(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Quantum Interferences in Atomic medium can store Light for High Precision Quantum Sensors READ MORE
2. Transforming Healthcare: Six Years of Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY READ MORE
3. CERT-In & SISA Launches First of its kind ANAB-Accredited AI Security Certification (CSPAI) Program READ MORE
4. Prime Minister’s Address at the ‘Summit of the Future’ READ MORE
5. Leveraging transit-oriented development to build productive cities READ MORE
6. Legislative bodies play a crucial role in ensuring inclusive governance, says Om Birla READ MORE
7. NBFC sector remains resilient under scale-based regulations framework: RBI bulletin READ MORE
8. Revised GRAP from October 1: How the pollution-control plan evolved & what can improve READ MORE
9. Deadly new Clade 1b strain of mpox reported in India 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. Women’s fight for equality expands to the digital space READ MORE
2. Social media age limit: Will banning children be enough? READ MORE
3. Column | When Harappans had unicorns READ MORE
4. Massive Greenland landslide sent seismic waves around earth for nine days READ MORE
5. Drought, deforestation, climate change: Why South America is burning READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. India’s defence exports and humanitarian law READ MORE
2. One Nation One Election is a desire to cut down clutter of democratic politics READ MORE
3. Six years on, NFRA remains key to restoring trust in financial reporting READ MORE
4. Fact checking: No role for State READ MORE
5. How Supreme Court strengthened the law against child pornography READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. POSHAN Abhiyaan & Beating Malnutrition — Battling The Challenge Of Stunting & Other Nutrition Issues READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. Indus Waters Treaty and why India is right to ask for a review READ MORE
2. India in the role of a global negotiator READ MORE
3. Quad must fix it’s Southeast Asia gap. Engage regional mechanisms READ MORE
4. Quad is a tool for India to further its strategic interests READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Why going back on inflation targeting could erode credibility of RBI READ MORE
2. Punjab’s agri draft policy fails to tick all the boxes READ MORE
3. Is Modi government losing interest in ELI schemes? READ MORE
4. South India’s GDP growth didn’t come out of the blue. Central govt had a big hand READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Dousing farm fires: Much more is expected of Punjab READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. ANRF: A catalyst for India’s R&D READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Centre, State to review scope of AFSPA in Manipur 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. Foundation Of Existence 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. The primary objective of the NFRA has been to strengthen the financial ecosystem and ensure the credibility of financial statements. Discuss how far NFRA has been success in restoring trust in financial reporting?
2. There cannot be a state monopoly on facts in a democracy. Examine the statement in the light of recent Bombay High Court Judgement striking down government-mandated fact-checking unit
3. India’s strategic autonomy requires a tough balancing of its geographical realities, strategic interests, and relations vis-à-vis apparent friends and threats. How India can maintain balance between west and Russia?
4. 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.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- Interdependence, of course, is a fundamental law of nature. Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who survive by mutual cooperation based on an their interconnectedness.
- As India positions itself as a global leader in STEM, harnessing its untapped pool of female talent through targeted policies could drive systematic change, advancing both digital and physical equity for women worldwide.
- By including more girls and women, particularly from diverse backgrounds, on technical and scientific teams, we can ensure that the development of new technologies addresses women’s unique challenges around access, digital literacy, and online abuse.
- More than the administrative, legal and constitutional issues, the deepest problem with the ONOE is the political design inherent in it. Clearly, holding the national and state elections together would give an edge, a small to moderate vote swing, in favour of a national party and against regional parties.
- There cannot be a state monopoly on facts in a democracy, and the Bombay high court has just reaffirmed it.
- Indo-Pacific partners have put ASEAN centrality as a prime operating principle for multilateral engagements and initiatives.
- India must remember that for it, the Quad coalition is rooted in realism, more than an ideational choice. The US has issues with India as well; just that China ones are imminent and intimidating.
- India’s strategic autonomy requires a tough balancing of its geographical realities, strategic interests, and relations vis-à-vis apparent friends and threats.
- India is not only a geopolitically significant partner in the Indo-Pacific for the West to counter China, but India is the only option to avoid pushing Russia completely into the Chinese fold.
- India is the emerging voice of the Global South and a crucial partner to keep in confidence while designing the matrix of the developing world.
- 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.
ESSAY TOPIC
- Smallness adores and adorns itself – greatness is humble.
50-WORD TALK
- Sri Lanka has demonstrated democratic maturity by conducting fair and peaceful elections two years after a very bruising period of turmoil and economic difficulties. Ranil Wickremesinghe ran a stable government and oversaw the smooth transition of power to Anura Kumara Dissanayake—a process in which he lost, but the nation gained.
- By striking down Centre’s egregious “fact checking unit” as violative of Constitution, Bombay High Court has taken a virtuous stand for justice and free speech. It has again underlined why Bombay has historically been among our finest High Courts. Hope the Centre would be suitably chastened, and other courts inspired.
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.