1. Officer competency model draws from PM’s Mann Ki Baat, speeches
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- GS2- Role of civil services in a democracy
2. Cabinet clears Rs. 1K-cr fund to support space start-ups over 5 years
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- GS3- Indigenization of technology and developing new technology
3. Hope and Realism
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- GS2- India and its neighbourhood relations
4. Not another BRICS in the wall
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- GS2- Global groupings and agreements involving India
5. An investment, not a waste
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- GS2- Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection
- and betterment of these vulnerable sections
6. When Parliament isn’t in session
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- GS2- Parliament—structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these
7. 1.5 degrees Celsius target will be ‘gone’ in a few years: UN report
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- GS3- Conservation
8. Just 150 of them left, glimmer of hope for great Indian bustard after first-ever artificial insemination birth
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- GS3- Biodiversity conservation
9. BRICS bloc endorses India’s stance on EU’s carbon tax; pushes for local currency settlements
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- GS2- Global groupings and agreements involving India
10. Landfall of a cyclone
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- GS1- Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc.
11. The India-China agreement
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- GS2- India and its neighbourhood relations
12. How panchayat-level weather forecasts will help
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- GS1 and 3- Climate
13. Overflowing godowns, unhappy millers: paddy procurement crisis in Punjab
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- GS3- Agriculture procurement; Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices