Baltic Dry Index (BDI) India’s Chief import exports Market Diversification Top three trading partners Trade surplus / deficit? WTO Negotiations and India Trade agreements PTA FTA Customs Union Common Market Economic union CEPA vs CECA India’s trade agreements Trade [...]
Gold deposit scheme (1999) Gold Exchange traded fund (2006) What is exchange traded funds? How does ETF work? How does Gold ETF work? Gold ETF: Pros Gold ETF: Cons Linking Gold ETF with Gold Deposit Scheme (2013) Gold deposit [...]
What is Balance of Payment? Why BoP = 0 in theory? Convertibility Rupee-Dollar Exchange rate Building up Foreign Exchange Reserves FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES FOREX Reserve: India vs other Why volatility in rupee? How did rupee recover? Exchange Rate of [...]
Introduction Maths Reasoning General Awareness / GA-GK English Appendix: download link for SSC CGL 2013 (Tier 1) paper Introduction SSC CGL 2013 was to be held on 14th and 21st April. But 14th April exam was cancelled. Now that [...]
Prologue Banks and interest rates Rural Banking: Background Government’s action Timeline: Banking in rural areas After independence Why RRB? How is RRB different from commercial banks? Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIFD) Financial Inclusion Swabhimaan scheme Ultra Small Branches SHG [...]
Prologue Constitutional provisions FR DPSP Duties 7th Schedule Bills/ Laws Draft National Health Bill 2009. Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Bill, 2009 PCPNDT 2004 NCHRH Bill 2011 Draft Mental Healthcare bill, 2012 Draft DNA profiling Bill, 2012 Policies National [...]
Universal Immunization program (UIP) India Declared Polio-Free Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) Polio Virologist dead BIBCOL Integrated Vaccine Complex Penta-valent Vaccine JEEV Vector control Blindness control Leprosy Iodine AIDS control NACO NACP phases One Two Three Four Bridge Population Mother [...]
This is the third and last article, on Current affairs related to Public Healthcare. Part 1: Polity, laws, policies, bills, yearbook (schemes)+ any current affairs related to that. click me Part 2: Current affairs related to major diseases (AIDS, [...]
Today Manikandan Soundararajan will throw some light on how medical tests are actually conducted for IAS/IPS exam and share his UPSC interview experience with us. By the way, medical-standards are given in this PDF file click me Medical Checkup [...]
Financial market Primary market: importance? Reform: ECB What is ECB? Who can borrow? Reforms in ECB? Reform: IDR fungibility What is ADR? What is IDR? IDR: Two way fungibility? Reform: FDI vs FII definition FII inflow increased FII reform? [...]
Introduction Insurance: intro Insurance Penetration Insurance density FDI in insurance Insurance amendment bill 2008 What is Bancassurance? Example of Bankcassurance Bancassurance: pros and cons Chindu’s revival package for insurance sector Chindu’s Budget speech: Insurance Reforms New branches Banks as [...]
What is PFRDA? Timeline: Two accounts NPS: Eligibility What is PRAN? Aadhar vs PRAN: Difference Aadhar vs PRAN: Similarity Players in the NPS game NPS-lite Swavalamban Scheme Why NPS is not popular? Why Swavalamban/NPS-lite is not popular? NPS Corporate [...]
Introduction What are financial intermediaries? Examples of Financial intermediaries Why financial intermediaries = NOT bad? Economies of scale Your Investment is safe Body of Experts and asymmetry of information Large Pool of money From Borrower’s side +ve impact on [...]