1. Beyond good intentions: Navigating the ethical dilemmas facing the technology industry READ MORE
2. A great truth of living offers a path to a happier life READ MORE

1. A six-point guide for G20 countries to lead in decarbonization READ MORE
2. Rights for ‘Mother Nature’ Only Feeds the Myth of Sustainable Development READ MORE

1. Reprieve for widows: Village bansarchaic widowhood practices forced on women READ MORE
2. Extend health cover to the ‘missing middle’ READ MORE
3. Measuring progress: NFHS data should guide policy READ MORE

1. Centre to SC: Will relook at sedition, you defer hearing READ MORE
2. View: Is the US Supreme Court using ‘federal overreach over rights of states’ to make abortion illegal? READ MORE
3. Unification of MCD for Structural Reforms: Functional domain of MCD must be restored, clear duties assigned READ MORE
4. Denying Parliament info citing ‘national security’ undemocratic. Govt moves need oversight READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Cyclone Asani hits parts of Bengal: IMD issues extremely heavy rainfall warning in these states READ MORE
2. Explained: Behind low wheat procurement READ MORE
3. Union Govt Revises Its Own Stand on Minority Status for Hindus READ MORE
4. Why South Africa’s Fifth COVID Wave Is Different READ MORE
5. Intellectual Property: Why is India silent, as a compromise deal on COVID-19 therapies is worked out READ MORE
6. PMJJBY, PMSBY, and APY complete seven years of providing social security net READ MORE
7. Mahinda Rajapaksa steps down as Sri Lankan Prime Minister amid economic crisis READ MORE
8. New UK India Industry Taskforce launched to facilitate free trade deal READ MORE

Main Exam   

GS Paper- 1

1. Reprieve for widows: Village bansarchaic widowhood practices forced on women READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Centre to SC: Will relook at sedition, you defer hearing READ MORE
2. View: Is the US Supreme Court using ‘federal overreach over rights of states’ to make abortion illegal? READ MORE
3. Unification of MCD for Structural Reforms: Functional domain of MCD must be restored, clear duties assigned READ MORE
4. Denying Parliament info citing ‘national security’ undemocratic. Govt moves need oversight READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Extend health cover to the ‘missing middle’ READ MORE
2. Measuring progress: NFHS data should guide policy READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

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

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Powering up after the power crisis shock READ MORE
2. The importance of emigrants READ MORE
3. Tapping India’s wheat export potential READ MORE
4. Price hike, inflation and consumption READ MORE
5. If gig economy is the future, India should first ensure rights of workers READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. A six-point guide for G20 countries to lead in decarbonization READ MORE
2. Rights for ‘Mother Nature’ Only Feeds the Myth of Sustainable Development READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Beyond good intentions: Navigating the ethical dilemmas facing the technology industry READ MORE
2. A great truth of living offers a path to a happier life READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘The weakening of parliamentary oversight over the executive has the potential to strike at the very roots of India’s democratic foundation and tilt it towards authoritarianism’. Discuss the statement.
2. ‘In an era displaying staunch resistance against rigid hierarchies and bureaucracy in the workplace, gig work is viewed as a tool of liberation’. In the light of the statement, discuss why India needs to ensure welfare and rights of gig workers?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
• A lesson is that demand growth projections and supply arrangements need to become central to the regulatory process.
• Skilling of migrant workers has the potential to boost the domestic economy and low-cost interventions such as foreign language training can be of great help for such workers.
• The US emphasis on partnerships rather than unilateralism in dealing with the China challenge means India’s agency in the region can only grow.
• The increasing cost of quality health care combined with greater need and demand for health with increasing incomes, higher life expectancy, and epidemiological transition towards non-communicable diseases have made health coverage imperative.
• The value of parliamentary oversight has to be preserved without unduly interfering and inhibiting the ability of the executive to carry out its functions.
• The weakening of parliamentary oversight over the executive has the potential to strike at the very roots of India’s democratic foundation and tilt it towards authoritarianism.
• The absence of a viable political opposition increases the power of the executive and enlarges the scope for misuse. Essentially, the Constitutional checks and balances become ineffective.
• Weakening India’s parliamentary system, which is the most important part of India’s democratic structure, is a threat that is finding the supportive winds of global geopolitical frictions.
• Concentration of power in the hands of our union executive is an abomination of our Constitutional values.
• In an era displaying staunch resistance against rigid hierarchies and bureaucracy in the workplace, gig work is viewed as a tool of liberation. Now, ensuring the welfare and rights of gig workers is the need of the hour.

50-WORD TALK

• The Taliban’s decision to impose the all-enveloping burqa on Afghan women follows a series of barbaric anti-women measures, including tough restrictions on the right to work and education. Instead of mouthing pieties, the international community should reimpose rigorous financial and political sanctions and force Kabul to change its medieval policies.

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. World without diversity would be like a grave READ MORE
2. Equality – Jurisprudential Interest Reurrected READ MORE

1. Population control: Gains made but onus remains unfairly on women READ MORE
2. This is how poverty in rural India came down READ MORE
3. A bold, rights-based stand on marital rape READ MORE
4. Four lessons from online education that should survive the end of the pandemic READ MORE

1. Is La Nina a fair weather friend of our country? READ MORE
2. Explained: India Heatwaves and the role humidity plays in making them deadly READ MORE

1. Third and final round: On the tussle over Delhi’s status READ MORE
2. 124A & India: Sedition law has seen too many abuses & a very small conviction rate. Time for it to go READ MORE
3. Reviving the spirit of Centre-state alliance READ MORE
4. Repeal the sedition law READ MORE
5. Systemic reforms for justice delivery READ MORE
6. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act And a Long Way to Justice READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Explained | What is the debate around star ratings for food packets mooted by FSSAI? READ MORE
2. President appointments Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia, JB Pardiwala as Supreme Court judges READ MORE
3. Tough anteater leaves forest officials antsy READ MORE
4. DNA samples from Rakhigarhi burial pits sent for analysis READ MORE
5. Future looms dark for 48% of bird species READ MORE
6. Explain Speaking: RBI and the US Fed — The contrasting tale of two central banks READ MORE
7. Explained: What is monkeypox, a smallpox-like disease from Africa that has been reported in the UK? READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Is La Nina a fair weather friend of our country? READ MORE
2. Explained: India Heatwaves and the role humidity plays in making them deadly READ MORE
3. Population control: Gains made but onus remains unfairly on women READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Third and final round: On the tussle over Delhi’s status READ MORE
2. 124A & India: Sedition law has seen too many abuses & a very small conviction rate. Time for it to go READ MORE
3. Reviving the spirit of Centre-state alliance READ MORE
4. Repeal the sedition law READ MORE
5. Systemic reforms for justice delivery READ MORE
6. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act And a Long Way to Justice READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. This is how poverty in rural India came down READ MORE
2. A bold, rights-based stand on marital rape READ MORE
3. Four lessons from online education that should survive the end of the pandemic READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Overcoming differences: India’s new push for stronger ties with Europe comes at a crucial time for both READ MORE
2. India-UK ties and a sustainable global future READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. How to tackle food inflation – and how not to READ MORE
2. Diversification push: Punjab needs all the support to promote alternative crops READ MORE
3. Yes, India needs agrarian reform, but that which is pro-people, not pro-corporate READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. World without diversity would be like a grave READ MORE
2. Equality – Jurisprudential Interest Reurrected READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Europe is willing to end its economic dependence on China and this is a golden opportunity for India to expand its export. In the light of the statement, discuss what policy measures are required for India to expand its trade with European Countries?
2. ‘The recent world bank shows extreme poverty reduction in India in last decade but the recent developments in international politics posed many challenges and can be shocked for this gain’. Discuss how India can address these challenges?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
• Prioritising expanding credit and preventing non-performing assets is crucial for an inclusive banking policy.
• RBI’s surprise move to raise repo rate questions over its objective. Its mandate is to target inflation, not shore up rupee.
• The pandemic and the negative terms of trade shock from the Ukraine crisis pose challenges to the gains made in poverty reduction up to 2019.
• The existence of religious diversity shows that human beings think differently, and they are alive to their respective situations.
• For cooperative federalism to survive, empower the moribund Inter-State Council to fulfil its role of mediating Centre-state relations.
• The PM’s emphasis on the use of local language will indeed increase the confidence of the masses in the justice delivery system and they will feel connected with it.
• The FTA between India-UK is the most exciting feature of the rapidly developing economic partnership. Reduction in tariffs will facilitate increased competitiveness in industries like auto and pharma.
• Classes during Covid-19 have highlighted that one-size-fits-all educational approaches fail to address student needs.
• Criminal law jurisprudence in India functions with the basic postulate of ‘innocent until proven guilty’, where the right to fair trial, the right to be heard and the right to a speedy trial form the basic elements of this postulate.

50-WORD TALK

• India’s right to question WHO’s excess Covid deaths estimate. Our official numbers aren’t accurate. But to say fatalities are almost 10 times higher is ludicrous. Just as it is to say fewer people died in China. WHO hasn’t covered itself in glory during Covid. This adds to its list of bungles.
• RBI’s rate increase was a surprise only because it came between two scheduled MPC meetings. RBI was behind the curve on addressing inflation and has caught up. Higher rates will hit consumption and investment. A nudge, if one was needed, for government to focus more on post-pandemic recovery and growth.

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. Digital Services Act: A historic agreement READ MORE
2. SC must take a strong line on hate speech READ MORE
3. The Higher Judiciary’s Increasing Role in Protecting Interfaith Couples READ MORE

1. Is it Possible to Make India Poverty-Free by 2047? READ MORE  
2. The fragility of contemporary capitalism READ MORE

1. Climate Change Putting 4% Of Global GDP at Risk, New Study Estimates READ MORE
2. Land the size of South America will be degraded if current trends continue: UN Report READ MORE

1. Permanent bliss lies beyond our senses READ MORE
2. Bollywood industry and tobacco READ MORE
3. Roots Of Rage~II READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Cabinet clears higher subsidy for non-urea fertilisers READ MORE
2. J&K hydroelectric project approved READ MORE
3. Large share of India’s threatened endemic species in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka: Study READ MORE
4. 540 MW Kwar hydropower project in J&K READ MORE
5. India Approves New Embassy in Lithuania READ MORE
6. Russia withdraws from UN tourism body: UNWTO READ MORE
7. Unnat Bharat Abhiyan 2.0 completes four years READ MORE

Main Exam

GS Paper- 1

1. Is it Possible to Make India Poverty-Free by 2047? READ MORE  
2. The fragility of contemporary capitalism READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Digital Services Act: A historic agreement READ MORE
2. SC must take a strong line on hate speech READ MORE
3. The Higher Judiciary’s Increasing Role in Protecting Interfaith Couples READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Building back to avert a learning catastrophe: Governments and schools must focus on the most important priority in school education — learning recovery READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Ride between East & West: India can play a vital global role as West’s Russia boycott disrupts key bodies like G20 READ MORE
2. India stepping up efforts READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Energy independence through hydrogen: It can help lay the foundation of a new India which aims to be a global climate leader READ MORE
2. Explained: State of (un)employment in India READ MORE
3. Tackling the inflation hydra READ MORE
4. Contrasting rules for farm, corporate loans READ MORE
5. MSME Sector needs major reforms to resolve job crisis READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY 

1. Climate Change Putting 4% Of Global GDP at Risk, New Study Estimates READ MORE
2. Land the size of South America will be degraded if current trends continue: UN Report READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Permanent bliss lies beyond our senses READ MORE
2. Bollywood industry and tobacco READ MORE
3. Roots Of Rage~II READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Hydrogen has potential to transform India’s energy ecosystem by making India net energy exporter. Examine.
2. How far do you agree with this view that to solve the unemployment crisis, India needs to think rethink of its economic model, from macroeconomic policy to industrial policy to strengthening small enterprises? Justify your view.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• As a leader your every action has a consequence, make sure it is one you intend.
• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
• Creating a hydrogen economy is a chicken and egg problem as consumers seek lower costs which could be possible with scalability and large investments, but for those, producers seek assured demand.
• The online business model today hinges on surveillance of user behaviour to maximise the accuracy of advertisements, the main source of revenue.
• Agriculture is passing through severe distress and banks must realise that coercion is not the way to recover unpaid dues.
• Easing the regulatory environment is a pre-condition to encouraging entrepreneurial instincts of the youth.
• The long-term solution to unemployment has to involve a rethink of the economic model, from macroeconomic policy to industrial policy to strengthening small enterprises.
• To tackle any problem, one needs to both acknowledge it and estimate it accurately.
• With many states enacting laws to make conversion of religion by marriage unlawful, the Special Marriage Act may indeed prove to be a blessing-in-disguise for the interfaith couple.

50-WORD TALK

• PM Modi targeting non-BJP states for high fuel taxes at a Covid review meeting is unfortunate. Fuel taxes have been used by all sides to bolster revenues. Union government is also guilty of managing fuel prices for electoral reasons. A national consensus is needed on fuel taxes, not public finger-pointing.
• Realising the challenges posed by the pandemic, the Government needs to take every necessary step to bring school education back on track and develop a road map for learning recovery. Governments, parents, communities and schools need to work together. It is our moral and social responsibility towards the future of this nation.

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. Learn from mistakes READ MORE
2. Of genes, samskaras and the reality without READ MORE

1. Synergy and collaboration are key drivers in fighting forest fires and heatwaves READ MORE
2. Conservation of Endangered Great Indian Bustard Encounters Birdhit READ MORE

1. Climate change affects women, girls READ MORE
2. The right age: Parents must to first see that their child is fit for school, mentally and physically READ MORE

1. A splintered ‘nerve centre’: Services of urban local bodies have to be integrated with the ICCC for improving amenities for people READ MORE
2. Standing up to America: India refuses to take criticism on violation of rights lying down READ MORE
3. Gaming industry: India needs rational regulations to become global leader READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Carbon dating finds Asurgarh is Odisha’s oldest fortified settlement READ MORE  
2. UN adopts resolution requiring UNSC permanent members to justify veto use READ MORE
3. China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu READ MORE
4. Explained: Why is Maharashtra experiencing a heatwave again? READ MORE
5. World will face at least 560 climate disasters every year by 2030, warns UN READ MORE
6. Rethink sand use, move to circular economy: UNEP READ MORE
7. Centre cancels foreign fund licence of NGO Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative READ MORE

Main Exam

GS Paper- 1

1. Climate change affects women, girls READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. A splintered ‘nerve centre’: Services of urban local bodies have to be integrated with the ICCC for improving amenities for people READ MORE
2. Standing up to America: India refuses to take criticism on violation of rights lying down READ MORE
3. Gaming industry: India needs rational regulations to become global leader READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL ISSUES

1. The right age: Parents must to first see that their child is fit for school, mentally and physically READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. India’s designation by the USCIRF READ MORE
2. India and Europe, a continental shift READ MORE
3. Important to learn from S Asia’s mistakes READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Data-dependent policy: Consumption survey will fill important gaps READ MORE
2. A year of hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine war is worsening climate-linked food shortages READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY 

1. Synergy and collaboration are key drivers in fighting forest fires and heatwaves READ MORE
2. Conservation of Endangered Great Indian Bustard Encounters Birdhit READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Common values, shared threats in India-Australia cyber security ties READ MORE

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

1. Increase in disasters leads to spike in intentional homicides of women: UN Report READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Learn from mistakes READ MORE
2. Of genes, samskaras and the reality without READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Long-term community engagement, incentive mechanisms, and shared ownership can be a silver bullet in the management of forest fires’. Comment on the statement.
2. Discuss the importance of climate justice, and gender and social equity for sustainable development.
3. ‘Change in climate is making all sections of society vulnerable for risks but women are that section, which could be most impacted section of the society by this phenomenon’. Justify the statement, in the light of recent IPPC report.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Today’s human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow’s conflicts.
• Services of urban local bodies have to be integrated with the ICCC for improving amenities for people.
• Deepening cooperation can develop avenues for mutual learning and create complementary markets in cyber tools and technologies, boosting bilateral business and strategic commitments on both continents.
• The Russia-Ukraine conflict has shown how cyber threat actors, both state and non-state, have become significant players in hybrid or “unrestricted” warfare.
• Technology-led disinflation will not shelter us from a storm of fast rising prices amid economic slowdowns.
• Given the uncertain geopolitical situation which has led to supply chain disruptions and inflation, investors will be in a ‘wait and watch’ mode this year.
• Long-term community engagement, incentive mechanisms, and shared ownership can be a silver bullet in the management of forest fires.
• The EU and India bring complementary advantages to the partnership while structural and attitudinal similarities provide learning opportunities.
• The recent IPCC report reiterated India’s need for climate justice, and gender and social equity, importantly for sustainable development.
• Climate justice is a utopian concept given our historic baggage of social, cultural, economic, and gender inequities.
• It is imperative for all women to have the absolute right to their bodies and easy access to health services for their sexual and reproductive well-being. For them to be empowered, they need to be educated, to be able to take decisions, particularly with regard to reproductive rights.

50-WORD TALK

• EAM Jaishankar’s call to Europe to look beyond Ukraine and recall how Afghanistan was thrown under the bus is a sobering reminder of geopolitical realities. Europe has much to reflect upon: From its Russian energy purchases to economic bonding with China. India is right to hold the mirror to Europe.

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. Learning to overcome prolonged grief READ MORE
2. Integrity is a way of life READ MORE

1. Centre-state coordination must for cleaner air READ MORE
2. Fulfilling CoP26 promises can limit global warming to 2°C: Study READ MORE

1. The climate crisis threatens universal health care achievements READ MORE
2. The Great Indian Poverty Debate, 2.0 READ MORE
3. The likely demographic impact of the covid pandemic READ MORE