UPSC CSE Key – March 8, 2022: What you need to read today
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Prime Minister talks to Putin and Zelensky, asks for help for quick evacuation
Program:
Preliminary examination: News of national and international importance.
Sector review: General Studies II: Effect of Policies and Policies of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s Interests, Indian Diaspora.
Key points to ponder:
• What is Operation Ganga?
• How many Indians are stuck in Ukraine?
• Labor card-Sumy, Kyiv, Kharkiv
• Challenges for evacuation
• Announcement of ceasefire and establishment of “humanitarian corridors” in parts of Russia and Ukraine
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 For returning Indian students, the big question: What next?
📍 India’s difficult evacuation challenge in Sumy
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
FALL AND FALL
Program:
Preliminary examination: News of national and international importance.
Sector Review: General Studies III: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, resources, growth, development and employment
Key points to ponder:
• The war and its impact on the Indian economy
• An immediate consequence of this conflict – the price of crude oil and its impact
• War and its impact on raw materials, especially energy and food
• Russian-Ukrainian crisis and impact on the Indian steel sector
• War and fears of high inflation
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Impact of Russia-Ukraine war: Indian steelmakers set to make the most of global alloy price hike
IDEAS PAGE
Revisiting deterrence in Asia
Program:
Preliminary examination: News of national and international importance.
Sector review: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
Key points to ponder:
• Russian-Ukrainian crisis and subsequent debate over the importance of atomic weapons in deterring the Chinese
expansionism – which author is trying to explain?
• Will Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons in the war now change the discourse on the world’s outlook towards
nuclear weapons?
• After the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, other countries will start accumulating nuclear weapons rather than abandoning them
especially Asian countries do you think so?
• China-Taiwan will be the next Russia-Ukraine? Do you agree?
• Nuclear weapons and India
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Russia and Ukraine: nuclear issues
EXPLAIN
Peak oil and stagflation
Program:
Preliminary examination: Economic and social development
Sector Review: General Studies III: Indian economy and questions relating to planning, mobilization, resources, growth, development and employment.
Key points to ponder:
• Inflation and various types of inflation
• Causes of inflation
• Long-term, medium-term and short-term impact of inflation
• How is inflation measured in India?
• What is stagflation?
• How do we get into stagflation?
• Is India facing stagflation?
• Yet, can the latest oil price spike plunge India into stagflation?
• What is CPI-based inflation or retail inflation?
• India’s New Inflation Measurement Standard and Old Inflation Measurement Standard – Key Differences
• Impact of money supply on an economy – Inflation or deflation?
• Steps or measures taken by Indian government to control inflation
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Explained: the impact of war, beyond oil
The Legacy of Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule
Program:
Preliminary examination: History of India and the Indian National Movement.
Sector review: General Studies I: Modern Indian History from about the mid-18th century to the present day, significant events, personalities, issues
Key points to ponder:
• Know Savitribai and Jyotiba Phule
• Savitribai and Jyotiba Phule – Their Efforts and Legacy
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Remembering Savitribai Phule
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