Daily Practice Sheet 11 December 2020

  • December 11, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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Daily Prelims Topic

  1. UNSC 1267 committee
  2. Kathak, Kathakali, Bharatanatyam dance form
  3. Guru Nanak
  4. Adjournment sine die
  5. Microclimatic zones
  6. India’s Workplace Equality Index (IWEI)
  7. UN Population Award
  8. Anthrax disease
  9. Maihar Gharana

Daily Mapping

  1. Morocco
  2. Israel

Daily Facts

Environment (Council on Energy, Environment and Water’s data)

  • Over 75% districts in India (home to 63.8 crore people) are hotspots of extreme climatic events like cyclone, drought, flood, heat and cold waves.
  • While 250 such extreme events between 1970 and 2005, it has been more than 350 15 years since 2005.
  • Frequency of flood events increased by 8 times in last 50 years.

Poverty

  • According to UN estimate in 2019 number of poor in 2019 stand at 364 million (28%).

Education

  • According to a UNICEF report, closure of 1.5 million schools means that 247 million children enrolled in elementary and secondary education as well as 28 million children who are attending pre-school education in Anganwadis (day-care) centres are affected.

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS1: Arts and Culture

  1. What is the relevance of Guru Nanak Dev for Modern India? [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Polity

  1. Examine the constitutionality and challenges of the cattle protection bill being passed by many states. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the status of Right against torture present in Indian legal framework and through Supreme Court’s interpretation time to time. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: International Relations

  1. Rising conflict of USA-Iran is a challenge for the whole world. In this context discuss Iran problem and measures to address it. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS3: Economy

  1. Liberal economic approach with more freedom to market in India will be effective when concerns of poorly placed workers and farmers are given due place. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. How the Industrial Revolution 4.0 on the back of digital technology can contribute to Atmanirbhar Bharat? [Reference: Business Line]

GS3: Environment

  1. Bring out the concerns with the rising Plastic waste in mountains and best approach to address it. [Reference: Business Line]
  2. Discuss with examples rise of extreme climatic events in India. What should be the right strategy to deal with it for a sustainable India? [Reference: Indian Express]
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