GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Internal Security – Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate. Source: The Hindu Context: With the Line of Actual Control remaining tense, India is raising seven new battalions of the famed patrol force ITBP, for ‘effective monitoring’ of the border region. New Battalions: The battalions are expected to …
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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Issues related to Health Source: TH Context: Avian influenza (H5N1) or bird flu has caused unprecedented loss of tens of thousands of birds at Bass Rock, an island off the coast of North Berwick, Scotland. Avian Influenza in India: The latest major avian flu outbreak …
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GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Indian economy and related issues Source: TH Context: The SC recently asked the SEBI and the government to produce the existing regulatory framework in place to protect investors from share market volatility. Background: This followed the Hindenburg Research report, which accused the Adani Group of stock market manipulation and accounting …
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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Structure, Organization, and Functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary Source: TH Context: The CJI refused the ‘suggestions’ of the government in a sealed cover on the formation of a proposed committee to enquire into the Hindenburg report on the Adani Group. What is sealed cover jurisprudence? It is …
