GS Paper 3: Topics covered: Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate. Context: Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, an Army Brigadier, and 10 others were killed when an Indian Air Force helicopter carrying them crashed into a heavily wooded area of the Coonoor ghat in the Nilgiris …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: IPR related issues. Context: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights (PPV&FR) Authority has revoked a PVP (Plant Variety Protection) certificate granted to PepsiCo India Holding (PIH) on a potato variety (FL-2027) on various grounds. This included the following: The grant of the certificate of registration had been …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Developments related to Science and Technology. Context: The UPI facility will soon be extended to feature phone users. At the moment, the unified payments interface (UPI) — the single largest retail payments system in the country in terms of volume of transactions for small-value payments — is available only …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Issues related to health. Context: The Government has informed the Lok Sabha that State Governments and Union Territories have utilised only 56% of the total funds released under the Poshan Abhiyan or Nutrition Mission in the past three years. Out of a total amount of ₹5,312 crore disbursed by …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Government policies and issues related. Context: The Union Cabinet has approved the funding and implementation of the Ken-Betwa river interlinking project at a cost of ₹44,605 crore at the 2020-21 price level. The Centre would fund ₹39,317 crore for the project, with ₹36,290 crore as a grant and ₹3,027 …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Various statutory and constitutional bodies. Context: The Government has informed the Supreme Court that appointment of the Chairperson and Members of the 22nd Law Commission of India is under consideration. What’s the issue? The 22nd Law Commission was constituted by the Government on February 21, 2020. However, no …
GS Paper 1: Topics Covered: Issues related to population and development. Context: The 2022 World Inequality Report (WIR) has been released. What you need to know about the WIR? Released by the World Inequality Lab, a research center at the Paris School of Economics. The WIR studies different kinds of financial data to …
