Daily Practice Sheet 7 May 2021

  • May 7, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

7 May 2021

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Right to know
  • IP rights waiver at WTO
  • Special Leave Petition (SLP)
  • Identifying Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC)
  • UPSC’s role in appointment of DGPs
  • How immune system blanket coronavirus with antibodies
  • Bond yields
  • ICC
  • Space debris
  • 5G trial
  • Scottish referendum
  • Sputnik light

Daily Constitution

  1. Art 14 and Art 15 (The SC held that the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018 goes against the goes against Articles 14 and 15)

Daily Mapping

  • Anamalai Tiger Reserve 

Daily Data

Climate change

  • A multi-country study involving 84 scientists has found that if nations meet their goals of today, melting of just land-ice due to the resultant rise in temperature will raise oceanic levels by 25 centimetres by 2100.
  • If Paris deal signatories try and keep warming down to 1.5-2oC, the estimated rise in sea-levels falls to 13 cm.
  • Current pledges on emission reduction and changing energy use will lead to more than 3°C of warming by 2100.
  • While the sea-level has risen around 23 cms since 1880, its rise since the 1990s now accounts for a third of the historic total, reports Bloomberg

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: Geography

  1. Why the mountain ecosystem is easily disrupted by variations in climate? [Reference: DownToEarth]
  2. What do understand glacier lake outburst? Discuss the factors behind them? [Reference: DownToEarth]

GS 2: Polity

  1. What do you mean by judicial governance? Discuss in context of recent court rulings that how far judicial governance is good for democratic politics. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. Discuss the concept of state and citizenship? How citizen does differs from subjects? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: International Relations

  1. Discuss the role of Indian diaspora in India-US relations. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Environment

  1. The threat of accelerated melting of glaciers and sea-level rise due to climate change is ominous. In this context discuss impact of rise in sea-level and how it threatens developing countries and small island countries more. [Reference: Financial Express]
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