(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Validity of law cannot be challenged for violating Basic Structure: Supreme Court READ MORE
2. Unwarranted: 2 top court judges on Chief Justice’s remarks on Justice Krishna Iyer READ MORE
3. Buddhism can show the world how to counter sectarianism: Murmu READ MORE
4. If tardigrades crowd-sourced their remarkable genes, can humans? READ MORE
5. Acute food insecurity to worsen in 22 places over next 6 months: UN report READ MORE
6. Mountains aren’t calling: Himachal temperature 3-4 degrees above normal, 97% less rainfall in October READ MORE
7. Bird flu detected in a pig in US, raises red flags over species transmission READ MORE
8. Madarsa Education Act upheld by SC: What was the case? READ MORE
9. ‘No secret chamber found inside Jagannath temple’: why the claim was made, how ASI surveyed shrine READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. Economic development and crime against women READ MORE
2. The price of Poona Pact: How Gandhi’s fast altered Dalit political aspirations READ MORE
3. Breaking the silence: The unspoken mental abuse of women at workplaces READ MORE
4. Cyclone Dana may be carrying intense rainfall; here is why READ MORE
5. First time in history: How did a Saudi Arabian desert see snowfall? READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Aadhaar biometric data access will aid forensics READ MORE
2. A law that enables vigilante violence READ MORE
3. What does the recent Supreme Court judgment on Assam migrants mean for dual citizenship in India? Part 3 READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. A slow walk to freedom READ MORE
2. Wider net will stretch healthcare infra READ MORE
3. India’s TB crisis: Surge in cases, drug resistance threaten goals READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. On India-Canada diplomatic relations | Explained READ MORE
2. Decoding Africa’s interest in BRICS READ MORE
3. India, as a UNSC aspirant, should not ignore UN on human rights READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Women’s woes on the labour front READ MORE
2. Fiscal Path READ MORE
3. Shrinking Middle READ MORE
4. 2024 Economics Nobel winners sanitise colonial history through economic theory READ MORE
5. Explained: The paradox of stagnant rural wages READ MORE
6. Post-Covid informal manufacturing growth: How states fared READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Time for action: on the climate conference huddle in Baku READ MORE
2. Pollution crackdown: Punjab’s bold move on stubble fires READ MORE
3. Centre’s Commission for Air Quality Management Has Been a Paper Tiger READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Rising STEM research demands revitalised education READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. J&K needs eternal vigil to battle against terror READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. India committed to Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction: PM’s aide P.K. Mishra READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. AI adoption and Ethical Considerations READ MORE
2. Both moral realism and relativism are wrong READ MORE
3. Chief Justice Chandrachud’s ethical exceptionalism READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. While companies may aspire to act ethically, pressures to meet financial targets can overshadow these commitments and it can lead to prioritizing short-term gains over long-term ethical standards. Discuss the necessity of a robust ethical frameworks, organizations to navigate the complexities of AI technology while harnessing its transformative potential responsibly.
2. The Poona Pact has neither given legitimacy to the political representation of Dalits nor made any advancement in changing their social conditions. Discuss.
3. India’s strategic autonomy finds its roots in its non-alignment, which prevented it from becoming a proxy state of the Cold War era. Comment.
4. India has positioned itself to champion a new global order, which is more pragmatic than rigid and away from conflicts. Critically Examine.
5. The Indo-Pacific Economic framework’s focus on inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and fair economic competitiveness is closely aligned with India’s domestic vision and foreign policy ambitions of a multipolar world. Discuss.
6. The promise of freebies points to India’s broken political economy rather than bad political intent. Comment.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
- While the Aadhaar Act’s provisions on core biometric information serve a crucial role in protecting privacy, there is a compelling case in re-evaluating these restrictions in specific contexts, such as identifying a deceased person.
- The law must safeguard this right for all individuals, particularly for those from poor, marginalised, and socially disadvantaged backgrounds, who already face unequal access to the criminal justice system.
- The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has strict regulations about the disclosure of data in order to protect a person’s right to privacy and ensure that there is no misuse of personal data.
- In a society where social gatherings and prayer meetings are a common part of culture and a way to social uplift for historically oppressed communities, the power of the police and vigilante groups to criminalise their religious or personal lives or their personal relationships can have a chilling effect.
- As BRICS aims to expand, developing nations from Africa gear up to join the grouping, seeking to redefine their global engagement.
- The abolition of bonded labour calls for a holistic approach that addresses the underlying drivers of exploitation including socio-economic vulnerabilities, legal ignorance, and the entrenched power structures that enable abuse.
- India’s presence at the Islamabad SCO summit was in line with its ambitions of gaining a foothold in Eurasia.
- The sure shot way of ending militancy is to find a way to address the grievances of the people and to win their confidence.
- Insurgency in Kashmir was largely restricted to attacks on the security forces and armed forces’ establishments.
- The hallmark of climate negotiations is that they are arenas of gladiatorial legalese where the stated goal of reducing emissions seems to stretch further beyond reach. It is time that concrete action takes centre stage.
- Air pollution in Delhi-NCR is a complex, regional issue that necessitates coordinated efforts across multiple states. Despite the CAQM’s formation, there has been a notable lack of effective collaboration among the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
- The lack of a central authority to oversee and coordinate actions across state boundaries means that pollution control efforts are often disjointed.
- The mental abuse that women face in their professional spaces, often unrecognised and unreported, manifests in ways that can undermine their mental health and career progress.
- The Poona Pact has neither given legitimacy to the political representation of Dalits nor made any advancement in changing their social conditions.
ESSAY TOPIC
- Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
50-WORD TALK
- Circumstances under which Bandhavgarh forest officials were suspended show system failed the 10 elephants that died last week. Conservation doesn’t just need professionalism and ethics, it also deserves wildlife experts who are devoted to the cause and are not out of sync with science. Saving lives is a 24-hour job.
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.
