(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. India must shift the discourse on abortion rights READ MORE
2. Supreme Court recognises sex work as a ‘profession’ READMORE
3. Understanding the nature of U.S.-Taiwan relations READ MORE
4. What is the service charge levied by restaurants on customers? READ MORE
5. Why are tribals of Rajasthan and Gujarat demanding a separate state of Bhil Pradesh? READ MORE

GS 1

1. Unprecedented early heatwaves in India, Pakistan 30 times more likely in 2022 due to climate change: Scientists READ MORE
2. Great change in Little Rann: How solar power is helping Gujarat’s salt workers READ MORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. What a Scathing Audit on Mining in Jharkhand Tells Us About CAG’s Toothlessness READ MORE
2. By Keeping Article 370 Matter Pending Indefinitely, the Supreme Court Is Embarrassing Itself READMORE
3. To Achieve Gender Justice, It Is Critical That the Judiciary Avoid Stereotypes and Social Biases Read More

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Why are tribals of Rajasthan and Gujarat demanding a separate state of Bhil Pradesh? READ MORE
2. ASHA: A successful public health experiment rooted in the village community READ MORE
3. 80% students found remote learning burdensome, missed peers: survey READMORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. In PM’s Talks with US, Australian, Japanese Counterparts, Ukraine, Defence, Technology Dominate READ MORE
2. Understanding the nature of U.S.-Taiwan relations READ MORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. India will continue wheat export to needy, friendly countries: Piyush Goyal READ MORE
2. Apex court’s ruling on GST is a watershed READ MORE
3. Food first: After wheat, Modi government curbs sugar export READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Union Power Ministry Seeks Two-Year Delay for Emission Norms Deadline READ MORE
2. Prioritise residue-free farming over organic farming READ MORE
3. New report puts a $759 billion price tag on decarbonising global petrochemicals sector READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Bhagwad Gita’s advice on how to invest right READ MORE
2. How to Be a Leader Who Stays True to Their Ethics Read More
3. Thinking Through the Ethics of New Tech…Before There’s a Problem Read More

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Discuss the role of renewable energy resources in order to maintain environmental sustainability with special reference to India.
2. What are the major legal initiatives by the State since Independence, addressing discrimination against Scheduled Tribes (STs)?

ESSAY TOPIC

• The rights of scheduled tribes in India.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• “If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help”.; B.R Ambedkar
• “So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you”.; B.R Ambedkar
• Organizations should try to anticipate and address the potential effects of the technologies they deploy. While they can’t predict the future, they can adopt a sound framework that will help them prepare for and respond to unexpected impacts.

50-WORD TALK

The daring China-Russia strategic-bomber exercises off Japan, staged as Quad leaders met in Tokyo, show President Joe Biden’s vow to defend Taiwan is indeed needed. As geopolitical tensions grow, Asian nations threatened by China need security guarantees. Economically bruised Americans won’t welcome new military commitments, but their prosperity needs Asian security.

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 on 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.

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. What is the controversy around Odisha’s Jagannath temple Heritage Corridor Project? READ MORE
2. Rise of social media leading to privacy & IP disputes. Indian laws need teeth to tackle them READMORE
3. All you need to know about the Quad, the current summit, and initiatives READ MORE
4. Glass cliff READ MORE
5. G20 climate goals just won’t do the job, claims new report READ MORE

GS 1

1.      What is the controversy around Odisha’s Jagannath temple Heritage Corridor Project? READMORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. ‘For Cover of Fundamental Rights, Person Must Submit to Process of the Law’: SC READ MORE
2. Rise of social media leading to privacy & IP disputes. Indian laws need teeth to tackle them READMORE
3. India’s Coming Misadventure With Rice Fortification in All Food Schemes READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Glass cliff READ MORE
2. Gender Gap at Work Worsens in Low, Middle-Income Nations, but Reverses in High-Income Countries: ILO READ MORE
3. Do tribal lives matter? Life expectancy, and health indicators stay poor in Madhya Pradesh READMORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Quad is a ‘force for good’, says PM Modi READ MORE
2. All you need to know about the Quad, the current summit, and initiatives READ MORE
3.  Caution and clarity: On the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity READMORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. scraps import duties on sunflower, soyabean oil READ MORE
2. India must stabilise the value of the Rupee READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Time to REJECT FOSSIL FUELS RIGHT AWAY READ MORE
2. G20 climate goals just won’t do the job, claims new report READ MORE
3. Into the ocean twilight zone: How new technology is revealing the secrets of an under-researched undersea world READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Delighted you create, in misery you destroy READ MORE
2. Why Judge People? READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. SDG 5 on gender equality is seen as a key goal, both in itself and for achieving other goals. In this context, examine how crucial gender equality is for development of the country?

ESSAY TOPIC

• Equality at the workplace is a distant dream for women.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• One should be rooted in oneself, because the way from oneself moves deep down to God, to existence. If you belong to a crowd, you belong to an impasse and no further growth is possible from there.
• Forget about the world, society, utopias and Karl Marx. Forget about all this. You are just here for a few years, to be. Enjoy, delight, be happy, dance and love. Out of your love and dancing, out of your deep selfishness, an overflowing of energy will start, and you will be able to share with others.
• In India, the subject of content regulation has always been important due to the diverse structure of Indian culture in terms of religion, economic standing, caste, and language. The policies and acts that currently govern social media are the Copyright Act 1957 and the Information Technology Act 2000. The laws still lack complete coverage over many issues such as platforms that contain links to infringing content. If India is to follow other countries in the regulation of ownership rights on social media service providers, it will have to take into account, among other things, the rights of the users as to the exclusive right over their original content.

50-WORD TALK

• The US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework — a version 2.0 of the collapsed Trans-Pacific Partnership — is welcome counter to China’s economic might in Asia. IPEF focuses on harmonising supply chains and standards, sidestepping political opposition to free trade. To challenge the China-dominated Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, IPEF must prove it’ll boost trade.

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 on 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.

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Frequent extreme weather events may lead to decline in Olive Ridley turtle population: Experts READ MORE
2. On Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s 250th birth anniversary, remembering the legacy of the father of Modern Indian Renaissance READ MORE
3. International Day For Biological Diversity 2022: Theme, History And Significance READ MORE
4. Understanding the process of issuing LOCs READ MORE
5. Food security does not need this ‘surgical strike’ READ MORE
6. How disasters, poverty fuel human trafficking READ MORE
   

   Main exam   

   GS 1

1. On Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s 250th birth anniversary, remembering the legacy of the father of the Modern Indian Renaissance READ MORE

2. Frequent extreme weather events may lead to decline in Olive Ridley turtle population: Experts READ MORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Understanding the process of issuing LOCs READ MORE
2. Sedition and the Law READ MORE
3. What the Supreme Court Said About Those Promoting Hatred in the ‘Guise of Historical Truth’ READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. How disasters and  poverty fuel human trafficking READ MORE
2. Lahbera: how the last Santhal settlement of Dhanbad is fighting for survival READ MORE
3. Ground Report: Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics READ MORE
4. In Uttarakhand School, Students Once Again Boycott Midday Meals Cooked by Dalit Woman READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

 PM to attend Tokyo launch of U.S. trade initiative

1. PM to attend Tokyo launch of U.S. trade initiative  READ MORE
2. Pangong Tso Bridge Built by China Is in ‘Area Under Illegal Chinese Occupation Since 1960’: MEA READ MORE
3. How Can India Fulfil its Defence Requirements in a Post-Ukraine War Arms Bazaar? READ MORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Food security does not need this ‘surgical strike’ READ MORE
2. Wheat confusion: On India’s export restriction READ MORE
3. Take proactive mitigating measures, RBI tells banks amid global turmoil READ MORE
4. Centre’s excise duty cut on petrol, and diesel to cost Rs 60,000 crore to the exchequer READMORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. International Day For Biological Diversity 2022: Theme, History And Significance READ MORE
2. Frequent extreme weather events may lead to decline in Olive Ridley turtle population: Experts READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Let the wide universe be your place of worship READ MORE
2. Connecting with the unified consciousness READ MORE
3. Everybody’s talented but talent remains latent if not showcased READMORE
4. Bring out your best READMORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

Q1. Reform movements in religion were largely responsible for social reform movements in India. In this context, discuss the contribution of various socio-cultural reformers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Q2. India’s engagement in the QUAD is a reflection of its evolving multi-polar foreign policy. Analyse.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Apart from developing compassion towards others, empathy can bring out the best possible trait lying deep within us.
• Man’s freedom is not curbed by prescribed rituals or customs. The wide universe is his temple, a pure heart is his holy shrine, and the truth is the most infallible scripture, believed Raja Rammohan Roy, an Indian religious, social, and educational reformer.
• After several businessmen fled the country after defaulting on loans, the MHA in 2018 brought changes to the 2010 guidelines authorising executives of all public sector banks to generate LOCs against persons who could be detrimental to the economic interests of the country.

50-WORD TALK

• The government’s decision to cut petrol and diesel taxes, among other steps to fight inflation, is a pleasant surprise. This is the kind of monetary and fiscal tango India needs to manage economic headwinds hurting recovery. States need to match these cuts with their own before RBI raises rates again.

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 on 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.

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. A timely reminder: On Supreme Court’s GST verdict READ MORE
2. Act early, decisively: On the bid to change nature of places of worship READ MORE  
3. 29 phones tested for Pegasus spyware: SC READ MORE
4. Green signal for NGT READ MORE
5. How to fight desertification: Here’s what the 15th COP to UNCCD agreed on READ MORE  

Main exam   

GS 1

1. Insights from the Economics of Jainism READ MORE
2. How to fight desertification: Here’s what the 15th COP to UNCCD agreed on READ MORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Fiscal federalism READ MORE
2. Justice at last READ MORE
3. DA fundamental right & legal, rules Calcutta HC READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Severe hepatitis in children: Why COVID-link hasn’t been ruled out READ MORE
2. Food crisis: Food-insecure population doubled in 2 years, says UN Secretary-General READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. The neighbourhood in turmoil, lessons for India READ MORE
2. Crisis-hit Sri Lanka lifts state of emergency READ MORE
3. Neighbourhood first policy of India-Nepal READ MORE
4. India Asks BRICS to ‘Live Up’ to Commitments on Territorial Integrity READ MORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Regulatory reboot READ MORE
2. Foreign Direct Investment inflow at all-time high of $83.57 billion READ MORE
3. Cartelisation going to be a challenge READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. 20% ethanol in petrol READ MORE
2. Green signal for NGT READ MORE
3. Assam reflects world’s protracted disaster-induced displacement READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Insights from the Economics of Jainism READ MORE
2. Truly righteous living brings happiness to all READ MORE
3. Let the wide universe be your place of worship READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Discuss the mandate of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). What are the challenges associated with the efficient functioning of the NGT? Examine.
2. The economics of Jainism prescribes the principles of limiting desires and wants. Discuss.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Nations, especially democracies run on many engines — not just the single monolithic one of the party or people in power. As India essays its role as a regional leader, the Government would be wise to study the impact of changes in the neighbourhood on Indian policy and look into the mirror the neighbours hold up to India to better understand its future challenges within the country.
• Mahavira’s principles state that desire is endless like the sky and hence, focuses on controlling desires and limiting needs.

ESSAY TOPIC

• The neighbourhood in turmoil, lessons for India

50-WORD TALK

The Supreme Court jails Navjot Singh Sidhu after 34 years. It gives bail to Indrani Mukerjea’s daughter’s 2012 murder saying the trial will take time. Why do criminal cases face endless delays? And in ‘terror’ cases, people are acquitted after two decades in jail. Our judicial process is grossly unjust.

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 on 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. Law and public opinion: The release of Perarivalan is no endorsement of any claim of his innocence READ MORE
2. Governor is but a Shorthand Expression for the State Government: Supreme Court READ MORE
3. Venerating the law: Supreme Court must ensure that 1992 is not repeated READ MORE
4. Beyond pandemic numbers: The promise of a transparent data system right response to WHO estimates READ MORE

1. Scientifically Speaking | Our schools are destroying children’s curiosity READ MORE
2. Tobacco: worst enemy of women and kids READ MORE

1. Ethanol blend in petrol to be raised to 20% in 3 years READ MORE
2. Why Sustainable Land Use Is Key To Achieve Our Carbon Neutrality Targets READ MORE
3. Sea levels along Indian coast rising at faster rate than global average: WMO report READ MORE
4. Urban forestry or unplanned forestry READ MORE

1. Light of darkness, darkness of light READ MORE
2. Children Need Your Time READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Cabinet approves Amendments to the National Policy on Biofuels -2018 READ MORE
2. Wholesale price rise hits record high of 15.1% in April READ MORE
3. Explained | The UN report that highlights India’s vulnerability to drought READ MORE
4. 2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO READ MORE
5. NGT orders stay on Draft Shimla Development Plan 2041 READ MORE
6. India has world’s highest number of children with severe acute malnutrition: UNICEF READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS 1

1. The historical significance of Lumbini, the birthplace of The Buddha READ MORE
2. Urban forestry or unplanned forestry READ MORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Law and public opinion: The release of Perarivalan is no endorsement of any claim of his innocence READ MORE
2. Governor is but a Shorthand Expression for the State Government: Supreme Court READ MORE
3. Venerating the law: Supreme Court must ensure that 1992 is not repeated READ MORE
4. Beyond pandemic numbers: The promise of a transparent data system right response to WHO estimates READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Scientifically Speaking | Our schools are destroying children’s curiosity READ MORE
2. Tobacco: worst enemy of women and kids READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Help Afghans: India’s Afghanistan strategy must prioritise giving emergency visas to those suffering under Taliban READ MORE
2. What’s behind India’s Ukraine policy, Western hypocrisy & how nations act in self-interest READ MORE
3. The world’s nasties READ MORE
4. How the long-term China challenge has put India in a diplomatic sweet spot amid the Ukraine crisis READ MORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Lessons for today from India’s 2006 wheat crisis READ MORE
2. The Sela Tunnel – importance and the strategic edge it promises READ MORE
3. Take proactive mitigating measures, RBI tells banks amid global turmoil READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Ethanol blend in petrol to be raised to 20% in 3 years READ MORE
2. Why Sustainable Land Use Is Key To Achieve Our Carbon Neutrality Targets READ MORE
3. Sea levels along Indian coast rising at faster rate than global average: WMO report READ MORE

GS 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Light of darkness, darkness of light READ MORE
2. Children Need Your Time READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Data will talk to you if you are willing to listen’. In the light of this statement discuss the importance of data in governance in contemporary times.
2. ‘Urban forestry is the only plausible and most effective nature-based solution for building green, sustainable and resilient cities’. Comment.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Data will talk to you if you are willing to listen.
• It is impractical for every matter to be escalated to the point that the Supreme Court needs to invoke its extraordinary powers under Article 142.
• With the expertise available in the country now, algorithms can be built to assess the impact of weather and pest events on crop size and quality.
• After a long gap, wheat farmers were getting remunerative prices for their produce. The export ban will now push down market prices.
• Inadequacy in reporting deaths is one of the several gaps exposed in the health system during the past two years.
• A proper response to the WHO data should be the promise of a robust, transparent and professional health data system, and not shrilled name-calling.
• Urban forestry is the only plausible and most effective nature-based solution for building green, sustainable and resilient cities.

ESSAY TOPIC

• ‘Data will talk to you if you are willing to listen.

50-WORD TALK

• The issue at Gyanvapi Masjid isn’t whether the ancient Vishveshvara linga, reputedly hidden from Aurangzeb’s armies, has been rediscovered. It’s whether India can address historical hurt without creating new hatreds. Islamic rulers inflicted terrible violence on Hindus. But that can’t be undone by targeting their places of worship centuries later.

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. Knowing your real nature can make you friendlier READ MORE
2. Our Mimetic Desires READ MORE
3. Belief vs fact: A spate of legal petitions is seeking reparatory justice for temples razed during Mughal rule READ MORE
4. The world must live and work together again: The idea of our common humanity ought to be strengthened — and not destroyed as the ‘virus and the war’ have done READ MORE

1. Pollution Killing 9 Million People a Year, Africa Hardest Hit: Study READ MORE
2. Why Sustainable Land Use Is Key To Achieve Our Carbon Neutrality Targets READ MORE

1. Indian law needs to account for women, make finance inclusive READ MORE
2. Scientifically Speaking | Our schools are destroying children’s curiosity READ MORE

1. Act on the act: SC must rule on Gyanvapi on basis of 1991 law and put an end to any more litigation of this nature READ MORE
2. How to insulate the police from politics READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. What is Stagflation READ MORE
2. Wholesale price rise hits record high of 15.1% in April READ MORE
3. It is primary objective of Navy to keep Indo-Pacific open, safe and secure: Rajnath READ MORE
4. World may miss net zero by 2050, courtesy COVID-19: International Science Council READ MORE
5. The India hypertension control initiative READ MORE
6. Explained: India topped air pollution death toll in 2019, says report READ MORE
7. Rising prices drive wholesale inflation to record high of 15.1% READ MORE

Main Exam   

GS Paper- 1

1. Indian law needs to account for women, make finance inclusive READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Act on the act: SC must rule on Gyanvapi on basis of 1991 law and put an end to any more litigation of this nature READ MORE
2. How to insulate the police from politics READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Scientifically Speaking | Our schools are destroying children’s curiosity READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. The world must live and work together again: The idea of our common humanity ought to be strengthened — and not destroyed as the ‘virus and the war’ have done READ MORE
2. Symbolism and beyond: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Lumbini served a useful but limited purpose READ MORE
3. The world’s nasties READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. How to tackle the inflation spiral READ MORE
2. Inflation has jeopardized a global economic recovery READ MORE
3. Burden of wheat export ban: Strike balance between needs at home and imperatives prevailing abroad READ MORE
4. Sri Lanka’s economic tragedy has become India’s opportunity READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Pollution Killing 9 Million People a Year, Africa Hardest Hit: Study READ MORE
2. Why Sustainable Land Use Is Key To Achieve Our Carbon Neutrality Targets READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Knowing your real nature can make you friendlier READ MORE
2. Our Mimetic Desires READ MORE
3. Belief vs fact: A spate of legal petitions is seeking reparatory justice for temples razed during Mughal rule READ MORE
4. The world must live and work together again: The idea of our common humanity ought to be strengthened — and not destroyed as the ‘virus and the war’ have done READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Irrational freebies in an under-tax country like India are not economically viable in the long run.’ Critically evaluate.
2. “To be the fulcrum of the new paradigm of the world order, India needs to address its domestic social divisions “Explain

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• There is no food security without peace and no peace without food.
• The idea of our common humanity ought to be strengthened — and not destroyed as the ‘virus and the war’ have done.
• The phenomenon of “deglobalisation” has its regional implications.
• Fiscal and monetary expansion that happened during the pandemic has triggered an increase in debt and upward spiral of prices across the world. Global economy needs a coordinated policy effort to climb out of it.
• Supply shocks being the chief source of it means that central banks can’t do much to tame prices.
• There is a mismatch between school and children’s minds. Inquisitiveness is stifled and learning becomes an act of parroting facts.
• Proactive government intervention is needed to check food and fuel inflation, increase employment in rural areas, reduce income inequality, strengthen the public distribution of essential commodities among the poor and enhance the average daily wage rate in rural India.
• India has to strike a balance between domestic imperatives and security imperatives involving global partners.
• Indian women face multiple barriers in accessing finance in an equitable manner. Research suggests adding a gender lens to existing laws and financial products is crucial.

ESSAY TOPIC

• There is no food security without peace and no peace without food.
• Emerging threats to Multilateralism and Globalisation.

50-WORD TALK

• Size doesn’t matter, and stock markets don’t fall for hype or emotion – that’s the message from the disastrous debut of LIC’s IPO. This isn’t good news for Modi government’s disinvestment programme, already stumbling with other PSUs. But LIC investors shouldn’t worry. Markets respect performance. They’ll be rewarded if LIC performs.
• The prices of essential food items have increased by 50% in seven years, whereas the real wage rate has risen by 22%. These figures show that inflation has outsmarted the real income of the poor, making their lives miserable as the food basket constitutes a substantial proportion of the total expenditure on the poor. The net effect is that the poor earn less and take loans to maintain the minimum standard of living.

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. 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

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

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.

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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