GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. The 13th BRICS Summit is going to be held under India’s Chairship in 2021. It will be the third time that India will be hosting the BRICS Summit after 2012 and 2016. The Indian Chairship of BRICS …
GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. Context: The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of an agreement on the recruitment of Indian citizens to work in the Portuguese Republic between the Government of India and Portugal. The present agreement would set an institutional …
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GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: The Union Cabinet has approved a Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for the textiles sector worth Rs 10,683 crore. This is part of a larger PLI scheme for 13 sectors, with a …
GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Issues related to education. Context: The Education Ministry recently launched the sixth edition of the NIRF. Highlights of the sixth edition: IIT-Madras, IISc-Bangalore, and IIT-Bombay have emerged as the country’s top three higher education institutions. Under the best college category, Miranda House has again topped the list this year. …
GS Paper 1 Topics Covered: Population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies. Context: Swachh Survekshan Grameen, 2021 will be launched under the Swachh Bharat Mission Phase- 2 on 9th September, 2021. It aims to support acceleration of ODF plus interventions and results in the country. An expert agency …
