INSIGHTS DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS + PIB SUMMARY- 11 DECEMBER 2019

Insights Daily Current Affairs + PIB Summary 11 December 2019   Table of contents: GS Paper 1: Maharaja Surajmal and the third battle of panipat. GS Paper 2: Land Boundary Agreement (LBA). Data on Extent and Pattern of Substance Use. Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana. Skills Build Platform.   GS Paper 1:   Topics covered: Modern Indian …

Insights Daily Current Events, 01 April 2016

Insights Daily Current Events, 01 April 2016 Paper 2 Topic: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. British Medical Journal calls for radical revamp of MCI The British Medical Journal (BMJ) in its latest issue has called for …

Insights Daily Current Events, 19 February 2016

Insights Daily Current Events, 19 February 2016 Archives   Paper 2 Topic: Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections. Ministry moots National Social Security Authority The Labour Ministry has mooted the idea of forming a National Social Security Authority and a separate Social Security Department within the ministry. Why? To provide …

Insights into Editorials: Limited Finance Limits Democracy

Insights into Editorials: Limited Finance Limits Democracy 12 October 2015 Source India’s campaign finance rules are frequently violated. It is now a well known fact that candidates in Indian elections grossly overshoot spending limits imposed by the Election Commission (EC). Such violations create deeper problems for representation and democracy at large. The major Indian political …

Insights Daily Current Events, 31 August 2015

Insights Daily Current Events, 31 August 2015 Archives Paper 1 Topic: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues. Sree Narayana Jayanthi Celebrated The 161st birth anniversary of Sree Narayana Guru was celebrated across the Kochi district with processions, feasts and art/cultural shows recently. To …

Insights Daily Current Events, 08 August 2015

Insights Daily Current Events, 08 August 2015 Archives DRDO developed medicine to treat leucoderma In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, the Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar recently said that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a poly-herbal medicine for the treatment of leucoderma (white patches on skin). Details: The poly-herbal …

Insights Daily Current Events, 22 July 2015

Insights Daily Current Events, 22 July 2015 Archives New Development Bank of BRICS opens in Shanghai The Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping has formally opened the New Development Bank (NDB) as a dedicated channel of alternate finance, which will focus on emerging economies and the Global South. The BRICS countries have stressed that the NDB would …

[Insights Secure – 2015] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Events: 15 June 2015

[Insights Secure – 2015] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Events: 15 June 2015 Archives – Secure 2015 15 June  2015 If facing problem in loading of Disqus Comments, please clear Cache and Cookies in your Browser and then reload the page. This will solve the problem. Alternatively you can open the page in ‘incognito/safe browsing …

[Insights Secure – 2015] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Events: 06 June 2015

[Insights Secure – 2015] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Events: 06 June 2015 Archives – Secure 2015 06 June  2015 If facing problem in loading of Disqus Comments, please clear Cache and Cookies in your Browser and then reload the page. This will solve the problem. Alternatively you can open the page in ‘incognito/safe browsing …