Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 3-What economic measures and reforms are needed to deal successfully with the crisis.
Month: April 2020
Bills/Act/LawsDOMREthicsExplainedHistorical SitesIndia MappingIOCRop-ed snapPIBPrelims OnlySC JudgementsSchemesSpeciesStatesWorld Mapping
Monetary Policy Committee Notifications
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to meet 5x this Fiscal
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: MPC and its various tools
Mains level: Not Much
Social Media: Prospect and Challenges
What is ‘Milk Tea Alliance’?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: ‘Milk Tea Alliance’
Mains level: Chinese assertion in the Indo-China region
Coronavirus – Health and Governance Issues
[pib] ‘COVID India Seva’ platform for citizen engagement on COVID-19
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: COVID India Seva
Mains level: Coronovirus outbreak and its mitigation
North-East India – Security and Developmental Issues
Daporijo Bridge and its significance
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Daporijo bridge and its location
Mains level: Border disputes with China
Festivals, Dances, Theatre, Literature, Art in News
Festival in news: Thrissur Pooram
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Thrissur Pooram
Mains level: NA
Oil and Gas Sector – HELP, Open Acreage Policy, etc.
Let’s make the most of dirt-cheap oil
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Strategic Petroleum Reserves.
Mains level: Paper 3-How India can make the most of cheap oil prices?
Foreign Policy Watch: India-China
Global recovery after the Covid-19
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Various geopolitical factors that influence the recovery of the world in post-pandemic period/How India could play a crucial role in forming the global coalition for faster recovery?
Coronavirus – Health and Governance Issues
The occasion to revisit the state’s role
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Need to revisit the state's role in political, social and economic aspect of the society.
Oil and Gas Sector – HELP, Open Acreage Policy, etc.
What explains crude oil prices falling below the $0 mark?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude
Mains level: Global crude oil pricing dynamics and its impact on India
FDI in Indian economy
Amendment in the FDI Policy for curbing opportunistic takeovers/acquisitions of Indian companies
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: FDI in India
Mains level: Features of India's FDI Policy
UDAY Scheme for Discoms
[pib] Draft Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not Much
Mains level: Highlights of the policy
Innovations in Sciences, IT, Computers, Robotics and Nanotechnology
[pib] Ionospheric Electron Density (IED) and its applications
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: IED
Mains level: Not Much
Festivals, Dances, Theatre, Literature, Art in News
[pib] National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: UNESCO heritages in India
Mains level: Not Much
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
What is Helicopter Money?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Helicopter Money, Quantative easing
Mains level: Not Much
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
Economy in lockdown: On India’s worst-case scenario
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 3- A stimulus package to deal with the economic disruption of pandemic is suggested by various experts. What should be its size and how effective it would be in your opinion?
FDI in Indian economy
 Indian’s decision on FDI to stop predatory Chinese hunt for Indian companies
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: FDI in India.
Mains level: Paper 3- Implications of growing Chinese investment in India.
Coronavirus – Health and Governance Issues
Beijing’s response to Covid underlines that the world needs more democracy, not less
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- How effective is the democratic system in dealing with the pandemics like Covid-19?
Banking Sector Reforms
How reverse repo rate became benchmark interest rate in the Indian economy?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: LTRO, Repo and Reverse repo rate
Mains level: Read the attached story
International Monetary Fund,World Bank,AIIB, ADB and India
SDR general allocation by IMF
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: SDR mechanism
Mains level: Issues with SDR mechanism
