UPSC CSE Key – February 7, 2022: What you need to read today

Lata Lives

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Personality in News-Lata Mangeshkar

• Lata Mangeshkar-Undisputed queen

• Lata Mangeshkar-Awards and recognition

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 INDIA’ S SONG

📍 Our inner voice

📍 Lata ji

📍 The Lata phenomenon

GOVT & POLITICS

10 J&K Assembly seats with less than one lakh people each

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act, Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Draft Paper of the Delimitation Commission-key Proposal

• Current Status of the J&K delimitation commission

• Delimitation Commission of India and Delimitation Commission Act

• Delimitation Commission-Members, Power and Independence

• Delimitation commissions in the past (1952, 1962, 1972 and 2002)

• Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019

• Key Proposal by the Delimitation Commission-Pros and Cons

• Delimitation Commission Recommendation binding on Government?

• The orders issued by the Delimitation Commission can be challenged in any court?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir: how, why

📍 Linking electoral roll to Aadhaar: Opp objects, Govt pushes Bill through

Assam carries out eviction to clear Sattra land of ‘encroachers’

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: History of India

Mains Examination: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Know about Barpeta Sattra, a 16th-century Vaishnavite monastery

• Ekasarana Dharma and Vaishnavite

• Neo-Vaishnavite reformist movement and Srimanta Sankaradeva

• What is Sankardeva’s philosophy?

• What is the relationship between the Sattra and the State?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: The political significance of Assam’s Sattras

THE IDEAS PAGE

Plugging power reforms

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Mains Examination: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme-Key Highlights

• Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS)-Key Highlights

• Rural Electrification Corporation Limited-Role and Mandate

• Revamped Distribution Sector Reform Scheme (RDSS)-Pros, Cons and significance

• Various other schemes for rural electrification

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Progress of Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme

Branding faith

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: History of India

Mains Examination: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.

Key Points to Ponder:

• ‘Statue of Equality’-Why in News?

• Why is it called the Statue of Equality?

• Who was Ramanujacharya?

• Ramanuja and Bhakti movement

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Philosopher-saint Ramanujacharya, and the Statue of Equality in his honour

EXPLAINED

The ecological cost of creating artificial snow for Winter Olympics

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is artificial snow?

• How is artificial snow produced?

• Why is it problematic that Beijing is producing artificial snow?

• What has China said about this water usage?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Winter Olympics: Will the Beijing Games be ‘green and clean’?

ECONOMY

Retail investors, MFs cushion FPI exit impact, raise holdings to record high

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Mains Examination: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What do you understand by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs)?

• Foreign Portfolio vs. Foreign Direct Investment: What’s the Difference?

• What do you understand by ‘Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs)?

• How do Indian Mutual Funds operate abroad?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Foreign Portfolio vs. Foreign Direct Investment: What’s the Difference?

📍 Lumpsum investments in MF schemes with overseas exposure has been paused. Here’s why

Note: There will be no UPSC Key on 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th February 2022. It will be resumed from 14th February 2022.

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