Important topics and their relevance in UPSC CSE exam for January 7, 2022. If you missed the January 6, 2022 UPSC CSE exam key from the Indian Express, read it here. FRONT PAGE Punjab, Centre order separate probes; FIR against protesters Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance. Main Examination: General Studies III: Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate Key Points to Ponder: • Prime Minister- The real executive Authority (de facto executive) • Importance of Prime Minister as a Post and as an Institution • Why Security Breach is a matter of grave concern? • VVIP Security and Levels of Protection like X, Y, Y Plus, Z, Z Plus, and SPG • Special Protection Group (SPG), SPG’s Blue Book and Prime Minister of India’s Security • Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019-Key Highlights • Different Forces involved in VIP Security-Who are they? • Contingency Security Plan followed by SPG for VVIP Security Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Explained: What is SPG protection and who gets it? 📍 Explained: How is the PM’s security planned, and what went wrong in Punjab? Centre breaks silence, hits back at China on letter to MPs, Pangong bridge Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Indian Geography and Current events of national and international importance Main Examination: General Studies II: India and its neighbourhood- relations. Key Points to Ponder: • India-China Border Dispute-Background • Map Work-Ladakh, Pangong Tso/Pangong Lake and Arunachal Pradesh • Line of Actual Control • Significance of the Pangong Tso/Pangong Lake • China’s aggressive attitude towards Indo-China Border and What impact can it have on India-China relations? Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Explained: The importance of Ladakh’s Pangong Tso south bank 📍 Explained: Pangong Tso lake, theatre of India-China LAC scuffles 📍 A strategy of assertion: Why China is inventing names for places in Arunachal Pradesh At Sanjay Lake, dip in waterbird species this time compared to last 3 yrs Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change Main Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment. Key Points to Ponder: • Asian Waterbird Census (AWC)-Mission, Objectives • What is the International Waterbird Census (IWC) • Bombay Natural History Society-Role and Mission • Who contributes to the International Waterbird Census (IWC) • What sites and species are counted under the IWC and AWC? • Great Cormorant and the Eurasian Coot-Migratory Species Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 How important are migratory birds in an era of climate change EXPRESS NETWORK Molnupiravir has major safety concerns: ICMR Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Main Examination: General Studies III: Disaster and disaster management. Key Points to Ponder: • Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)-Under which nodal Ministry or Independent body? • Molnupiravir -first anti-viral Covid-19 pill developed by whom? • Working Mechanism of Molnupiravir • Molnupiravir-Issues, Concerns and Challenges ahead Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Anti-Covid pill Molnupiravir: Approved, not recommended GOVT & POLITICS 1.3k kanal Valley land declared strategic area; up for Army ops use Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Key Points to Ponder: • What do you understand by the term ‘Strategic Area’ in Jammu & Kashmir? • Who defines and declares ‘Strategic Area’ in Jammu and Kashmir? • Jammu and Kashmir Development Act 1970 THE EDITORIAL PAGE Taming the third wave Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Main Examination: General Studies III: Disaster and disaster management. Key Points to Ponder: • Omicron Variant and Delta Variant of Coronavirus-Key Differences • What makes Omicron Variant more Dangerous? • How Administration in States dealing with Omicron Upsurge? • What Lessons India learnt from Second Wave of Covid-19? • ‘Community Transmission of Omicron’-What do you Understand by this? what is Community Transmission? • National Centre for Disease Control- Role and Under which Ministry? Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Mild and yet dangerous Players in the Game Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Main Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India's Interest Key Points to Ponder: • The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA)-Treaty between Australia and Japan • Changing security architecture in the Asia and Indo-Pacific region • Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD)-Member Countries • Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) and The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA)-Importance • The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) and India Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 India and the Changing Dynamics of the Indo-Pacific 📍 In Defence of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ Concept ECONOMY Green Energy Corridor Phase II: Cabinet clears 12K cr for power lines Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development Main Examination: General Studies III: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc Key Points to Ponder: • Green Energy Corridor Project-Key Highlights and Features • Green Energy Corridor Phase I - Implemented in which States? • Renewable Energy rich states of India-Know the top five States • Renewable Energy Targets set by India and Various Schemes Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 GREEN ENERGY CORRIDORS THE WORLD Russia sends troops to Kazakhstan as dozens of protesters are killed Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Main Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests Key Points to Ponder: • Map Work-Kazakhstan, Capital and important Provinces • Protest in Kazakhstan-Background • How is Russia getting involved? • What do you know about ‘Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)’? • Kazakhstan and India Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Why are Kazakhs protesting? 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