| Download PSIR & GS2 Daily Brief- 3 – November – 2026 Today’s brief covers these important themes: Yogendra Yadav in The Indian Express argues that the month-long agitation against the Special Intensive Revision and the Chief Election Commissioner should widen into a demand for free and fair elections rather than a call for regime change. Montek S Ahluwalia, Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva in The Indian Express read the Draft National Steel Policy: Vision 2047 against the industry’s profitability, and argue that the protection behind it must be phased down. Jabin T Jacob and Devendra Kumar in The Indian Express read the fifth plenum of the 20th Central Committee, where 51 full and alternate members had been expelled, for what Party self-governance means beyond China’s borders. Ved Shinde in the Lowy Institute reviews David Sacks’s biography of Hans J. Morgenthau and traces the realist ethic of responsibility from Max Weber to Morgenthau’s criticism of the war in Vietnam. Donald R Rothwell in the Lowy Institute sets out Argentina’s UNCLOS challenge to the Sea Lion oil project off the Falklands, and why jurisdiction is the first hurdle when the core of the case is territorial. UPSC has previously asked question on these themes: • PSIR Paper II, 2026: What is UNCLOS? Explain its salient features. • PSIR Paper II, 2026: Discuss various methods of Balance of Power. • PSIR Paper II, 2026: Theories of international relations which claim objectivity inevitably harbour subjective biases. Elucidate. • PSIR Paper II, 2026: Accelerating of Chinese influence across South Asia is fundamentally reshaping the region’s geopolitical landscape. This is a big foreign policy challenge for India. Analyse. • GS Paper II, 2026: Is the right to vote a fundamental right? Discuss the position of the Election Commission of India while undertaking the revision of electoral rolls. Can it also examine the question of citizenship of voters? • PSIR Paper I, 2025: There is a debate on the procedure for appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners to the Election Commission of India. Analyse its various aspects. • GS Paper III, 2025: What are the challenges before the Indian economy when the world is moving away from free trade and multilateralism to protectionism and bilateralism? How can these challenges be met? • GS Paper III, 2025: Discuss the rationale of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. What are its achievements? In what way can the functioning and outcomes of the scheme be improved? | Click Here to Download |
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