IAS/UPSC Coaching Institute  

 

  1. India, China Corps Commanders hold talks at LAC meeting point in Arunachal
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  • GS 2: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India's interests; India-China border relations, Line of Actual Control (LAC) dispute mechanisms, and military-level border management.
  1. Justice appointment on hold: Punjab Govt
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  • GS 2: Structure, organization and functioning of the Judiciary and Executive; appointment of High Court Chief Justices under the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), Collegium system, and Centre-State federal frictions.
  1. ISRO responds to staff questions: Ecosystem expanding, pvt sector won't shrink our role
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  • GS 3: Science and Technology: Space privatization, Indian Space Policy 2023, FDI reforms in the space sector, and the evolving mandate of ISRO toward frontier research.
  1. Aiming for drug-free India by 2029, Shah outlines roadmap based on four pillars
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  • GS 3: Internal Security: Narco-terror nexus, organized crime, intelligence-based enforcement, four-tier NCORD mechanism, and border-level drug trafficking.
  1. From CCTV in India to handlers across border: Punjab's latest bust part of growing spy trail
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  • GS 3: Security challenges and their management in border areas; cyber-enabled cross-border espionage, misuse of IoT/CCTV surveillance, and the Official Secrets Act, 1923.
  1. Next on Collegium agenda: Filling up vacancies in Supreme Court
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  • GS 2: Judiciary: Sanctioned strength of the Supreme Court, gender diversity on the higher judiciary bench, and the CJI succession line and seniority convention.
  1. MEA: UN's world map must depict India's official map accurately
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  • GS 2: International Relations: United Nations General Assembly resolutions, cartographic sovereignty, India's territorial boundaries regarding UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
  1. Two countries and a shared river: Mistrust is not inevitable
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  • GS 2: India and its neighborhood relations: Transboundary water diplomacy, the Brahmaputra/Yarlung Tsangpo basin, Medog hydropower project, and the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention.
  1. Lost and found: An 'A' for India's long game
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  • GS 3: Indian Economy: Sovereign credit ratings, Basel III risk weights, GDP base year revisions, Output Producer Price Index, and macro-financial stability.
  1. GDP debate is not about numbers alone. It is about trust deficit
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  • GS 3: Indian Economy: National accounting methodology, GDP deflator dynamics, energy import shocks, and structural credibility of macroeconomic statistical systems.
  1. Private lenders corner nearly half of $130 billion FCNR(B) inflows / RBI faces liquidity deluge
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  • GS 3: Banking and Monetary Policy: Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) deposits, RBI dollar-rupee swap facilities, systemic banking liquidity surplus, and Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR) operations.
  1. Banque Misr sanctions: US widens economic war with Iran
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  • GS 2: Effect of policies and politics of developed countries on India's interests; shadow-banking networks, secondary financial sanctions, Section 311 USA PATRIOT Act, and West Asian trade corridors.
  1. Claude's 'thought process' & AI consciousness debate
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  • GS 3: Science and Technology: Large Language Models (LLMs), neural activations, Jacobian space (J-space) in working memory approximations, and developments in artificial sentience.
  1. Rajghat artefacts: A 1950s excavation sheds new light on Varanasi's ancient past
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  • GS 1: Indian Culture & Ancient History: Urbanization of Kashi Mahajanapada, Iron Age settlements, pre-Northern Black Polished Ware (pre-NBPW), and archaeological strata.