Read Between the Lines [09-05-20]

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Important Keywords and Topics In Newspapers [09-05-20]

Constitution, Polity & Governance
  • National green tribunal
  • Central pollution control board
  • Public interest litigation
  • who are called as undertrials
  • National green tribunal
  • national human right commission suo moto
  • one nation one ration card scheme
What is absolute liability ? & what is strict liability ?  is absolute liability a part of article 21 ?
The National Green Tribunal’s order on the Visakhapatnam gas tragedy found LG Polymers prima facie liable under the 19th century English law principle of “strict liability”, which was made redundant in India by the Supreme Court in 1986.
Lawyers say the term “absolute liability” should have been used instead.
What is strict liability principle ?
  • For, under the “strict liability principle”, a party is not liable and need not pay compensation if a hazardous substance escapes his premises by accident or by an “act of God’” among other circumstances.
  • The Supreme Court, while deciding the Oleum gas leak case of Delhi, found strict liability woefully inadequate to protect citizens’ rights in an industrialised economy like India and replaced it with the ‘absolute liability principle’.
What is ‘absolute liability principle’?
  • So, under the absolute liability principle, the apex court held that a company in a hazardous industry cannot claim any exemption. It has to mandatorily pay compensation, whether or not the disaster was caused by its negligence. The court said a hazardous enterprise has an “absolute non-delegable duty to the community”.
  • “If any harm results on account of such activity, the enterprise must be absolutely liable to compensate for such harm irrespective of the fact that the enterprise had taken all reasonable care and that the harm occurred without any negligence on its part,” Justice Bhagwati wrote.
  • The principle of absolute liability is part of Article 21 (right to life) … The courts, to make the legal position clear, should use the term ‘absolute liability’ in orders and judgments,”.
Society & Social issues
  • Asha workers
  • practice of female genital mutilation example from India
  • Dharavi Asia’s largest slum –which is the world’s largest slum
  • consider the following:
  • how to maintain social distance in a 10 by 10 room in slums ?
  • Majority of population depend on common toilets in slums which increases chances of infections
  • what are the steps that should be taken?
International relations & Institutions
  • World health organisation
  • operation samudra Setu which country
  • operation vande Bharat
  • India should talk to Taliabn and discuss concerns directly do you agree with this statement ?
  • by talking to taliban isn’t America legitimising Terrorists ?
  • “as the peace process gets more serious and the US taliban agreement goes into next stages we want India to take a more active role in the peace process” is it in India’s interest ?what do India gain by talking to taliban ?why should we talk to Taliban ?
  • What is official stand as of now in relation to taliban ?
  • Asian infrastructure investment bank
Economy
  • Food corporation of India
  • Pradhanmantri Garib Kalyan Yojana
  • what are global commons
  • labour issues in India
  • consolidation of labour laws
  • Asian development Bank
  • international monetary fund
  • what is gross value addition
  • Rabi crops kharif crops
  • monetary policy
  • repo rate
  • cash reserve ratio
  • what is fiscal stimulus
  • gross domestic product
  • what is corporate social responsibility
  • MGNREGA
  • COVID19 crisis had made it amply clear that migrant labours and contract labours are at the mercy of contractors..Need social security system to protect them.
  • government rises borrowing to 12 lakh crore in financial year 2021 will it lead to crowding out effect ?
  • what are credit rating agencies ? Large stimulus packages attract rating cut  ? not adhering to frbm targets will also attract rating cuts ?
  • non banking financial institution
  • derivative trading at gift City
Security
  • Central bureau of investigation
  • Border security force
  • Indian coast guard come under which ministry
  • line of actual control
  • border road organisation
  • patriot missile system
Science and Technology
  • what are antibodies
Geography, ,Environment, Biodiversity and Disaster Management
  • olive ridley turtles iucn status? Odisha Rishikulya rookery
  • kaleshwaram lift irrigation project which state
  • Global positioning systems
  • bluetooth technology
History, Indian Heritage and Culture
  • Jyoti Bai Phule
  • 75 years since the end of World war II –Nazism
Questions
  • Using of artificial intelligence + cctv cameras to detect face mask violation ..privacy violation?ethical ? what are your thoughts ? Hyderabad Police

Read Between the Lines [08-05-20]

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Important Keywords and Topics In Newspapers [08-05-20]

Constitution, Polity & Governance

  • chief minister relief fund
  • public interest litigation
  • Election commission of India article 324
  • Representation of peoples act 1951
  • state legislature and state assemblies — is it possible for nomination of a member by governor to state legislative council ?
  • what is president’s rule
  • what is declaration of emergency- article 356 applies to ?
  •  what is basic structure doctrine –give some examples of concepts that are under basic structure doctrine ? case name?
  • what do you understand by adjournment sine die
  • National disaster management act 2005
  • Epidemics act to 1897 — Epidemics act Amendment Ordinance ?
  •  Healthcare should be a fundamental right
  • right to health and right to health care are different things?
  • health is a state subject under 7th schedule
  • Can high courts take suo Moto cases ?
  • national human right commission
  • can national human right commission take suo Moto cognizance of media reports and issue notices to Central and state governments?
  • industrial disasters are serious violation of human rights ?
  • National green tribunal

Society & Social issues

  • Tuberculosis in India
  • India has never spend more than 2% of its gross domestic product on healthcare – Not a compliment right ?
  • Sanjivani app
  • Ayush ministry– Ayush health care systems
  • non-governmental organisations
  • domestic violence increase in domestic violence due to quit pandemic

International relations

  • Vande Bharat mission to bring standard non resident Indians
  • Pak occupied Kashmir –Gilgit-Baltistan
  • India Afghanistan relations –6 + 2 + 1 meet on Afghanistan & 6 + 4 meet on Afghanistan

Economy

  • marginal cost of funds based lending rate
  • what is monetary transmission
  • micro small and medium enterprises
  • what is the difference between a loan waiver and loan write off
  • what is gross value addition
  • what do you understand by public goods in economics
  • Ayushman Bharat health –Health insurance scheme — India needs a universal health care system ? same ?
  • sustainable development goals
  • National action plan on climate change
  • food security
  • water resource management– carbon sinks -wetlands -peatlands -mangroves -Rainwater harvesting -water reuse- waste water reuse-
  • 15th finance commission -vertical devaluation -horizontal revolution
  • what do you understand by helicopter money?
  • Fiscal responsibility and budget management act
  • centrally sponsored schemes
  • border security force
  • herd immunity
  • mutual funds
  • Non performing assets –bad Bank

Security

  • national security advisor

Science and Technology

  • Global genome database
  • what are brown dwarfs are they called failed stars?

Geography, ,Environment, Biodiversity and Disaster Management

  • Styrene gas -industrial disasters
  • national disaster response force –chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defence team
  • Indian metrological department
  • Sundarbans World Heritage and ramsar site
  • Geography : creeks,High tides and low tides , what is water cycle

History, Indian Heritage and Culture

  • Buddha Purnima –Gautama Buddha

Ethics Integrity and Aptitude

  • Solatium ?
  • 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy
  • World war 2 pearl harbour & global terrorism September 11 2001 attacks comparing them to COVID19 for elections is unethical
  • Comparison of pandemic to war only create more issues ?

Questions :

  1. Arogya Setu app is an example of why India needs a data protection and privacy law do you agree ?
  2. Bois locker room issue — there is an urgent need for serious discussion on sex education in India ?

Read Between the Lines [07-05-20]

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Important Keywords and Topics In Newspapers [07-05-20]

  • Arogya Setu app
  • Right to privacy
  • what are open source apps
  • anonymizing data —
  • what do you understand by contract tracing apps
  • Farmer producer organisations
  • electronic National agricultural market
  • minimum support price
  • Education is a public good do you agree ?
  • internal security- hizbul Mujahideen
  • what is ethical hacking
  • particularly vulnerable tribal groups
  • World health organisation
  • public interest litigation
  • Krishna river
  • Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) Test
  • Micro small and medium enterprises
  • Goods and service taxe
  • active pharmaceutical ingredients
  • vande Bharat mission — Bringing Indians back
  • Multilateralism — bipolar world which is better ?
  • cold war era
  • do you agree that China has successfully weaponized global supply chains and Global inter-dependency
  • European union
  • World Trade organisation
  • 5G technology
  • Reserve Bank of India f
  • irst world war console bonds
  • PM cares fund
  • what is herd immunity
  • printing notes is not without serious consequences and trade-offs what do you understand by this statement ?
  • what do you understand by fiscal stimulus packages
  • what is disinvestment
  • what is effective fiscal deficit
  • fiscal responsibility and budget management act
  • what do you understand by lot of liquidity in the economy with banks ?
  • international monetary fund
  • disaster management act 2005
  • model tenancy act 2019 urbanization issues
  • Vasudiva Kutumbakam
  • enforcement directorate
  • what are debentures
  • 15th finance commission
  • Jan dhan bank account– jam Trinity
  • what is Darbar move
  • Ayushman Bharat Pradhan mantri Jan arogya Yojana
  • bois locker room issue..  effects on society –ethical perspective — should punish as per law or go easy on them?
  • overseas citizen of India
  • what is ultraviolet rays– ultraviolet sanitation chambers
  • National commission for women
  • national security advisor
  • Hong Kong protest reason and background
  • non banking finance companies
  • what are rating agencies
  • National stock exchange -Bombay stock exchange
  • what are non performing assets ?

Read Between the Lines [06-05-20]

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Important Keywords and Topics In Newspapers [06-05-20]

  • Overseas citizens of India
  • ways and means advances
  • freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under the constitution vs OTT shows.. creative freedom to artist is important do you agree.
  • Article 370
  • internal security– the resistance front –Lashkar-e-Taiba
  • line of control
  • micro small medium enterprises
  • what do you understand by the term “stimulus package” why is it imp to increase the spending and reviving the demand.
  • Fake news
  • minimum support price is cotton included?
  • what do you understand by farm loan waiver
  • Kawal tiger reserve
  • minimum government maximum governance
  • World Trade organisation
  • the financial crisis of 2008 was crisis of liquidity do you agree
  • what do you understand by intellectual property rights
  • sustainable development goals
  • do you agree that primary health care centres are one of the reasons of success of “Kerala model ” in Controlling COIVD19 ?
  • World health organisation
  • what do you understand by herd immunity and community transmission
  • John Maynard keynes –keynesian economics
  • international labour organisation
  • what are tribunals
  • national food security act
  • public distribution system f
  • Food corporation of India
  • Antyodaya Yojana– below poverty line
  • Article 32 –writ petitions
  • SGST- IGST GST
  • excise tax
  • value added tax on petrol and diesel does the revenue go to states or central government ?
  • operation Samudra Setu — Maldives
  • information technology act Bois locker room issue..
  • The long March 5B rocket –China– international space station
  • what do you understand by high inflation — What is Inflation target in India  ?
  • Pulitzer prize
  • RNA _MRNA

Read Between the Lines [05-05-20]

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Important Keywords and Topics In Newspapers [05-05-20]

  • swine Flu H1 N1
  • US and China war and its impact on Indian economy –sensex
  • Particulate matter 2.5 &  10 — used to measure air pollution ?
  • sex determination test –PCPNDT act ?
  • State human right commission
  • Naxalism
  • Anganwadi workers
  • public interest litigation
  • disaster management act
  • KS puttaswamy judgement 2017
  • what are sunset clauses
  • what is contract tracing
  • GDPR rules of European union
  • what is privacy impact assessment
  • what do you understand by mass surveillance ?
  • anonymizing data — what are the problems with anonymizing of data ? can it be back traced/Deanonymize ?
  • Cauvery river -cauvery water management authority
  • Food corporation of India act (FCI) — What are buffer stocks -storage issues ?
  • Green revolution
  • Public distribution system
  • open market sale scheme of FCI
  • Pradhanmantri Garib Kalyan Yojana
  • National rural livelihood mission
  • Farmer producer organisations
  • Food subsidy Costs involved ?
  • what are national small saving funds
  • Shanta Kumar committee report on  food corporation of India –Summary/Highlights
  • members of parliament local area development scheme
  • what do you understand by separation of powers
  • comptroller and auditor general of India –constitution article
  • why accountability is paramount in democracy
  • what do you understand by internal control mechanism
  • International monetary fund
  • Reserve Bank of India
  • Importance of micro small and medium enterprises and why fiscal stimulus should be given to them
  • G7 countries
  • Asian development Bank
  • World Bank
  • Asian infrastructure investment bank
  • fiscal responsibility and budget management act the targets
  • what do you understand by sovereign wealth funds
  • what constitutes of Indian foreign exchange reserves
  • what is current account deficit
  • printing money in the time of crisis any relation to helicopter money
  • what Do understand by a catch 22 situation
  • Rabi crops kharif crops
  • Gilgit baltistan Pak occupied Kashmir
  • what is demarche
  • United nation security council
  • money laundering
  • enforcement directorate– extradition to India
  • National food security act — what is Food security
  • ways and means advances- Increased recently to 60% ?
  •  what are Central sponsored schemes
  • GST compensation
  • Central reserve police force J
  • Jagannath temple Rath Yatra what is its prominence culturally ?
  • Article 21
  • Oman -Map
  • Non aligned movement– Virtual NAM
  • World health organisation
  • Kaziranga National park -African swine fever
  • ultra violet disinfection tower –what is UV blaster
  • Islamic state its objective of caliphate– threat to India ?
  • Mutual funds
  • Non banking finance corporations
  • Purchasing managers index in India declined 27.4(manufacturing PMI) in April from 51.8 in March what do you infer from this
  • what is purchasing managers index
  • what are debt recovery tribunals how are they linked to insolvency and bankruptcy code
  • Assam solar powered hanging electric fence– (elephant- man conflict)
  • Wildlife trust of India

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Read Between the Lines [04-05-20]

  • Pakistan occupied Kashmir
  • confederation of Indian industry pressure groups
  • chief minister disaster relief fund
  • Indian cobra ,Russell’s viper, saw scaled viper and common krait are the four snakes that account for most number of snake bite deaths in the country
  • World health organisation
  • anthropocene
  • what is demographic diversity –demographic dividend
  • what are the threats by radical populism backed by ultra nationalism?
  • Gandhi gram Swaraj
  • federalism
  • citizenship amendment act w
  • hat do you understand by Social justice
  • what are local self governments
  • scientific temper fundamental duty or DPSP?
  • UN security council
  • Regionalism
  • what are silent epidemics ?tuberculosis in India?
  • SAARC Nations
  • BRICS countries
  • humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
  • New development Bank of BRICS
  • China’s health silk road doctor in to reach out to worst global hotspots Italy and Iran during COIVD crisis
  • world press freedom index 2020 reporters without borders
  • Cabinet secretary
  • Goods and service tax
  • Central reserve police force
  • National food security act
  • Food corporation of India
  • Pradhan mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana
  • multi commodity exchange
  • What is Informal economy ?
  • 90.6 percent of India’s workforce was informally employed periodic labour force survey 2017-18
  • Business cycle economic recovery what are the steps that India should take to recover the economy

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  • What is Direct tax ?
  • why are direct tax targets very important for government ?
  • Goods and service tax
  • Central pollution control board –biomedical waste handling –segregation of waste
  • chief minister relief fund
  • koodiyattam
  • Green revolution
  • National food security act
  • Anganwadi centres
  • small and marginal farmers definition or classification
  • MGNREGA
  • Zoonotic disease?
  • severe acute respiratory syndrome
  • middle East respiratory syndrome
  • Ebola
  • Zika
  • World health organisation
  • Global positioning system does India have one ?
  • Sustainable development goals
  • 8 core sectors in India
  • what are urban slums ?
  • Chief secretary  difference with Cabinet secretary
  • disaster management act 2005
  • supreme court
  • Central administrative tribunals
  • what is environmental impact assessment
  • National investigation agency
  • Financial action task force
  • One nation one ration card scheme
  • do you think there is a need for urban employment guarantee act in the lines of MGNREGA ?
  • why are micro small and medium enterprises very important for revival of Indian economy ?
  • Chief of Defence staff CDS
  • National security advisor NSA
  • national food security act
  • What are  randomised control trials ? any link to Noble prize in economics last time ?
  • Tuberculosis in India
  • Maldives
  • insurance regulatory development authority of India
  • what are exchange traded funds ?
  • what are Gold backed exchange traded funds
  • GI tag to Kashmir saffron

Important Keywords and Topics In Newspapers [01-05-20]

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Important Keywords and Topics In Newspapers [01-05-20]

  • Insolvency and bankruptcy code locus attack
  • National investigation agency any recent amendments ?
  • India’s core sectors
  • The index of eight core sectors
  • index of industrial production also focus on the weightages
  • special economic zones
  • A Farmer Producer Company
  • National register of citizens
  • Ease of doing business index World Bank
  • intellectual property rights
  • trade related aspects of intellectual property rights TRIPS
  • World Trade organisation
  • Doha declaration
  • convalescent plasma therapy
  • medical ethics
  • chief justice of India
  • world heritage City tag
  • election commission of India
  • Right to information
  • electoral college for the election of President of India
  • MGNREGA
  • PM Kisan
  • GI tag to Manipur black rice and Gorakhpur Terracotta
  • National mission for clean Ganga , what are bacteriophages ?
  • What are credit rating agencies
  • non banking financial companies
  • mutual funds
  • fast moving consumer goods
  • Sensex

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  • MGNREGA
  • priority watch list -United States trade representative -annual special 301 report
  • intellectual property rights
  • religious and linguistic minorities in India
  • what are fundamental rights in relation to religion and minorities
  • What is cloud seeding has any one state in India had done cloud seeding
  • China ,Iran ,Pakistan ,Tajikistan ,Turkistan, Uzbekistan and India how many of these countries are sharing geographical boundary with Afghanistan
  • Bonn agreement
  • Taliban
  • what is the primary reason that India is kept away from meetings and dialogues about Afghanistan issue
  • what do you understand by soft power
  • Soft power in relation to Afghanistan Zaranj delaram highway , Afghanistan India friendship dam (Salma dam)
  • chabahar port
  • if time permits look at good Taliban bad Taliban and India’s stand on the same
  • Maturity of mind is defined as the capacity to endure uncertainty John Finley
  • International labour organisation
  • United nation security council
  • micro small and medium enterprises
  • H1N1
  • H5N1 swine flu
  • SARS
  • Non proliferation of nuclear weapons treaty
  • SAARC
  • What is globalised world
  • multilateralism
  • public sector undertakings
  • Brahmaputra river
  • mekong river
    • Cambodia
    • Laos
    • Thailand and Vietnam
  • what is sensex
  • Nifty
  • mutual funds
  • gross domestic product
  • external commercial borrowings
  • what do you understand by weak dollar and strong dollar is there something called as weak rupee strong rupee ?

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GS Paper 1

  • Kudumbashree program Kerala
  • Kumbh Mela intangible cultural Heritages of India ?
  • All India Home rule league
  • Bal Gangadhar Tilak

GS Paper 2

  • PM cares fund
  • Indian council of medical research
  • Article 14 right to equality
  • National mission for clean Ganga
  • public interest litigation seeking introduction of no religion no caste columns in official application forms.
  • Advocate general-solicitor general
  • what do you understand by prima facie
  • Article 300a of constitution right to property
  • disaster management act
  • epidemic diseases act
  • World health organisation
  • Mahatma Gandhi National rural employment guarantee act MGNREGA
  • citizenship amendment act
  • unlawful activities prevention act
  • article 22 of Indian constitution
  • directive principles of State policy
  • Aadhaar
  • SAARC
  • National commission for women –increase of incidents of domestic violence during pandemic
  • shadow pandemic
  • protection of women from domestic violence act 2005
  • NITI aayog
  • National register for citizens
  • Central reserve police force
  • what is fiscal federalism
  • mid day meal scheme
  • BRICS group

GS Paper 3

  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Tragedy of commons
  • Sustainable development goals
  • Plasma therapy
  • Reserve Bank of India
  • liquidity support for mutual funds
  • what do you understand by community transmission and herd immunity
  • H1 N1
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • institute for economics and peace –the annual global terrorism index
  • Food corporation of India
  • wealth tax
  • AMRUT mission
  • smart City mission
  • swachh Bharat
  • Pradhan mantri awas Yojana urban
  • humanitarian and disaster relief efforts
  • national disaster response force
  • biological oxygen demand
  • chemical oxygen demand

GS Paper 4

  • India lives in its villages Mahatma Gandhi
  • what do you understand by the term big brother in negative connotation
  • what do you understand by draconian measures

Value Addition :

In his now-legendary dissenting judgment, delivered at the height of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, Justice H.R. Khanna, invoking Justice Brandeis of the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote that “[the] greatest danger to liberty lies in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but lacking in due deference for the rule of law.”

The Supreme Court’s judgment in K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) is renowned for its incantation, that each of us is guaranteed a fundamental right to privacy. But the Court also recognised that the Constitution is not the sole repository of this right, or indeed of the right to personal liberty. For these are freedoms that inhere in all of us. The Court additionally thought it important, as Justice S.K. Kaul wrote, that the majority opinions of Justice Khanna’s brethren be buried “ten fathom deep, with no chance of resurrection.”

To be sure, the right to privacy is not absolute. There exist circumstances in which the right can be legitimately curtailed. However, any such restriction, as the Court held in Puttaswamy , must be tested against the requirements of legality, necessity and the doctrine of proportionality. This will require government to show us, first, that the restriction is sanctioned by legislation; second, that the restriction made is in pursuance of a legitimate state aim; third, that there exists a rational relationship between the purpose and the restriction made; and fourth, that the State has chosen the “least restrictive” measure available to achieve its objective.

In this case, not only are the government’s technological solutions unfounded in legislation, there is also little to suggest that they represent the least restrictive measures available. A pandemic cannot be a pretext to abnegate the Constitution. Inter arma silent leges , said Cicero: “For among [times of] arms, the laws fall mute”. But our fight against COVID-19 is no war. Even if it were, our Constitution is intended for all times — for times of peace and for times of crises.

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    • what is Repo rate
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  • Brexit
  • During States Prefer to dilute accountability and transparency but states should balance quick decisions and accountability and transparency . comment
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  • Stockholm international peace research institute –top military spenders
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  • World Bank & IMF
  • What are sovereign bonds
  • Places in News : Yemen & North Korea
  • Emergency powers should not be a weapon governments can use to hamper Human rights or will lead to human rights disaster .
  • Security exchange board of India
  • what is cost of doing business
  • what is the sensex

Value addition and food for thought

“The message that India should imbibe from the Pakistani experience is that once religion is employed, even for instrumental purposes, as the principal component of a nation’s identity, it is inevitable that the most bigoted religious elements will end up defining the dominant ideology of the nation’s polity. The experience of Israel teaches the same lesson. Established by a secular elite that used religio-ethnic identity for instrumental purposes, it has ended up empowering Jewish fundamentalists who now hold the political balance.”

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  • what is Public interest litigation ?
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  • Logistics exchange memorandum of understanding
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  • National agricultural cooperative marketing federation of India
  • Central bureau of investigation
  • What is difference between disinformation and mis information
  • what is draconian law
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  • public sector units– maharatna status
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  • sarbananda sonowal vs union of India the supreme court held that massive influx of illegal migrants from neighbouring countries amounts to external aggression and internal disturbances
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  • monetary policy committee
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  • reserve Bank of India
  • operation twist
  • open market operation
  • National company law tribunal
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  • insolvency and bankruptcy code
  • what is basis point

Operation twist

Hat tip Vivek Singh Sir  ,
1) Operation Twist is when the central bank uses the proceeds from sale of short-term securities to buy long-term government debt papers, leading to easing of interest rates on the long term papers.
2) Whe RBI’s objective is to decrease the interest on long term lending, so that the company’s are able to borrow at cheaper rate for long term to promote economic grwoth…….then RBI purchases debt papers of long term maturity of govt. So, when RBI is purchasing the debt paper, that means RBI is giving loan/money for long term….which results in easy availability of money for long term…henceforth decreasing in long term ineterest rate.
3) If RBI will purchase long term bonds, then the price of long term bond will go up and the yield/return will be low/soften.  (If Rs. 100 bond paper (face value) with interest rate 8% is available in Rs. 110 in the market then the yield will be (Rs.8/Rs. 110)*100  = 7.27%

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  • what is mercy plea
  • article 370
  • what is fascism
  • rule of law
  • what is impeachment who can be impeached under the Indian constitution
  • right to information act
    • section 4 of the act related to proactive and voluntary dissemination of information
    • what is locus standi?
    • do we have to have locus standi to file RTI ?
    • Central information commission
    • Chilling effect?
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  • can something be unethical but legal ?illegal but ethical?
  • what is public interest litigation
  • illegal migrants
  • what is hate speech
  • justice PN Bhagwati said that death penalty in its actual operation is discriminatory for it strikes mostly against the poor and deprived comment
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  • what are fundamental duties?
  • RTI activist
    • killing of whistle-blower and RTI activist do we need to promote anonymity/ protection ?
  • what are intermediaries
    • amendment to section 79 of IT act 2000 how are intermediaries  protected from IPC section 499 and 500
    • criminal defamation
  • digital India
  • Central reserve police forces
  • conference of parties 25
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  • what is part 2 of Indian constitution
  • what is naturalization
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    • Gandhi
    • role of Britishers
    • quit India movement
  • Make in India
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  • European union
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  3. IPC Section 304
  4. National Register of citizens
  5. NHRC- PUCL vs Sate of Maharastra — Independent investigation
  6. CAG
  7. Land acquisition bill 2013
  8. Long billed Vultures – Purple Heron
  9. Governor
  10. Red cross society
  11. POCSO act – Raping a minor girl under 12 — capital punishment ? under 16 also ?
  12. Central pollution control board
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  14. NGT
  15. what is constitutional mortality — why should it replace public morality ?
  16. Article 21
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  18. Puttaswamy 2017 case ?
  19.  What are traditional and non traditional security threats ?
  20. RCEP ?
  21. Indo- Pacific ?
  22. FDI
  23. Smart cities mission ?
  24. Skill India ?
  25. OPEC
  26. Exclusive economic zone
  27. AIIB
  28. WTO
  29. Raisina Dialogue
  30. Most favoured nation
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  32. Lokpal and Lokayukta act 2013 ?
  33. what are various wings of lokpal ?
  34. RTI
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  36. Partition ?
  37. NIA
  38. ISIS
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  40. GST
  41. 1984 Anti Sikh riots
  42. NITI Aayog ?
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