Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Current Affairs for UPSC Interview 2015

Hi all,

This blog post here would be the master blog for all the current topics that I would be posting one after the other. This would be also useful for people preparing for the 2015 attempt. In case you feel some topic must be posted upon, please leave a comment, I would be more than happy to help you out.

Each of the following topics have been dealt separately in blog post. Just click on the Topic you want to read.....

1.  Net Neutrality.

2. Yemen Crisis.

3. Uber Controversy.

4. Jat Reservation, Maratha Reservation and Transgender Reservation.

5. Compulsory Voting Model.

6. New Foreign Trade Policy.

7. IRS Customs Special Edition.

8. Budget 2015.

9. NITI AAYOG

10. Black Money.

11. Land Bill Issues.

12. NJAC.

13. Changing equations in the Middle East.

14. Some current legislations.

15. Internal Security Challenges: Naxalism.

16. Nepal Earthquake.

17. AIIB and BRICS bank.

18.  The NAGA problem.

19. The SMART CITY concept.

20. Success stories from Mizoram and Tripura.

21. Conversion, Ghar wapsi controversy!

22. GST!

23. Beef Ban in Maharashtra

24. Euthanasia

Some quick facts you can make use of ....

For Customs:
Direct Tax collections last year  6.96 lakh crore
Indirect  = 5.46 lakh crore..
Ratio -  56/44 approx.
Service tax 1.67 lakh crore ~ 30.5%
Customs 35%,excise 34%

Gdp ~ 2 trillion
Cad 1.8%, fd-4%

Cpi 5. Something,  Wpi - 2.37
Debt/gdp 67%

Health 4.2 % gdp, pvt 3%, govt 1.2%
Out of pocket expenditure 70%

R&d  0.85 % gdp..lowest..

Edn 3.8 % gdp.. Wb data..2012.. Need to make it 6%
Ger primary 98%, secondary 50%, higher 18%
Energy: installed cap 267 gw (mar2015), thermal 70%, nuke 5780 2.2%, hydro 15%
 Renewable 12%
Further, these older blog entries can also be of some help.

1.  Patriarchy and Honor Killings.
2. Women Empowerment and Peace.
3, Uniform Civil Code.
4. Tribal Issue.
5. India v Bharat.
6. Police reforms.
7. Capital Punishment.
8. Article 78.
9. Judicial Activism.
10. The Game of Diplomacy.
11. Madhya Pradesh Profile.
12. Jail reforms.
13. E-Governance in India.
14. Be the change you want to see [UPSC Essay].



More to come with each passing day. Hope you benefit from them!

In case you can think of some really important topic for the interview not discussed here, please put it as a comment.

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