(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Cabinet approves health coverage to all senior citizens of the age 70 years and above irrespective of income under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) READ MORE
2. Centre suspends permission for manufacture and marketing of eye drops claiming to do away with reading glasses READ MORE
3. Cabinet approves Rs 10,900 crore PM E-Drive to push electric mobility READ MORE
4. Modi reaffirms govt. plan to invest in enabling chip facilities READ MORE
5. CAG report highlights failures in Odisha’s KALIA scheme Nation READ MORE
6. Indian megacities lag in air pollution control despite lion’s share of financial support READ MORE
7. Controversy over Mumbai’s salt pans: why do these lands matter? READ MORE
8. 40% Amazon rainforest unprotected: why is this significant for climate change? READ MORE
9. GNSS: How the new satellite-based highway toll collection system will work READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. The silent crisis: Rising suicide cases demand urgent attention READ MORE
2. A vicious circle: How gender gap makes workplaces unsafe for women READ MORE
3. Subcategorisation verdict: India needs a reservation model solving the problem of caste, not perpetuating it READ MORE
4. Where is India’s new National Water Policy? READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Public accounts: On the newly constituted Public Accounts Committee READ MORE
2. Welcome cover for gig workers READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Why Tamil Nadu opposes Centre’s New Education Policy (NEP) READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. Ups and downs in Indo-Pacific READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Making India a start-up nation READ MORE
2. Agri Stack can be transformative, but implementation will be a challenge READ MORE
3. Empowering domestic workers in urban India READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. India’s green hydrogen revolution: Paving the way for a sustainable energy future READ MORE
2. India needs urgent, actionable plan to meet climate goals as time runs out READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Alzheimer’s: Early detection is the key READ MORE
2. India’s march towards deep tech READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Balancing privacy with national security need READ MORE
2. Prioritising deterrence in India’s national security plans READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. The Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill, 2024: A city-centric analysis READ MORE
2. Monsoon mayhem: Tackling urban flooding READ MORE
3. How to make disaster relief truly effective READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. Aspects of consciousness will remain unknown to AI READ MORE
2. WHO releases AI ethics and governance guidance for large multi-modal models READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. To strengthen the parliamentary oversight over the executive’s functioning, the Department Related Standing Committees should assert their role as instruments of parliamentary authority. Comment.
2. For meaningful parliamentary accountability of the executive, the functioning of the PAC should go beyond the formality of expenditure to its wisdom, faithfulness, and economy in real terms. Examine.
3. The Indo-Pacific will remain a defining element of India’s foreign policy. But India must cultivate stronger economic ties with countries in the region and sort out its differences with Quad partners to expand its influence and counter China in the region. Critically analyse.
4. Green hydrogen is emerging as a powerful alternative fuel, offering a clean and versatile energy source produced through renewable means. Comment.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- We must learn to succeed in conditions of low fuel and energy prices.
- The PAC, and the Department Related Standing Committees, many of which are yet to be constituted, should assert their role as instruments of parliamentary authority and the enforcer of the executive’s accountability to the people.
- Over the last decade, the Central government, with a comfortable majority in Parliament, has evaded meaningful parliamentary accountability.
- Multilateral institutions have projected India as a “bright spot” on the global economic horizon.
- To compete with leading economies, India will need to transition from looking at higher education as a social sector, to developing it from a strategic perspective.
- Integrating higher education with entrepreneurship through a systematic approach in pedagogy and research, and building a robust academia-industry interface can have an impressive effect on economic growth while also creating employment.
- When the entire country is being turned into a laboratory of community-based nationalism, it is only natural that Manipur does not remain an exception and that its continuing crisis ceases to matter.
- India needs to transition to a synergistic paradigm where education, entrepreneurship and employment are integrated for achieving exponential economic growth during the Amrit Kaal.
- The emergence of countries in the global South as leading voices in global governance and agents of development action signifies a significant shift in the norms and principles of international cooperation.
- The Indian government plans a Bill for gig workers’ social security, requiring companies to contribute funds, addressing fairness and evolving labor dynamics.
- Green hydrogen is emerging as a powerful alternative fuel, offering a clean and versatile energy source produced through renewable means.
- Effective internationalisation of a currency requires removal of restrictions to buy or sell its country’s currency, whether in the spot or forward market.
- Pacific China’s growing economic and military influence in South Asia and the Indian Ocean prompted Delhi to adopt the Indo-Pacific concept.
- India’s importance in the Pacific is reduced by its refusal to join the the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership multilateral trade agreement.
- The Indo-Pacific will remain a defining element of India’s foreign policy. But India must cultivate stronger economic ties with countries in the region and sort out its differences with Quad partners to expand its influence and counter China in the region.
- Climate change poses a major vulnerability that demands a comprehensive, quantifiable medium- and long-term plan, along with close monitoring to ensure timely corrective actions.
- Disinvesting PSBs and State insurers should be seen in the context of the dire need for reducing bureaucratic interference and granting autonomy to their management for speedy decisions and improved functioning.
- The omission of drafting a reservation policy that would alleviate the social injustice of SCs was not accidental but a deliberate strategy of the ruling classes to perpetuate caste as a potent tool to manipulate the masses.
- The key to addressing the uneven distribution of reservation benefits lies in recognising that it is not the caste but rather the individual beneficiary’s family that gains from reservations.
- In a rapidly intensifying geopolitical environment in the Indian Ocean, deterrence is seen as vital in ensuring the enduring security of maritime interests.
- Comprehensive policy interventions and tailored formalisation efforts in cities can ensure decent work and improve the livelihoods of domestic workers.
- Generative AI technologies have the potential to improve health care but only if those who develop, regulate, and use these technologies identify and fully account for the associated risks
ESSAY TOPIC
- Smallness adores and adorns itself – greatness is humble.
50-WORD TALK
- Donald Trump’s first debate with Kamala Harris is the kind of political faceoff a healthy democracy needs. It’s better than politicians talking at each other through tweets and rallies. This round goes to Harris. It’s fashionable nowadays to forecast America’s downfall, but Indian politics can learn a thing or two.
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.
