List of Articles prepared with contribution from Ms.Rajtanil Solanki
UGC vs IIT controversy Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan President speech on teachers day PM Modi's speech on teacher's day HRD minister's speech UGC vs IIT controversy Why controversy 2014, August: The UGC has directed all academic institutions to follow the 10+2+3 [...]
D1: India-Nepal agreements during Modi visit D2: Power Trade agreement (PTA) with Nepal D3: India-Bhutan: Hydropower sharing D4: Indian Intervention in Bhutan Politics D1: Power Trade agreement (PTA) with Nepal Happened in September 2014, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi [...]
VP speech: Europe and Emerging Asia VP speech: India-Iran Vice President speech: ‘Europe and Emerging Asia’ Historical perspective: The Eurasian landmass, historically considered as two continents Since a long time, Europe was familiar with Asian lands, military prowess, empires, [...]
D1: Nalanda University D2: Railway link to Arunanchal Pradesh D1: Nalanda University Nalanda: Ancient times During the rule of Kumargupta of Gupta dynasty. Mahayana monks Asnaga and Vasubandhu said to have found Nalanda in 400-500AD Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang, [...]
Prologue [Act 1] WHO calculates WPI, CPI, IIP? [Act 2] WHEN they publish WPI, CPI, IIP? [Act 3] WHERE do they get data for WPI, CPI, IIP? WPI Data Collection CPI Data collection IIP Data Collection [Act 4] WHAT [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Fertilizers: Botany /Chemistry angle (NCERT) [Act 2] Subsidies: Where is it counted in budget? [Act 3] What is Nutrient Based subsidy (NBS)? Disadvantages of NBS? Urea smuggling [Act 4] Budget-2014 on Agriculture Soil Health card National [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Minimum support prices (MSP) What is Open Ended Procurement? How is MSP determined? [Act 2] Sugar pricing problem SEFESU-2014 C.Rangarajan on Sugar pricing [Act 3] Food Corporation of India (FCI) FCI: procurement problems Open Market Sale [...]
Prologue National Food security Act Prices and Entitlements under NFSA Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Deadlines under Food security Act Implementation in States/UT Targeted PDS system reformed Limitation of NFSA: Prologue Economic Survey Chapter 8: Agriculture and Food Management. SIX subparts: [...]
Prologue WTO: Structure and functions Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade WTO agreements Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) Green. Blue and Amber subsidies Amber box: De Minimus limits What is Bali summit and Peace clause? What is Trade Facilitation Agreement? [...]
Prologue Indian Agriculture: Strength/potential Why focus on Agriculture R1: APMC Act Why do we need a National Market for Agriculture? How to setup national market for Agriculture? Budget 2014 announcement R2: Commodity market What is NSEL crisis? Who is [...]
Prologue What happens in a Normal Year? What happens in La Nina Year? What happens in an El Nino year? What is Southern Oscillation? How does El Nino affect Indian Monsoon? El Nino 2014 and India Will El Nino [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Industrial license & reserved sectors [Act 2] Policies and Acts P1: Industrial policy 1991 P2: National Manufacturing Policy 2011 A1: Factories Act 1948 / Bill 2014 A2: Apprentice Act 1961 / Bill 2014 F1: Fodder: Why [...]
Prologue [Act 1] PSU Classification Classification #1: where they operate? Classification #2: How they were born? [Act 2] Disinvestment National investment fund (NIF-2005) [Act 3] CPSE-ETF Exchange traded fund How is CPSE ETF different from Mutual funds? [Act 4] [...]