both China and India have recorded appallingly unequal growth over the last three decades, but in China, even though it is not a …

2) Mumbai’s new proposed development plan focuses on providing employment space for 80 lakh persons and is depending on additional metro systems and the controversial coastal road project to take the potential load off the rail network. In the light of recent tragedy of stampede, comment its new development plan.

Topic: urbanization, their problems and their remedies 2) Mumbai’s new proposed development plan focuses on providing employment space for 80 lakh persons and is depending on additional metro systems and the controversial coastal road project to take the potential load off the rail network. In the light of recent tragedy of stampede, comment its new development …

1) Both China and India have recorded appallingly unequal growth over the last three decades, but in China, even though it is not a democracy in the sense of permitting free expression of public opinion, its growth process over the period 1980–2014 has been relatively much less unequal than India’s. Examine why.

Topic:  Poverty and developmental issues  1) Both China and India have recorded appallingly unequal growth over the last three decades, but in China, even though it is not a democracy in the sense of permitting free expression of public opinion, its growth process over the period 1980–2014 has been relatively much less unequal than India’s. …

Insights into Editorial : Saving child brides — on SC ruling on sex with minor wife

Insights into Editorial : Saving child brides — on SC ruling on sex with minor wife Context: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 11th, 2017) held that sexual intercourse by a man with his wife, who is below 18 years of age, is Rape. With this judgment, the court ended the decades-old disparity between Exception …