FRONT PAGE
NEET quota: Rs 8-lakh EWS cap will stay, Govt accepts report of panel
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation
Key Points to Ponder:
• The Economically Weaker Sections Reservation-103rd Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2019
• Indira Sawhney case 1992
• Supreme Court on EWS Reservation Criteria
• Three Member Expert Committee to review the eligibility criteria of 10% reservations for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)
• Recommendation of Expert Committee
• EWS Reservation-Issues and Challenges
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Explained: Revisiting definition of EWS
GOVT & POLITICS
If you think Pegasus was used against you, contact us by January 7, says SC committee
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance
Main Examination: General Studies III: Basics of Cyber Security
Key Points to Ponder:
• Pegasus -Why in News?
• Justice Raveendran Committee appointed by Supreme Court
• Steps Taken by Government of India and Various State governments against Cyber Attacks
• Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
Other Important Articles/Video Covering the same topic:
📍 Steps Taken to Deal with Cyber Crime and Cyber Security
📍 Explained: How India’s data protection Bill compares with EU regulation
📍 Explained: Why was Pegasus panel needed, what it will do now — and how
📍 What is Pegasus Spyware and How Does It Use Zero-Click Vulnerability?
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
Road to Recovery
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Key Points to Ponder:
• National Statistical Office-Under which Nodal Ministry/Department?
• ‘Headline GDP’-What do you Understand by this?
THE IDEAS PAGE
The fallacy of MSP
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Main Examination: General Studies III: Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices
Key Points to Ponder:
• legal backing for minimum support prices (MSP)
• MSP (minimum support price) and effectiveness of MSP implementation
• How MSP is calculated (paid out costs, labour etc.) and Crops covered under the MSP
• What are the demands by Farmers in the context of MSP?
• “Right to MSP”-is it possible to implement and if not, then what are the issues and Challenges?
• MSP and Doubling Farmers Income
• Recommendation of Ashok Dalwai Committee and M. S. Swaminathan Committee
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Swaminathan Report: National Commission on Farmers
📍 MSP is not the way to increase farmers’ income
📍 Explained: The cost of guaranteed minimum support price (MSP)
Time for a green shift
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change
Main Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Energy Policy of India
• What do you Understand by “Net-Zero Carbon Emissions”?
• Difference between “Phase down” and “Phase Out” in the context of Fossil Fuels?
• Meaning of ‘Clean Energy’ or ‘Green Energy’?
• Transition to Green Energy-Opportunities, Issues and Challenges for India
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 A green response to natural gas price shock
EXPLAINED
China’s border law and India
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Main Examination: General Studies II: India and its Neighborhood- Relations.
Key Points to Ponder:
• China’s new law on land borders
• Rationality Behind the New Law on Land Borders
• India and China’s new Law on Land Borders
• India and China Border Dispute
• Map Work-Ladakh
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 A strategy of assertion: Why China is inventing names for places in Arunachal Pradesh
📍 The China hand
Developing Trincomalee oil tank farm: what the deal means for India, Lanka
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Main Examination: General Studies II: India and its Neighborhood- Relations.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Trincomalee oil tank farm-Why in News?
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Why is Sri Lanka’s economy in trouble?
• How India is helping Sri Lanka in this crisis Situation?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Explained: The perfect storm that has led to Sri Lanka’s national ‘food emergency’