Daily Practice Sheet 7 February 2021

  • February 7, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

7 February 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Trademark
  • GISAID and Infection pathogen Detector
  • DIPAM
  • Direct Cash benefit transfer to tea garden workers
  • Blue collar jobs
  • Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)
  • Yudh Abhyas
  • Krimila
  • cess vs surcharges
  • Ajanta painting
  • Fairs and festivals of India (Hemis festival, Hornbill festival)
  • FSSAI trans fat
  • Currency swap
  • Water scarcity in Himalayas
  • Virus mutations

Daily Mapping

  • Ghana

Daily Facts

Migrant workers

  • A survey commissioned by the NSDC had found that only 43% workers were looking for jobs outside of their hometowns.

Internet shutdowns

  • India leads the global tally in suspension of Internet services over the past decade. In 2019 and 2020 alone, Internet and allied services remained suspended in India for more than 13,000 hours, with as many as 164 instances of shutdowns being enforced.
  • Between 2012 and 2020, Internet services were snapped 437 times, with a sharp increase in 2016. In 2018, the Internet was blacked out 134 times all over India.

Foreign Currency Reserves (FCA)

  • India’s FCA rose to 590.1 billion dollar.

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: History

  1. What was Sramana movement? Discuss rise of Buddhism and how it impacted Brahmanism tradition and got influenced by it. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Critically examine the role of judiciary as the protector of the constitution. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What is right to protest? Discuss nature and types of protest with examples from India. Also, discuss challenges with the protest in India. [Reference: Financial Express]
  3. Discuss the law governing cyber world. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: IR

  1. Discuss challenges of India’s neighborhood 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

GS 3: Economy

  1. Can bad bank solve the NPA crisis in India? [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. Discuss the threat of “Great divergence” and impact it can have on global economy in Post-Covid context. How India should prepare to protect itself from ‘Lost generations’ due to these challenges. [Reference: Hindustan Times]

GS 3: Environment

  1. India’s environmental governance as a trade-off between local versus national development or environment versus development. Comment. [Reference: EPW]

GS 3: Science

  1. What is facial recognition technology? Discuss its potential applications and concerns. [Reference: Financial Express]

Daily Ethics:

  1. What do you understand by accountability? Why it is important in governance?
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