InsightsIAS Ethics 70 Days Plan Day 28 1) Write a note on the teachings of any two moral thinkers from India and relevance of their teaching today. 2) Discuss Mahatma Gandhi’s concept of seven sins. 3) What are the essential qualities of a good leader? What role does educational institutions play in inculcating these values …
Insights Daily Current Affairs + PIB: 31 July 2019 Relevant articles from PIB: GS Paper 1 and 2: Topics covered: Women related issues. Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage), Bill 2019 What to …
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Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, 2019 What to study? For Prelims: Key features and significance of the Bill. For Mains: Need for a legislation …
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Topics Covered: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment. Inclusive growth and issues arising from it. Regulatory sandbox What to study? For Prelims and Mains: Regulatory sandbox- meaning, features, need and significance. Context: The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) will soon allow the …
Topics Covered: Awareness in space. NASA’s Kepler Space telescope What to study? For Prelims: About Kepler telescope, TESS. For Mains: What are exoplanets, significance of their findings. Context: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a new planetary system called TESS Object of Interest (TOI) 270. Where is it located? TOI …
Topics covered: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. ‘Didi Ke Bolo’ campaign What to study? For prelims and mains: key features, need for and significance of the campaign. Context: Didi Ke Bolo campaign has …
Topic covered: Schemes for the vulnerable sections of the society. New Code on Wages What to study? For prelims and mains: Key features of the new code, need, significance, need for uniform wage across the country. Context: The Code on Wages Bill, 2019 has been passed in Lok Sabha. The bill will amalgamate …
Topics covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Consumer Protection Bill What to study? For prelims: Key features of the bill. For mains: issues present with the Act, need for reforms and significance. Context: The Lok Sabha has passed the Consumer …
Topics covered: Women related issues. Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage), Bill 2019 What to Study? For Prelims: Key features of the Bill proposed. For Mains: Need, significance and challenges in implementation. Context: …
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QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 31 July 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 …
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RSTV: IN DEPTH- INNOVATION INDEX Introduction: In a big development, India is now ranked 52nd on the Global Innovation Index 2019, a jump of 5 places over last year, and 29 places in the last five years – up from 81 in 2015. Facilitating entrepreneurship through innovation is a critical component under the vision of …
Insights into Editorial: Ban or regulate? — On India’s policy on cryptocurrencies Context: The recommendation of an inter-ministerial committee that India should ban all private cryptocurrencies, that is, Bitcoin and others like it. Indian policymakers and administrators have time and again made clear their distaste for them, their existence owed almost entirely to advanced …
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[Insights Secure – 2019] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 31 July 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: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. General …
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Topic: Basics of cyber security, Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. 7) Is India on the right path to harness data as a “public good” in the service of the people? Discuss in the backdrop of the …
Topic: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. 6) In what way external state and non-state actors create problems to India’s internal security? Discuss.(250 words) Ethics by Lexicon publications Why this question: The question is direct from the static portions of GS paper III. Key demand of the question: …
Topic: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. 5) North-East suffers from violent movements based upon ethnic identities leading to clashes. Discuss the role played by Non-state actors in leading to the current conditions of the region.(250 words) Reference Why this question: The question aims to analyse the insurgency …
Topic:Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment. 4) What are Private equity funds? Trace the growth of PE Funds in India. List down the advantages and disadvantages of the same.(250 words) Livemint Why this question: The news of Café Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha’s disappearance has brought into …
Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. 3) Has the Tenth Schedule of the Indian Constitution failed to avert defections? Critically analyse. (250 words) Indianexpress Why this question: The question intends to examine the tenth schedule and the lacunae recently witnessed. Key demand …
Topic: Women related issues. Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Development processes and the development industry the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders. Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and …
