Topics Covered: IP related issues. India and Pakistan’s battle over basmati: Context: India, the world’s largest exporter of basmati rice, has applied for protected geographical indication (PGI) status from the European Union’s Council on Quality Schemes for Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs. This would give it sole ownership of the basmati title in the EU. What’s …
Topics Covered: Awareness in space. What is the New Shephard rocket system? Context: Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space company called Blue Origin recently concluded the online auction for the first seat on New Shephard, a rocket system meant to take tourists to space. The winning bidder will get to fly aboard New Shephard along …
Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Year Book 2021: Context: Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has released its Year Book 2021. Key findings: India possessed an estimated 156 nuclear warheads at the start of …
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Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. NATO Summit: Context: NATO Summit was held recently in Brussels. It brought together the leaders of all 30 Allied nations. Outcomes of the meet: The heads of the NATO countries said they “remain firmly committed to NATO’s founding Washington Treaty, including that an attack …
Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. G7 accommodates Indian stand on need for Internet curbs: Context: India has signed off on a joint statement by G-7 and guest countries on “open societies” that reaffirm and encourage the values of “freedom of expression, both online and …
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Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. National Food Security Act (NFSA): Context: The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the States and the Union Territories have purchased nearly 3.7 lakh tonnes of foodgrains at concessional rates from the Food Corporation of …
Topics Covered: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. The history of Tulu and the demand for official language status: Context: Clamour grows for Tulu to be included in the eighth schedule of the Constitution and given official language status in Karnataka and Kerala. About …
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How to Follow Secure Initiative? How to Self-evaluate your answer? INSIGHTS NEW SECURE – 2020: YEARLONG TIMETABLE सामान्य अध्ययन– I विषय: फ्रांसीसी क्रांति। 1. अमेरिका में स्पेन के उपनिवेशों पर फ्रांसीसी क्रांति के प्रभावों की व्याख्या कीजिए। (250 शब्द) सन्दर्भ: मास्टरिंग मॉडर्न वर्ल्ड हिस्ट्री: नॉर्मन लोव निर्देशक शब्द: व्याख्या कीजिए- प्रश्न में …
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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 2021. It is not a test of your knowledge. If you score less, please …
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Context: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc) is the world’s top research university, reveals in the QS World University Rankings 2022. The report that was released ranked universities on six parameters including the Citations per Faculty (CPF) indicator when universities are adjusted for faculty size. IISc achieved a perfect score of 100/100. In …
Click on EACH question to post/upload you answers. How to Follow Secure Initiative? How to Self-evaluate your answer? STHIR – 2021: YEARLONG TIMETABLE Join IPM 3.0 to get an assured review of 2 secure answers everyday General Studies – 1 Topic: French Revolution 1. Explain the impact of the French Revolution on the …
Topic: Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion. 7. What do you understand by scientific temper and spirit of enquiry? As a responsible citizen of the country how would you fulfill your fundamental duty to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the …
Topic: Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in-human actions; dimensions of ethics; ethics – in private and public relationships. Human Values – lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers and administrators; role of Family society and educational institutions in inculcating values. 6. Moral and ethical values change from …
Topic: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life. Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with terrorism. 5. By underlining the biosecurity concerns of synthetic biology, analyse India’s preparedness in the domains of biosafety and biosecurity.(250 words) Reference: The Hindu Why the question: Against …
Topic: Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money laundering and its prevention. 4. Discuss ways and means of guarding civilian targets and critical infrastructure against rising cyberattacks in India. (250 words) Reference: The Hindu Why the question: The article …
Topic: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, Nano-technology, biotechnology and issues relating to intellectual property rights. 3. The Covid-19 pandemic has put India’s space activities into suspension, India has to stay competitive enough in order to provide efficient services to its customers. Comment. (250 words) Reference: Financial Express Why the question: The …
Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. 2. There is a necessity to bring to an end the sedition law on the view that it is used to curb freedom of expression and speech. Discuss. (250 words) Reference: Indian Express Why the question: …
