February - 2024
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29-Feb-2024 #GS2 01. WTO Dispute Resolution Mechanism India pressed for the revival of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) appellate body, which has remained defunct for over four years after the US refused to approve its members. India also pitched for effective...
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28-Feb-2024 #GS3 --01.Plastic Pollution Global leaders at WTO highlighted the need to reduce the trade in plastics citing greenhouse emissions from its use. They also emphasized the need to rationalize, phase out or eliminate harmful fossil fuel subsidies through...
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27-Feb-2024 #GS2 --01. CNAP Telecom operators should adopt calling name presentation (CNAP). This feature will offer the single most important feature that Truecaller offers—the ability to recognize a caller’s name before receiving the call. Truecaller does this by...
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26-Feb-2024 #GS2 --01. India-Armenia Relations Our relations are mature enough to be defined as a strategic partnership. I hope our ministers of foreign affairs will have discussions on this issue. We are looking to make our cooperation in defence much deeper. -...
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23-Feb-2024 #GS2 --01. Red Sea Crisis Almost 80% of all exports, as much as $8 billion a month, to Europe passes through the Red Sea. In fact, 25% of India’s foreign trade uses this route. Sustained disruption could hurt India’s merchandise exports in 2023-24....
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22-Feb-2024 #GS3 --01. Open Economy I have looked at successful countries such as...Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China and India—these are the high- growth examples. My conclusion is very clear—countries that have been open are the ones that have grown rapidly. -...
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21-Feb-2024 #GS3 01. Contractual Disputes MoRTH has launched a one-time settlement scheme to end a backlog of contractual disputes blocking much-needed capital for the roads sector. It is model led on marquee Vivad Se Vishwas scheme that aims to settle contractual...
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20-Feb-2024 #GS2 --01. Electoral Democracy We are “deeply concerned” that horse-trading is taking place. As the returning officer, Masih was “only supposed to sign” the ballot papers. “Under which rule were you given the power to put X mark on ballot papers?”...
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19-Feb-2024 #GS1--#GS3 --01. Groundwater The ground water that makes up 40% of the country’s water supply and is crucial for agriculture has been steadily depleting for years. Researchers estimate that the groundwater level will likely decline at 3.26 times current...
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16-Feb-2024 #GS2--#GS4 --01. Right to log off For citizens entitled to basic rights, here’s another one to consider: the employee’s “right to disconnect”. Lawmakers in Australia are discussing a bill that will give workers legislative backing not to be contacted by...
December - 2023
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29 Dec 2023 #GS3: - 01.Ease of Doing Business for Retail India’s offline retail market was estimated at $860 billion in 2022; it is expected to nearly double by the end of the current decade. Online retail, on the other hand, is a $70-billion market and is expected to...
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28 Dec 2023 #GS4: - 01.Dunki & Human Trafficking Undocumented immigrants usually choose to travel for various reasons. Some flee poverty; some flee violence. Some might even be displaced by development measures such as the building of a large dam. Refugees are...
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27 Dec 2023 #GS2: - 01. Israel-Hamas War The recent drone attacks on theMV Chem Pluto in the Arabian Sea and a few days ago on the MV Sai Baba in the Red Sea have been taken very seriously by the Indian government. The Navy has increased its surveillance of the seas....
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26 Dec 2023 #GS2: - 01. Digital Governance Technology fosters transparency and hence accountability... Civil servants need to harness the potential of the digital revolution and embrace the latest IT innovations as a means to advance digital governance. - Union...
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#GS3: - 01. India’s Logistics Cost India gained six places and ranked 38 among 139 countries in the Logistics Performance Index 2023. In 2014, it ranked 54. Singapore topped the ranking, followed by Finland. The US was ranked 17,while China, UK and South Africa came a...
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22 Dec 2023 #GS3:- 01. GPS based toll collection The government is looking at new technologies, including GPS- based toll systems to replace toll plazas in the country. we will start new GPS satellite-based toll collection across the country by March next year. -MoRTH...
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20 Dec 2023 #GS3: -01. India major driver of world growth India a “star performer” that is seen accounting for more than 16% of global growth this year. The government’s focus on capitals pending even as the budget is tightened has been lauded, as has our digital...
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19 Dec 2023 #GS2: 01. Will AI differ by region? Researchers argue that the largely West- and English- centric internet will teach AI programs biases and sensibilities that are mostly tuned to Western countries. That’s why the Centre, researchers and industry veterans,...
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18 Dec 2023 #GS2: 01. Truth and Reconciliation Commission for J & K In his concurring but separate opinion on the abrogation of Article 370, Kaul recommended the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir to investigate and report on...
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15 Dec 2023 #GS3: 01. World’s Financial System Our goal is to make a more efficient, interoperable and accessible financial system by providing rules to avoid the risks of crypto, and infrastructure by leveraging some of its technologies. -KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA...
March - 2024
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05-March-2024 #GS2 --01. Bribery & Legislators Lawmakers are not immune from prosecution in cases of bribery for making a speech or voting a certain way in Parliament or state legislatures. To give any privilege unconnected to the functioning of Parliament or...
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04-Mar-2024 #GS3 --01. Chip Making India will, in the next five years, join the high-stake global stage of semi conductor manufacturing as it combine sun paralleled design capabilities with $10 billion of incentives to draw manufacturers to set up new fabs and units...
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01-Mar-2024 #GS3 --01. EVs vs Hybrids In 2023, sale of hybrid cars touched an all-time high of 82,607 units. This marked an over four- fold increase from under 20,000 units in 2022. In comparison, battery-operated electric car sales saw the tally nearly double to...
January - 2024
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#GS3 --01. $7 trillion target for Indian economy India can become a $7 trillion economy by 2030. That means it will almost double its GDP in the next six years.India is to grow at or over 7% in the current fiscal year and the next. India is in a better place...
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29 Jan 2024 #GS2 --01. Ram in constitution The Constitution of India has come into being after such intense brainstorming that it is called a living document. In part three of the original copy of this very Constitution, the fundamental rights of the citizens of India...
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25 Jan 2024 #GS3 01. Underpinnings of India’s growth The last decade has seen significant structural shift in India’s economy underpinned by 4 major pillars : 1) To improve productivity /efficiency in economy, major investments have happened in physical and digital...
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24 Jan 2024 #GS2--#GS4 --01. Two-State Solution for Israel-Palestine Peace and stability cannot be built only by military means. -EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell EU foreign ministers pressed Israel for an eventual two-state solution with the Palestinians after...
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23 Jan 2023 #GS3 01. SROs for Fintech India has the largest fintech ecosystem in terms of the number of entities. India’s fintech market is projected to hit $150 billion by 2025, a big leap from $50 billion in 2021. This projection indicates that by 2030, the sector...
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19 Jan 2023 #GS2 --01. Learning Outcomes The Annual Status of Education Report’s revelation that more than half of rural India’s 14-18- year olds can’t do a three-digit arithmetic division, as the latest round of this survey has found, raises the worry of a weak...
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18 Jan 2023 #GS2: - 01. China’s population dip For an economy already caught in a slowdown, China’s population data made it a double whammy. The official headcount fell for the second straight year in 2023. The decline of 2.08 million, though small for a country of...
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17 Jan 2023 #GS3: - 01. Road Safety There is need to emphasize the four crucial‘ E’s of road safety : engineering, education, enforcement and emergency medical services. This gives me a feeling that basically the engineers are responsible for road accidents. So, the...
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12 Jan 2024 #GS3: - 01. PM Gati Shakti PM Gati Shakti in the years to come will become a planning tool of infrastructure not only for India or Asia, but for the entire world. - Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Key Terms/Issues : PM Gati Shakti #GS3: - ...
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9 Jan 2024 #GS2: - 01. Trade Risks in Red Sea The Gaza war was always threatening to snowball in to a wider nightmare for the global economy,and recent events in the Red Sea indicate just that. Attacks by Yemen’s Houthimilitants on commercial shipping vessels,...