Daily Practice Sheet 6 December 2021

  • December 6, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

6 December 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Statutory Bail
  • Raigad Fort
  • Assam Rifles
  • The Climate Action Tracker
  • Self Help Group – Bank Linkage Programme (SHG-BLP)
  • Hornbill Festival
  • Total Solar Eclipse
  • Konyak tribe
  • Sequester CO2 and produce Natural Gas
  • Shirodhara
  • Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA)
  • Dhawan-1
  • Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS)
  • Chaitya Bhoomi
  • Sedition
  • Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and Surrogacy

Daily Facts

Climate Change

  • Ninety per cent of the world committed to a net carbon zero target; 23 countries agreed to stop financing fossil fuels by the end of 2022; 100 countries committed to end deforestation.
  • Current level of carbon emissions:  59 GT 
  • Electrification of transport (6 GT; battery technology); decarbonisation of the grid (21 GT; 50 per cent of electricity from solar and wind; no new oil and gas plants after 2021; retirement of thermal power); fix food (7 GT; no nitrogen-based fertilizers; contain methane/nitrous oxide emissions from rice farming); protect nature (7 GT; net zero deforestation and elimination of deep sea trawling); clean up industry (8 GT; reduce carbon intensity in cement / steel / aluminum); remove carbon (10 GT; nature-based and engineering solutions).

CSE 2021

Day 29

  1. Do you agree that China’s economic and military capacities as well as its belligerence have led to a shift in regional security paradigms? Give your arguments in the light of AUKUS.

CSE 2022

Day 32

  1. What are ‘compulsory licenses’ under the Patents Act?

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: History

  1. Review the cooperative movement of India. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Sedition law needs relook especially for media. [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. The pandemic has put the spotlight on the performance of local governments like perhaps never before. Discuss the need for greater fiscal transparency, revitalising the municipal bond market and boosting infrastructure finance and green finance. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 2: IR

  1. Great power politics puts limits on the bilateral relationship. In this context, examine India-Russia relationship. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. GST collections will improve with rate rationalization and a broader tax base.
  2. ‘Cooperation has failed but cooperation must succeed’-All India Rural Credit Survey Committee in 1954. Discuss the role of cooperative banks in providing rural credit. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Science and Technology

  1. Metaverse has the potential to transform livelihoods and businesses. [Reference: Business Line]
Daily Practice Sheet