(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Explained: Stories of women who helped draft the Constitution of India READ MORE
2. All about the central government scheme to promote natural farming READ MORE
3. National Milk Day: Recalling Verghese Kurien’s role in pioneering the white revolution READ MORE
4. First phase of ‘One Nation One Subscription’ approved: How the scheme can improve govt institutions’ access to journals READ MORE
5. With neither rain nor snow so far, Uttarakhand desperately awaits precipitation to end dry October-November spell READ MORE
6. UN chief calls for global action in Busan talks to end plastic pollution READ MORE
7. Deep depression over Bay of Bengal likely to intensify into cyclonic storm on November 27 READ MORE
8. Global Plastic Profiles: Why addressing existing polymer pollution is a critical priority READ MORE
9. Coast Guard to conduct ‘SAREX 24’ in Kochi from Nov 27-30 under NMSAR Board READ MORE
10. ‘No Legitimate Cause’ : Supreme Court Dismisses Pleas Challenging Inclusion Of Words ‘Socialist’ & ‘Secular’ In Constitution’s Preamble READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. Road to empowerment: Rural roads programme and women’s outcomes READ MORE
2. Grey divorce: The new reality of modern relationships READ MORE
3. The dangers of high-altitude sickness | Explained READ MORE
4. Birsa Munda a symbol of resistance, empowerment READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. Timely reiteration: On the Preamble and the Supreme Court’s order READ MORE
2. Rethinking our constitution for the Anthropocene READ MORE
3. Citizens Are at the Centre of the Constitution READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. The rat race is ruining education READ MORE
2. Reaping our demographic dividend: Can skilling be the secret sauce? READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. India, US semicon partnership on good wicket READ MORE
2. State of India-Canada ties and the immigrant question READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Revival on the cards for Indian economy READ MORE
2. Let science guide the shift to sustainable farming READ MORE
3. Realigning India’s economic strategy READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Between hope and hurdles on the high seas READ MORE
2. COP29 pledge worsens climate of mistrust READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Emerging contours of artificial intelligence READ MORE
2. Democratising AI needs a radically different approach READ MORE
3. How to fight back against the toughest diseases READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Response to terror short on strategy READ MORE
2. Beyond 26/11: How military satellites can redefine India’s security framework READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. Remedy healthcare to prevent another Jhansi READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. Simplifying life’s complexity through darshan READ MORE
2. Lessons in Humility and Faith READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. Fundamental Rights and DPSP aim to establish an egalitarian social order, protecting social and economic justice. Examine.
2. As space becomes an increasingly contested and militarised domain, leveraging the capabilities of private players can significantly enhance India’s security, self-reliance, and economic growth. Discuss.
3. The Directive Principles are fundamental in the governance of the country and the state has a duty to apply them in making laws. Examine.
4. The Uniform Civil Code designed to dispel gender injustice has been a cheque drawn in favour of the Indian woman. Comment.
5. The Constitution has extensive provisions relating to the appointment and removal of judges, including their qualifications, conditions and procedures. Examine how these provisions are critical for the judiciary’s independence?
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
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- One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
- The Supreme Court of India has done well to rebuff an attempt to question the characterisation of the country as ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ in the amended Preamble to the Constitution.
- Secularism essentially represents the nation’s commitment to treat persons of all faiths equally and without discrimination.
- the term ‘socialism’ in Constitution embodies “the principle of economic and social justice, wherein the State ensures that no citizen is disadvantaged due to economic or social circumstances”.
- India’s signing of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement has earned praise but also drawn scepticism on account of structural complexities and challenges.
- Despite its laudable intentions to address critical gaps in international maritime regulation, the High Sea pact’s structural complexities and potential challenges warrant closer examination.
- For the High Seas Treaty to succeed, it must overcome its structural and political limitations.
- Resolving the dispute between India and Canada is urgent, particularly considering Indian youth engagement in Canada.
- The Indian Constitution makers agreed to create a liberal political state in India. But considering the social and economic inequalities, they felt that a complete withdrawal of the state would perpetuate the existing inequalities and worsen it further.
- The Constitution vision of equality aims to create an egalitarian society to minimise economic inequalities among the people.
- The fundamental rights and the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP) of the Constitution aim the three basic principles equal basic liberties, equal opportunities and difference of egalitarian liberalism.
- Article 38(2) of DPSP insists that the state shall strive to minimise the inequalities of income and eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities.
- Fundamental Rights and DPSP aim to establish an egalitarian social order, protecting social and economic justice and the dignity of individual by providing equality of status and opportunities.
- The meaning of the word “socialism” in the Constitution is to reduce inequalities in income and provide equal opportunities and facilities to create an egalitarian social order.
- After the adoption of neoliberal economic reforms in India, the constitutional ideology took a back seat and the idea of a welfare state as envisaged in the Constitution has withdrawn its commitments towards creating an egalitarian society.
- The constitutional vision of creating an egalitarian social order by minimising income inequality and eliminating social inequality is under threat from the neoliberal ideological order.
- Social inequality overlaps with economic inequality to give the upper castes a greater advantage in contemporary India.
- The government must make sure that indulgence in natural farming does not hit farm productivity and cause shortages.
- With coordinated action, innovative strategies and a commitment to scalable skill development, India can emerge as a global economic and workforce leader.
- With the right use of technology, we can design skill development programmes that are both effective and scalable and create significant impact.
- The best way to celebrate 75 years of the Constitution is to rework democracy and create a more inclusive set of debates that includes nature, time, and memory as a part of notions of responsibility.
- Having a strategic dominance in the space sector will give momentum to scale India’s global positioning in the space and defence sectors.
ESSAY TOPIC
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- Attainment of wisdom needs patience and acceptance.
- Wisdom and humility go hand in hand
- The first condition to acquire wisdom is to be humble.
- Humility opens all doors.
50-WORD TALK
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- The government’s new drive to open single-window access to global paywalled academic research under ‘One Nation One Subscription’ is an empowering quantum leap for Indian scholarship. It’s the JSTOR equivalent that India needed. What’s particularly transformational is that now Tier-2 and Tier-3 educational institutions can also use the best resources.
Things to Remember:
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- 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.
