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UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice – Insights SECURE: 10 February 2025

  The Insights IAS Secure Initiative for UPSC Mains Answer Writing practice enables you to practice daily answer writing, enhancing your skills and boosting your scores with regular feedback, expert tips, and strategies. Let consistency be the hallmark of your preparation and utilize UPSC Mains Answer Writing practice initiative wisely   Click on EACH question to …

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The death penalty is often seen as a deterrent to crimes, yet global and national studies indicate otherwise. Assess the effectiveness of capital punishment in addressing violent crimes and suggest alternative policy measures.

Topic: Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections. Q3. The death penalty is often seen as a deterrent to crimes, yet global and national studies indicate otherwise. Assess the effectiveness of capital punishment in addressing violent crimes and suggest alternative policy measures. (15 M) Difficulty Level: Medium …

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While perpetrators of rape and other forms of sexual violence must be held accountable, but capital punishment might not be the answer. Critically Examine.

Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. 4. While perpetrators of rape and other forms of sexual violence must be held accountable, but capital punishment might not be the answer. Critically Examine. (250 words) Difficulty level: Moderate Reference: Indian Express Why the question: …

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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.   Context: Examining issues raised in a specific case, the Supreme Court has suo motu opened a review of the process by which courts award the death penalty.   What’s the issue? While hearing death sentence appeals since September …

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SC enforces a landmark ruling on death penalty:

GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.   Context: More than four decades after a landmark ruling on death sentence cases, a bench in the Supreme Court has made psychological evaluation of the condemned prisoner mandatory. It has also sought a report on the inmate’s conduct …

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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.   Context: The Supreme Court has made the following suggestions on the applicability and imposition of death Penalty in its recent judgment. The judgement came in the rape and murder of a seven-year-old. The court commuted the death penalty …

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NGO’s play a vital part in achieving holistic development at grassroot levels but their over-regulation may render them ineffective. Comment in the light of recent, Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 issue.

Topic: Development processes and the development industry —the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders. 4. NGO’s play a vital part in achieving holistic development at grassroot levels but their over-regulation may render them ineffective. Comment in the light of recent, Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 issue. …

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Is death penalty a sufficient deterrent to stop heinous crimes such against women such as rape and gang rape? Critically examine.

Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. 4. Is death penalty a sufficient deterrent to stop heinous crimes such against women such as rape and gang rape? Critically examine. (250 words) Difficulty level: Moderate Reference: Indian Express Why the question: The Maharashtra Assembly …

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There are many reasons why the death penalty should have no place in any society, not least because it violates the fundamental right to life. The argument that it may deter violent crime is countered by the observations that murder rates declined in ten out of eleven countries which had abolished capital punishment in recent years. The most egregious aspect of the death penalty is the widespread evidence of miscarriage of justice which occurs even in the most robust judicial systems, leading to the real threat of an irreversible punishment being inflicted on an innocent person.

Topic: Case Study 7. There are many reasons why the death penalty should have no place in any society, not least because it violates the fundamental right to life. The argument that it may deter violent crime is countered by the observations that murder rates declined in ten out of eleven countries which had abolished …

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Insights into Editorial: Living on death row with illness

  Introduction: Prisoners are a neglected group in India. Indian prisons are traditionally overcrowded spaces, with little attention paid to concerns about health, comfort or privacy. Those problems get even worse when talking about prisoners on the death row. Deemed to not be worthy of living in the society, such prisoners often receive inhumane treatment …

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