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Insights Revision Through MCQs – 09 November 2019
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QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 11 November 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 […]
Insights Daily Current Affairs + PIB: 11 November 2019 Table of contents: GS Paper 1: How lightning strikes? GS Paper 2: Study moots lowering the age of consent. Ayodhya verdict. HS code. Draft Social Security code. GS Paper 3: Fall Armyworm. Scientists call for action on climate. Facts for prelims: Cyclones […]
Topics Covered: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment. Scientists call for action on climate What to study? For Prelims and mains: Concerns and challenges highlighted and ways to address them. Context: More than 11,000 scientists have co-signed a letter in the journal BioScience, calling for urgently necessary action on climate. This […]
Topics covered: Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing. Fall Armyworm (FAW) What to study? For prelims and mains: FAW- causes, effects, concerns and measures needed. Context: Proper […]
Topics Covered: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections. Draft Social Security code What to study? For Prelims: Higlights of the draft. For Mains: need for […]
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. HS code What to study? For Prelims and mains: Meaning and significance of HS code. Context: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has allocated a separate […]
Topics Covered: Indian Constitution- historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, significant provisions and basic structure. Ayodhya verdict What to study? For Prelims: Details of the case and the judgment. For Mains: Implications of the judgement and significance of the precedent it has set. Context: A bench led by CJI Ranjan Gogoi delivered the […]
Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Study moots lowering the age of consent What to study? For prelims and mains: Laws in this regard, need for change. Context: A new study calls for a need to distinguish between […]
Topics Covered: 1. Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc., geographical features and their location- changes in critical geographical features (including water-bodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes. How lightning strikes? What to study? For Prelims and mains: What is lightning, and […]
RSTV: IN DEPTH- EASE OF DOING BUSINESS- INDIA’S ROLE Introduction: In the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings this year, India has moved from the 77th to the 63rd position. The World Bank also highlights India’s efforts to reach this position. In particular it mentions four new business reforms that were brought in […]
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SECURE SYNOPSIS: 08 NOVEMBER 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: New CJI, Old Concerns of Judicial Independence Introduction: The judiciary is the final interpreter and the guardian of the Constitution. In a Federal Constitution, the judiciary is constituted as ultimate authority to restrain any exercise of absolute, capricious and arbitrary power. The judiciary in addition to the function of maintaining the supremacy […]
[Insights Secure – 2020] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 11 November 2019 Click on EACH question to post/upload you answers. How to Follow Secure Initiative? How to Self-evaluate your answer? INSIGHTS NEW SECURE – 2020: YEARLONG TIMETABLE General Studies – 1 Topic: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from […]
Topic: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment. 7) Ratings agency Moody’s has lowered India’s outlook from stable to negative recently. How do such agencies assign these ratings? What do these ratings mean for India? Critically analyse.(250 words) Indianexpress Why this question: The article brings out the discussion […]
Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. India and its neighborhood- relations. 6) Do you think the recent opening up of Kartarpur corridor brings a moment of transcendence in a fraught India-Pak relationship? Analyse.(250 words) Indianexpress Why this question: The article explains that […]
Topic: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary. 5) Recent landmark judgement of Ayodhya – Babri dispute underlines the “tolerant and secular nature of India and the fact that Law stands apart over political considerations, religion and beliefs”. Analyze.(250 words) Indianexpress Why this question: The five-judge Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice […]