Daily Current Affairs For UPSC Civil Services. News analysis – 25 February 2016 India is the world’s largest arms importer for 2011-2015 India accounted for 14% of the global arms imports in the 2011-2015 time-frame, as revealed by a report on international arms transfers released by a global think-tank, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). What is SIPRI?:Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent international institute dedicated to researchRead More
Category: GS Paper 2
Articles important for UPSC Mains General Studies (GS) Paper 2
Arguments made for and against castration as an additional form of punishment for rapists and child sex abusers: Rape/Sexual Abuse is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable in a modern civilized society . The judiciary came up with a statement for implementing castration as a punishment in rape cases. Castration means either removing testicles (physically) in males or making it dysfunctional by the use of chemicals. Arguments in Favour of Castration as Punishment:Read More
Digital India Campaign – Key Programmes [ UPSC General Studies Paper 2]: Digital India week was launched by PM Modi on 1st July 2015 along with launching of Digital India Campaign. The information about the Digital India Campaign is very important as per the UPSC Civil Services is concerned as it forms the part of the ‘Governance and E-governance’ topic mentioned in the syllabus of General Studies Paper 2.Read More
Section 66a of IT Act(Information Technology Act) 2008 declared invalid by Supreme Court of India: Supreme Court of India recently gave a judgement in which it declared Section 66a of IT Act as unconstitutional and invalid. Section 66a of IT Act dealt generally with punishments for sending ‘offensive’ messages over Internet (includes posting on Social Media like Facebook, Twitter) . Supreme court has scraped the Section 66a of IT ActRead More