Day: October 23, 2019

Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)   What to study? For prelims and mains: TMT- objectives and significance, location.   Context: About 70% of Indian contribution to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be in the form of both hardware and software for the telescope. Indian entities are engaged in developing observatory …

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Topics Covered: issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions.   ‘Feed our future’ cinema ad campaign   What to study? For Prelims: About the campaign and WFP. For Mains: Hunger and Malnutrition- challenges, concerns and ways to address them.   Context: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a cinema advertisement campaign …

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Topics Covered: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.   Global Wealth Report 2019   What to study? For Prelims: Key findings of the report. For Mains: Factors behind rise I’m wealth, relationship between wealth and savings and economic activity.   Context: The Credit Suisse Group, a Switzerland-based …

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Topics Covered: Issues related to health.   Intensified Mission Indradhanush   What to study? For Prelims and mains: Key features and significance of the programme.   Context: To ensure that not a single child in the country misses out on vaccination, the government will launch the ‘Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0‘ on October 31 with a …

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Topics Covered: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.   Section 11 of the Representation of the People Act   What to study? For Prelims: Powers and functions of EC under RPA. For Mains: Criticisms wrt to Section 11, can this decision be justified and what’s the way out?   Context: Delhi High Court …

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Topic: Codes of Ethics, Codes of Conduct, Citizen’s Charters, Work culture, Quality of service delivery, Utilization of public funds, challenges of corruption. 7) Compare and contrast code of ethics and code of conduct. (250 words)  Ethics by Lexicon publications  Why this question: Both of these concepts are important concepts which share some similarities and several …

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TOPIC: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment. 6) India intends to move away entirely from single-use plastics by 2022,yet the fact is India hasn’t had much success with plastic waste regulation despite ambitious policy moves. Discuss in detail the underlying causes of such a situation and suggest solutions.( 250 words) Financialexpress Why this …

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TOPIC:   Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment, Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, and Human Resources. 5) Agreeing to the recently released National milk sample safety quality survey, contamination in milk is a more severe problem than adulteration. Discuss. (250 words) The hindu Why this question: …

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Topic:  Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life. 4) India is planning to frame rules to regulate social media citing unimaginable disruption to democracy and the …

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Topic:Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. 3) Discuss whether mandatory linking of Aadhaar to social media accounts violates an individual’s right to privacy, and the balance between intermediary liability and free speech.(250 words) Indianexpress   Why this …

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