Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Countries sharing border with Afghanistan.
Mains level: Paper 2- Implications for India of the return of Taliban in Afghanistan after US-Taliban deal.
Month: April 2020
Bills/Act/LawsDOMREthicsExplainedHistorical SitesIndia MappingIOCRop-ed snapPIBPrelims OnlySC JudgementsSchemesSpeciesStatesWorld Mapping
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
It is time to design clear rules for departure from accepted norms of fiscal prudence
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Deficit financing through the RBI. Deflation.
Mains level: Paper 3- Necessity of stimulus package and risks involved in it.
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
Ease legal constraints on fiscal expenditure
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: FRBM Act provisions.
Mains level: Paper 3-Legal provisions for the fiscal consolidation that needs to be changed for the the stimulus package in the wake of corona pandemic.
Coronavirus – Health and Governance Issues
Spanish Plan for Phased Easing of Lockdown
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Easing of the nationwide lockdown and major considerations
Water Management – Institutional Reforms, Conservation Efforts, etc.
Ganga water improves during lockdown
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: BoD, CoD
Mains level: Namami Gange
Minority Issues – SC, ST, Dalits, OBC, Reservations, etc.
Religious Freedom and India
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Religious freedon in India
Climate Change Negotiations – UNFCCC, COP, Other Conventions and Protocols
[pib] Petersberg Climate Dialogue
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Petersberg Climate Dialogue
Mains level: Coronovirus outbreak and climate negotiaitions
Innovations in Sciences, IT, Computers, Robotics and Nanotechnology
[pib] HCARD robot to assist frontline COVID-19 healthcare warriors
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: HCARD
Mains level: Technology assistance for COVID-19 containment
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
Recovery from COVID-19 is an opportunity to create economies that are more resilient and fair
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 3- Creating economy that is resilient and fair.
Foreign Policy Watch: India-SAARC Nations
Common problems of South Asia call for collective efforts against Covid-19
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Poor health infrastructure of SAARC countries and other common problems.
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
It will take fiscal boldness now to relieve financial distress
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Money multiplier.
Mains level: Paper 3- Government spending to sustain the economy hit by the corona crisis.
Defence Sector – DPP, Missions, Schemes, Security Forces, etc.
‘Trends in World Military Expenditure’ Report, 2019
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Highlights of the report
Terrorism and Challenges Related To It
Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2019
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Need for a global consensus on Terrorism
Global Geological And Climatic Events
New list of names of tropical cyclones over north Indian Ocean
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Naming of Tropical Cyclones
Mains level: Tropical Cyclones
Festivals, Dances, Theatre, Literature, Art in News
Raja Ravi Varma, the painter who helped Indians bring their gods home
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Europeanized school of painting in India
Mains level: NA
RBI Notifications
RBI should preserve its inflation credibility
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: MPC
Mains level: Paper 3- MPC and RBI actions which are inimical to mandate of MPC.
Oil and Gas Sector – HELP, Open Acreage Policy, etc.
Sharp fall in oil prices is opportunity for India to increase stockpile
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: SPR
Mains level: Paper 3- Importance of SPR , issues with it and need for the diversification.
Coronavirus – Health and Governance Issues
New global order in post-Covid-19 world
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Changes in the post-Covid-19 world in geopolitics and the geoeconomics.
Judicial Reforms
Kesavananda Bharati Case (1973): The judgment that upheld basic structure of India’s constitution
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Features of Basic structure doctrine
Mains level: Basic structure doctrine
Climate Change Impact on India and World – International Reports, Key Observations, etc.
How the ozone layer hole over Arctic closed?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Ozone, Polar Vortex
Mains level: Ozone hole healing
