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Syllabus: GS-III Subject: Environment, Ecology and Disaster Management Topic: Forest Conservation Issue: Forest Conservation Context: Supreme Court’s order in pleas challenging the 2023 amendments to the Forest Conservation Act,1980. Directions by the court: Forest Conservation Act(FCA),1980 Enacted to regulate the extraction of forest resources and prevention of diversion of forest land for non-forestry purposes. Key […]

Syllabus: GS-I Subject: Society and Social Justice Topic: Issues of women Issue: Surrogacy Single Women Reproductive Rights: The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act 2021, permits only married couples or only a woman who is a widow or divorcee to have children through surrogacy. It does not allow a single, never-married woman to use surrogacy for having children.

Syllabus: GS- III Subject: Economy Topic: Agriculture and Allied Issue: Minimum Support Price Context: Farmers protest at Delhi’s border. Increasing the farmer’s Income: The future of Indian agriculture’s potential and farmers’ incomes lies more in livestock, fisheries, and horticulture. the biggest agricultural produce of India is milk, and its value exceeds the value of paddy,

Syllabus: GS-II Subject: International Relations Topic: India’s relations with major powers Issue: India – USA Context: The annual Munich Security Conference. The anti-imperial and the nativist approaches to foreign policy in India are being transformed now. This has been done by engaging western countries in strategic level commitments like QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Forum).

Syllabus: GS-III Subject: Economy Topic: Growth Development and Inclusion Issue: Indian Economy – Growth Context: Interview of Dr Arvind Panagariya, the Chairman of the 16th Finance Commission. Synopsis: “7% growth has shown for almost 20 years now. It’s time the economy realised its full potential to 10%.” Reforms Suggested: Lower tariffs: Many of the tariffs

Syllabus: GS-II Subject: Polity Topic: Elections and RPA Tags: #Money_bill #electoral_bonds Issue: Electoral bonds Context: The electoral bonds judgement (ADR & Anr v UOI 2023) did not address the issue of using the money bill route to bring in the laws that introduced the electoral bonds. Synopsis: The Electoral bonds scheme was introduced by the

Syllabus: GS-II Subject: Polity Topic:  Citizenship Issue: Aadhaar Context: UIDAI to issue a clarification that those relying on the Aadhar for age may do so after undertaking a “risk based assessment”. Synopsis: The UIDAI, asked all agencies to delete aadhaar from the list of acceptable documents for verifying a person’s date of birth. Aadhaar cards

Syllabus: GS-II Subject: Society and Social Justice Topic: Social empowerment and welfare Issue: Caste Census Context: Jharkhand CM Champai Soren has given green signal for the caste based survey in the state. Caste Census: Enumerating the population based on their caste and sub-caste alongside other demographic details. Benefits Issues / Concerns: Identifying disadvantaged groups Complex

Syllabus: GS-III Subject: Science and technology Topic: Bio-Technology Issue: Genomes Context: Ancient DNA (aDNA) studies powered by genomic techniques are providing unprecedented insights into the genetic makeup of our ancestors. Synopsis: By examining sequences of aDNA, researchers can identify genetic abnormalities. Researchers have identified instances of high disease risk and calcified heart vessels in ancient

Syllabus: GS-III Subject: Science and technology   Topic: Emerging Technologies Issue: Sora Tags: #openai,#sora Context: OpenAI has unveiled Sora, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. Sora: it is an AI tool capable of producing near-flawless one-minute videos based on text prompts. Sora utilizes diffusion-based techniques to generate high-quality images and videos. It involves adding noise to