GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism. Drug trafficking Context: Drugs have been a major source of revenue for the Taliban. With the collapse of Afghanistan’s economy, the Taliban will rely heavily on drug money to maintain control over their cadres. According …
GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Context: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has made a video of the 13th flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter sent by the agency. About Perseverance Rover: It was launched in 2020 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V. Why is this mission significant? It carried …
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: OneWeb is considering options to remove one of its broadband satellites from low Earth orbit after it failed following a software issue last year. So far, OneWeb has deployed 358 …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: .Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Krishna River water dispute Context: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have submitted in the Supreme Court that there is no information forthcoming from Karnataka for the past 14 years about how much …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Separation of powers. Context: The Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana has urged the Government to seriously consider Attorney General K.K.Venugopal’s suggestion to restructure the judiciary to include four National Courts of Appeals. He remarked that the judicial structure has remained stagnant since Independence and with four appellate courts, pendency …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies. Suspension of MPs Context: Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Prahlad Joshi sought the approval of the House for suspending 12 Rajya Sabha MPs for the remainder of the session. The reason for their suspension was “their unprecedented …
