Table of Contents
(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Leopard numbers show 8% rise from 2018 to 2022 READ MORE
2. New waste management technology could improve life in rural India, claims study READ MORE
3. Critically endangered yellow-breasted bunting sighted for first time in Gujarat’s Nal Sarovar READ MORE
4. Cabinet approves royalty rates for 12 critical minerals READ MORE
5. Parliament doesn’t have power to impose tax on mineral rights, states do: SC READ MORE
6. Himachal Pradesh News: Six rebel Congress MLAs disqualified by Speaker to move SC READ MORE
7. Fiscal deficit at 64% by January; Capex slid last month READ MORE
8. India launches second part of critical minerals auction worth $362 billion READ MORE
9. Obesity rates going up across the world: Lancet study READ MORE
10. No Automatic Vacation Of Stay Orders Of HCs On Civil & Criminal Trials : Supreme Court Overturns ‘Asian Resurfacing’ Judgment READ MORE
11. ZSI names a newly discovered head-shield sea slug after President Droupadi Murmu READ MORE
12. Explained: The Genome India project, aimed at creating a genetic map of the country READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. Mapping land ownership as part of the caste census could uncover key patterns about power, resources READ MORE
2. ‘Catastrophic’ Private Costs, Poverty, Malnutrition: What Keeps India From Achieving its TB Goals READ MORE
3. Most of Greater Horn of Africa to see excess rain till May thanks to El Nino, climate change READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. On cross-voting in Rajya Sabha elections | Explained READ MORE
2. E-evidence, new criminal law, its implementation READ MORE
3. Safety standards dangerously fail consumers READ MORE
4. Yes Milord, the process is often punishment READ MORE
5. Cooperation, not coercion READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. India’s fight against rare diseases READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. Pakistan’s new government has internal turmoil, India must wait and watch READ MORE
2. India-ASEAN FTA Rules of Origin reforms: Abating outside influx and consolidating supply chains READ MORE
3. France and India: Partners for a green future READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Should Minimum Support Price be legalised? READ MORE
2. Three things follow from GOI’s latest GDP figures READ MORE
3. The rise of the affluent is the real India growth story READ MORE
4. New India: Roti, kapda, makaan, vigyan and aatmasamman READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Protests stress need for climate-smart agriculture READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Empowering grassroots innovation for progress READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Not a foolproof solution READ MORE
2. Necessary for security READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. Dilemmas in disaster management: SAARC under scrutiny READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. Creator vs. created: Ethics in AI course applies faith to rising concerns of new tech tool READ MORE
2. Building bridges with empathy READ MORE
3. Hands: Crafting connections, shaping destinies READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. The changing nature of India’s foreign policy outlook over the last decade has gone through remarkable changes in India’s bilateral relationships with its Quad partners. Critically Discuss.
2. Among Quad countries, there is a growing comfort in working with each other given the strong consensus in their strategic outlooks and India’s bilateral partnerships with Quad countries have transformed in recent years. Analyse.
3. While India has made significant strides in fields like space science, vaccine development, and agriculture, persisting societal challenges necessitate a collaborative approach between scientific institutions and grassroots innovators. Justify.
4. The Free Movement Regime has failed to cement people-to-people contact and it has led to the unfettered movement of terrorists, drug smugglers and gun-runners. Comment in the light of recent developments.
5. As India’s competitive efforts to augment itself as a global manufacturing hub expand, the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement’s future success is critical to addressing its unfavourable position in the ASEAN supply chain. Analyse.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- There is no such thing as a vote that does not matter.
- It would be wishful thinking to expect any further amendments to strengthen the Constitution or laws against cross-voting practices since ruling parties’ benefit from such unprincipled tactics.
- The root cause is PDS and now the government has made it free. That means that the government will continue to procure large quantities of wheat and rice.
- The government has withdrawn from the regulatory mechanism and therefore in unorganised markets, intermediaries are active and creating inflationary pressures on the economy.
- If cooperatives can create storage structures where the farmers can store their produce at reasonable prices to reap the benefits of higher prices in the off season.
- While some changes have been made in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) in connection with investigation and police functioning, a few new offences and some changes introduced in the BNS, the contents of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 have changed little as far as the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) is concerned.
- There needs to be a general awareness drive now about the modes and methods of encryption, particularly for private agencies which install closed-circuit televisions on their premises or use other electronic devices for security purposes.
- Despite their key role in the waste value chain ecosystem, waste pickers face systemic marginalisation, severe health hazards and exclusion from legal protection.
- The country needs a unified structure and system for regulating and administering the licensing, manufacture, sale, safety monitoring and drug advertising of ASU drugs when sold across states in inter-state commerce.
- GOI has now decided GDP no longer needs a third revision to be finalised. Second revision of a GDP estimate now makes it the final estimate.
- If the flagship scheme to improve public schooling in the country ends up a hostage of the Centre’s insistence on a scheme to create a clutch of “exemplar schools”, it would be no small irony.
- The Free Movement Regime has failed to cement people-to-people contact. Instead, it has led to the unfettered movement of terrorists, drug smugglers and gun-runners.
- The overwhelming evidence is that fences are hardly foolproof, particularly in arduous terrain and in the context of enduring ethnic and familial bonds.
- While India has made significant strides in fields like space science, vaccine development, and agriculture, persisting societal challenges necessitate a collaborative approach between scientific institutions and grassroots innovators.
- Among Quad countries, there is a growing comfort in working with each other given the strong consensus in their strategic outlooks and India’s bilateral partnerships with Quad countries have transformed in recent years.
- The changing nature of India’s foreign policy outlook over the last decade has gone through remarkable changes in India’s bilateral relationships with its Quad partners.
- The impact of climate change on the agri-sector and the sluggish government response in managing its fallout has come as a double whammy for the farmer community.
- Combined with water accounting methodologies can build long-term sustainability, efficiency and resilience of the agri-sector besides immensely benefiting the marginal farmers.
- As India’s competitive efforts to augment itself as a global manufacturing hub expand, the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement future success is critical to addressing its unfavourable position in the ASEAN supply chain.
ESSAY TOPIC
- Passivity is fatal to a soldier.
50-WORD TALK
- Mumbai’s Gokhale bridge-Barfiwala flyover gaffe, followed by the BMC and Western Railway pointing fingers at each other is a classic case of everything wrong with the city’s planning. There are multiple agencies involved and the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing. The city deserves better than piecemeal development.
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.