UPSC CSE Key – December 24, 2021: What you need to read today

Citing security, Centre asks phone firms to keep call records for two years

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Governance

Main Examination: General Studies III: Internal security

Key Points to Ponder:

• Unified lincense agreement

• Personal data protection bill 2019

• Differential licensing on telecom sector

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 CDR case: What can be done with your call record data

📍 Delhi sought Shringla meeting with Suu Kyi, junta gave cold shoulder

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies II: International relations

Key Points to Ponder:

• India-Myanmar bilateral relations

• Myanmar military coup

• Foreign Secretary’s first visit to Myanmar post coup

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

– Shringla visits Myanmar today in first outreach after coup

– India cannot take a black-and-white approach to Myanmar

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Amid protests by Cong, Karnataka Assembly passes anti-conversion Bill

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors

Key Points to Ponder:

• Anti conversion bills passed by various states

•  Article 21 of the constitution which guarantees individuals the right to marry a person of one’s choice

•  Article 25 of the constitution which guarantees freedom of conscience, the practice and conversion of religion of one’s choice 

•  Lily Thomas and Sarla Mudgal cases

• Salamat Ansari-Priyanka Kharwar case of Allahabad High Court 2020

• Special Marriage Act, 1954

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 ​​Explained | Anti-conversion Bill: Took shape in ’12 under BSY, was less stringent

DRDO conducts flight test of indigenous expendable aerial target ‘ABHYAS’

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Science and Technology

Main Examination: General Studies III: Defence technology

Key Points to Ponder:

• Designed and developed by 

• Key features of aBHYAS

• Chandipur coast in Odisha

EXPRESS NETWORK

Maharashtra: Assembly passes Bill for OBC quota in rural local bodies

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Panchayati raj, local body elections

Key Points to Ponder:

• Reservations in rural local bodies

• Panchayat elections in India

• Reservation system in India

• State election commissions – powers and responsibilities

• Supreme Court’s triple test

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Renotify 27% seats reserved for OBCs in local body polls, SC tells Maharashtra, SEC

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