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

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 12 DECEMBER 2017 QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz 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 into Editorial: Powering rural healthcare

Insights into Editorial: Powering rural healthcare Context: Around 38 million Indians rely on health facilities without electricity. Without access to regular power supply, numerous life-saving interventions cannot be undertaken. A study, ‘Powering Primary Healthcare through Solar in India: Lessons from Chhattisgarh’, highlights the role of solar energy in bridging the gaps in electricity access in …

Insights Daily Current Affairs, 12 December 2017

  Insights Daily Current Affairs, 12 December 2017   GS Paper 1: Topic: Role of women and women’s organization.   “Safe City Surveillance” scheme   Context: Bihar state government has approved a “Safe City Surveillance” scheme aimed at putting a check on eve-teasing and other crimes against women at public places across the state. About …

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 11 DECEMBER 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 11 DECEMBER 2017 QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz 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 Secure – 2018] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 12 December 2017

[Insights Secure – 2018] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 12 December 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read  answers. General Studies – 1     Topic:  Social empowerment; Population issues 1) Is the demand for inclusion among the OBCs by Patels and other powerful backward communities justified? Critically examine. (150 Words) The Hindu   General …

5) Chinese involvement in peacekeeping, along with its higher funding contributions will put Beijing in the driver’s seat in formulating peacekeeping mandates, thereby affecting India in more ways than one. Analyse.

Topic: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora;  Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate.   5) Chinese involvement in peacekeeping, along with its higher funding contributions will put Beijing in the driver’s seat in formulating peacekeeping mandates, thereby affecting India in more ways than one. …

3) India’s admittance into the Wassenaar Arrangement as its 42nd participating member is a big step forward in its quest for formal acceptance as a responsible nuclear power. Comment.

Topic:   Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests 3) India’s admittance into the Wassenaar Arrangement as its 42nd participating member is a big step forward in its quest for formal acceptance as a responsible nuclear power. Comment. (150 Words) The Hindu