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 information. Topic: Salient features …
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Table of Contents: GS Paper 2: 1. What is a Schedule H1 Drug? 2. RBI’s COVID-19 Economic Relief Package. GS Paper 3: 1. Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF). Facts for Prelims: 1. Institutions in News- National Testing Agency. 2. What is cantonment board? 3. What is Force Majeure? 4. What is Ossification …
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Topics Covered: Disaster and disaster management. Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) What to study? For Prelims: Funding mechanism, contributions, administration and proceeds. For Mains: Need for and significance of PMNRF. Context: The Vice President of India and the Chairman Rajya Sabha, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu has contributed a sum equivalent to a month’s salary …
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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. RBI’s COVID-19 Economic Relief Package What to study? For Prelims: Key terms mentioned, key changes made. For Mains: Significance …
Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. What is a Schedule H1 Drug? What to study? For Prelims: Schedule H1 Drugs, overview Drugs and Cosmetics Act. For Mains: Significance and implications of this decision. Context: The government has notified anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine under Schedule-H1. This was …
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Introduction: US officials and Taliban representatives have signed a final peace deal after months of negotiations in Qatar’s capital to end the United States’s longest war, fought in Afghanistan. Agreement, signed in Doha in the presence of leaders from Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, will pave the way for the United States to …
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Context: The Union government announced a Rs.1.7 lakh crore package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and countrywide lockdown, providing free food and cash transfers to support the poorest citizens who are most vulnerable during the crisis. The food grain ration for 80 crore poor people would be doubled for the next three months, supplemented …
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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 a test of your knowledge. If you score less, please do …
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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. British social policies helped in achieving the goals of social reformers of 19th century India. Elucidate. (250 words) Reference: Modern Indian history by spectrum publications. …
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1. British social policies helped in achieving the goals of social reformers of 19th century India. Elucidate. (250 words) Reference: Modern Indian history by spectrum publications.
2. The success of government’s response during a pandemic will be judged on the basis of its shield offered to weakest sections of the society. Elucidate. (250 words) Reference: The Hindu
3. To what extent can the government’s Garib Kalyan package relieve people’s distress in the current times? Analyse. (250 words) Reference: Indian Express
4. Attack on a Gurdwara highlights that the US-Taliban deal has brought Afghanistan no breather. Examine.(250 words) Reference: Economic Times
5. What is the purpose of District Mineral Foundation in India?Discuss what role DMFs can play in handling austerity caused by disasters such as COVID-19. (250 words) Reference: Down to Earth
