(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Climate change may cut labour productivity in India to 40% by 2100: Study READ MORE
2. Wetland ‘nature tourism’ gets a fillip READ MORE
3. From Kausalya’s land, Ram Setu sari unfolds rare weave READ MORE
4. What are labour rules for workers abroad? | Explained READ MORE
5. IT Ministry issues draft road maps for critical tech sectors READ MORE
6. World Vision India loses FCRA registration READ MORE
7. Using mosquitofish to fight mosquitoes throws India a tougher puzzle | Explained READ MORE
8. NISAR Mission on track for early 2024 launch, says JPL official READ MORE
9. What we know about multivitamins and memory READ MORE
10. What is the India-Myanmar border Free Movement Regime, which the Centre is planning to end? READ MORE
11. How India’s monsoon rain pattern has been changing amid climate change READ MORE
12. New amendments in wildlife trade rules enable issuing licences for certain Schedule II species READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. Women in small towns see a future in business READ MORE
2. How smartphones can make education inclusive READ MORE
3. Multi-pronged strategy needed to conserve groundwater READ MORE
4. China’s population dip is a global concern READ MORE
5. India’s coastal future needs safeguarding. District networks can help build resilience READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Post Office Act, its unbridled powers of interception READ MORE
2. Staying a bail Order, that too in a UAPA matter where getting bail is already difficult, is a travesty of justice READ MORE
3. Theologically Determined Politics Weakens Representative Government READ MORE
4. Courts Asking POCSO Victims Who Turn Hostile to Return Compensation Right or Wrong? READ MORE
5. A disturbing judicial trend to inhibit access to abortion services in India READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Time to move beyond 1-2-3-4: What the ASER report reveals about Indian education system READ MORE
2. Mixed tidings from education report READ MORE
3. Shaky foundations of India’s educational structures READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. A revival of the IMEC idea amid choppy geopolitics READ MORE
2. A missed opportunity READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. In Viksit Bharat, rural real wages are in decline READ MORE
2. Differentiating welfare schemes from freebies READ MORE
3. Reconfiguration of global trade and FDI READ MORE
4. GST is squeezing states, but RBI’s ‘solution’ of more taxes is unfair READ MORE
5. Why Small Farming is Essential for Creating a Sustainable Future READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Warm winter again signals climate crisis READ MORE
2. Double-edged sword READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Better use of technology needs free access READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Emerging situations in Myanmar require proactive responses from India READ MORE
2. Will Myanmar fence end problems? READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. In Morbi’s debris, the role of the State in PPP projects READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. Ram represents triumph of responsibility READ MORE
2. Education’s role in opening the mind READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. India’s growing economy and Azerbaijan’s strategic location as a gateway to Europe and Asia offer the potential for increased trade and investment. Comment.
2. The changing nature of the administrative system in India has occurred due to the paradigm shift in economic ideas and policies—from a state-centric economy to a neo-liberal market economy. Examine.
3. AI can lead to economic growth, but it also has the potential to destabilise national policies and disrupt financial systems. Critically comment.
4. The Right to Education Act, 2009 may have ensured universal access to education, but there is many a gap to fill before it touches every child in the true spirit of the law. Comment on the statement in the light of recent ASER’s report.
5. Asia is one of the fastest-growing regions globally and a united Asian front could serve as a counterbalance allowing for a more multipolar world order where India plays a significant role. Comment.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
- The newly enacted Act does not make any provision for procedural safeguards to dispel fears of misuse of the substantive provision on interception.
- Data from the recently released Annual Status of Education Report supports the point that once technology is in the hands of motivated users without constraints, they will learn to use it.
- As election pledges of freebies escalate, Modi Government issues a warning to States at the third National Conference of Chief Secretaries.
- The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a learner to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things under any circumstances.
- Education’s ultimate goal is not just knowledge acquisition but the creation of possibilities for learners to invent and discover, enabling them to tackle new challenges under any circumstances.
- For a Scheme to be welfare-oriented, it must address the needs of a person who is desperately in need of a product or service.
- The future of regional peace depends on the ability of global actors to prevail upon the parties involved to resolve issues with dialogue and work towards a comprehensive solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- The only positive and successful endeavour as regards the school education efforts seems to be the fact that the enrolment numbers have gone up. Besides that, there is hardly anything to cheer about in this realm and there are no rainbows on the horizon.
- The declining population has multiple dimensions and it needs a more wholesome approach. The CPC has just tried to achieve its goal by undertaking policy changes which have always come as too little too late.
- After the Ukraine War, India has re-asserted strategic independence in foreign and security policy, first over the Israel-Hamas War and now, Iran’s anti-terror attacks on Pakistani targets.
- India and Azerbaijan share a history of cultural and economic ties, but there remain many untapped opportunities for cooperation between the two nations.
- India’s growing economy and Azerbaijan’s strategic location as a gateway to Europe and Asia offer the potential for increased trade and investment.
ESSAY TOPIC
- Poverty reduction works best when inclusive growth and welfarism go together.
50-WORD TALK
- Supreme Court’s refusal to extend the deadline for surrender of Bilkis Bano’s rape convicts is a bold iteration of the rule of law. Their reasons for extension were flimsy and an obvious sham to buy more time. It was a travesty that they were even released in the first place.
- Health ministry’s direction to doctors ordering them to specify the reason every time they prescribe antibiotics has come not a day too soon. With high incidence of antibiotics abuse, India’s contribution to the global drug-resistant pathogen is very high. And it is now also India’s burden to fix the problem.
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.
