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We are back- Just like a Phoenix!
Our website underwent a major database crash on midnight of 29th July. It resulted in us losing our content from January 2017 till date.
We were shattered and along with us, the majority of CD community was also in shock.
Let us tell you a very short story. A mythological one.
In Greek mythology, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or reborn.
Associated with the Sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor.
According to some sources, the Phoenix dies in a show of flames and combustion, although there are other sources that claim that the legendary bird dies and simply decomposes before being born again.
We could relate ourselves to phoenix and were determined to come back more stronger than ever. Our content and tech team put in day-night of hard work to bring current affairs section back in order. The work is still in progress and all data will be up on the website very soon.
We will not be able to extend our gratitude to all our community members who came ahead with all resources available at their helm and helped us in this hard phase. We will always be indebted to you all for this support.
There are many more such heroes who came ahead to help. All names cannot be shared for now but we will definitely remember your help and have a surprise for you all.
The current affairs are being updated. June is done and all other month’s are a work in progress. We assure you it will be completed in a week.
This is the time to come together and revive some activity, lets get some great conversations going on on the forum – prelim results, strategy for this year, anything you can think of.
We really can’t thank the well wishers of CD enough. Just like you guys have been with us every step of the way, we are with you in your journey towards your goal.
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31 July 2017 | Prelims Daily with Previous Year Questions & Tikdams
Q.1) Consider the following statements regarding the Government of India Act, 1935:
1. It introduced provincial autonomy.
2. It abolished dyarchy in provinces.
Which of the following statements given above is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Neither 1 nor 2
d) Both are correct
Q.2) Consider the following statements regarding the ‘the Official secret’:
1. It came into force before independence.
2. It was recently abolished.
Which of the statement given above is/are correct?
a) Both are correct
b) 2 only
c) Neither 1 nor 2
d) 1 only
Q.3) Consider the following statements regarding the “the Green Climate Fund (GCF)” often seen in news these days:
1. It was set up at the Conference of the Parties-16 (COP-16) in Cancun in 2010
2. It is a fund within the framework of the UNFCCC
Which of the following statements given above is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) None is correct
d) Both are correct
Q.4) Indigo Revolt of 1859 was launched in response to
a) high interest rate loans which indebted the Indigo planters.
b) Ryotwari Land Revenue System.
c) defeat of 1857 revolt in the Bengal region.
d) Mahalwari Land Revenue System.
Q.5) Which of the following organisation adivses borrwoing governments under its “Article IV Consultations”?
a) IMF
b) World Bank
c) Asian Development Bank
d) None of the above
Q.6) Which of the following pair is/are correctly matched?
Spacecraft Purpose
1. Cassini Huygens : Orbiting the Venus and transmitting data to the Earth
2. Messenger : Mapping and investigating the Mercury
3. Voyager 1 and 2 : Exploring the outer solar system
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
a) 1 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Q.7) Consider the following pairs :
Region Wellknown for the production of
1. Kinnaur : Areca nut
2. Mewat : Mango
3. Coromandel : Soya bean
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 3 only
c) 1, 2 and 3
d) None
Q.8) Which of the following is/are the example/examples of chemical change?
1. Crystallization of sodium chloride
2. Melting of ice
3. Souring of milk
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 3 only
c) 1, 2 and 3
d) None
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Gst application for 2018 UPSC mains aspirant
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31 July 2017 | Target Mains: GS Questions With Official Answers
GS PAPER 1 (MODERN HISTORY)
The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.
source: NCERT
GS PAPER 2 (POLITY & GOVERNANCE)
Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes;
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/A-law-that-allows-child-labour/article14560563.ece
(GS PAPER 3 INTERNAL SECURITY)
Security challenges and their management in border areas
Source: http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/border-fence-an-absolute-essential-india-myanmar-border_pschhonkar_060217
GS PAPER 4 ETHICS & INTEGRITY
(i) You will hand over the couple to the crowed and leave their fate on the rationality of the panchayat members.
(ii) You will protect the couple and persuade them to respect and accept the caste based system of marriage; separate and say sorry publicly in Panchayat with a legal statement that they will never meet again.
(iii) You will keep the couple under police protection and try to pacify the crowed and persuade them to allow the two adults to decide about their lives on their own.(a) Disucss the merits and demerits of each alternative?
(b) Which is the best thing/ best course of action to do for the police officer in this case? Give reasons for your answer. (250 words) (20 marks) -
29 Jul 2017 | GS 4 | You are posted in some part of the country as the superintendent of police. A lower caste engineer boy married a higher caste teacher girl in a highly patriarchal and stratified society in your area. In the rage of anger and outrage the patriarchs call meeting of panchayat and decide to punish the couple and severely punish the boy to teach a lesson to lower caste so that such incident would not be repeated in future. Knowing this the couple rushes to your office for protection from the members of upper caste, some of whom chased them to the SP office. Your office has been gheraoed by upper caste people and they demanded handing over the couple for action decided by the Panchayat. Given below are some alternatives before you: (i) You will hand over the couple to the crowed and leave their fate on the rationality of the panchayat members. (ii) You will protect the couple and persuade them to respect and accept the caste based system of marriage; separate and say sorry publicly in Panchayat with a legal statement that they will never meet again. (iii) You will keep the couple under police protection and try to pacify the crowed and persuade them to allow the two adults to decide about their lives on their own. (a) Disucss the merits and demerits of each alternative? (b) Which is the best thing/ best course of action to do for the police officer in this case? Give reasons for your answer. (250 words) (20 marks)
GS PAPER 4 ETHICS & INTEGRITY
Q.4) – You are posted in some part of the country as the superintendent of police. A lower caste engineer boy married a higher caste teacher girl in a highly patriarchal and stratified society in your area. In the rage of anger and outrage the patriarchs call meeting of panchayat and decide to punish the couple and severely punish the boy to teach a lesson to lower caste so that such incident would not be repeated in future. Knowing this the couple rushes to your office for protection from the members of upper caste, some of whom chased them to the SP office. Your office has been gheraoed by upper caste people and they demanded handing over the couple for action decided by the Panchayat. Given below are some alternatives before you:
(i) You will hand over the couple to the crowed and leave their fate on the rationality of the panchayat members.
(ii) You will protect the couple and persuade them to respect and accept the caste based system of marriage; separate and say sorry publicly in Panchayat with a legal statement that they will never meet again.
(iii) You will keep the couple under police protection and try to pacify the crowed and persuade them to allow the two adults to decide about their lives on their own.(a) Disucss the merits and demerits of each alternative?
(b) Which is the best thing/ best course of action to do for the police officer in this case? Give reasons for your answer. (250 words) (20 marks) -
29 Jul 2017 | GS 3 | The construction of border fence by Myanmar will be injustice to the people on both sides of the Indo-Myanmar border. Critically discuss.
(GS PAPER 3 INTERNAL SECURITY)
Security challenges and their management in border areas
Q.3) The construction of border fence by Myanmar will be injustice to the people on both sides of the Indo-Myanmar border. Critically discuss.
Source: http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/border-fence-an-absolute-essential-india-myanmar-border_pschhonkar_060217
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29 Jul 2017 | GS 2 | Being insensitive to the challenges faced by the most deprived castes and communities, the amendment defeats its very purpose which is enabling children to enjoy their right to education. In the light of the above statement critically examine whether child labour amendment act 2016 will be able eradicate the problem of child labour in India.
GS PAPER 2 (POLITY & GOVERNANCE)
Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes;
Q.2) Being insensitive to the challenges faced by the most deprived castes and communities, the amendment defeats its very purpose which is enabling children to enjoy their right to education. In the light of the above statement critically examine whether child labour amendment act 2016 will be able eradicate the problem of child labour in India.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/A-law-that-allows-child-labour/article14560563.ece
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29 Jul 2017 | GS 1 | Hume failed to develop Congress as safety valve but Indians successfully used him as a lightening conductor. Comment.
GS PAPER 1 (MODERN HISTORY)
The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.
Q.1) Hume failed to develop Congress as safety valve but Indians successfully used him as a lightening conductor. Comment.
source: NCERT