(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. No food in forests: Bears, langurs throng Uttarkahand apple orchards as native vegetation gets taken over by invasives READ MORE
2. The pandemic treaty can help the world brace for Disease X: WHO Director-General READ MORE
3. The rooftop solar plan: India’s solar power capacity, target, and the way forward READ MORE
4. SC gets new judge; to return to full judicial strength READ MORE
5. Flash Jan. PMI signals rebound in economic momentum READ MORE
6. Turkey ratifies Sweden’s NATO membership after protracted delay READ MORE
7. Carbon benefits of not using cookstoves overestimated: study READ MORE
8. The urgent need for data to make personalised medicine equitable READ MORE
9. How biodiversity management can help in conserving environment 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. Unravelling Antarctica’s Shrinking Sea Ice Levels READ MORE
4. Multi-pronged strategy needed to conserve groundwater READ MORE
5. China’s population dip is a global concern READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Combating the deepfake menace necessitates stern legal measures READ MORE
2. One Nation, One Election risks devolving to one voice READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Time to move beyond 1-2-3-4: What the ASER report reveals about Indian education system READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. The larger message to New Delhi from the Red Sea READ MORE
2. Choppy waters: On India-Maldives ties READ MORE
3. The issue of genocide and the world court READ MORE
4. Alliance of mutual concerns and interests READ MORE
5. Improving the world for everyone READ MORE
6. Has the Non-Aligned Movement lost its plot? READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. The need to overhaul a semiconductor scheme READ MORE
2. Cooperative route to build rural economy READ MORE
3. How reforming India’s workfare programme raised private sector earnings READ MORE
4. Solar scheme: Need to attract residential power consumers READ MORE
5. Policy reforms needed to boost manufacturing READ MORE
6. Shift in India’s female workforce sees increase in salaried women but gender wage gap persists READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Safeguarding the Himalayan ecosystem READ MORE
2. Bridging business, policy for net-zero READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Combating the deepfake menace necessitates stern legal measures READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Limits and borders: On the territorial jurisdiction of the Border Security Force READ MORE
2. Dangerous status quo: On continuing hostilities in Manipur 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. AI poses ethical challenges in health sector READ MORE
2. Consciousness: Pran Pratishtha to enlightenment READ MORE
3. Activate your best tool for self-perfection READ MORE
CASE STUDY
1. How Aadhaar is strangling MGNREGA in a Maharashtra district and pushing workers to migrate READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. France, with its search for strategic autonomy and influence in global affairs, can partner with India in its pursuit of a multipolar world. Comment.
2. Institutions of global governance have failed to make growth more inclusive and sustainable. Comment in the light of recent developments.
3. As the old-world order gave way to a new multipolar reality post-Cold War, the NAM, despite its historical significance, finds itself in a state of decline and struggled to adapt to emerging dynamics. Discuss how instead of collectively facing the challenges, many leaders prioritized narrow political goals, that hindered the NAM’s relevance in the changing world.
4. 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.
5. It is important to focus on technical and vocational education from the school level onwards so that children are equipped with skills that are needed in a growing economy. Comment in the light of ASER’s survey.
6. AI can lead to economic growth, but it also has the potential to destabilise national policies and disrupt financial systems. Critically comment.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
- While the Union government may have valid reasons for its move, it should not be seen as encroaching into the domain of the State governments, which have the constitutional responsibility to maintain public order and exercise police powers.
- The Red Sea situation will fade away, but India’s new two-front situation, as continental and maritime challenges, cannot be wished away.
- An overhauled Semiconductor Design-Linked Incentive scheme would fortify India’s comparative advantage and augment its forays into other stages of the semiconductor global value chain.
- The Maldives decision to invite the Xiang Yang Hong 03, but not to allow it more than a routine port call is hopefully a sign that quiet diplomacy is working. A rational approach is more likely to shore troubled bilateral ties out of the choppy waters now.
- While the porous border has also enabled drug trafficking and the movement of insurgents, a cessation of the Free Movement Regime (FMR) would be a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- The case of South Africa instituting proceedings against Israel in the International Court of Justice over the Gaza war is a vital stress test of the ‘rules-based international order’.
- France, with its search for strategic autonomy and influence in global affairs, can partner with India in its pursuit of a multipolar world.
- Better infrastructure, cleaner environs, and improved safety features at such sites can boost lost economies and generate employment.
- Three national cooperatives established last year are becoming the pivot for the rural economy through exports, seed production and procuring of farm produce.
- There is a pressing need to make the grid-connected solar rooftop power system affordable and manageable for residents. This will not only benefit consumers but also help discoms effectively handle peak loads and reduce transmission and distribution losses.
- Institutions of global governance have failed to make growth more inclusive and sustainable.
- By creating an environment conducive to manufacturing, India can attract investments and become key player in the global manufacturing hub.
- By creating an environment conducive to manufacturing, India can attract investments and become key player in the global manufacturing hub.
- A competitive and stable tax regime is essential for attracting investment. India needs to rationalise its tax structure, ensuring that it is transparent and predictable.
- As the old world order gave way to a new multipolar reality post-Cold War, the NAM despite its historical significance, finds itself in a state of decline, and struggled to adapt to emerging dynamics.
- Electoral politics may be a see-saw but regional diplomacy is a constant.
- Public confidence in the judicial system and in the moral authority and integrity of the judiciary was of the utmost importance in a modern democratic society
ESSAY TOPIC
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
50-WORD TALK
- Nine months into anarchy and violence in Manipur, a central team is sent to do what’s the state government’s first duty—maintaining peace. Centre’s support to Biren government despite grounds for President’s Rule is a political decision whose possible returns are already far outweighed by a swelling constitutional and human crisis.
- Maldives-bound Chinese research vessel is another bad signal for Delhi’s strategic ties with Male. The diplomatic divide between the two creates a gap that Beijing will want to exploit. Maldives must be careful to maintain strategic equilibrium — electoral politics may be a see-saw but regional diplomacy is a constant.
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.
