India, Nepal and Bangladesh finalise MoU
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 interests
Key Points to Ponder:
• Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA)-Key Highlights
• What is Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA)?
• Trade between India and other South Asian Countries-know the data
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• The establishment of the BBIN initiative is important for trade-How and Why?
• Know about South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA)
• Why Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) if South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is already there?
• Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) is a result of failure of SAFTA or it is just a trade bloc?
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📍 Intra-BBIN Trade: Opportunities and Challenges
📍 ‘Trust deficit’ hampering seamless movement of goods between India, Bangladesh: World Bank
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
Women’s Day
Syllabus:
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Mains Examination: General Studies I: History of the world will include events, Role of women and women’s organization and Social empowerment
Key Points to Ponder:
• International Women’s Day (IWD)-Historical Background (Hint: Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th is strongly linked to the women’s movements during the Russian Revolution, 1917)
• United Nations recognition to women’s day and the year 1975
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Often referred to as the
“Women’s Bill of Rights”-What all you know about CEDAW?
• Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action-Know in Detail
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• Global Gender Gap Report 2021-What are the components of this report?
• Global Gender Gap Report 2021 and India
• Greater gender diversity and higher GDPs-give some examples
• What is your basic understanding of the term ‘empowering women’ or ‘women empowerment’?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 ABOUT EQUALITY
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With 3% recovery of pilfered funds, Bihar among laggard states
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Mains Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Social Audit-What do you understand by this?
• Mahatma Gandhi National National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Social Audit
• Social Audit-Issues and Challenges
• Information-Monitoring, Evaluation and Social Audit (I-MESA) under which Ministry?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Social Audit of Social Sector Schemes
EXPLAINED
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What makes Ukraine a study destination for Indians and others
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:
• How many international students are studying in Ukraine?
• 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:
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📍 Explained: Why students from Punjab, Haryana go to Ukraine to study medicine
📍 Explained: Why eastern Europe is popular with Indian medical students
Looming oil crisis: what now
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:
• How big a player is Russia in the global oil market?
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• Why were oil prices rising even before the Ukraine crisis?
• Can strategic reserves not help meet the gap?
• Ukraine Invasion-What’s at Stake for the Global Economy
• War and Impact on Indian Economy in the context of crude oil prices, inflation, Import and Exports, Current
account deficit, subsidies on LPG and Kerosene
• What exactly is crude oil?
• What do you understand by Sanctions and embargoes?
• Economic sanctions on Russia-Impact
• Can’t there be increased supplies from countries such as Venezuela and Iran?
• Is there a difference in the dependence of the US and its European allies on Russian energy imports?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Autocrats and Oil
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