(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. What happened to H-1B visas during Trump’s first term READ MORE
2. Converting rainforests into rubber plantations drastically alters soil’s physical, chemical properties: Study READ MORE
3. Quarter of global urban population to face 0.5 degrees of temperature increase by 2040: Report READ MORE
4. India’s 2024-25 Kharif output at record 164.7 million tonnes; rice at all-time high, pulses lower than average READ MORE
5. RNA editing promises to go where DNA editing can’t READ MORE
6. What is PM Vidyalaxmi? PM Modi-led Cabinet approves new scheme for collateral-free loans up to Rs 10 lakh for higher education READ MORE
7. Understanding the election process: How is the US President elected? READ MORE
8. Apophis: a European space mission gets up close with an asteroid set to brush by Earth READ MORE
9. Henley Passport Index 2024: Three Asian powers make it to top 10. Where does India stand? READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. Why were the Spain floods so deadly? READ MORE
2. India’s next demographic dividend is silver generation. Singapore, Canada show how READ MORE
3. Colonial roots of deep inequality: What’s driving violent protests in French Caribbean islands READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Property rights ruling welcome READ MORE
2. SC’s balancing act: Guarding property rights in new economic era 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. What Trump 2.0 means for India and South Asia READ MORE
2. What does Trump’s term mean for the US and the rest of the world? READ MORE
3. The Eastern path~I READ MORE
4. Geopolitics is Getting Unstable but India Can Help Itself and the World By Embracing BRICS READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment READ MORE
2. Growth matters more than inflation now READ MORE
3. India’s Middle Class Has Shrunk by a Quarter. Here’s Proof READ MORE
4. Youth, Women Among Most Acutely Unemployed: PLFS 2024 READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Low on expectations, COP29 summit in Azerbaijan has potential to spring a surprise 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.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- To enhance connectivity with eastern neighbours and Asean, India took on initiatives such as the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway and Kaladan MultiModal Transit Transport Project to boost regional trade and access to Southeast Asian markets.
- The Supreme Court’s landmark judgment on property rights limits arbitrary government acquisition, protecting citizens’ interests.
- India will soon face an ageing population and labour shortages. This is why coherent approaches to engaging the silver generation in the economy are needed now.
- To improve silver workforce participation, raising the retirement age alone is not sufficient. Such moves must be accompanied by policy actions to ensure that workers are better empowered and trained to contribute effectively.
- With proactive planning, the silver generation could indeed become another demographic dividend for India.
- Despite the fact that India’s wholehearted support for BRICS would help its own rise, it has chosen to align itself with the Global North nations led by the US.
- Future-proofing leadership requires a holistic approach that integrates ethics and sustainability into every aspect of leadership development.
- This commitment to sustainability and ethics will result in more resilient, flexible businesses that are ready to prosper in a future when long-term success is determined not only by revenues but also by the good effects on people and the environment.
- 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.
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.
