UPSC CSE Key – January 6, 2022: What you need to read today

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Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies III: Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate

Key Points to Ponder:

• VIP Security and Levels of Protection like X, Y, Y Plus, Z, Z Plus, and SPG

• Special Protection Group (SPG), SPG’s Blue Book and Prime Minister of India’s Security

• Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019-Key Highlights

• Different Forces involved in VIP Security-Who are they?

• Contingency Security Plan followed by SPG for VIP Security

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: How is the PM’s security planned, and what went wrong in Punjab?

📍 Explained: Who gets central government security, and who pays for it?

📍 Explained: What is SPG protection and who gets it?

EXPRESS NETWORK

Jaishankar holds talks with counterparts from Australia, 3 Asian nations

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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 Interests

Key Points to Ponder:

• G20 or Group of Twenty-About, Purpose and Member Countries

• G20 ‘Troika’ and India

• Procedure for taking over the G20 presidency-How it is Decided?

• G20-Relevance in today’s Changing Geopolitical Dynamics

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 India and G20 : How India can reshape world economic and financial order

Action plan launched as cheetah ‘all set to return’, says Yadav

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Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change

Main Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Action Plan for Introduction of Cheetah in India-Important Highlights

• National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)-Role, Area of Work and Chairman

• Wildlife Institute of India-Under which Ministry?

• Cheetah in India- Background

• Know the difference between cheetah and Leopard and African cheetah and Asiatic cheetah

• Know the Difference between Extinct, Extinct in the Wild and Critically Endangered

• Supreme Court of India on Translocating Animals

• Translocating Animals-Issues and Challenges

• Map Work World-South Africa, Namibia and Botswana

• Map Work India-Kuno Palpur National Park (Madhya Pradesh)

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Why India wants to bring the African cheetah to India

📍 Cheetah: The world’s fastest cat is returning to India

📍 70 years after big cat’s extinction, India prepares to welcome cheetahs from Africa

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

Tighten the net

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Main Examination:

• General Studies I: Role of women and women’s organization

• General Studies IV: Ethics and Human Interface, Attitude and Case Studies

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Open-Source Software?

• BullyBai Controversy

• Article 15 of the Indian Constitution

• Women’s Rights Issues and Social Media

• Women’s Safety on Social Media-Laws Against Cyber Crime

• Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals

• Social Media and Women Empowerment

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Unsocial Media: Inclusion, Representation, and Safety for Women on Social Networking Platforms

THE IDEAS PAGE

The court’s duty

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Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Indian Constitution, Important aspects of Governance

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is ‘Hate Speech’

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 and Article 21 of the Constitution

• Law Commission of India on ‘Hate Speech’

• Article 19 of the Constitution

• Laws restricting the freedom of expression

• Impact of Hate Speech on Freedom of Expression

• International Legal Regime on Hate Speech

• Hate Speech and Democracy

• Supreme Court of India on Hate Speech (Pravasi Bhalai Sangathan v. Union of India,2014)

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Hate Speech

THE WORLD

Demographic crisis: Birth rates in China’s 10 regions fall below 1%

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Preliminary Examination:Economic and Social Development

Mains Examination: General Studies I: Population and associated issues

Key Points to Ponder:

• What do you understand by the term ‘Demographic Crisis’?

• China and Three Child Policy

• China Demographic Crisis

• India’s Demography-Issues and Challenges

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 China’s Population Destiny: The Looming Crisis

📍 India’s population: 1.37 billion and not counting

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