Prologue Economy Answerkey Errors in Prelims-2021 Environment Answerkey Errors in Prelims-2021 Geography Answer Key Errors in Prelims-2021 History Culture Answerkey Errors in Prelims-2021 PIN/Award/GK Answer Key Errors in Prelims-2021 UPSC Canceled this Devilal Question Polity Answerkey Errors in Prelims-2021 [...]
Prelims- lowest cutoff in recent history Prelims General EWS OBC SC ST PH (various categories) Total Marks 2021 87.54 80.14 84.85 75.41 70.71 43.09-68.02 200 2020 92.51 77.55 89.12 74.84 68.71 40.82-70.06 200 2019 98 90 95.34 82 77.34 [...]
Introduction UPSC CSE Prelims 2022 is just a month away! By this time, we hope you have covered all the major topics and are about to start your revision. It's time to pull up your socks and burn the [...]
- EcoPill3B-Intl-Orgs: India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (IndAus ECTA-2022) 😍 Zero duty access for Indian exports to Australia: Engineering goods, gems and jewellery, leather, textiles, apparel, footwear- total 96% of India’s exports to Australia. 😍 Zero duty access [...]
- Polity: Rights issues- The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022- to replace the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. It’ll authorise the police to take “measurements” to tag those who have been convicted, arrested or detained. e.g. Police can take [...]
Polity - Polity: Federalism / PRI: Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2022 → 1) replacement of the word “government” with “Central government” in all places. So, this basically takes the Delhi government out of the picture completely when it [...]
4 Days Current: Polity NEWS From 21-22-23-24 March ( nothing so great / exam worthy so I don’t feel making a video for it ) Polity - Polity: Local Bodies- Articles 243 provide for OBC reservation in local bodies. [...]
- IR/Defense: Japan- 2018: PM Modi went to Japan. 2019: Japanese PM was to come to India but programme cancelled due to CAA protests. 2020: Corona. 2022: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited. 😍 (2014) Investment Promotion Partnership for [...]
- Polity: secularism: Karnataka High Court hijab verdict (2022): Q1) wearing the hijab is part of essential religious practice in Islamic faith under Article 25 of the Constitution? Karnataka HC Ruled: NO! wearing of the hijab by Muslim women [...]
- EcoPill3A-BoP/Intl-Trade: $5 bn dollar-rupee swap. E.g. Axis bank will buy US Dollars from the RBI (e.g. at $1:75) & simultenously Axis agrees to RE-SELL those dollars back to RBI (e.g. at $1:76) at the end of the Swap [...]
- EcoPill1A1-Digital Payments: NPCi’s new unique payments interface (UPI) technology- for developing mobile apps for money transfer. Even if there is a non-smart phone (Featurephone- with number pads) money can be sent by USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) code [...]
- ISRO’s 1st launch of 2022: EOS-04 satellite using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C52) from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. 1,700kg EOS-04 satellite to the placed in sun-synchronous polar orbit, some 529 km from the Earth's surface. sun-synchronous polar orbit is [...]
Polity: Rights issue /freedom of speech/ movie making: defence ministry refused a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for a movie showing “GAY relationship between an Army officer and a local Kashmiri boy”. Defence ministry can do so for protecting the [...]