{"id":5561,"date":"2026-11-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/download-psir-gs2-daily-brief-4-november-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:30:00","slug":"download-psir-gs2-daily-brief-4-november-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/download-psir-gs2-daily-brief-4-november-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"[Download] PSIR &#038; GS2 Daily Brief- 4 \u2013 November \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background has-fixed-layout\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(248deg,rgb(255,245,203) 0%,rgb(182,227,212) 50%,rgb(51,167,181) 100%)\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Download PSIR &amp; GS2 Daily Brief- 4 \u2013 November \u2013 2026<\/strong><br>Today\u2019s brief covers:<br>1. A State\u2019s surcharge on its own sales tax, and Entry 54 of List II (Bar &amp; Bench)<br>2. The US midterms as a verdict on the record, not a swing of the pendulum (The Indian Express)<br>3. What held the economic rules together, and whether they needed a hegemon (Lowy Institute)<br>4. The Ganges Treaty at thirty, and why cusec thresholds are not enough (ORF)<br>5. Doing business with the Myanmar junta, against the peace it cannot deliver (The Hindu)<br>UPSC has asked questions on these themes:<br>\u2022 PSIR Paper I, 2026: Evaluate the Centre-State relation with reference to Article 293 and analyze its implications for the Indian federal structure.<br>\u2022 PSIR Paper I, 2026: Discuss the causes and consequences of inter-State water disputes in India.<br>\u2022 PSIR Paper II, 2026: Discuss the main features of the land-boundary agreement between India and Bangladesh.<br>\u2022 GS Paper II, 2026: Examine how the separation of powers is practised in India compared to the rigid presidential model of the United States of America. In this context, compare the actual authority of the Indian Prime Minister with that of the President of the USA.<br>\u2022 GS Paper I, 2026: \u201cWater resources are both an asset and a source of conflict in South Asia.\u201d Examine this statement giving examples.<br>\u2022 PSIR Paper II, 2025: How successful has the \u2018ASEAN Plus Three\u2019 been in addressing regional problems? Support your answer with specific examples.<br>\u2022 PSIR Paper II, 2024: \u201cDeglobalisation is displacing globalisation.\u201d Comment.<br>\u2022 PSIR Paper II, 2024: Discuss the implications of the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime with Myanmar by the Indian Government on the complex ethno-political dynamics of the north-eastern region.<\/td><td><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Daily-Brief-Issue-176.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to Download<\/a><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Brief, 4 November 2026: a State\u2019s power to surcharge sales tax, the US midterms, the rules-based order, the Ganges Treaty at 30, and Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fx_brief_v2":"","fx_brief_issue":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psir-gs-2-daily-brief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/cover176.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}