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. Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 12 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here For India, Development is more Important than Secularism Is secularism overrated? Does India worry about secularism when vast majority of its population is reeling under one or other forms of poverty? As of now, don’t you […]
Insights Daily Current Affairs, 27 February 2018 Paper 2: Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources. Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) Context: IITs will corner the largest chunk of loans on offer under the new funding model — Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems […]
QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 27 February 2018 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 Static Quiz -8, 2018
Insights into Editorial: Is the Supreme Court verdict on Cauvery fair? Context: The sharing of waters of the Kaveri River has been the source of a serious conflict between the two states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Recently Supreme Court pronounced its verdict in Cauvery river water dispute. While the Supreme Court awarded additional 14.75 TMC of Cauvery water to Karnataka, it reduced […]
[Insights Secure – 2018] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 27 February 2018 Click on EACH question to post/upload you answers. How to Follow Secure Initiative? How to Self-evaluate your answer? LIST of TOPICS (Static) General Studies – 1 Topic: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, […]
Topic: Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion. 6) As per the Indian Constitution, it is the duty of each citizen to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform. Yet, superstitious practices are abound in India, including among the highly […]
Topic: Agriculture; Government Budgeting. 5) Critically analyse the merits and shortcomings of three new measures that were announced in the recent union budget with an aim to address agrarian distress in India. Also examine what else could have been introduced in the budget to address agrarian distress. (250 Words) The Hindu Why this question? This question, in […]
Topic: Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism; Money-laundering and its prevention 4) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has become the spearhead against global efforts combating the financing of terrorism (CFT). Analyse the basis for FATF’s growing effectiveness in the fight against terrorist finance and how it helps […]
Topic: Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these. 3) Developments following the 2G spectrum allocation and the Lok Pal issue have led to increased interest in understanding the work of Parliamentary committees. Analyse how effective the committee system has been and explore ways […]
Topic: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. 2) How did the medieval Sufi and Bhakti movement get represented in the contemporary north and south Indian vernacular literature? Examine. (250 Words) Reference Why this question? In UPSC CSM-2016 there was a question on Vijayanagara literature.(completely […]
Topic: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues 1) What might have happened to India if Subhash Chandra Bose had survived the plane crash and lived? Critically comment. (250 Words) The Hindu Why this question? There was a similar question is UPSC CSM-2015 (How […]
SECURE SYNOPSIS: 27 FEBRUARY 2018 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 background […]