The Hindu
GS2: Role of Civil Services in a democracy
- Norms for employing retired officials defined Absence of a procedure is resulting in those with tainted past being engaged, says CVC.
GS2: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
- Sustainable Goal Index: Significant progress in SDGs on clean energy and health Major decline in areas of industry, innovation and infrastructure in 2020.
GS2: India and its Neighborhood- Relations
- Comments to avoid in long-standing ties Some actions of political figures in India are detrimental to the consolidation of cordial bilateral ties
GS1/GS3: Geography/ Environmental Pollution and Degradation
- Strong policies on black carbon can sharply cut glacier melt: World Bank study Enacting new policies can achieve benefits over the projected 23% reduction in Black Carbon as a result of ongoing efforts.
Indian Express
GS2: Indian Constitution—Historical Underpinnings, Evolution, Features, Amendments, Significant Provisions and Basic Structure.
- Explained: The Kedar Nath sedition ruling In quashing the sedition case against journalist Vinod Dua, the SC referred to the Kedar Nath Singh judgment of 1962. What are the principles on the sedition law laid down in that landmark verdict?
GS2: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
- Model tenancy act: what changes for property owners and tenants In absence of a model law, there are informal agreements with arbitrary clauses and often litigation arising out of disputes. What is the MTA and how does it change this?
GS2: Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s interests, Indian Diaspora
- Punitive tariff suspension by US: What is the case? The NDA government had moved an amendment in Finance Bill 2020-21, imposing a 2 per cent digital service tax on trade and services by non-resident e-commerce operators with a turnover of over Rs 2 crore, effectively expanding the scope of equalisation levy that, till last year, only applied to digital advertising services.
GS2: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
- Govt sets up expert panel to fix minimum pay. National floor wage To arrive at the wage rates, the group will look into the international best practices on the wages and evolve a scientific criteria and methodology for fixation of wages.
Livemint
GS3: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, biotechnology
- Protein subunit vaccine Biological E’s vaccine is a protein subunit vaccine, which comprises only spike proteins that are injected into the body to trigger an immune response.
