UPSC Important Topics

Benefits of Labour Codes ✓Simplification of the Complex laws: The Labour Codes simplify labour laws by consolidating 29 central laws that have been on the table for at least 17 years. It will provide a big boost to industry & employment and will reduce multiplicity of definition and authority for businesses. ✓Easier Dispute Resolution: The […]

Financial Assistance of India to Palestine ✓India has so far extended budgetary and project support of US$ 60 million to Palestine.  During the visit of President Abbas to India in the year 2008, India announced a grant of US$ 10 million as budgetary support and this was transferred to Palestine in March 2009.During the visit

Trade Agreements signed by India ∆India-UAE CEPA: The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) provides for an institutional mechanism to encourage and improve trade between the two countries. ∆Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) between India and Mauritius. It is a kind of free trade pact that aims to provide an institutional mechanism to encourage

India’s Look West Policy: An Evolving Framework ✓Despite long historical ties, India’s links to the Gulf countries in the last few decades had come to be defined by the twin factors of energy imports and labour exports. ✓In 2005 P.M. Manmohan Singh officially argued that “the Gulf region, like South-East and South Asia, is part

Financial Assistance of India to Palestine ✓India has so far extended budgetary and project support of US$ 60 million to Palestine.  During the visit of President Abbas to India in the year 2008, India announced a grant of US$ 10 million as budgetary support and this was transferred to Palestine in March 2009.During the visit

What about Liquidity and REPO RATE HIKE ✓While improving the availability of funds with the banks, Rates Hike will lead to a gradual decline in systemic liquidity. ✓To maintain adequate liquidity in the system, RBI will conduct two-way fine-tuning operations in the form of Variable Rate Repo (VRR) and Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR) operations

SMILE 75-Initiative ✓Aim:- ∆Municipal Corporations, in collaboration with NGOs and other stakeholders will cover several comprehensive welfare measures for persons who are engaged in the act of begging, with focus extensively on rehabilitation, provision of medical facilities, counselling, awareness, education, skill development, economic linkages and convergence with other Government welfare programmes etc. ∆The Ministry of

India-Palestine Relations ◽The Palestinian Issue 🔸 Mandate of Palestine was to be partitioned into Jewish and Arab states under United Nations Resolution 181, approved in November 1947. Jerusalem is put under international control. 🔸 The state of Israel was finally created on May 14, 1948, provoking an eight-month war with Arab states. 🔸 The war