(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
- The Indian Antarctic Bill and its various provisions READ MORE
- ISRO to send team to investigate objects that fell from sky in Maharashtra READ MORE
- Bill introduced to ban financing of weapons of mass destruction READ MORE
- Quixplained: How does India acquire forex? READ MORE
- Explained: The Punjab-Haryana dispute over rivers waters and SYL Canal READ MORE
- Temple-360 to offer online darshan at pilgrimage centres READ MORE
- What is Russia’s Wagner Group of mercenaries in Ukraine? READ MORE
- India’s Trade Deficit Rose 88% In 2021-22 READ MORE
Main Exam
GS Paper- 1
- Strengthen secularism, save the republic: India, as a nation, can survive only as a secular state — where the state has no religion and does not promote any religion READ MORE
- Urban planning key to realising rights for persons with disabilities. Learn from Karnataka READ MORE
- Grassroots Wisdom~I READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
- Opinion: India’s weakening democracy needs urgent electoral reforms READ MORE
- The Need for a Supreme Court Bench in South India READ MORE
- Centre’s New Exam System is not Reform but Elite Capture READ MORE
- Why the inordinate delay in SC’s hearing of FCRA and electoral bonds cases is of concern READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- We Need Climate Action – But It Shouldn’t Be at the Expense of Social Justice READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
- India must focus on Nepal’s geo-economics READ MORE
- In the middle: On the Ukraine war India must fulfil its responsibilities as a non-aligned democracy READ MORE
- Oz is just the start: Australia FTA shows India is now confident on trade. Aim bigger, including the ambitious deal with US READ MORE
- The BIMSTEC Charter: Much Ado About Nothing READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- MSMEs need innovative solutions as inflation kicks in READ MORE
- Close the policy gap: RBI has fallen behind the curve READ MORE
- Why India needs to bring back nature-positive farming READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
- Climate crisis: No universal solutions READ MORE
TECHNOLOGY
- The rise and rise of Facial Recognition Technology READ MORE
SECURITY
- Afspa removal: It will restore peace, dignity READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
- Your response to situations can immortalise you READ MORE
- The Magic Of Three READ MORE
- Stop stereotyping differently abled READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
- ‘Without any legal safeguards in place, the widespread deployment of facial recognition technology by the Indian State makes it a tool to gain collective control over society’. Critically analyse the statement.
- ‘BIMSTEC is not just an alternative of SAARC for India, but it is an important platform to counter China’. In the light of the statement, discuss how can India use this platform to counter China?
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
- Without any legal safeguards in place, the widespread deployment of facial recognition technology by the Indian State makes it a tool to gain collective control over society.
- The pandemic showed that human interventions in natural processes can have disastrous consequences; we should now scale up natural-positive food systems that would simultaneously promote crop, soil and human health.
- Good leadership and long-term change happen when people are open to understanding each other, willing to learn from each other and mutually invested in fostering change that positively impacts the community as a whole.
- While disability rights are guaranteed by the Constitution, their realisation lies with state and municipal laws.
- The announcement of the reduction of the area under the law should be welcomed as a significant step to restore not just peace, but also dignity.
- The IPCC report says the world is not on track for achieving the mitigation goals. The response to that should be to redouble efforts and limit harm to the extent possible.
- The World Trade Organisation rules on FTAs in goods require that whenever an FTA includes one or more developed countries as members, all member countries must eliminate duties and other trade restrictions on substantially all products traded among them.
- The Constitution of India adopted that moral framework for the governance of India. Equality, justice and fraternity are as much a part of the great Buddhist tradition as of the modern European Renaissance.
- Secularism was chosen as the foundational principle of the republic to keep the nation united. Enlightened citizens should realise that if secularism is jettisoned, the hard-won national unity will be in peril.
50-WORD TALK
- India’s focus has to be on geo-economics — towards a prosperous Nepal, to help it create wealth and jobs so that one-third of its population is not on errands abroad. India has stopped looking at which government is in power in Nepal as long as there is mutual respect, mutual trust and mutual concern for each other’s national interests.
Things to Remember:
- For prelims-related news try to understand the context of the news and relate with its concepts so that it will be easier for you to answer (or eliminate) from given options.
- Whenever any international place will be in news, you should do map work (marking those areas in maps and exploring other geographical locations nearby including mountains, rivers, etc. same applies to the national places.)
- For economy-related news (banking, agriculture, etc.) you should focus on terms and how these are related to various economic aspects, for example, if inflation has been mentioned, try to relate with prevailing price rises, shortage of essential supplies, banking rates, etc.
- For main exam-related topics, you should focus on the various dimensions of the given topic, the most important topics which occur frequently and are important from the mains point of view will be covered in ED.
- Try to use the given content in your answer. Regular use of this content will bring more enrichment to your writing.
