Security
Page-10: Text & Context: What is ‘Dabba trading’ and how does it affect the economy?
Why in News-In the past week, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) issued a string of notices naming entities involved in ‘dabba trading’. What is ‘dabba trading’? Dabba (box) trading refers to informal trading that takes place outside the purview of the stock exchanges. Traders bet on stoc... .Read more
Updated on 14 April, 2023 GS3 Daily Updates Security Society Governance Economy Current Affairs
Page-9: Text & Context: A beginner’s guide to the Large Hadron Collider, its functions and its future [GS Paper 3: Science]
The LHC, true to its name, is three things. First, it is large — so large that it is the world’s largest science experiment. Second, it is a collider. It accelerates two beams of particles in opposite directions and smashes them head on. Third, these particles are hadrons. Currently, engineers are warming up the... .Read more
Updated on 13 April, 2023 GS3 Security International Relations Economy Current Affairs Science and Technology
Editorial-2: Punjab — beware the Ides of March [G.S. Mains Paper-3 Security]
Three decades after sectarian violence mauled Punjab, the radicalist threat appears to be raising its head again. Sectarian violence is hardly unknown to India, but what is not clear is why Sikh extremism has, of late, gained a new lease of life. The emergence of a self-styled Sikh extremist preacher, Amritpal Singh, modelling h... .Read more
Updated on 12 April, 2023 GS3 Security Society Governance Social issues & Justice Current Affairs
Editorial-1: Building safeguards [G.S. Mains Paper-2 Polity]
The Supreme Court’s observation that preventive detention laws are a colonial legacy and confer arbitrary powers on the state is one more iteration of the perennial threat to personal liberty that such laws pose. For several decades now, the apex court and High Courts have been denouncing the executive’s well documented failure to adher... .Read more
Updated on 12 April, 2023 GS2 Polity Security Society Governance Current Affairs
Page-8: Text & Context: Saudi Arabia’s quest for strategic autonomy
Why in News- Saudi Arabia, which had adopted an aggressive foreign policy in recent years seeking to expand its influence in West Asia and roll back that of Iran, its bitter rival, is now following a dramatic course correction. It’s reaching out to old rivals, holding talks with new enemies and seeking to balance between great powers, all while tr... .Read more
Updated on 12 April, 2023 GS2 Security International Relations Economy Current Affairs
Page-1: India’s borders are safe, can’t be violated: Shah
Why in News- Home Minister during a visit to Arunachal Pradesh, launched a ₹4,800 crore Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) Taking aim at China just days after Beijing attempted to rename a number of places in the State, he said India’s borders were secure and could not be violated, even if the land measured only “the tip of a needle&rdq... .Read more
Updated on 11 April, 2023 GS2 Security Governance Current Affairs
