[इनसाइट्स सिक्योर MISSION – 2022] दैनिक सिविल सेवा मुख्य परीक्षा उत्तर लेखन अभ्यास: 16 सितम्बर 2021

    How to Follow Secure Initiative? How to Self-evaluate your answer?  MISSION – 2022: YEARLONG TIMETABLE   सामान्य अध्ययन– I    विषय: स्वतंत्रता के पश्चात् देश के अंदर एकीकरण और पुनर्गठन। 1. हरित क्रांति एवं इससे होने वाले लाभों ने भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था को भोजन की कमी वाले देश से खाद्य अधिशेष वाले देश में …

[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 16 September 2021

  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 …

[Mission 2022] INSIGHTS DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS + PIB SUMMARY- 16 September 2021

    InstaLinks help you think beyond the issue but relevant to the issue from UPSC prelims and Mains exam point of view. These linkages provided in this ‘hint’ format help you frame possible questions in your mind that might arise(or an examiner might imagine) from each current event. InstaLinks also connect every issue to …

The ‘Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights Act)’: 

GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Conservation related issues.    Context:  Individual and community right certificates were recently handed over to the beneficiaries of Gujjar-Bakerwal and Gaddi-Sippi communities in Jammu and Kashmir under the Forest Rights Act.  The Act is being implemented from December 1, 2020. Before 2019, many Central laws were not implemented in Srinagar.    …

Gaganyaan: 

GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Awareness in space.    Context:  Australia will support India’s ‘Gaganyaan’ mission by tracking it through Cocos Keeling island.    Significance:  There are blind spots due to which there is a possibility of not receiving signals, sources said. The data relay satellite tracking from Cocos Keeling island is expected to help address …

National Engineer’s day

GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.    Context:  Every year on September 15, India along with Sri Lanka and Tanzania celebrate National Engineer’s day to recognise and honour the achievements of …

WHO pre-qualification, or Emergency Use Listing (EUL): 

GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate.    Context:  The World Health Organisation (WHO) may take a decision on granting Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin this week.  The vaccine should get international recognition with this. Post approval people wanting to travel abroad will not have difficulty.  …

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir:

GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: India and neighbourhood relations.   Context: Hundreds of protesters recently took to streets of the Pallandari region in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) demanding independence from Pakistani clutches.   What’s the issue? Accusing Islamabad of giving second-class citizen treatment to them for the past seven decades, the protestors said that their rights were …

Delhi High Court observations on the ‘Right to be Forgotten’

GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Indian Constitution- historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, significant provisions and basic structure.   Context: Last week, the Delhi High Court upheld the view that the “Right to Privacy” includes the “Right to be Forgotten” and the “Right to be Left Alone”. The court said this in an order passed in response …

[Mission 2022] ದೈನಂದಿನ ಪ್ರಚಲಿತ ಘಟನೆಗಳು ದಿನಾಂಕ – 15 ನೇ ಸೆಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್ 2021

  ಪರಿವಿಡಿ:  ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ 1: 1. ರಾಜ ಮಹೇಂದ್ರ ಪ್ರತಾಪ್ ಸಿಂಗ್. ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ 2: 1. ನ್ಯಾಯಾಂಗ ನಿಂದನೆ ವಿಚಾರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಲು ಅಟಾರ್ನಿ ಜನರಲ್ ರವರ ಒಪ್ಪಿಗೆ. 2. ತಮಿಳುನಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನೀಟ್ ರದ್ದುಗೊಳಿಸುವ ವಿಧೇಯಕ. 3. ಕ್ವಾಡ್ ಎಂದರೇನು?   ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ 3: 1. ಹೈಡ್ರೋಜನ್ ಇಂಧನ ಎಂದರೇನು? 2. ಹಸಿರು ಹೈಡ್ರೋಜನ್ ಎಂದರೇನು?   ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ : 1   ವಿಷಯಗಳು: 18ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ …

Insights into Editorial: How to boost financial inclusion

    Introduction: Financial inclusion broadens the resource base of the financial system by developing a culture of savings among large segment of rural population and plays its own role in the process of economic development. Further, by bringing low-income groups within the perimeter of formal banking sector; financial inclusion protects their financial wealth and …

[MISSION 2022] Insights SECURE 2022 : Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 16 September 2021

    Click on EACH question to post/upload you answers. How to Follow Secure Initiative? How to Self-evaluate your answer?  MISSION – 2022: YEARLONG TIMETABLE Join IPM 3.0 to get an assured review of 2 secure answers everyday   General Studies – 1   Topic: Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country. 1. The Green Revolution …

The government, the corporate world and civil society – all must uphold high standards of probity in their working to achieve our collective aspirations. Discuss the importance of probity in the public sphere.

Topic: Probity in Governance: Concept of public service; Philosophical basis of governance and probity; 7. The government, the corporate world and civil society – all must uphold high standards of probity in their working to achieve our collective aspirations. Discuss the importance of probity in the public sphere. (150 words) Difficulty level: Moderate Reference: Ethics …

Romanticisation of poverty displays lack of compassion towards weaker sections and in the long run, harms the poor instead of helping them. Discuss.

Topic:  Tolerance and compassion towards the weaker-sections. 6. Romanticisation of poverty displays lack of compassion towards weaker sections and in the long run, harms the poor instead of helping them. Discuss. (150 words) Difficulty level: Moderate Why the question: The question is part of the static syllabus of General studies paper – 4 and part …

Explain the challenges in enforcing Intellectual property rights (IPR) in India. A review of National IPR Policy, 2016 should be undertaken in the wake of new and emerging trends in spheres of innovation, which requires concrete mechanisms to protect them. Analyse.

Topic: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, Nano-technology, biotechnology and issues relating to intellectual property rights. 5. Explain the challenges in enforcing Intellectual property rights (IPR) in India. A review of National IPR Policy, 2016 should be undertaken in the wake of new and emerging trends in spheres of innovation, which requires …