Daily Practice Sheet 5 February 2021

  • February 5, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

5 February 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

Daily Prelims Topic

  1. Pardoning power of the President
  2. Govt of NCT of Delhi Act
  3. National Commission for protection of child rights
  4. AGMUT cadre
  5. New START treaty
  6. G Rohini Commission
  7. International Criminal Court
  8. Held to maturity (HTM) limits, open Marketing Operations
  9. Double taxation for NRIs
  10. SEROLOGICAL SURVEY
  11. LCA TEJAS
  12. PM MATRU VANDANA YOJANA
  13. LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP
  14. PROFORMA NPA

Daily Data

Exports

  • While India’s year-on-year merchandise export from April-December (2020-21) fell by 15.5%, the agriculture received a 9.8% growth aided by bumper crops as a result of good rain and extended winter and rise in global Agri prices. (Ministry of commerce)

Reservation

  • As per the report submitted to the NCBC by the Department of Personnel and Training on July 24, 2020, OBC representation is 16.51 % in group-A central government services, 13.38 % in group-B, 21.25 % in group-C (excluding safai karmacharis) and 17.72 % in group-C (safai karmacharis).

Road

  • India’s road construction hit new record of 30 KM per day.

Daily Mapping

  • Uganda
  • Yemen

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS1: Ancient history

  1. Examine the notion of Gupta age as the golden age of the Indian history. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Polity

  1. What is a ‘Police state’? Do you think India has moved towards ‘police state’ from ‘welfare state’ in recent decade? [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What is a sub-categorisation of OBC? Do you think it will be help India reorient its reservation policy towards effectiveness? [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. The Gubernatorial position of the Governor is comfortably placed in the fuzzy area between “withdrawal of the pleasure of the President” and “compelling reasons for removal.” Discuss with some recent examples. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Governance

  1. Discuss the challenges in vaccinating the population. [Reference: Business Line]

GS2: International Relations

  1. Discuss challenges of India’s neighbourhood policy in context of Sri Lanka. What should be India’s approach to address these challenges? [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the challenge posed to India by China’s growing influence in Indian Ocean. How can India counter this influence and safeguards its interest

GS3: Economy

  1. Differentiate between fiscal policy and monetary policy? In current context of economy discuss how monetary policy can complement recent fiscal boost for recovery. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. Examine the role of e-NAM bringing in a new paradigm of Agri-trading in India. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS4: Ethics

  1. What are ethical principles involved in Utilization of public funds? Discuss with examples
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