1. The overcrowding of India’s mental health centres are disaster waiting to happen. Bring in reform READ MORE
2. ‘Green growth’ can help African countries address socio-economic inequalities: Report READ MORE

1. The technical higher education market dissected: The AICTE should place the safeguarding of students’ interests before the commercialisation of education READ MORE  
2. Data protection bill: Decoding the penalty clause READ MORE
3. Sedition law review litmus test for govt, courts READ MORE
4. INDIA SLIPS ON FREEDOM OF PRESS INDEX READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. The repo rate in India READ MORE
2. India, France carry out second joint patrol in Southern Indian Ocean READ MORE
3. Explained: How Sikkim became a part of India READ MORE
4. Explained: What is fair and average quality wheat, the norms for which have been relaxed by govt? READ MORE
5. Explained: What is the Places of Worship Act, and what are its provisions? READ MORE
6. India’s 52nd tiger reserve, Ramgarh Vishdhari notified READ MORE
7. Need to triple investments for restoring degraded land by 2030: Seoul Declaration READ MORE
8. Scientists discover fossil of pre-historic giant snake in Ladakh READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. The technical higher education market dissected: The AICTE should place the safeguarding of students’ interests before the commercialisation of education READ MORE  
2. Data protection bill: Decoding the penalty clause READ MORE
3. Sedition law review litmus test for govt, courts READ MORE
4. INDIA SLIPS ON FREEDOM OF PRESS INDEX READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. The overcrowding of India’s mental health centres are disaster waiting to happen. Bring in reform READ MORE
2. ‘Green growth’ can help African countries address socio-economic inequalities: Report READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Stronger India-Nepal ties a must to face emerging challenges says PM READ MORE
2. A war that is shrinking India’s geopolitical options: The main worry now is about how to manage a China that is attempting to consolidate the region under its influence READ MORE
3. For a better, South Asian neighbourhood READ MORE
4. Hotspots in the neighbourhood: Instability in Sri Lanka, Pakistan & Afghanistan consequential to national security READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Against the grain READ MORE
2. Is our nation ready for Industry 4.0? READ MORE
3. India’s abrupt wheat ban is yet another instance of shoddy policymaking that disregards consequences READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Explained: What are urban heat islands, and why are they worsening during summers? READ MORE
2. Climate and Us | Plan for the vulnerable: India’s heat emergency must be humane READ MORE

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

1. Delhi fire: No regard for laws, safety norms READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Enlightened Revolutionary READ MORE   
2. The Morality Clock READ MORE
3. Baba Gulam Mohammad Jaula’s Vision of Hindu-Muslim Unity Will Always Inspire READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. “The essence of democracy is criticism of the government.” With reference to this statement, examine the validity of sedition law in present day India.
2. Ukraine conflict, developments in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan underline need to reframe regional ties of India’s with its neighboring count. Discuss why India needs to work with the logic of geography in Indian Subcontinent?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future.
• Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.
• India’s biggest dilemma today is not whether or not to continue its engagement with Russia. That it would engage Russia in the immediate to medium term is clear.
• Ukraine conflict, developments in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan underline need to reframe regional ties, work with the logic of geography in Subcontinent.
• Data protection bill is one piece of legislation that India should get right by all means, lest we legalise snooping and profiling by the government.
• It’s high time that much more attention is paid to the issue of building regulations and safety norms to ensure that cities are safe for their citizens.
• India will have to follow a policy of proactivism to prevent another arena for geopolitical confrontation.
• In spite of low automation and a young workforce, absolute job losses will be the second highest in the world due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
• The World Health Organization, for which it could have been a showcase of its international role, seemed consistently in a subsidiary role of gathering secondary data and disseminating basic safety guidelines.

50-WORD TALK

• Modi government’s knee-jerk decision to ban wheat exports sends all the wrong signals except to one constituency of consumers. It particularly risks exposing the government’s commitment to the prosperity of farmers as mere lip service. Food inflation is a problem but bans aren’t the solution. Creative thinking is obviously lacking.

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.

1. Duty to our soul READ MORE  
2. Need & importance of civil service values READ MORE

1. Sustainability – road to a better future READ MORE
2. Extreme weather: What is it and how is it connected to climate change? READ MORE

1. Face the facts on communal violence in India READ MORE
2. Here’s what India’s higher education ecosystem needs today READ MORE

1. Actions that corrode the steel frame of India READ MORE
2. How to make a Uniform Civil Code READ MORE
3. Ingenious cybercrimes: Law enforcement agencies ill-equipped to deal with menace READ MORE
4. Sedition law may not witness a sea change READ MORE
5. Comprehending Digital Democracy READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. ISRO successfully carries out static test of Gaganyaan rocket’s booster READ MORE
2. China, Russia, Pakistan to attend SCO anti-terror meet in Delhi READ MORE
3. Faux populi: Public opinion cannot influence jurisprudence READ MORE
4. India bans immediate export of wheat to control rising domestic prices READ MORE
5. World Migratory Birds Day: How are India’s winged guests doing READ MORE
6. New powering system developed for IoT applications READ MORE
7. RBI opens banks credit for NBFCs to on-lend continuously to priority sector READ MORE
8. Govt releases breed-wise report of livestock, poultry READ MORE

Main Exam   

GS Paper- 1

1.  A look at the origin of Mughal paintings READ MORE
2.  Face the facts on communal violence in India READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Actions that corrode the steel frame of India READ MORE
2. How to make a Uniform Civil Code READ MORE
3. Ingenious cybercrimes: Law enforcement agencies ill-equipped to deal with menace READ MORE
4. Sedition law may not witness a sea change READ MORE
5. Comprehending Digital Democracy READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Here’s what India’s higher education ecosystem needs today READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Reforming WHO: More needs to be done to enhance WHO’s ability to respond to disease outbreaks READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Full circle: Cutting fuel taxes is a must to ensure overall macroeconomic stability READ MORE  
2. NPA Resolution and Bad Bank READ MORE
3. Financial Inclusion and the Pandemic READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Sustainability – road to a better future READ MORE
2. Extreme weather: What is it and how is it connected to climate change? READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Weapons in Space~II READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. duty to our soul READ MORE  
2. Need & importance of civil service values READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. The idea of a national language finds its expression in multiple areas, including the debate over link language. While it is desirable to have a language spoken and understood by all, it is not necessary for a nation’s integrity and progress. Critically Analyse.
2. In the changing geo-politics, initiatives such as New Arctic Policy can be vital to address the emerging energy challenges experienced by India in the recent past. Explain.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation: taxation, repudiation and inflation.
• That a civil servant’s pliant stance ends service neutrality hardly seems to bother the political or bureaucratic leadership.
• Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment, it has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.
• Cutting fuel taxes is a must to ensure overall macroeconomic stability.
• Uniform Civil Code must be nationwide and involve the abolition of all regressive laws.
• Under the Constitution, family and succession laws are in the concurrent jurisdiction of the Centre and states, but a law to be equally applicable in the entire country can be enacted by Parliament alone.
• Life is a wonderful gift given to us by God. And God too is wonderful to have given us this beautiful life.
• The government has been appropriating old ideas, and one of the ways of doing it is to make new laws based on old principles. It would not be right to blame the powers that be for believing in a mailed-fist State because it is part of their anti-libertarian and anti-individualist political ideology.
• Sustainability emphasizes the need for society to conserve resources, protect natural ecosystems, minimize pollution and promote social equity.
• A healthy planet will thrive and nurture happy and safe survival for present and future generations.
• Mughal painting, which contributed immensely to the annals of Indian art history, had become full-fledged under the patronage of King Akbar.
• People around the globe are experiencing dramatic heatwaves, deadly floods and wildfires as a result of climate change.

50-WORD TALK

• Vladimir Putin’s hammer-blows might level Ukraine, but Finland’s imminent application for NATO membership shows they’re failing to bend Europe to his will. Instead of scaring Russia’s neighbours into submission, Russia’s president has driven them to shelter under the United States’ security shield. Threats obviously don’t turn difficult neighbours into friends.

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.

1. Avoiding the trap of logical thinking READ MORE
2. In detachment lies the answer to suffering READ MORE

1. Don’t waste wastewater READ MORE
2. Dealing with impact of heat waves in India READ MORE
3. The Global treaty on plastics READ MORE
4. For a greener future: Jharkhand needs a planned transition from coal READ MORE

1. Importance of consent: The institution of marriage cannot be allowed to sanction force and violence READ MORE
2. SC must protect women’s rights READ MORE

1. Why the sedition law must go READ MORE
2. Indian State was set up to control, not govern. Data-driven policy-making can be antidote READ MORE
3. Uniform Civil Code can be the real unifying force in India. Critics must think again READ MORE
4. Progressive leap, courtesy SC: The pursuit of justice has no limits in a democracy READ MORE
5. Turf war between police forces: Frequent disagreements may lead to redefining of Centre-state relations READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. PM participates in the Second Global COVID Virtual Summit READ MORE
2. As FPI exits hit forex reserves, RBI stepped up gold purchases READ MORE
3. Supreme Court refuses to interfere with LIC IPO, declines interim relief READ MORE
4. On the question of notifying minorities READ MORE
5. Retail inflation quickens to an almost eight-year high at 7.8% READ MORE
6. Scientists Release the First Image of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole READ MORE
7. Mysuru, Kodagu on alert over ‘Tomato flu’ cases in Kerala READ MORE
8. Rajiv Kumar appointed as next Chief Election Commissioner READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Why the sedition law must go READ MORE
2. Indian State was set up to control, not govern. Data-driven policy-making can be antidote READ MORE
3. Uniform Civil Code can be the real unifying force in India. Critics must think again READ MORE
4. Progressive leap, courtesy SC: The pursuit of justice has no limits in a democracy READ MORE
5. Turf war between police forces: Frequent disagreements may lead to redefining of Centre-state relations READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Importance of consent: The institution of marriage cannot be allowed to sanction force and violence READ MORE
2. SC must protect women’s rights READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Regional bloc ties vital in the Indo-Pacific READ MORE
2. A case for dynamic permanency in UNSC READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Explained: The cause and effect of rising inflation READ MORE  
2. Monetary policy alone won’t bring down inflation READ MORE
3. India’s biggest policy challenge: Lower labour force participation needs attention READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Don’t waste wastewater READ MORE
2. Dealing with impact of heat waves in India READ MORE
3. The Global treaty on plastics READ MORE
4. For a greener future: Jharkhand needs a planned transition from coal READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Avoiding the trap of logical thinking READ MORE
2. In detachment lies the answer to suffering READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. How far do you agree with this view that India’s membership in QUAD is affecting its regional grouping reach? Analyse your view with the help of relevant examples.
2. ‘As the water distribution in India’s cities is based on rainfall, effective treatment and reuse of wastewater are vital to prevent water depletion. Comment.
3. Discuss the reasons for heat waves in India in recent times. How does the rising surface temperature in the Indian Ocean affect the weather in India?
4. ‘In a post-pandemic world, the most important for India is that good quality data is imperative for the effective reaction to such pandemic’. Examine the statement.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Whether the legislative route is more appropriate in making marital rape a criminal offence is a matter of detail. What is important is that sexual violence has no place in society, and the institution of marriage is no exception.
• Bringing down today’s inflation requires a resolution of geopolitical tensions in Europe, changes to China’s zero-Covid policy, much stronger fiscal support from the government, and reforms that help repair the disrupted domestic supply chain.
• Dissent, criticism and differences of opinion are vital for the functioning of any democracy.
• It is time citizens usher in an era of free speech and for that, the sedition law must go.
• Price stability and economic growth must not be posed as an either-or choice as the well-being of people demands a balance.
• The distribution of water in India’s cities is based on rainfall and treatment and reuse are vital to preventing depletion of water.
• It is important to clear the air on this issue because the right of women to bodily integrity and autonomy is both a cherished constitutional right and at the core of a progressive and just society.
• The economic relations between India and ASEAN remained much below the projected targets, primarily due to the complementarity of goods and services being traded between the two blocs.
• Rising surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean coupled with the EI-Nino effect are responsible for heat waves in India.
• Legal and political reforms to devolve powers are unlikely to occur anytime soon, but deploying data can help shape policies to be more effective and equitable while also combatting the State’s inherent controlling tendencies.
• As India moves into a post-pandemic world, it is imperative to prioritise good quality data at national, state and local levels to encourage policymakers to develop nuanced and effective policies in building state capacity and overcome the State’s inherent tendency to centralise.

50-WORD TALK

• Instead of rebuilding sustainable food systems and encouraging food self-sufficiency, the effort has been to enhance global market provisioning, which means letting the market forces operate at will. This has, instead, shifted the focus to building international agri-supply chains, thereby increasing dependence on a handful of companies, which raise prices whenever convenient. The Guardian reports that the world’s biggest food companies have already achieved record profits this year.

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.

1. Overcoming constraints to spiritual awakening READ MORE
2. Non-violence: the essence of the culture of peace READ MORE
3. TN: ‘Poor Police Accountability Leads to Human Rights Violation’ READ MORE

1. Climate crisis: Invest in a holistic approach READ MORE
2. India Eases Green Rules for Coal Mines to Tackle Fuel Crisis READ MORE

1. Psychiatrists warn of internet addiction in children READ MORE
2. Upwardly mobile: Digital empowerment of citizens a work in progress READ MORE
3. A Caste Census Is the Answer to the Impasse Over Political Reservations for OBCs READ MORE

1. Frozen sedition: The Government must heed the spirit of SC order and help prevent misuse of sedition law READ MORE
2. Don’t just reform – remove: Even a changed sedition law will be misused. SC’s review must end in scrapping Section 124A READ MORE
3. Power overreach strains Centre-state ties READ MORE
4. WHO estimate and the problem with data in India READ MORE
5. Regulators don’t need constitutional status READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Shallow and deep ecologism READ MORE
2. Explained: What is the sedition law, and why Supreme Court’s fresh directive is important READ MORE
3. WMO report: Below normal mercury in India from 2022 to ’26 READ MORE
4. 70% infections can be prevented if good hand hygiene is followed, says WHO READ MORE
5. What Is Omicron’s Future? And Will the Delta Variant Stage a Comeback? READ MORE
6. National Technology Day: Everything you need to know READ MORE
7. India elected as Chair of Association of Asian Election Authorities for 2022-24 READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Psychiatrists warn of internet addiction in children READ MORE
2. Upwardly mobile: Digital empowerment of citizens a work in progress READ MORE
3. A Caste Census Is the Answer to the Impasse Over Political Reservations for OBCs READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Frozen sedition: The Government must heed the spirit of SC order and help prevent misuse of sedition law READ MORE
2. Don’t just reform – remove: Even a changed sedition law will be misused. SC’s review must end in scrapping Section 124A READ MORE
3. Power overreach strains Centre-state ties READ MORE
4. WHO estimate and the problem with data in India READ MORE
5. Regulators don’t need constitutional status READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Still a long way for termination as an unconditional right READ MORE
2. Delhi HC delivers split verdict on marital rape READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. The Ukraine war will impact Asian politics READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Heading for GST Exit READ MORE
2. Reviving rural consumption likely to be a long haul READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Climate crisis: Invest in a holistic approach READ MORE
2. India Eases Green Rules for Coal Mines to Tackle Fuel Crisis READ MORE

SECURITY

1. India’s critical need for cyber doctrine READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Overcoming constraints to spiritual awakening READ MORE
2. Non-violence: the essence of the culture of peace READ MORE
3. TN: ‘Poor Police Accountability Leads to Human Rights Violation’ READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Sustaining GST requires restoring trust in the Centre-state relationship’. In the light of the statement highlights the issue with this tax regime and how a fundamental reset of the Union-States relationship can fix them?
2. ‘In a democratic country, there must not be any space for sedition’. Critically Examine.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace.
• The Government must heed the spirit of the SC order and help prevent misuse of sedition law.
• Despite amendments, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act does not foreground the woman’s right to decide.
• While access to abortion has been available under the legal regime in the country, there is a long road ahead before it is recognised as a right of a person having the capacity to become pregnant to decide, unconditionally, whether a pregnancy is to be continued or not.
• GST isn’t just about economic efficiency conceived by technocrats. Sustaining it requires restoring trust in the Centre-state relationship.
• Fixing GST requires a fundamental reset of the Union-states relationship and nurturing it back to a state of mutual trust and respect.
• The rising mercury put stress on the coal-fired energy systems, indicating how much climate action and energy transition needs are intertwined.
• With its humongous consumer base, the country needs to focus on the productive utilisation of mobile data to leverage its digital gains.
• The government needs to understand that better official statistics are required not just to counter estimates by global agencies. It is required for better policymaking.
• Keeping the WHO pandemic death estimates aside, the bigger issue that has cropped up time and again is the reliability of India’s official numbers in many areas.
• At present, storing specific data may prove effective to prevent cybercrimes or incidents.
• If we are to improve the democratic foundations of our country, there must not be any space for sedition.
• Dissent, criticism and differences of opinion are vital for the functioning of any democracy.
• Accountability and transparency are effective ways of ensuring that they remain truly independent.

50-WORD TALK

• The Supreme Court should be complimented for taking a clear and historic position to keep the sedition law in abeyance. It should follow this up with lower courts to speedily free those languishing in jails for sedition. Modi government should use this opening to bury this obnoxious law for good.

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.

1. True dharma is not religion, cult, or path READ MORE
2. Ensure life of dignity for specially abled READ MORE
3. Prayer and prayerfulness READ MORE

1. Long-term plan needed to combat heat waves READ MORE
2. Unscientific tree plantation programmes waste money and cause more harm than good READ MORE

1. The women who went missing in our demographic dividend READ MORE
2. Communal violence is not new to India. But something is different now READ MORE
3. Measuring the change: India should invest more to enhance the reliability of various socio-economic surveys READ MORE
4. NFHS-5 data shows literacy and delivery of services, not religion, influences fertility READ MORE

1. Induct more women into the police force READ MORE
2. Sedition law: Time-bound re-examination should be followed by repeal READ MORE
3. Common ground: Balanced judiciary-executive ties can help settle contentious issues READ MORE
4. Defections: Take away the Speaker’s powers READ MORE
5. How Do We Make the Wheels of the Police and Criminal Justice System Run Faster? READ MORE
6. Will a Common Undergrad Entrance Test Fix the Problems of India’s Education System? READ MORE
7. Opinion: Tackling India’s communalism challenges will require constitutional reform READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Committee on criminal law reforms recommended amendments to sedition law READ MORE
2. The grim forewarnings of a global study on birds READ MORE
3. Explained: What is a ‘marsquake’, and what causes it? READ MORE
4. Explained: A history of the Pulitzer Prize; and the Indians who have won it READ MORE
5. Surviving soldiers of ‘Operation Dudhi’ feted READ MORE
6. Future looms dark for 48% of bird species READ MORE
7. Data | How much of Europe’s gas comes from Russia? READ MORE

Main Exam 

GS Paper- 1

1. The women who went missing in our demographic dividend READ MORE
2. Communal violence is not new to India. But something is different now READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Induct more women into the police force READ MORE
2. Sedition law: Time-bound re-examination should be followed by repeal READ MORE
3. Common ground: Balanced judiciary-executive ties can help settle contentious issues READ MORE
4. Defections: Take away the Speaker’s powers READ MORE
5. How Do We Make the Wheels of the Police and Criminal Justice System Run Faster? READ MORE
6. Will a Common Undergrad Entrance Test Fix the Problems of India’s Education System? READ MORE
7. Opinion: Tackling India’s communalism challenges will require constitutional reform READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Measuring the change: India should invest more to enhance the reliability of various socio-economic surveys READ MORE
2. NFHS-5 data shows literacy and delivery of services, not religion, influences fertility READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Ukraine conflict won’t make Biden abandon Indo-Pacific strategy READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Control inflation by acting on liquidity: Inflation in India cannot be described just as ‘cost-push’; an abundance of liquidity has been an important factor READ MORE
2. Power sector needs attention for recovery READ MORE
3. Textile in trouble: Govt must revisit the GM policy READ MORE
4. Modi govt’s coal reforms go beyond the current crisis. It transforms India’s energy security READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Long-term plan needed to combat heat waves READ MORE
2. Unscientific tree plantation programmes waste money and cause more harm than good READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. True dharma is not religion, cult, or path READ MORE
2. Ensure life of dignity for specially abled READ MORE
3. Prayer and prayerfulness READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Inflation in India cannot be described just as ‘cost-push’.’ With reference to this statement, Explain the contemporary inflation-growth dynamics in India.
2. Discuss the importance of socio-economic survey in governance. Why India should invest more to enhance the reliability of various socio-economic surveys?
3. How far do you agree with this view that for the anti-defection law to be effective, the power to decide on disqualification cases should be vested in an independent authority? Anlayse your view.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
• Inflation in India cannot be described just as ‘cost-push’; an abundance of liquidity has been an important factor.
• If we want to control inflation, action on liquidity is very much needed with a concomitant rise in the interest rate on deposits and loans.
• India should invest more to enhance the reliability of various socio-economic surveys.
• India has achieved the replacement rate for its population. Now, ‘unmet need’ for family planning tools must be provided for.
• There is enough evidence to suggest that India’s demographic dividend is not playing out like it was expected to. While women are getting more educated and having fewer babies, they are not taking up paid jobs.
• Early warning systems, heat-proof shelters and major afforestation are of vital need to reduce heat wave fatalities.
• The judiciary and the executive appear to be looking for a mutually acceptable method of dealing with issues on which opinions are divided.
• Land acquisition for coal mines has had a complicated history in India. But Present govt’s reforms pave the way for a paradigm shift in energy security.
• The common entrance exam will determine the experience of learning, especially in schools with limited resources, rather than addressing issues of access, equity and social justice.
• The current system places too much power in the hands of the majority. A diverse nation should opt for a US model of secularism and decentralised governments.

50-WORD TALK

• Punjab is inured to stray incidents. But police intelligence headquarters hit with a rocket-propelled grenade is unprecedented. The usual suspects want to relight fires Punjab extinguished by 1993. It’s important that the state and central governments work together to counter this. Instead, unfortunately, they are at war with each other.
• Apart from coal supply, the main issue preventing the power sector from becoming viable and profitable is the fact that power distribution companies are not making payments to power-generating firms. The undeniable fact is that state govts are not prepared to levy viable user charges on power from most of their constituents, especially farmers. Every election brings more promises of free power which in turn make the discoms less and less viable.

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.