GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Context: The NASA probe recently made an extremely close encounter with the Sun. The probe was just 5.3 million miles away from the surface of our star and passed by at a ridiculous speed of 363,660 mph, making it the fastest artificial object ever created. Additionally, …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights. Context: According to the recently released ‘Ericsson Mobility Report’: Fifth generation telecom services are likely to account for 39% of mobile subscriptions or about 500 million subscriptions in India at the end …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions. Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech, on 3rd December. The event is being hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), under the aegis of Government of India in collaboration with GIFT City and Bloomberg. …
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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources. Context: Two rounds of Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 of 15 days’ duration were conducted recently, to reach out to the pregnant women and children who missed vaccination under routine immunisation programmes in 250 …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: Government has approved financial aid for the period up by the Ministry of Commerce and administered by from 2021-22 to 2025-26 to NEIA Trust. What is NEIA? National Export …
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GS Paper 2: Topics covered: Indian Constitution- Significant feature- Citizenship. Renunciation of Indian citizenship: Context: More than six lakh Indians renounced citizenship in the past five years, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha. The reason for a large number of Indians surrendering their citizenship was not stated in the reply. …
