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SECURE SYNOPSIS: 25 FEBRUARY 2019 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 …
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INSIGHTS IAS REVISION PLAN FOR PRELIMS 2019 – DAILY REVISION TESTS: TEST-5
DOWNLOAD InsightsIAS Revision Tests for UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Exam – 2019: Tests 1 to 4 Following are the compilations of Revision Tests 1 to 4 (Test-1, Test-2, Test-3 and Test-4) which we are posting under our 75 Days Revision Plan -2019. One document has ONLY Questions and another one has both questions and solutions. …
Insights Daily Current Affairs + PIB: 19 March 2019 Relevant articles from PIB: Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Disaster and disaster management. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) What to study? For Prelims: About UNISDR, Sendai framework and the targets. For Mains: …
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Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Hayabusa2 What to study? For Prelims and Mains: Objectives and significance of the mission, Asteroid Ryugu. Context: Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft will follow up last month’s touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission — dropping an explosive on the asteroid to make a crater and then …
Topics Covered: Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions. Govt.’s prerogative to frame schemes: SC What to study? For Prelims: Article 226 and related issues. For Mains: Judicial overreach- need, significance, concerns and what’s the way out? Context: It is the sole prerogative of the government to frame …
Topics Covered: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. Sary-Arka-Antiterror 2019- SCO joint anti- terrorism exercise What to study? For Prelims: SCO- objectives, composition and initiatives. For Mains: Significance of SCO and other such regional groupings. Context: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) member states will hold …
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Topics covered: Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies. Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies. Appointment of Lokpal What to study? For Prelims: Lokpal- powers, functions and appointment, features of Lokpal and Lokayukta Act. For Mains: Significance and issues associated. Context: The name of former Supreme …
Topics Covered: e-technology in the aid of farmers. Infrastructure- energy. Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahaabhiyan or KUSUM scheme What to study? For Prelims: Key features and objectives of the scheme. For Mains: Significance of the scheme, solar power potential of India, challenges therein and legislative measures needed. Context: The government has …
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Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Disaster and disaster management. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) What to study? For Prelims: About UNISDR, Sendai framework and the targets. For Mains: Disaster risk reduction- need, challenges and global efforts. Context: An International Workshop on Disaster Resilient …
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QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 19 March 2019 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 preliminary …
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SECURE SYNOPSIS: 19 MARCH 2019 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 …
Insights into Editorial: The WWW turns 30 Context: Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN began a project to create an information retrieval service on the internet. The result, World Wide Web, was a phenomenon. Today, about half the world is online. A key reason for the web’s growth is the …
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Insights Static Quiz -268, 2019 Geography ARCHIVES
[Insights Secure – 2019] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 19 March 2019 Click on EACH question to post/upload you answers. How to Follow Secure Initiative? How to Self-evaluate your answer? INSIGHTS NEW SECURE – 2019: YEARLONG TIMETABLE Tomorrow’s Static Topic: Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India. General Studies – 1 Topic-Salient features …
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Topic: Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions; dimensions of ethics; ethics in private and public relationships. Human Values – lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers and administrators; role of family, society and educational institutions in inculcating values. 7) Distinguish between Deontological ethics and Teleological …
Topic: Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration: Status and problems; ethical concerns and dilemmas in government and private institutions; laws, rules, regulations and conscience as sources of ethical guidance. 6) Discuss seven essential principle tenets of public services that serve as an ethical guide for civil servants.(250 words) Ethics by Lexicon publications Why this …
Topic : Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life. Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology. 5) With increasing advancement in science, antimicrobial drugs are increasingly faltering across the world and therefore the microbial infections are coming full circle. Discuss the causes and …
Topic: Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth. Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life 4) Technological advances in the global value chain are often complemented with decline in Jobs , in the context of the statement applying to developing Asia. …
