UPSC CSE Key – December 16, 2021: What you need to read today

• Cabinet clears push to raise marriage age of women from 18 to 21

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies I: Social empowerment

Key Points to Ponder:

• Union Cabinet’s decision to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years

• Rationality behind the re-examining marriage age?

• Uniform age of marriage for boys and girls

• Jaya Jaitley Committee Recommendation

• Marriage age and women’s health-How they are related?

• The Age of Consent Bill, 1927 and Sharda Act 1929

• The Law Commission Report of 2008 on Reforming Family Law

• Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee on Marriage age

• Raising legal age of marriage for women-Issues, Challenges and Criticism

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: The logic of, and debate around minimum age of marriage for women

📍 Explained: How marriage age and women’s health are linked

📍 Raising legal age of marriage for women: the law, the reasons and the criticism

IN PARLIAMENT

• Cabinet clears Aadhaar, voter ID linking

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Aadhar and Voter ID Linking-Step towards Electoral reforms

• Why Aadhaar-linking is Important or Required?

• Representation of the People Act, 1951-Key Highlights

• The Aadhaar Act, 2016-Key Features

• Election Commission recommendation for electoral Reforms

• Election Commission of India

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 PROPOSED ELECTORAL REFORMS

📍CCEA nod to extension of irrigation scheme

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Agriculture and Issues related with it

Key Points to Ponder:

• Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)-Highlights

• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs-Role and its Chairman

GOVT & POLITICS

• Re-notify 27% OBC seats as general category: top court to MaharashtraSyllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act

Key Points to Ponder:

• State Election Commission-Role, Constitutional Provisions

• Supreme Court’s triple test

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Can’t ask Centre to reveal data it terms ‘unreliable’: SC to Maharashtra

📍 SC cautions against ’indiscriminate’ use of money laundering law

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies III: money-laundering and its prevention

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Money Laundering and how does it work?

• Money Laundering-Meaning of Placement, Layering and Integration

• Different forms of Money Laundering

• Role of Enforcement Directorate

• Steps Taken by Government of India to Prevent Money Laundering like Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002

• International efforts to Prevent Money Laundering

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 How to stem black money

EXPRESS NETWORK

• Durga Puja bags UNESCO heritage tag

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Key Points to Ponder:

• What do you understand by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists?

• National List for Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)

• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists-Importance

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

• DECEMBER 16, 1971

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination:

General Studies I: Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.

General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interest

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Bangladesh Liberation War 1971-Background

• “Mukti Bahini”

• Vijay Diwas-50th Victory Anniversary

• India-Bangladesh Friendship

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 The rise of a nation

📍 Arms and the men: How strategy, diplomacy set up a famous victory

📍MIND THE RISK

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth,development and employment

Key Points to Ponder:

• Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) frame work for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs)

• What do you Understand by ‘Bad loans’ and ‘Capital Adequacy Ratios’?

• Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Tier 1 Capital Ratio, Net NPA Ratio-Meaning

The World

• The Nobel Peace Prize that paved way for war in EthiopiaSyllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interest

Key Points to Ponder:

• Map Work-Tigray Region and Ethiopia

• Ethiopia-Tigray Crisis

• India’s Strategic Interest in Ethiopia

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Why Is Ethiopia at War with Itself?

EXPLAINED

• Ladakh and the Sixth Schedule

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity

Main Examination: General Studies II: Indian Constitution-Significant Provisions

Key Points to Ponder:

• Ladakh Hill Development Council Act, 1997

• Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and its Benefits

• Fifth and Sixth schedules of Indian Constitution

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Very little is understood about Fifth and Sixth schedules of Indian constitution

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