Daily Practice Sheet 3 March 2021

  • March 3, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

3 March 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Prosopis juliflora or vilayati kikar
  • Dard Aryan tribe
  • Art and Craft at display at Dilli Haat
  • Western Container terminal project (WCT) – Sri Lanka
  • Surya Prakash Committee
  • Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2021.
  • Kringlerne Rare earth Deposit
  • Spectrum
  • Sagar-Manthan: Mercantile Marine Domain Awareness Centre (MMDAC)
  • Jamsetji Tata
  • World Wildlife Day
  • Cost Push inflation
  • Bio-refinery
  • Blood Thinner
  • Himalayan serow

Daily Mapping

  • Bhutan
  • Greenland

Daily Data

Cyber threat

  • There were 6.97 lakh cyber security incidents reported in the first eight months of 2020, nearly equivalent to the previous four years combined. (CERT-In)

Gender divide at work

  • Eighty-five percent working women in India believe they missed out on a raise and promotion because of their gender, as per a report by LinkedIn.
  • 1 in 5 (20 per cent) said that their companies exhibit a ‘favourablebias’ towards men at work.
  • 66 per cent of professionals believe that gender equality has improved in India
  • As many as 37 per cent of India’s working women claimed to have received fewer opportunities than men due to gender, only 25 per cent of men agree with this
  • 37 per cent women say they get less pay than men, while only 21 per cent men share this sentiment
  • More than 7 in 10 working women (71 per cent) and working mothers (77 per cent) feel that managing familial responsibilities often come in their way of career development
  • 63 per cent of working women and 69 per cent of working mothers said they have faced discrimination at work because of familial and household responsibilities.
  • 9 in 10 women stated that they were negatively impacted by the pandemic.

Daily Mains Mantra

IAS 2022

  1. Discuss the need of the constitution.
  2. What do you understand by secularism? How is Indian secularism different from western secularism?

GS2: International Relations

  1. What is soft power? How knowledge industry contributes to India’s diplomatic potential? Critically examine India’s progress on diplomatic potential of knowledge industry. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. India’s swift political and military response was a welcome step in ongoing Indo-China border dispute from Indian security perspective. In this context discuss issues and way ahead ensuring India is not caught on wrong foot like this in future. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS3: Economy

  1. How the space and Pharmaceutical model of indigenization could be replicated in other sectors to push indigenization. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Explain the sharp rise in number of billionaires in 2020 during COVID- [Reference: The Print]
  3. Discuss the mandate of Development Finance Institution. [Reference: Business Line]
  4. Can economic growth alone alleviate poverty? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. Why has medical profession lost its respect in the eyes of people? [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. Discuss the importance of ethics, empathy and spirituality in medical profession. [Reference: The Hindu]
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