(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Dip in eastern swamp deer population in Kaziranga READ MORE
2. Miss Kerala not endangered: aquarists READ MORE
3. 59,000 metric tonnes of biomass co-fired in coal fired Thermal power plants READ MORE
4. Explained: What is the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’? READ MORE
5. Untimely January rain damages rabi crop, vegetables in Odisha’s Nuapada READ MORE
6. ‘Major discovery’ beneath Antarctic seas: A giant icefish breeding colony READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Abdul Ghaffar Khan: Freedom Fighter, Gandhian, Pacifist, Muslim and Pakhtun: Every aspect of the life of Abdul Ghaffar Khan struck a contrast to the pettiness that is overtaking public life in India and all of South Asia. READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. States weigh options on IAS cadre rule changes READ MORE
2. Democratise and empower city governments: The general approach towards urban empowerment, including financial capabilities, has remained piecemeal in India READ MORE
3. The marital rape exception must go READ MORE
4. Devas imbroglio: SC order gives government hope of winning arbitration battle READ MORE
5. Food for thought: Starvation deaths remain a stark reality even in this time and age, and the Govt must not shut its eyes READ MORE
6. Revisiting the NJAC judgment for credibility READ MORE
7. NALSA was supposed to be India’s beacon for legal aid. But it’s stuck in a systemic rut READ MORE
8. Failing Collegium and a Weakening Judiciary Are Undermining the Administration of Justice READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. NFHS data offers a reality check for claims of Swachh Bharat success READ MORE
2. Stats of the nation: Not just death counts or data on malnutrition, India’s statistics are poor across categories READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. How to avert a demographic disaster READ MORE
2. RBI’s cryptocurrency dilemma READ MORE
3. Inflation must not impact economy READ MORE
4. Area planning better alternative to guaranteeing MSP READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Ministry’s Draft Changes To Act Undermine How India Protects Its Wildlife READ MORE
2. Thaw of permafrost has vast impact on built environment READ MORE

SECURITY

1. India’s N-project going strong: Capable of meeting challenges faced by national security READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Action without conflict READ MORE
2. Why a Karnataka college’s hijab ban is an assault on the fundamental right to religion READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Though, cryptocurrency poses an intriguing ‘regulator’s dilemma’ against RBI but banning it is not a solution’. Analyse the statement and suggest measure for the effective regulation of digital currencies.
2. Discuss the recent ruling of WTO against the subsidies on sugar provided by India.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The general approach towards urban empowerment, including financial capabilities, has remained piecemeal in India.
• By dramatically expanding basic public services, the government can create the jobs that India’s youth desperately need.
• Sanitation practices are indeed the most influential in family health and collecting such data is vital to understanding the health behaviour of the people.
• The absence of relevant statistics is the primary problem. A related issue is the politicisation of release. Over decades, heated debates over interpreting data have often been political in nature.
• Cryptocurrency poses an intriguing ‘regulator’s dilemma’ – striking a balance between technological progress ushering financial innovation while remaining as sovereign authority.
• Such measures won’t achieve the best results unless the Devas tangle is sorted out at the earliest. The onus is on the government to resolve arbitration issues without loss of face so as to regain investors’ confidence.
• The cash transferred to the poor at present cannot sustain a family of four for a month. That is why the food policy must be rational. India today has surplus food grains.
• India’s experience with cropping patterns is overproduction of a commodity that causes an abrupt fall in prices and heavy losses to farmers.
• While the collegium system doesn’t find any backing in the Constitution, India is the only country where judges appoint themselves and also decide on their transfers and promotions.
• The law laid down by the Supreme Court binds the collegium as well. Yet, the appointment and transfer of judges to the high courts and Supreme Court have not been strictly in terms of that law.

50-WORD TALK

• Tuesday’s drone strike on UAE by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, and subsequent retaliation by Saudi Arabia, raises fears that the two countries’ proxy war could intensify. Escalation would cripple India’s fuel supplies, and harm the 60 lakh diaspora in UAE and Saudi. India must engage both countries to avert this outcome.

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 also 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. Ideal time for us to begin our own moulting READ MORE
2. Overcome Challenges With Faith And Patience READ MORE
3. New Moral Issues: What Happens When Someone Dies in Space? READ MORE

1. ECI’s gesture: Putting off Punjab polls welcome, but Covid concerns persist READ MORE
2. The Seventh Schedule relook READ MORE
3. Trust key to competition regulation READ MORE

1. A Failed Attempt to Create an Equally Sanitary India READ MORE
2. Preventing genocide: It is imperative that international legal protections against genocide are incorporated in domestic legislation READ MORE

1. Explainer: Why Haiti is prone to devastating earthquakes? READ MORE
2. How Does an Underwater Volcano Form? READ MORE
3. The groundwater emergency in Delhi READ MORE
4. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26 READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. What you need to know about cybersecurity in 2022 READ MORE
2. Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to remote Borneo READ MORE
3. Activities of 2022 discussed at BRICS STI Steering Committee: India to host 5 events READ MORE
4. Neanderthal-inherited gene variant helps in protecting against severe COVID-19: Study READ MORE
5. ‘Hybrid terrorists’ a huge challenge in year 2022, says Jammu and Kashmir Police READ MORE
6. Legendary ‘Collarwali’ Tigress passes away in Madhya Pradesh READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Explainer: Why Haiti is prone to devastating earthquakes? READ MORE
2. How Does an Underwater Volcano Form? READ MORE
3. A Failed Attempt to Create an Equally Sanitary India READ MORE
4. Preventing genocide: It is imperative that international legal protections against genocide are incorporated in domestic legislation READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. ECI’s gesture: Putting off Punjab polls welcome, but Covid concerns persist READ MORE
2. The Seventh Schedule relook READ MORE
3. Trust key to competition regulation READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Inequality kills: A study of the new OxFam report READ MORE
2. The future of school education lies in learning beyond classrooms READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Preventing genocide READ MORE
2. Explained: Who are the Houthis and why did they attack UAE? READ MORE
3. Strategy to woo the ‘Stans’: Why Central Asia is important to India? READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Inflation conundrum: High price rise trends could continue in 2022, compounding the challenge for policy makers READ MORE
2. Grow the pie: Rising inequality per se isn’t a big problem if economic growth raises incomes overall READ MORE
3. Need quick solutions to address bane of growing inequality READ MORE
4. The challenges ahead for India READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. The groundwater emergency in Delhi READ MORE
2. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26 READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Ideal time for us to begin our own moulting READ MORE
2. Overcome Challenges With Faith And Patience READ MORE
3. New Moral Issues: What Happens When Someone Dies in Space? READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Discuss why despite having a good pace of economic growth in last three decade, inequality is widening in India?
2. ‘Public trust can be enhanced by transparency in governance and the use of modern technology in governance is critical to realise it in true sense’. Comment.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose finite hope.
• In the overall analysis, it is more imperative than ever that international legal protections against genocide are incorporated in domestic legislation.
• Economic growth is indispensable to provide the opportunity of a better life to everyone. Policy needs to focus on obstacles to growth, including rent-seeking.
• The government and citizens must treat groundwater as a valuable resource and its rapid depletion as an emergency.
• It’s widely known that levels of poverty have grown, and the chasm between rich and poor has widened as an economic fallout of the pandemic.
• Coal production must match planned thermal power capacity in light of green goals; the target of 1 billion tonnes (earlier 1.5) by 2025 may now be excessive.
• Deep decarbonisation is a very complex and challenging process and will have costs.
• Indian democracy and its foundations of civility are closely associated with caste and imageries of ‘purity’ and ‘pollution’.
• The Swachh Bharat and the project of building toilets should have been associated with both a collective fight against caste-based discrimination as well as access to better health. In failing to realise these goals, we see a failed commitment to equal citizenship.
• Climate change affects the poor and the smallholders, who earn their livelihoods from agriculture, disproportionately. Technologies and adaptation strategies must, therefore, reduce their vulnerabilities.

50-WORD TALK

• Public trust can be enhanced by transparency in governance, by even handedness in enforcement of the law, and by policies that are fair and sensitive in the distribution of public benefits. The use of modern technology in governance has strengthened public trust in government.

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 also 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. Soul consciousness wards off vices and viruses READ MORE
2. Eloquent Silences READ MORE
3. Remembering Martin Luther King Jr: 5 Things I’ve Learned Curating the Mlk Collection READ MORE

1. Tribals and their divinity concept READ MORE
2. Socialising digital brand communication READ MORE
3. Inequality kills: A study of the new OxFam report READ MORE
4. The future of school education lies in learning beyond classrooms READ MORE

1. Modi govt will have to wait on All India Judicial Services. Top judiciary main opposition READ MORE
2. Mentioning in Supreme Court requires urgent revision READ MORE
3. Behind the success of the gig economy READ MORE

1. Explained: Why the volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, and what to expect next READ MORE
2. Forest cover rises, but questions remain READ MORE
3. We Need Airports and Dams – But Here’s Why You Should Care About the Environment READ MORE
4. Will Tonga volcanic eruption affect global climate? READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. PM delivers ‘State of the World’ special address at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda READ MORE
2. Birju Maharaj, legendary Kathak dancer, dies at 83 READ MORE
3. EC allows authorised media persons to cast vote through postal ballot in upcoming polls READ MORE
4. India’s Economic System Rigged in Favour of the Super-Rich, Says Oxfam Report READ MORE
5. Border position unambiguous: India to Nepal on Lipulekh row READ MORE
6. US bill to block defence contractors from using Chinese rare earth minerals READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Explained: Why the volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, and what to expect next READ MORE
2. Forest cover rises, but questions remain READ MORE
3. Tribals and their divinity concept READ MORE
4. Socialising digital brand communication READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Modi govt will have to wait on All India Judicial Services. Top judiciary main opposition READ MORE
2. Mentioning in Supreme Court requires urgent revision READ MORE
3. Behind the success of the gig economy READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Inequality kills: A study of the new OxFam report READ MORE
2. The future of school education lies in learning beyond classrooms READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. India’s watchwords in a not so bright 2022 READ MORE
2. How the India-Japan friendship can help global peace, prosperity READ MORE
3. Revival of nuclear concert diplomacy READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Just what the doctor ordered for the livestock farmer READ MORE
2. Eye on yields READ MORE
3. Tackling inequality: Govt must make the right interventions in the Budget READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. We Need Airports and Dams – But Here’s Why You Should Care About the Environment READ MORE
2. Will Tonga volcanic eruption affect the global climate? READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Set up the exclusive ministry of internal security READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Soul consciousness wards off vices and viruses READ MORE
2. Eloquent Silences READ MORE
3. Remembering Martin Luther King Jr: 5 Things I’ve Learned Curating the Mlk Collection READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened economic inequalities across the world. Substantiate the statement with reference to “Inequality Kills” report by Oxfam.
2. ‘Seventy years after diplomatic relations were established between India and Japan, they have evolved into natural partners’. Discuss the statement in the light of contemporary world politics.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
• Facing a host of unprecedented challenges, India’s leaders and diplomats must not only take stock of the dangers that exist but also be ready on how to manage the risks that are well evident.
• With most of India’s livestock in rural and remote areas, a game changer now will be the use of mobile veterinary units.
• Seventy years after diplomatic relations were established between India and Japan, they have evolved into natural partners.
• The recent P5 statement on nuclear disarmament is hollow and contradicts the policies of most UNSC members. From India’s perspective, the statement does nothing to allay concerns about China modernising its nuclear arsenal.
• Contrary to perception, tribals in India have a belief system which is no less profound and spiritual than other religions practised in the country.
• There is no dispute that the issue of inequality needs to be addressed. The K-shaped recovery from the pandemic may not be sustainable in the medium term.
• Immediate measures should be taken to fix the accountability of companies towards gig workers, and clearly establish mechanisms for ensuring this, including substantive penalties for violating the workers’ labour and democratic rights.

50-WORD TALK

• From unrest in our border areas to left-wing insurgency, several internal security issues have been simmering for long. Only an exclusive ministry with specific expertise for day-to-day management would be able to tackle these issues and re-evaluate past policies as well as formulate new ones.
• States clamouring for Elon Musk’s Tesla investment is a joke, not another ease-of-doing-business race as they are portraying. Shows that no one has really studied Musk’s problem, which is largely about taxation. Before playing Twitter-Twitter, the question states must ask is whether Musk is ready to manufacture Tesla in India.

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 also 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. Forests: The good news and bad news READ MORE
2. Why India needs a Green Deal READ MORE
3. Will the wildlife amendment bill save India’s rich biodiversity? READ MORE
4. India’s New ‘State of Forest’ Report Is Not Really About Forests READ MORE

1. Countering hate in the digital world READ MORE
2. Confronting global racism READ MORE

1. State legislatures had fewer sittings than Parliament in 2021 READ MORE
2. Should electoral ID data be linked to Aadhaar? READ MORE
3. Call for Indianisation is a Fallacy, if Not a Fraud on the Constitution READ MORE

1. Countering hate in the digital world READ MORE
2. Overcome challenges with faith and patience READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Web3: A vision for the future READ MORE
2. Shockwave from Tonga volcanic eruption recorded in Chennai READ MORE
3. Muscles starve in the absence of vitamin D, study of mice finds READ MORE
4. India’s first dugong reserve will help protect the world’s only herbivorous marine mammal READ MORE
5. What is a digital AgriStack and why Indian farmers are opposed to it READ MORE
6. MeitY invites applications under the Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme from academia, R&D organisations, startups and MSMEs READ MORE

Main Exam  

GS Paper- 1

1. In images: The anger in India against the Raj-appointed Simon Commission READ MORE
2. The Ramakrishna Movement READ MORE
3. Forests: The good news and bad news READ MORE
4. Countering hate in the digital world READ MORE
5. Confronting global racism READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. State legislatures had fewer sittings than Parliament in 2021 READ MORE
2. Should electoral ID data be linked to Aadhaar? READ MORE
3. Call for Indianisation is a Fallacy, if Not a Fraud on the Constitution READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Friend in need: On India-Sri Lanka ties READ MORE
2. Explained | Why is India challenging WTO verdict on sugar? READ MORE
3. Pakistan’s new policy: Not quite abandoning its ‘thousand cuts’ strategy READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Taxing cryptocurrency transactions: A streamlined tax regime is pivotal to a clear, constructive and adaptive regulatory environment READ MORE
2. The cryptocurrency deception READ MORE
3. A ‘rare’ opportunity for India READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Why India needs a Green Deal READ MORE
2. Will the wildlife amendment bill save India’s rich biodiversity? READ MORE
3. India’s New ‘State of Forest’ Report Is Not Really About Forests READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Countering hate in the digital world READ MORE
2. Overcome challenges with faith and patience READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. What do you mean by desertification? Explain how climate change affect the process of desertification.
2. The FRA, 2006 was never going to be a panacea to address all the issues of the tribal people, but the Act is important to improve the condition of the tribal people. Analyse.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• None of us is as smart as all of us.
• It is important to note that in times of peril, New Delhi and Colombo have established a robust channel of communication and demonstrated an ability to act on promises quickly, proving that adage about friends (and neighbours) in need.
• The practice of having separate mandatory disclosure requirements in tax returns (as is the case in the United States) should be placed on the taxpayers as well as all the intermediaries involved, so that crypto transactions do not go unreported.
• Content moderation should be considered a late-stage intervention. Individuals need to be stopped early in the path to radicalisation and extremist behaviour to prevent the development of apps such as Bulli Bai.
• Cryptocurrencies are neither a currency nor an investment. They need to be scrutinised.
• The world is in search of alternative supply chains. India with its reserves in rare earth elements must leverage this.
• Correcting electoral rolls in a society like India’s has to be done the hard way — going door to door. Quick fixes and tech solutions like Aadhaar can do more harm than good.
• The Indian Constitution through Article 13 showed us the way by declaring the then existing legal system as void in so far it was inconsistent with the fundamental rights.
• The conservative populists want to fight against any challenge to the erosion of white rights, whereas the progressives want more state intervention to address inequities.

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 also 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. Loss of natural forests: India’s green cover up, but there are some setbacks READ MORE
2. World Ocean Temperatures in 2021 Were Hottest on Record READ MORE
3. India’s climate policies misplaced. Carbon inequality must be addressed within country too READ MORE

1. Searching for antidote to communal hate READ MORE
2. The Dynamics of Lower-caste Politics READ MORE

1. Stepping up: The Govt and the SC are on same page on the need to bring about criminal law reforms READ MORE
2. Worrisome cracks: The system for evaluating judges is opaque READ MORE

1. People Versus Power READ MORE
2. Before Changing the World, Change Yourself! READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Registration of political parties under Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 – Public Notice Period – regarding READ MORE
2. Banks’ investment portfolio: RBI pitches for new classification, valuation norms READ MORE
3. Polish scientists ‘discover gene that more than doubles risk of severe Covid, even death’ READ MORE
4. High coal prices to intensify India’s efforts to curb imports, lift domestic supplies READ MORE
5. Animal biodiversity loss limits plants’ ability to adapt to climate change globally: Experts READ MORE
6. India-China trade grows to record $125 billion in 2021 despite tensions in eastern Ladakh READ MORE

Main Exam 

GS Paper- 1

1. Loss of natural forests: India’s green cover up, but there are some setbacks READ MORE
2. Searching for antidote to communal hate READ MORE
3. The Dynamics of Lower-caste Politics READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Stepping up: The Govt and the SC are on same page on the need to bring about criminal law reforms READ MORE
2. Worrisome cracks: The system for evaluating judges is opaque READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Liberal economics creates illiberal societies: A new form of ‘Gandhian’ democratic socialism powered by cooperative economic enterprises is required READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Iran, the world and India READ MORE
2. In 2022, India should keep an eye on Indo-Pacific READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. MSP is necessary to make farming viable READ MORE
2. Mahatma Gandhi an ecological economist? READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. World Ocean Temperatures in 2021 Were Hottest on Record READ MORE
2. India’s climate policies misplaced. Carbon inequality must be addressed within country too READ MORE

SCIENCE

1. A four-point action plan for quantum technologies READ MORE

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

1. The National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. People Versus Power READ MORE
2. Before Changing the World, Change Yourself! READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Indo-pacific region will present strategic and economic opportunities that India must not miss’. Discuss how India can become an important player in Indo-Pacific to grab these opportunities?
2. ‘The moral superiority of democratic arrangement in the ordering of society is premised on the accountability of power towards the securing of common good’. Discuss the statement.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Let us not look back in anger, nor go forward in fear, but around in awareness.
• Indo-pacific region will present strategic and economic opportunities that India must not miss.
• A legal guarantee will only assure the farmers that they will not be bankrupted.
• The MSP framework smartly on diversified crops, on a decentralised basis while we develop the markets. A legal guarantee will only assure the farmers that they will not be bankrupted.
• Vaccination need not be mandatory but the unvaccinated cannot expect the same privileges if they pose a risk to the freedom and livelihood of others. Choices have consequences and vaccination cannot be an exception to this.
• Adequate attention to those who can contribute to developing quantum technology must be the government’s top priority.
• As Indians always pride themselves on ‘unity in diversity’, it would be a travesty of justice, equity and fair play to hear the open call being given for the extermination of minority groups.
• Gandhi’s ideas could not be more relevant than today when India is witnessing jobless growth and facing the worst unemployment crisis.
• Prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment is also a lowcost effective public health measure, as this contributes to prevention of domestic violence and mental illness, and supports education and developmental outcomes for children.
• The moral superiority of democratic arrangement in the ordering of society is premised on the accountability of power towards the securing of common 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 also 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. Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity: In service of God and humans READ MORE
2. Basic Principles of True Success READ MORE

1. Explained: Takeaways from Forest Report READ MORE
2. Global warming: Arctic lightning strikes up drastically in 2021 READ MORE
3. Ladakh, J&K, Himachal May Witness Rise in High Temp in 2030, 2050 and 2085: Govt Report READ MORE