INSIGHTS DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS + PIB SUMMARY- 08 February 2020 Table of Contents: GS Paper 2: 1. What is ‘unparliamentary’ language? 2. Panel suggests steps to curb child porn. GS Paper 3: 1. NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. 2. Genome India project. 3. Kerala’s ban on CFL and filament bulbs from November 2020. …
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Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. Kerala’s ban on CFL and filament bulbs from November 2020 What to study? For Prelims: Differences between LED, CFL and filament bulbs. For Mains: Why the ban? Implications and significance. Context: Kerala will impose a ban on the sale of compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) and incandescent (filament) bulbs starting November …
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Topics Covered: Issues related to biotechnology. Genome India project What to study? For prelims: What is genome sequencing and how is it done? For Mains: Significance, need and challenges to the project. Context: The government has cleared an ambitious gene-mapping project, called Genome India Project. Overview of Genome India Project: The Rs 238-crore Genome India …
Topics Covered: Awareness in space. NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft What to study? For Prelims and Mains: Key features, objectives and accomplishments of Voyager 1 and 2. Context: NASA has managed to fix its Voyager-2 probe remotely, almost 11.5 billion miles away from its location. Background: The probe has reportedly been acting in an unexpected manner …
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. Panel suggests steps to curb child porn What to study? For Prelims: Key recommendations, about NCPCR. For Mains: Significance …
Topics Covered: Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these. What is ‘unparliamentary’ speech and conduct? What to study? For Prelims: Rules in this regard, what constitutes unparliamentary language? For Mains: Need for rules in this regard and ways to improve. Context: Few recent …
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QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 08 February 2020 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 exam 2018. It is not …
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Insights into Editorial: Purifying water: On draft notification on RO systems Context: The Environment Ministry’s draft notification to regulate the use of membrane-based water purification systems primarily concerns the manufacturers of reverse osmosis (RO) water filters but effectively bars domestic users from installing RO systems. The Central government has drawn up plans to ban the …
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Insights Current Affairs (06February 2020) Revision Through MCQs
[Insights Secure – 2020] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 08 February 2020 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 – 2 1. India has made progress in deepening integration in South Asia. However several …
7. Discuss the key features and provisions of Uniform Code of Pharmaceuticals Marketing Practices. Highlight the need and its significance to the Pharma industry.(250 words) Reference: The Hindu
6. Lesser enterprises need other forms of support to play their spirited role in aggregating employment and incomes at the bottom of the pyramid. Deliberate.(250 words) Reference: The Hindu
5. Considering draft notification to regulate reverse osmosis, the main aim should be to persuade authorities to promote and supply BIS-standard water at the consumer’s end.(250 words) Reference: The Hindu
4. Formalization could be the forerunner of change for the economy, but extreme formalization can prove to be a formula for distress to the informal sector. Examine. (250 words) Reference: The Hindu
3. “The Genome India Project is supposed to be among the most significant of its kind in the world because of its scale and the diversity.” Discuss the key elements of the project and highlight the importance of it in genetic studies.(250 words) Reference:Indian Express
2.How far is imposition of death sentence to satisfy “collective conscience” justified? Illustrate with recent decisions made by apex court in this direction.(250 words) Reference : The Hindu
1. India has made progress in deepening integration in South Asia. However several challenges persist, discuss the concerns facing India in this dimension of regional connectivity with South Asia.(250 words) Reference: Hindustan Times
RSTV: IN DEPTH- LOCUST ATTACK Introduction: In recent weeks, locust swarms have attacked crops in more than a dozen countries in Asia and Africa. The United Nations says the situation is extremely alarming in three regions – the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea area, and southwest Asia. The Horn of Africa is the …
QUIZ – 2020: Insights Static Quiz, 07 February 2020 – Economy
