(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Lok Sabha passes bill to regulate appointment of chief election commissioner, top poll officials. Details here READ MORE
2. RBI releases draft omnibus framework for SROs, seeks comment READ MORE
3. WHO prequalifies a second malaria vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India READ MORE
4. Indian Penal Code to Nyaya Sanhita: What’s new, what is out, what changes READ MORE
5. How an AI tool can make weather forecasts more accurate and help tackle climate change READ MORE
6. Iceland volcano eruption: What are volcanoes and why is the island so volcanically active? READ MORE
7. Parliamentary panel recommends FAME-II scheme’s extension by at least 3 more years READ MORE
8. Peninsular river basins in India more likely to face widespread flooding than transboundary rivers: Study READ MORE
9. India Skills Report finds Kerala the most preferred State to work READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. Inequality, Labour and Social Democracy READ MORE
2. Tackle patriarchy READ MORE
3. Why Tamil Nadu has witnessed heavy rainfall in December 2023 READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Should an All-India Judicial Service be created? READ MORE
2. Whither parliamentary democracy? READ MORE
3. How not to frame education policy READ MORE
4. Questionable searches under the Money Laundering Act READ MORE
5. Revision sans vision: On the three Bills that replace the body of criminal laws in India READ MORE
6. Post Office Bill 2023 | State surveillance and privacy concerns explained READ MORE
7. Why the three laws were needed for new age crimes READ MORE
8. Dynamic governance for dynamic tech READ MORE
9. Explained: The Revised Criminal Law Bills READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Improving healthcare access to address the rise in non-communicable diseases among Indian women READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. Foreign policy on precarious perch despite claims READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Express View on rupee and Macroeconomic Stability: IMF’s message READ MORE
2. Agri capex, a black box READ MORE
3. Poor funding, crumbling infrastructure: Gaps persist in India’s food and nutrition schemes READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. The need for a Global Green Bank READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Staying alert: On the rapidly increasing spread of the JN.1 variant READ MORE
2. Virus alert: No cause to panic READ MORE
3. India’s Medical Devices Soar with Tech Innovation READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Terrorists and miscreants are far more motivated than we think READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. Turbulence in south: On the heavy rain in southern Tamil Nadu, weather forecasting and preparedness READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. Overcome stress and worry with Krishna’s Gita READ MORE
2. Punish the inhuman teachers READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. Indian wagon to the US’s Indo-Pacific strategy is steadily eroding India’s strategic autonomy and alienating the Global South. Examine.
2. In light of the changing healthcare burden and with a rise in mortality due to non-communicable diseases, the PMJAY programme has the ability to alleviate constraints to healthcare access. Comment.
3. While the internet has proved to be a space for good use cases and empowerment, the proliferation of AI and its application is a watershed phenomenon that represents a huge challenge.
4. The government has overhauled its food and healthcare system but unless it fixes structural inadequacies, India’s hunger crisis will remain unaddressed. Examine.
5. Collaboration between the government, private sector, and civil society is imperative to develop and implement robust AI policies that prioritize ethics, fairness, and inclusivity. Discuss how ethical dilemmas and data privacy concerns can be addressed and AI benefits reach all segments of society can be ensured?
6. AI’s transformative prowess offers a novel perspective, fundamentally redefining India’s vision for the future and India must embrace this technology judiciously, leveraging its power for the greater good while safeguarding the values and ethics that define the nation. Comment.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.
- In a democracy attracted by power rather than constitutional form, power will continually need to be projected.
- While there could be statistical underestimation, the changes in Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and adverse terms of trade may have worked as negative factors.
- The three criminal bills to replace the colonial-era criminal laws seek to bring comprehensive changes to the criminal justice system.
- In light of the changing healthcare burden for women, with a rise in mortality due to non-communicable diseases PMJAY programme plays to alleviate constraints to healthcare access.
- The establishment of the PMJAY has coincided with an important inflection point for women’s health in India.
- Women’s empowerment needs to be considered central to programme planning for tackling NCDs, with the programmes enhancing values of self-care so that women are encouraged to seek and demand that their health needs be prioritised within families and within health systems.
- It is essential to recognize that the preservation of religious harmony and historical justice need not be mutually exclusive.
- The Places of Worship Act, while a well-intentioned measure to prevent communal discord, needs careful reevaluation to address contemporary challenges and ensure its continued relevance in a dynamically evolving society.
- India has moved closer to the US to counter China. But with increasing uncertainty in the West’s geopolitical calculus, the Indo-Pacific strategy has lost its fizz.
- India’s geopolitical rivalry with China now becomes nonsensical. The US has come to realise that a prolonged confrontation with Russia in Eurasia has made the idea of a simultaneous US Cold War or a military showdown with China a farfetched proposition.
- Indian wagon to the US’s Indo-Pacific strategy is steadily eroding the country’s strategic autonomy and alienating the Global South that is not in the least interested in taking sides in an esoteric India-China binary in international politics.
- The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita (BNS2), which will replace the Indian Penal Code, gives wide-ranging powers to the police without a commensurate increase in accountability.
- The recognition of the challenge of deepfakes and the proactive initiative by the government is heartening as India seeks to be ahead of the curve.
- While the internet has proved to be a space for good use cases and empowerment, the proliferation of AI and its application is a watershed phenomenon that also represents a huge challenge.
- Regulation of technology challenges conventional means of policy-making, given that private players have the real know-how and capacity for enforcement.
- Each time society is faced with a new issue arising out of technology, the industry, civil society, and relevant stakeholders come together to discuss the need for new prescriptive measures to regulate such issues.
- Developing future-ready legislations that can anticipate the evolution of technology and provide safeguards for new-age challenges is key.
- Political accountability is necessary because, in a modern democracy, the fundamental political relationship that affects social, economic, and cultural development is that between the citizen and the State.
- Parliamentary discourse is purely ideological, dealing only with political practice; and that liberal democracy is the only doctrine that the Constitution gives us.
- The government has overhauled its food and healthcare system but unless it fixes structural inadequacies, India’s hunger crisis will remain unaddressed.
ESSAY TOPIC
- The economy is an owned subsidiary of ecology.
50-WORD TALK
- The mimicry row in Parliament is a sensational waste of time. The schoolyard nature of our Parliament is nearly complete, with suspended students and immature teasing. Mimicry is a poor form of humour, best avoided by MPs. But it’s also harmless and best handled with a smile, not pre-pubescent howling.
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.
