Daily Practice Sheet 29 October 2020

Daily Prelims Topic

• Election Commission
• NGT and Kovalam Basin
• Annual State of Education Report (ASER
• EOS-01
• IPO
• Vitamin D
• GIFT City
• Vande Bharat
• State Finance and scissor effects

Daily Mapping

• Kovalam River Basin

Daily Constitution

• Entry 33 (b) of concurrent list concerns with trade and commerce.

 Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 2: Polity

1. What do you understand by competitive federalism? Do you agree with the opinion that competitive federalism and cooperative federalism are complementary to each other? Discuss the challenges to competitive federalism. [Reference: Asia Times]
2. Do you think Indian federalism is moving from cooperative federalism to combative federalism? Discuss in the context of recent agri bill. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 2: IR

1. Discuss the significance of India US 2+2 dialogue in the backdrop of growing Chinese assertiveness. Can it be termed as historic moment in the India-US ties? [Reference: Indian Express, Business Line]
2. Discuss the significance of Indo-Pacific for India. What are the challenges for India? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Economy

1. Changes in land and labour laws are the two most important components of the second generation of economic reforms. In this context discuss how recent revamp in the labour laws will improve investments, create jobs and enhance workers protection. [Reference: The Hindu, Business Line, Business Line, Business Standard]

GS 3: Science and Tech

1. What are deep fakes? Why they have termed as the most serious threat of AI? How can they be countered? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 4: Ethics

1. What do you understand by conformity? [Reference: Indian Express]