1. Concepts: Negative and Positive liberty READ MORE
2. Tapping the promise of philanthropy READ MORE
3. The artist’s reality READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Guduchi is safe and does not produce any toxic effects READ MORE
2. Fintech month kickstarts on an inspiring note READ MORE
3. Thousands of Crimson Rose butterflies fly across ocean from India towards Sri Lanka READ MORE
4. Equitable energy access key of environmental policy: PM Modi READ MORE
5. Everyday Economics: What are repo & reverse-repo rates? READ MORE
6. Tonga Eruption Last Month Was Accompanied by Record-Breaking Lightning Storm READ MORE
7. Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link project: Longest tunnel T-49 connected READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Workplace harassment reflects gendered power dynamics READ MORE
2. India’s ‘missing’ forests: DTE analysis exposes big gap in latest national forest survey estimates READ MORE

GS Paper- 1

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. A case for a more federal judiciary READ MORE
2. Stringent checks needed to curb human trafficking READ MORE
3. SC as the guardian of our Constitution READ MORE
4. Hijab ban: Without tolerance, India’s democratic ideals become meaningless READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUE

1. Pipedreams for Indian Academia – II READ MORE
2. Uniformity or Equality? Imposed norms for uniforms in educational institutions cannot be the basis for equality in education. READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Putin and Xi Frame a New China-Russia Partnership READ MORE  
2. India Keeps Floating Away From Its Quad Partners READ MORE

 GS Paper- 1

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. No, policy is not too important to leave to the experts READ MORE
2. Reframing of India’s economic road map READ MORE
3. Address mismatch between skills, jobs READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. India lacks solar waste handling policy READ MORE
2. 56 African heritage sites threatened by extreme coastal events: Study READ MORE

TECHNOLOGY

1. Technology has changed intelligence gathering. Now all you need is an internet connection READ MORE

GS Paper- 1

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Concepts: Negative and Positive liberty READ MORE
2. Tapping the promise of philanthropy READ MORE
3. The artist’s reality READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. “Environmental legislations deal with highly technically complex subject matters which require comprehensive pre legislative consultation otherwise not only there will be avoidable legal challenges but also poor implementation on the ground”. Substantiate with examples.
2. Discuss the importance of forest cover area to minimize the impact of climate change.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honour, as the miser all to money.
• There is an imbalance now which the Supreme Court of India needs to address by empowering High Courts again.
• Economic policymaking needs to be insulated from politics and vested interests of business, as underlined by breaches in NSE.
• The long-term answer to the problem of unemployment is to review and upgrade the quality of education.
• Soft encroachment by the Govt in the ambit of Fundamental Rights can affect the Constitution’s basic structure, which the apex courts guards against.
• Protest is an inherent right in a democracy. But to resort to protest at the drop of a hat makes a mockery of this democratic principle.
• Not just law alone but the core issue of innately gendered power relations at workplaces must be urgently addressed.
• A good bit of the teaching done at India’s formal centres of higher learning today, especially in our metropolises, tends to rely on imported Euro-American theories, concepts, methods and ideologies.
• As the waves of this global pandemic play out, philanthropic capital will be critical in supporting the most hard-hit sectors and organisations to recover and regain resilience.
• Tolerance implies enduring an item or a practice irrespective of the abhorrence that it may engender.
• The AUKUS partnership between Australia, the U.K., and the U.S., in some sense, appeared to be the result of a quiet realization in Washington that it needs more reliable partners in the Indo-Pacific to pursue common security interests.

50-WORD TALK

• NSE’s CEO being taken for a ride for three years by a faceless yogi in matters of running India’s top stock exchange is shocking and absurd. NSE isn’t new to misgovernance controversies but this one beats them all. Letting the perpetrators off with mere fines is a travesty of justice.
• Even though Moscow is withdrawing troops from Ukraine’s borders, the crisis isn’t over. Russia thinks coercion has worked, since NATO expansion is off the table. China has drawn the same lesson from its Asian aggressions. Till the USA shows it can do more than snarl, these powers will keep pushing.

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. HC strikes down law banning online gaming READ MORE
2. Reforming for a qualitative democracy READ MORE
3. The Unequal Republic READ MORE

1. To Be Or Not To Be – Secular READ MORE
2. Time to Criminalise Marital Rape READ MORE

1. The Quest To Understand How Earth’s Magnetic Field Shows Birds the Way READ MORE
2. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26 READ MORE

1. A lesson from the Mahabharata READ MORE
2. Diverse beliefs, theories, faiths and attitudes READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. India, Australia, and Singapore come together to address marine pollution with a focus on plastic debris READ MORE
2. India to prepare digital maps of all villages READ MORE
3. ‘Communal Mindset’: India Slams OIC for Statement on Hijab Row, Muslims in India READ MORE
4. Sansad TV YouTube channel hacked READ MORE
5. Public order: A constitutional provision for curbing freedoms READ MORE
6. New IPCC report will strengthen science on links between biodiversity loss, climate change: UNEP READ MORE
7. Lassa Fever Claims 3 Lives in UK: All You Need To Know About It READ MORE

 Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. To Be Or Not To Be – Secular READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. HC strikes down law banning online gaming READ MORE
2. Reforming for a qualitative democracy READ MORE
3. The Unequal Republic READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUE

1. Time to Criminalise Marital Rape READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. India may come under pressure on Russia READ MORE  
2. To counter China, invest in regional deterrence READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. RBI’s gamble on banks’ balance sheets READ MORE
2. Job Security READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. The Quest To Understand How Earth’s Magnetic Field Shows Birds the Way READ MORE
2. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26 READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Phensedyl smuggling remains a challenge on the India-Bangladesh border READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. A lesson from the Mahabharata READ MORE
2. Diverse beliefs, theories, faiths and attitudes READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Rape laws aim to protect not just physical safety but also preserve the sexual autonomy of women; they exist to also acknowledge the unique nature of this offence and its ubiquity’. In the light of the statement discuss the need for the criminalize marital rape.
2. How far do you agree with the view banning on online games a ban will militate against individual freedom? Justice your view.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• And empty words are evil.
• The existence of marital rape exemption encourages the subordination of women within their private lives. It also means that the State has legitimised men’s illegitimate control over women, to the extent that it can even allow routinized sexual assault on them in order to secure this control.
• The authority of the chair and its subsequent abuse by the person sitting in it and uttering ‘no’ is slowly destroying the power of knowledge and accountability in our society.
• To avoid delay in approving poll reforms by Parliament, the EC should be empowered to implement the reforms by giving one-year notice to it.
• The first industrial plastic — celluloid — was created partly with environmental conservation in mind, replacing ivory in the making of billiard balls.
• India’s relationship with ASEAN, a key cornerstone of our foreign policy, may be finally consolidated by addition of this critical security dimension that ASEAN members have sought from India’s leadership for a long time.
• Raising policy rates to curb inflation and using unconventional policy to rein the yield curve would have been a better option.
• No signifier has the ability to produce meaning in isolation. Its signifying capability is determined by its place among all of other signifiers.
• All legislation that assumes that sections of society require the hand of the state to guide and support them have some populist appeal. And there is an addictive element to online gaming, but that does not mean there is no individual freedom and choice at all.

50-WORD TALK

• Another ‘bank fraud’, India’s biggest involving Rs 22,842 crore and leading lender being ICICI Bank, not a PSU, shows how deep the NPA rot runs. A bad bank or recapitalising banks can’t fix this. More forensic audits, enforcement, better corporate governance are needed. Indian economy needs a healthy banking system.
• Having lectured India on the right to protest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using emergency powers to crush anti-vaccine demonstrators. Less than a third of Canadians support the far-Right protests, but they have paralysed the economy and everyday life. Ensuring law and order, Trudeau’s learned, is tougher than scoring points.

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. Don’t Be in a Hurry READ MORE
2. Pandemic didn’t just affect our mental and physical health, but also changed our morals, trust issues READ MORE

1. How ‘Wilderness’ Was Invented Without Indigenous Peoples READ MORE
2. Climate change may reduce carbon dioxide uptake by forests: Study READ MORE
3. Climate and food price rise: Weather systems are so extreme that farmers have lost entire crop cycle READ MORE

1. Lazy lumps: 41% adults lead inactive lifestyles; at risk of disease READ MORE
2. Uniformity: The need is to promote secularism among the citizenry without State interference READ MORE

1. Incorrect diagnosis, wrong remedy: There are simpler solutions to the shortage of IAS officers at the Centre than the proposed amendments READ MORE
2. States of union: State of federalism needs a debate. Opposition CMs need to rise above party politics to start it READ MORE
3. The debate around pendency in the Supreme Court needs a dash of empiricism READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Successful launch of PSLV-C52 with EOS-04 Satellite READ MORE
2. NHA to integrate databases of welfare schemes to boost PM-JAY coverage READ MORE
3. Centre cuts agri-cess on crude palm oil READ MORE
4. India bans 54 Chinese apps that pose threat to the country. Details here READ MORE
5. Explained: India-Australia interim trade agreement and FTA READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Lazy lumps: 41% adults lead inactive lifestyles; at risk of disease READ MORE
2. Uniformity: The need is to promote secularism among the citizenry without State interference READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Incorrect diagnosis, wrong remedy: There are simpler solutions to the shortage of IAS officers at the Centre than the proposed amendments READ MORE
2. States of union: State of federalism needs a debate. Opposition CMs need to rise above party politics to start it READ MORE
3. The debate around pendency in the Supreme Court needs a dash of empiricism READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUE

1. Are India’s elite abandoning the country’s poor and vulnerable? READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Explained | The never-ending problem of Tamil Nadu’s fishermen READ MORE  
2. The significance of the Indo-Pacific for India READ MORE
3. New Delhi truly embraces Quad READ MORE
4. Australia warms up to India: Rediscovers relations after falling out with China READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Correct design can ensure CBDCs don’t destabilise banks READ MORE
2. The Budget’s food subsidy conundrum READ MORE
3. Jobless Growth READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. How ‘Wilderness’ Was Invented Without Indigenous Peoples READ MORE
2. Climate change may reduce carbon dioxide uptake by forests: Study READ MORE
3. Climate and food price rise: Weather systems are so extreme that farmers have lost entire crop cycle READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Military modernisation lacks enough funds READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Don’t Be in a Hurry READ MORE
2. Pandemic didn’t just affect our mental and physical health, but also changed our morals, trust issues READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Quad members may have similar concerns and share many core values, they do not have an identical world view.’ Comment.
2. Discuss the need for ease credit availability for the priority sector. Can changes in the co-lending model ease credit availability for the priority sector? Analyse your view.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
• More than illegal fishing, the method of fishing, as practised by the fishermen of Tamil Nadu, is the problem.
• Stronger partnerships can strengthen engagement with the Indo-Pacific region and enhance India’s reach and impact.
• There is great synergy between the US desire to “empower allies and partners as they take on regional leadership roles themselves” and India’s ambition to play a larger role in the Indo-Pacific.
• There is a concern on whether a central bank digital currency could destabilise the banking sector. This stems from the sector’s crucial role in financial intermediation.
• Australia could become a major partner, but India must not only revive economic growth and revitalise trade policies, but also ensure social peace.
• India has once again requested the world body for a comprehensive convention against terror as it doesn’t even have a common definition.
• A long-term strategy could be to link our education system to requirements of trade and industry, ensuring that a student coming out of the education system has requisite skills for the jobs on offer and there is no oversupply in any discipline.
• At a time when upper classes continue to thrive on waves of profit maximisation, the social and economic safety net of the poor has been gradually eroding.
• “Skill India” and “Make in India” can be excellent catalysts for employment generation but the outcome has been sub-optimal because the Government appears to care more for headline numbers, planning to achieve a $5 trillion economy by subsidising big business.

50-WORD TALK

• Election Commission’s rule of 48 hours silence, even for news media, before voting needs a realistic, modern upgrade. As PM Modi, CM Yogi have shown, politicians routinely find ways around it. In this era of social media and multi-phase polls, it’s un-enforceable. Technology and political smarts are one step ahead.
• The Quad threatens to become another forum for discussing everything — but doing nothing. The alliance may be engaged on vaccines, cybersecurity and climate change, but it’s dancing around confronting China’s bullying. It’s also divided on geopolitical issues like Myanmar and Ukraine. Till Washington shows clarity and leadership, this won’t change.

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. A special occasion READ MORE
2. Adherence to Pandemic Ethics during India’s Covid-19 Lockdown READ MORE

1. India’s Biodiversity Act is being amended to help exploit bio-resources, not conserve them READ MORE
2. Fossil Fuel Firms and Their Mouthpieces Offer Net-Zero Logic on Climate Change READ MORE

1. Hijab row: Why empowerment through education is the only right approach READ MORE
2. Hidden Hunger READ MORE

1. How recent amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act threaten years of progress READ MORE  
2. Needed: A gender-inclusive police force READ MORE
3. Modernising the police force and policing READ MORE
4. Rethink must on IAS cadre rules change READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar launches “SMILE” scheme READ MORE
2. India signs MoU to hand over wheat to WFP in Kandahar READ MORE
3. Govt approves Rs 26,275 crore plan for police modernisation; Rs 18,000 crore fixed for security expenditure in J&K, NorthEast READ MORE
4. Australian Foreign Minister announces Maitri initiatives aimed at strengthening ties with India READ MORE
5. Winter bird monitoring programme: Over 200 species of birds recorded across Mysuru region READ MORE
6. Restoration of French heritage structure at Chandernagore will be completed soon: Ambassador Lenain READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Hijab row: Why empowerment through education is the only right approach READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. How recent amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act threaten years of progress READ MORE  
2. Needed: A gender-inclusive police force READ MORE
3. Modernising the police force and policing READ MORE
4. Rethink must on IAS cadre rules change READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUE

1. Hidden Hunger READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. For something: The Quad remains a group of friends who share many things, but not a common enemy READ MORE  
2. Ukraine crisis, US unilateralism and India’s dilemma READ MORE  

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. A faltering recovery: Flailing factory output trends suggestthe rebound in the economy is slow READ MORE
2. Budget 2022-23: Hits and misses READ MORE
3. Improvements in agri-credit system can revive agriculture READ MORE
4. Digital assets await enabling legal framework READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. India’s Biodiversity Act is being amended to help exploit bio-resources, not conserve them READ MORE
2. Fossil Fuel Firms and Their Mouthpieces Offer Net-Zero Logic on Climate Change READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. A special occasion READ MORE
2. Adherence to Pandemic Ethics during India’s Covid-19 Lockdown READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Quad members may have similar concerns and share many core values, they do not have an identical world view.’ Comment.
2. Discuss the need for ease credit availability for the priority sector. Can changes in the co-lending model ease credit availability for the priority sector? Analyse your view.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.
• Ethics is indispensable to public health because of the great trade-off between the “voluntary versus coercive” measures often employed in health policies.
• Oil and gas CEOs were too chicken to show up to a recent congressional hearing—perhaps fearing that their climate pledges will be revealed as nothing more than slick PR.
• The Government must reboot its rose-tinted assessment of the economy so that the ‘on-paper’ optimism is reflected in billowing factory chimneys.
• There is a need to rethink power and fertiliser subsidies and reorient MSP and procurement policies towards minimising GHG emissions.
• Institutional development across states should be a priority area for equitable flow of subsidised credit.
• Hijab-abiding students should be allowed to exercise their right to education without any hindrance. Let the women be empowered first, so they can decide how much of themselves they wish to hide.
• Apart from the need for gender diversity, there is evidence that increasing women in the force has positive effects on society.
• The capital expenditure push by the government seems to be a step in the right direction, while the rationale behind the continued focus on protectionism is questionable.
• The court has told the state government to withdraw the controversial notices by February 18. It is expected that the due process of law would finally be followed at the earliest.
• States are, however,correct in pointing out that the proposed amendments are a serious infringement of their right to deploy IAS officers as they deem fit.
• The effects of hidden hunger can be devastating, leading to mental impairment, poor health, low productivity, and even death.

50-WORD TALK

• India has been seeing a massive increase in cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets. The Budget speech has broken new ground. It has provided the scheme of taxation of digital assets. However, this is a grey zone. The legalities of the digital rupee will have to be appropriately worked out. There is a need for more clarification so that more people could be encouraged to use digital currency.

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. It’s Tough to Slow Down READ MORE
2. Over 60 social media accounts blocked for anti-India fake news READ MORE

1. Emissions Trading READ MORE
2. Union Budget Lacks Focus on Climate Change Adaptation READ MORE

1. Suicide by unemployed: Centre, states not doing enough to curb joblessness READ MORE
2. Poverty report card READ MORE

1. Local job laws that raise constitutional questions: State laws that limit the rights of out-of-State citizens go against the idea of India being one nation READ MORE  
2. Protecting the right to voice one’s views READ MORE
3. MP Moves to Commissionerate System, but Will It Make Police More Accountable? READ MORE

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Too early to intervene in Karnataka hijab row, says Supreme Court READ MORE
2. Clothing and the right to religious freedom READ MORE
3. RBI sticks to dovish policy path even as world turns hawkish to tackle inflation READ MORE
4. Water, Africa’s Gold: South Africa seeks to increase water through recycling, reuse READ MORE
5. Govt Bans Import of Foreign Drones to Promote Domestic Manufacturing READ MORE
6. Australia designates koalas as endangered species READ MORE
7. PM to address high-level segment of One Ocean Summit READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Suicide by unemployed: Centre, states not doing enough to curb joblessness READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Local job laws that raise constitutional questions: State laws that limit the rights of out-of-State citizens go against the idea of India being one nation READ MORE  
2. Protecting the right to voice one’s views READ MORE
3. MP Moves to Commissionerate System, but Will It Make Police More Accountable? READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUE

1. Poverty report card READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Saarc members must find way around roadblocks READ MORE  

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Frozen by uncertainty: RBI has forsaken its mandate of ensuring price stability to give an impetus to the economy READ MORE
2. A growth-focussed monetary policy READ MORE
3. An MSP scheme to transform Indian agriculture: A decentralised plan would aid price stabilisation, offer income support, and also cope with the indebtedness of farmers READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. Emissions Trading READ MORE
2. Union Budget Lacks Focus on Climate Change Adaptation READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. It’s Tough to Slow Down READ MORE
2. Over 60 social media accounts blocked for anti-India fake news READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. State laws that limit the rights of out-of-State citizens raises several constitutional questions and go against the idea of India being one nation. Critically analyse.
2. Analyse India’s recently announced semiconductor policy. Do you think that the new policy is the right direction to make self-reliance in chip manufacturing?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• State laws that limit the rights of out-of-State citizens go against the idea of India being one nation.
• RBI has forsaken its mandate of ensuring price stability to give an impetus to the economy.
• A decentralised plan would aid price stabilisation, offer income support, and also cope with the indebtedness of farmers.
• RBI stays the course despite risks to inflation, changing global environment.
• Due to heightened uncertainty, the monetary policy will largely remain data-driven. The RBI will have to keep its eyes peeled for price trends, which have, so far, surprised on the upside in many economies.
• A serious intent to redefine the perceived goal value may offer the secret sauce to those who are in the rat race to slow down.
• Poverty numbers and trends have traditionally been reported on a country-by-country basis. But in the contemporary world, low-income countries have significant corridors of prosperity while middle-income countries can have large pockets of poverty.
• An effort to replicate such bilateral agreements between other member nations of Saarc could potentially result in a paradigm shift in its performance.
• Placing an adequate price on GHG emissions is of fundamental relevance to internalise the external cost of climate change in the broadest possible range of economic decision making and in setting economic incentives for clean development.
• Even decentralisation of powers within this very system through the creation of distinct allocations, for handling crime and law-and-order functions, still has the effect of concentration of powers within the system.
• The announcements on low-carbon development are encouraging but don’t stipulate a strategy for climate-responsive budgeting.

50-WORD TALK

• A job guarantee scheme for urban areas, on the lines of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), needs to be worked out. With joblessness increasingly fuelling despair, anger and unrest, as witnessed during the recent protests in Bihar, this burning issue can no longer be put on the back-burner.
• The Supreme Court verdict reinstating a former woman judge who resigned following her alleged sexual harassment shows the judiciary too is not free from the vices of arbitrariness in its administrative decisions. The judgement instils confidence in women to fight back when wronged, but does it call for a seven-year-struggle?

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. The classroom is important, not the uniform READ MORE
2. Why A Universal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Is Ethical Today READ MORE