Category: Current Affairs
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Clinical Trials – all that you need to know, explained pointwise
What are Clinical Trials? Clinical trials are research studies that explore whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans. Before a drug is launched in market, it has to be tested for its safety and efficacy. This is done in stages, with a large pool of patients after which the data…
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Sankirtana – snippets for mains
UPSC’s penchant for culture is well known. Although this is not a very recent development , it might have caught the examiner’s eye as a potential 2/5 marker. Why in news? UNESCO has inscribed Sankirtana of Manipur on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, for the year 2013. What is…
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5 Things the 30 economists said to the Prime Minister on MNREGS
In the mid of October, about 30 Economists wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister asking him not to dilute the provisions of MNREGA. Here are 5 things that the government did/ was trying to do, and here is what the economists had to say to him. In 5 bullet points. [su_dropcap size=”4″]1[/su_dropcap] Social Benefits…
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Diesel Deregulation and Implications
Government has deregulated diesel price. In simple terms, the government will no longer decide the selling price of diesel. That decision will now be taken by oil retailers. Deregulating the price of diesel means that the price of diesel would now be linked to market price, instead of the government subsidizing the same as earlier.…
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How to fill Service Preferences in DAF before Mains
VIKASH JINDAL (Rank 21: 2011) Hi everybody, I got Rank 531 in CSE 2009 and then Rank 21 in CSE 2011. For two years, due to wrong service selection, I suffered a lot. When You are in the Government Machinery, you come to know a lot of things about services other than IAS, IPS, IFS. So here is what I think: Accounting…
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Green Buildings, the Green Building Code & All UPSC related Stuff – Pointwise, demystified
Green Buildings are in news these days. At least all UPSC aspirants read about it in and out. A question can be expected on this in Pre and Mains every 2-3 years, so those of you planning to stick around, must prepare this topic well. What is a green building? Think about it. What does…
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The FCI Reforms the Prime Minister is talking about – Pointwise, Demystified
The Prime Minister in an address to the Parliament talked about reforms in the Food Corporation of India. Here is the gist, for exam point of view : The problem with FCI High inefficiecy High food inflation despite record buffer stock High corruption and leakage But what is the problem with FCI? Primarily, the…
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BRICS Bank & AIIB Bank: Benefits & Concerns – Pointwise, Demystified
Two things have happened recently: BRICS Bank has been formed – with subscription by Brazil, India, Russia, China & South Africa AIIB: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank formed by India, China and 19 Asian economies. Aim of the Regional Banks: Multilateral Financial Institutions – viz. World Bank & IMF – are West dominated. reforms in…
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Consistent Public Administration Topper, Now IAS, Tells You How to Prepare Public Administration
Prem Ranjan Singh is one those candidates IPS IAS Officers who has consistently scored high marks in Public Administration in every single attempt, despite the performance of the Pub Ad option itself. He was selected to the IPS before walking into IAS in CSE 2013. He tells you in this video , what he read…
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Reading the Hindu is key to success in UPSC. IAS Topper tells you how.
You wake up to be faced with the gigantic task of climbing the Himalaya everyday. Reading The Hindu is no less an affair in an IAS aspirant’s life. If you are a beginner and a late comer, that is a bigger problem, because most of you are preparing for Prelims with little preparation for Mains, and…