(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. PM Modi in US: What is the Quad grouping? READ MORE
2. Polar bears diverged from brown bears 70,000 years ago: Study READ MORE
3. What is the Nipah protocol in Kerala? READ MORE
4. Are antibiotics responsible for inflammatory bowel diseases? READ MORE
5. Falkland Islands ‘were covered in lush rainforest up to 30 million years ago’ READ MORE
6. ‘Ransomware threats more than doubling every year’ READ MORE
7. Centre notifies October 1 as start date for Vivad se Vishwas 2.0 READ MORE
8. First repository of cancer genomics in India launched READ MORE
9. Quad launches maritime and health initiatives, adopts strong language on aggression READ MORE
10. Only 16% land reclaimed under legacy waste management project of Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. The continuing distribution of the death penalty READ MORE
2. Social media age limit: Will banning children be enough? READ MORE
3. Column | When Harappans had unicorns READ MORE
4. Should children be barred from social media? READ MORE
5. Study shows protected areas only 30% effective in combating deforestation READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Unwarranted curbs: On the Centre’s move on a ‘fact-checking unit’ READ MORE
2. ‘One nation, one poll’ faces trust deficit READ MORE
3. Key reforms needed for unified electoral system READ MORE
4. Sub-classification and the Future of Reservations READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. POSHAN Abhiyaan & Beating Malnutrition — Battling The Challenge Of Stunting & Other Nutrition Issues READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. Staunch the breach: On India, Pakistan and the Indus Waters Treaty READ MORE
2. Quad woos the Indo-Pacific READ MORE
3. India must make its presence felt at Gulf forum READ MORE
4. Quad is here to stay READ MORE
5. India-Bangladesh relations hit new low READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Is the spike in India’s trade deficit a worry? READ MORE
2. Why a grand GST bargain with states is needed READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. A climate crisis agenda remains urgent READ MORE
2. India needs urgent, actionable plan to meet climate goals as time runs out READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. How Kerala reduced mortality from amoebic meningoencephalitis READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. India needs a ‘National Security Strategy’ READ MORE
2. The dark web demystified: Its role in privacy, crime, and regulation 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. Is it even possible to have a work-life balance? READ MORE
2. A note of enlightenment to enrich your thoughts READ MORE
3. Erosion of integrity plagues state police forces READ MORE
4. Apply Sports ethics in the Workplace READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. India’s leadership within the Quad reflects its commitment to fostering cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, ensuring that it remains a region of stability and shared prosperity. Comment.
2. As technology continues to evolve, combating dark web crime requires ongoing adaptation and collaboration among stakeholders to safeguard digital security and public safety on a global scale. Discuss.
3. Subsuming multi-tier elections into simultaneous mode has the potential to reduce the importance of each tier, especially the Assembly and municipal levels, and is anti-federal. Comment.
4. One nation, One Election will be the biggest tool in making our democracy effective, vibrant and participative. Critically Examine.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- The prevalence of misinformation or false information is a problem that undoubtedly requires to be tackled, but it cannot be an excuse to create a mechanism by which the government becomes a judge in its own cause or the sole arbiter of what information about itself is misleading.
- While a majority of the experts agree that constitutional amendments are necessary, they contend that these changes would not be anti-democratic or anti-federal, nor would they undermine the Constitution’s basic structure or lead to a presidential form of government.
- India, with its strategic location and economic influence, sees itself as a natural leader in advocating for an inclusive, prosperous Indo-Pacific.
- India’s leadership within the Quad reflects its commitment to fostering cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, ensuring that it remains a region of stability and shared prosperity.
- Electoral reforms should be accelerated by empowering the Election Commission to implement reforms with a one-year notice to Parliament.
- It is time to bring sweeping reforms to India’s electoral system to ensure a more transparent, accountable, and stable political process.
- Rather than looking at social media as an enemy to be vanquished, we should view it as a tool that requires careful handling.
- In a society that nurtures patriarchal social norms the deeply ingrained gender biases and prejudices can only be removed through a change in the mindset.
- Despite India’s efforts for cordial ties, rising anti-India sentiments within Bangladesh’s hardliner-dominated interim government pose a major challenge.
- As technology continues to evolve, combating dark web crime requires ongoing adaptation and collaboration among stakeholders to safeguard digital security and public safety on a global scale.
- The National Cyber Security Policy of 2013 is instrumental in designing strategies to counteract cyber threats, including those originating from the dark web.
- Food security is key to India’s overall development agenda. Proactive measures are needed to deal with the longstanding problems of malnutrition and food insecurity
- India is an important voice for the Global South and it succeeded in ensuring its G-20 presidency focused on war outcomes such as energy and food security that matter to the developing world rather than the war itself.
- At a time when the government is dealing with internal conflicts including Manipur, revving up the economy through international engagement, regional turbulence and a host of other important issues, it could justifiably question the need to spend its resources on this conflict.
- As a country of considerable consequence in the world, one that straddles the West and the east, the Global North and South, and as the only country that is member of both the Quad (Australia, India, Japan, United States) and BRICS, India is uniquely positioned.
- History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Subsuming multi-tier elections into simultaneous mode has the potential to reduce the importance of each tier, especially the Assembly and municipal levels, and is anti-federal.
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.
