Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: SAMADHAN Challenge
Mains level: NA
Month: April 2020
Bills/Act/LawsDOMREthicsExplainedHistorical SitesIndia MappingIOCRop-ed snapPIBPrelims OnlySC JudgementsSchemesSpeciesStatesWorld Mapping
Food Procurement and Distribution – PDS & NFSA, Shanta Kumar Committee, FCI restructuring, Buffer stock, etc.
Farmers are at their wits’ end
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 3- What will be the impact of the corona crisis on agriculture and food security?
Foreign Policy Watch: India-SAARC Nations
Preparing for SAARC 2.0
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Revival of SAARC is the need of the hour amid corona crisis.
WTO and India
Between nationalism and globalism
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 3- Is the globalisation past its peak? what will be the impact of corona crisis on the globalisation?
Health Sector – UHC, National Health Policy, Family Planning, Health Insurance, etc.
‘Bhilwara Model’ for containment of coronavirus
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Bhilwara Model
Mains level: Agressive strategies to contain covid-19 spread
Judicial Reforms
What is Open Court System?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Open Courts, Art. 142
Mains level: Transparency in judicial functioning
Parliament – Sessions, Procedures, Motions, Committees etc
MPLADS funds suspended over COVID-19 crisis
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: MPLADS
Mains level: MPLADS and its implementation
Capital Markets: Challenges and Developments
Euro Zone ‘Coronabonds’
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Coronabonds, Eurozone
Mains level: Not Much
Health Sector – UHC, National Health Policy, Family Planning, Health Insurance, etc.
[pib] Centre for Augmenting WAR with COVID-19 Health Crisis (CAWACH)
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: CAWACH
Mains level: Not Much
Government Budgets
A niggardliness that is economically unwarranted
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Fiscal deficit and its relation with inflation, CAD etc.
Mains level: Paper 3- Should India consider a package to ease the sufferings inflicted by the covid-19 even at the cost of large fiscal deficit?
Hunger and Nutrition Issues – GHI, GNI, etc.
Let no one go hungry
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2-How steps government must take to ensure that the stranded labour are not left without food.
Oil and Gas Sector – HELP, Open Acreage Policy, etc.
Oil in a post-Covid world
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 3- Oil war in international oil market and implications for India.
Economic Indicators and Various Reports On It- GDP, FD, EODB, WIR etc
Restarting the economy after lockdown
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Read the attached story
Economic Indicators and Various Reports On It- GDP, FD, EODB, WIR etc
Comparing current crisis with Great Depression, 1929
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Great Economic Depression, Slowdown vs. Depression
Mains level: Impact of the depression on colonial India
Climate Change Negotiations – UNFCCC, COP, Other Conventions and Protocols
COVID-19 and its impact on climate talks
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: COVID-19 and its impact on climate change negotiation
Food Procurement and Distribution – PDS & NFSA, Shanta Kumar Committee, FCI restructuring, Buffer stock, etc.
AMMA Canteen and its success
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Amma Canteen
Mains level: Food subsidization and its impact
Health Sector – UHC, National Health Policy, Family Planning, Health Insurance, etc.
What is Drive-through Testing?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Drive-through Testing
Mains level: Coronovirus outbreak and its mitigation
Global Geological And Climatic Events
Pink Supermoon/ Paschal Moon
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Pink Supermoon
Mains level: NA
Communicable and Non-communicable diseases – HIV, Malaria, Cancer, Mental Health, etc.
The spectre of a post-COVID-19 world
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- What are the possibilities that could be brought in the world by the epidemic.
Innovations in Biotechnology and Medical Sciences
Man versus microbe
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Techniques used for detecting virus: RT-PCR, CRISPR and serological tests.
Mains level: Paper 3- Various techniques used in tests used to detect Covid-19 and their advantages.
