Daily Practice Sheet 13 April 2021

  • April 13, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

13 April 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Sputnik 5
  • NHRC
  • ICLEI
  • Appointment of Chief Election Commissioner/Election Commissioner:
  • Refugees vs Illegal Immigrants
  • One Web
  • VIPIT
  • New year festivals India
  • India Energy Dashboard 2.0
  • Small cases
  • Industrial Oxygen Vs Medical oxygen

Daily Mapping

  1. Somalia

Daily Data

Index of Industrial Production and CPI

  • Contraction in industrial output widened to 3.6% year-on-year in February from 1.6% in the previous month
  • Retail inflation in March scaled a four-month peak of 5.52%.

Unemployment

  • India’s unemployment rate galloped to a 15-week high of 8.58% for the week ended April 11, largely due to a sudden 260 basis points rise in the urban unemployment rate to 9.81% over the week. (CMIE data)

Daily Mains Mantra

GS1: Modern Indian History

  1. Discuss the role of women in freedom struggle of India.

GS2: International Relations

  1. Rising Iran-Israel confrontation is not only a threat to the region, but it will challenge India’s foreign policy efforts as well as impact the global international environment. Comment: [Reference: The Print]
  2. Discuss the challenges in India’s foreign policy in its approach to the great power triangle of Russia, China and US. [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. What is UNCLOS? Discuss its objective. [Reference: The Hindu]
  4. Even as the US is expected to remain India’s preeminent partner in the Indo-Pacific, France’s “resident power” status renders it to be India’s partner of choice in the Indian Ocean region. [Reference: Orfonline]
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