(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Redesigned programmes can vastly improve TB treatment outcomes READ MORE
2. Kala-azar: India to seek WHO certification for eliminating disease READ MORE
3. Company uses mining dust to enhance carbon capture READ MORE
4. Sydney reopens beaches after tar ball mystery READ MORE
5. Original parent document not necessary to transfer property, rules Madras High Court READ MORE
6. Coastal Odisha braces for Cyclone Dana’s likely arrival on October 24 READ MORE
7. As COP16 starts in Colombia, the half a millennium old El Dorado myth of its Chibcha or Muisca people continues to reverberate even today READ MORE
8. Carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires increased by 60% between 2001 and 2023: Study READ MORE
9. Fourth global coral bleaching widest and fastest on record READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. What do the Atlantic Ocean hurricane forecasts foretell for India? READ MORE
2. The invisible battle for mental health in India READ MORE
3. The divisive legacy of British colonialism: A persistent threat to India’s unity READ MORE
4. How can women lead India’s growth story? First close the digital gender divide READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Governor vs Government: On the hostilities in Tamil Nadu READ MORE
2. The citizenship question in Assam is far from over READ MORE
3. Strong institution or hand? Lessons from Seshan case READ MORE
4. Satisfactory closure to contentious debate READ MORE
5. Welcome directive to force ED officers to follow rules READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Shameful position on hunger index READ MORE
2. Urbanisation and youth: Building a healthier future amid rapid growth READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. Complicit: On India and the U.S and Canada cases READ MORE
2. India’s choices in a world becoming bipolar again READ MORE
3. Tit-for-tat politics will harm both India and Canada READ MORE
4. India-Canada relations sink over Khalistan issue READ MORE
5. Debating partisanship in India’s Neighborhood First policy READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. How to realise the full potential of Digital Public Infrastructure READ MORE
2. India’s strides towards the design and component ecosystem in telecom READ MORE
3. Compensation cess should go READ MORE
4. How India squanders its demographic dividend READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. On climate finance to developing nations | Explained READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. No Indian working in India has won a science Nobel in 94 years: Here’s why READ MORE
2. AI: Redefining learning in the 21st Century READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Are India’s companies ready to tackle data breaches? READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. South Asian countries must work together to tackle high risk of flooding disasters READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. Gita unfolds the true essence of sanatan dharma READ MORE
2. Step out of shadows READ MORE
3. Will humans learn from their history? READ MORE
4. The fine line between art and offence READ MORE
CASE STUDY
1. Student suicides spur changes at NLU Delhi. ‘No detention’ policy to compassionate leave READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. With the Indo-Pacific emerging as a crucible of clashing Chinese and American ambitions, India’s deepening ties with the U.S. and the Quad bristle with both challenges and opportunities. Comment.
2. The phenomenon of jobless growth, where productivity rises but job creation lags and contributes to the alarming trend in inequality, has rekindled interest in a UBI as a component of a social safety net across the world. Comment.
3. Freedom from hunger and ill-health on the one hand and gender and income equality, and access to quality education on the other hand lead to the achievement of human development, and, consequently, to sustainable development. Comment.
4. By empowering ULBs with the necessary resources, mandates, and institutional support, India can ensure that its urban centres are not just engines of economic growth but also pillars of climate resilience. Why empowering urban local bodies will be a progressive step for climate resilience?
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- The stark difference in the Modi government’s outraged denial of the Canadian charges while providing a sympathetic ear for the American charges may prove untenable as the trial in the U.S. progresses.
- India’s emergence as a possible counterbalance to China, and the role that the U.S. will play in shaping the contours of the seemingly inevitable shift in power from the west to the east: from the Atlantic to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- With the Indo-Pacific emerging as a crucible of clashing Chinese and American ambitions, India’s deepening ties with the U.S. and the Quad bristle with both challenges and opportunities.
- Even while upholding Section 6A of the Citizenship Act 1955, the Court seems to want to get itself involved in the minutiae of identifying illegal immigrants and border fencing.
- By emphasising on impact assessments and institutionalising the process, corrective and timely action, where necessary, can be taken. This will help accomplish the promise of DPIs in not only transforming economies, but also millions of lives.
- As DPI and DPI-type initiatives spread foundationally and sectorally in India, impact assessments can directly support policy makers, not only to track success, but also to guide design improvements, and ensure that DPIs remain accessible, inclusive, and effective.
- Indian diplomacy is an instinctive leavening agent. In the selection of new members – and now partners – India has sought balance, geographical and otherwise, to ensure BRICS doesn’t get a distortionary ideological edge.
- Both India and Canada need to pull back from the diplomatic war they are engaged in. A sour relationship can only cause further damage in the long run.
- Manufacturing has emerged as an important aspect of the telecom sector’s contribution to the GDP through the creation of substantial employment opportunities across the value chain, from manufacturing to research and development.
- Government’s Push for ‘Atmanirbhar’ Under the government’s ‘Atmanirbharta Abhiyan’, the Department of Telecom (DoT) aims to promote the ecosystem for research and development, transforming India into a global hub of technology development and telecom equipment manufacturing.
- India’s growth as a telecom equipment manufacturing destination can be attributed to the ‘Make-in-India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiatives launched by the Government in recent years.
- India has again found itself on the lowest rungs of the Global Hunger Index, raising persistent questions about the country’s efforts to provide adequate food and nutrition to its population.
- The government has to first accept the reality of hunger before it can effectively fight it. With such a hungry population, the country cannot gain much from its demographic dividend.
- Under its Neighbourhood First policy, India has begun to engage with less friendly regimes and has also pushed for connectivity to create leverage and further its interests.
ESSAY TOPIC
- That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
50-WORD TALK
- The India-Canada crisis is rooted in the 1985 Kanishka bombing, the biggest pre-9/11 transnational terror attack that killed 329 people, including 268 Canadians. Canada’s amnesia is understandable since those killed weren’t white Canadians but Indian immigrants. Don’t give Canada’s conscience an easy pass. Build a Kanishka memorial, invite Canadian diplomats.
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.
