CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD INSTA Ethics 70 Days Plan Day – 7 ARCHIVES 1. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Elaborate (150 words) 2. What does the ‘virtue of service’ mean to you? Discuss the ideas propagated by Swami Vivekananda on the ‘virtue of service’ in a brief manner and …
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Topics Covered: Disaster management. India launches flash flood guidance services for South Asia: Context: India has launched first of its kind Flash Flood Guidance services for India and other South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Under this, IMD will issue impact-based forecasting at the watershed and also city level, of floods …
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Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. Project Snow Leopard: Context: International Snow Leopard Day was observed on 23 October. The day came into being with the adoption of the Bishkek Declaration by 12 countries on the conservation of snow leopards. HimalSanrakshak: On this day this year, the Indian government has launched community volunteer programme “HimalSanrakshak” to protect …
Topics Covered: Public Distribution System objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing. How and under what circumstances can the government impose stock limits? Context: With retail prices of onion reaching nearly Rs 100 per kg in some cities, the government has invoked provisions of the Essential Commodities …
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Topics Covered: India and its neighbourhood- relations. Indo- Nepal border issue: Why in News? After months of simmering dispute with India over the Kalapani issue, Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli recently indicated a softer line when he used an old map of Nepal to greet everyone on the festival of Vijaya Dashami. The old map …
Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Pakistan to remain on FATF grey list: Context: Pakistan will remain in FATF’s ‘grey’ list till February 2021 as it has failed to fulfil six key obligations of FATF. To date, Pakistan has made progress across all action plan items and has now largely addressed …
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. Integrity Pact in govt. organisations: Why in News? The Central Vigilance Commission has amended the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on adoption of “Integrity Pact” in government organisations for procurement …
Topics Covered: Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these. Parliament panel mulls action against Amazon: Context: Joint Committee of Parliament is examining the draft Data Protection Bill. Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google and Paytm are among the companies from whom the committee has sought views …
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Introduction: Digital payments have found strong ground, especially in India, increasingly relegating all other modes of payments to the background. It is through a faster system of simultaneous debits and credits that the money value is transferred from one account to the other across banks. It embraces all kinds of operators (including direct benefit transfer …
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Introduction: Innovation rearranges existing elements into permutations and combinations that benefit society. In his Brāhmaphutasiddhānta, Brahmagupta’s marvellous take on his innovation of zero was, “A debt minus zero is a debt. A fortune minus zero is a fortune. A debt subtracted from zero is a fortune. A fortune subtracted from zero is a debt. …
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Insights Weekly Essay Challenges 2020 – Week 55 Archives 25 October 2020 Write an essay on the following topic in not more than 1000-1200 words: “Artificial Intelligence is Not All Evil – It can Promote Social Good Too” Join InsightsIAS Official Telegram Channel for Guidance and Motivation https://t.me/s/insightsIAStips
