Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Provisions related to sessions of legislatures
Mains level: Paper 2- Declining number of sittings of state legislature
Month: December 2020
Bills/Act/LawsDOMREthicsExplainedHistorical SitesIndia MappingIOCRop-ed snapPIBPrelims OnlySC JudgementsSchemesSpeciesStatesWorld Mapping
Banking Sector Reforms
What is Positive Pay System?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Positive Pay System
Mains level: Positive Pay System
Modern Indian History-Events and Personalities
History: Visva-Bharati University
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Visva-Bharati University
Mains level: Nationalist education during freedom struggle
Roads, Highways, Cargo, Air-Cargo and Logistics infrastructure – Bharatmala, LEEP, SetuBharatam, etc.
What are Fastags?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Fastag
Mains level: RFID technology
Wetland Conservation
[pib] Tso Kar Wetland Complex
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Tso Kar Wetland Complex
Mains level: Ramsar wetlands in India
Wetland Conservation
Mapping: Caspian Sea
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Caspian Sea
Mains level: Ecocides and their impact
Parliament – Sessions, Procedures, Motions, Committees etc
Key lesson from farmers’ protest
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Essential Commodities Act
Mains level: Paper 2- Importance of parliamentary procedure in the passage of laws
Labour, Jobs and Employment – Harmonization of labour laws, gender gap, unemployment, etc.
Fixed-term employees
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Labour codes
Mains level: Paper 2- Challenges of contractual labour despite the provision of fixed-term employment
Jallikattu Debate
TN govt gives nod for Jallikattu
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Debate over Jallikattu
Climate Change Negotiations – UNFCCC, COP, Other Conventions and Protocols
World to breach 1.5°C threshold by 2027-2042
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: GCM, Cancun COP
Mains level: 1.5 C debate
Modern Indian History-Events and Personalities
Significance and History of National Farmers’ Day
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: National Farmers’ Day
Mains level: Not Much
Higher Education – RUSA, NIRF, HEFA, etc.
Scheduled Castes Post-matric Scholarship Plan
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Welfare schemes for various vulnerable sections of population
Food Procurement and Distribution – PDS & NFSA, Shanta Kumar Committee, FCI restructuring, Buffer stock, etc.
Budget’s big worry: the food subsidy
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: National Food Security Act
Mains level: Paper 3- Problem of food subsidy and excess grain stocks
Climate Change Negotiations – UNFCCC, COP, Other Conventions and Protocols
Five years since Paris Agreement, an opportunity to build back better
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Targets under the Paris Agreement
Mains level: Paper 3- 5 years of Paris Agreement and actions of EU and India
Foreign Policy Watch: India-China
The new League of Nations
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: League of Nations
Mains level: Paper 2- Changing global order and opportunities for India
Foreign Policy Watch: India-China
Tibetan Policy and Support Act (TPSA)
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: TIbetan issue
Health Sector – UHC, National Health Policy, Family Planning, Health Insurance, etc.
No need for a Two-Child Policy
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: India's population boom
Innovations in Sciences, IT, Computers, Robotics and Nanotechnology
Why the universe has less ‘antimatter’ than matter?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Matter, Anti-matter
Mains level: Formation of the universe and the Big Bang
Wildlife Conservation Efforts
Firefly Bird Diverters’ to save the Great Indian Bustard (GIB)
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Great Indian Bustard
Mains level: Not Much
Foreign Policy Watch: India – EU
India’s new Europolitik
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much
Mains level: Paper 2- Coalition with the European middle powers
