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Why student’s death challenges Indian evacuation, diplomacy on world stage
Syllabus:
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Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Map Work-Kharkiv, Kyiv and Eastern European Countries
• Know about ‘Operation Ganga’
• What are the flights being operated to evacuate Indian nationals?
• What preparations are being made for the arrival of evacuated students from Ukraine?
• How many Indian students are there in Ukraine?
• Why eastern Europe is popular with Indian medical students?
• Why is Ukraine preferred for an MBBS courses?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Explained: Why students from Punjab, Haryana go to Ukraine to study medicine
📍 Explained: Why eastern Europe is popular with Indian medical students
THE WORLD
Zelenskyy seeks EU support as lakhs flee
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Know about European Union
• European Union (EU)-Members (Locate on Map)
• European Union and ‘Copenhagen criteria’
• Why Ukraine wants to Join EU?
• Can Ukraine Join the European Union Immediately?
• What Does Eu Membership Mean for EU and Ukraine?
• What is Russia’s stand on Ukraine joining the EU?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Why Does Ukraine Matter to the EU?
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change
Mains Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Know about Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report-Key Highlights
• What are the new insights on climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation from IPCC?
• How will nature and the benefits it provides to people be affected by higher levels of warming?
• How will climate change affect the lives of today’s children tomorrow, if no immediate action is taken?
• Climate Change and India’s Strategy to deal with Climate Change
• What is Climate Resilient Development?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 IPCC alarm bells: Climate change effect worse than earlier estimates
📍 Heat, humidity, sea rise to make India uninhabitable if emissions not cut
📍 IPCC report warns of malaria outbreak in Himalayan region
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Mains Examination: General Studies III: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment.
Key Points to Ponder:
• What is advance GDP estimates?
• First Advance Estimates (FAE) and Second Advance Estimates (SAEs) of GDP-What do you understand by this?
• First Advance Estimates (FAE) and Second Advance Estimates (SAEs) of GDP-who releases these estimates?
• First Advance Estimates of GDP and 2nd Advance Estimates of GDP: what’s changed since 1st?
• How many revisions of GDP estimates are done, and why?
• What is the highlight in the Second Advance Estimates (SAEs)?
• What do understand by Private Final Consumption Expenditure (PFCE) and Government Final Consumption Expenditure (GFCE)?
• What is Gross domestic product (GDP)?
• GDP-How it is Calculated?
• What is ‘Gross value added (GVA)’?
• Gross domestic product (GDP) and Gross value added (GVA)-Difference?
• Gross domestic product (GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP)-Key Differences
• ‘Nominal’ GDP and ‘Real’ GDP-What is the difference?
• Meaning of “Double Deflation” in the context of GDP Calculation?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 GDP 2nd Advance Estimates: what’s changed since 1st, what it means
EXPLAINED
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Mains Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interest.
Key Points to Ponder:
• India and Russia-How strong are Indian and Russian defence ties?
• What is the value of weapons India has bought from Russia?
• What are the kinds of weapons Russia has given India?
• Is India trying to expand its weapons base?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Russia’s friends are finding it harder to look the other way
Why sea route Turkey controls is key for Russia
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Map Work-Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Marmara Sea, Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits
• Black Sea importance for Russia
• Why is this route important to Russia (Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Marmara Sea, Bosphorus and Dardanelles
straits)?
• What is the 1936 Montreux Convention?
• How are Turkey’s diplomatic relations with Russia & Ukraine?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 What is the Montreux Convention and can Turkey use it to block Russian warships?
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