Important Data Sets For MAINS !!!
Important data sets that can be helpful for mains helpful for the Mains exam : […]
UTM08 Live Now !!!
Dear Students, The UTM08 Mains Test series is live now in your portal. UTM09 was already live since last week. We are done with sectional tests, there are only 4 more tests left which are MOCK tests, commencing from next week. Questions can be found here :- Click Here
Environment Watch – Climate Smart Agriculture !!!
The three-day event, Annual Forum of the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA), showcased innovative ways in which farmers around the world are adapting their practices to become more and more climate smart. […]
Society Watch – Family planning in India: alternative approaches !!!
Controlling population is considered to be one of the major challenges in every country. While different countries have adopted various measures to curb population growth, India continues to struggle in developing population control strategies. […]
Daily Current Events – 17th & 18th Oct 2016
GS II Topic: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. New technology to check illegal mining. The government has launched the Mining Surveillance System (MSS). MSS is a satellite-based monitoring system which aims to establish [...]
Daily Current Events – 14th & 15th Oct 2016
GS II Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. Exim Bank’s signed an MoU with New Development Bank […]
Daily Current Events – 12th & 13th Oct 2016
Paper 2 Topic: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections. Global Hunger Index According to the latest Global Hunger Index data, hunger levels in [...]
Society Watch – Taking on Inequality : The Building Blocks To Tackle Inequality !!!
Outgoing American President Barack Obama has dwelt at length on the problem of inequality in an article he has penned in The Economist. Titled ‘The Way Ahead’, the article talks about four issues his successor will have to focus on. In this, he talks about inequality increasing across the world, [...]
Environment Watch – Protecting India’s coastline !!!
STORY HIGHLIGHTS India’s coastal and marine ecosystems include a wide range of mangroves, coral reefs, sea grasses, salt marshes, mud flats, estuaries, lagoons, and unique flora and fauna. Yet, despite their ecological richness and contribution to the national economy, these resources have not received adequate protection, and are under stress. [...]
Science Watch – Artificial Intelligence In Governance !!!
Authored by – Gaurav Aggrawal (2014 IAS Topper) They say Napoleon couldn’t have happened without the French Revolution. They also say that the rise of Napoleon was inevitable in the aftermath of the French Revolution. People and events are mere cogs in the wheel of history. Once there is a [...]