Daily Practice Sheet 9 August 2022

  • August 9, 2022
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Daily Practice Sheet

9 August 2022

 

Daily Prelims Topics

  • House panel bats for equality in guardianship
  • Petition to recognise minorities at district level is contrary to law: Supreme Court
  • What is an IMEI number, how can police use it in cases of mobile phone theft?
  • Climate change fuelling rise in extreme weather events-
  • plans system to scour dailies for public grievances
  • Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC)
  • Krishna and Godavari river
  • Mulya Pravah
  • Russia suspends START arms inspections over US travel restrictions

Daily Constitution

Art 14 : The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 and its Rules, 2003, prohibit unmarried women who are between 20 weeks and 24 weeks pregnant to terminate the pregnancy

Art 14, 20, 21: Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002

Daily Facts

Tribal population:

  • 11 crore tribal people (enumerated as Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the Census of India (2011) live in India.
  • They constitute 6% of India’s population, the second largest number of tribal people in any country in the world

Tribal health:

  • Child malnutrition is 50% higher in tribal children: 42% compared to 28% in others.
  • Malaria and tuberculosis are three to 11 times more common among the tribal people. Though the tribal people constitute only 8.6% of the national population, half of the total malaria deaths in India occur among them.
  • The is a 27% to 40% deficit in the number of such facilities, and 33% to 84% deficit in medical doctors in tribal areas

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: History

  1. The quit India movement was most Un-Gandhian part of the freedom struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi. Critically examine
  2. Discuss the background in which Quit India movement was launched? Discuss its significance.
  3. Do you think Quit India was a spontaneous movement?

GS 1: Geography

  1. Why Kerala is so vulnerable to variety of disasters?

GS 2: Polity

  1. What do you understand by social capital? Why it is important development? [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. Examine the reasons behind disruptions in Parliament? [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. Discuss the socio-economic status of tribal population in India. [Reference: The Hindu]
  4. PMLA manifestly arbitrary and in any event violative of various fundamental rights, inter alia Articles 14, 20 and 21. Critically comment in the light of recent SC judgement. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Environment

  1. Critically examine the impact of climate change on food and nutrition security. [Reference: Orfonline]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. Discuss the emphasize on ethical development.
  2. What is business ethics? [Reference: News18]

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