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Hoping for rescue ‘any minute’, Indian students wait in Sumy

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics 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?

• Map work-Sumy, Kiev, Kharkiv

• Challenges for evacuation

• Announcement of the ceasefire and the establishment of “humanitarian corridors” in parts of Ukraine

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 India’s difficult evacuation challenge in Sumy

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Autocrats and Oil

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What will be the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on India’s energy sector?

• Ukraine-Russia conflict and its impact on India’s macro-economy

• Balance of payments, exchange rate and inflationary consequences of rising oil prices due to war

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• Value of India’s energy assets in Russia-how much and what will be the impact of war on them

• According to the author, India will also be affected by the emergent energy landscape. What are the Four features
that define this landscape?

• The Ukraine crisis throws up many learnings-what are they?

• Five broad policy suggestions by the Author-what are they?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Russia-Ukraine war to have ‘ripple effects’ on India’s fuel prices: Experts

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The fire next time

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change

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Mains Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What do you understand by ‘Forest Fires’? What is the Cause of Forest Fires?

• Vulnerability of India’s Forests to Fires

• Forest fires in Simlipal Tiger Reserve and in Uttarakhand and its impact-Case Study

• Tribal and local communities and Forest fires

• Preparedness mechanism and disaster mitigation for forest fires in India

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• National Action Plan on Forest Fires (NAPFF) 2018 and Forest Fire Prevention and Management Scheme.

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Why forest fires break out in the spring, and why they have been so frequent this year

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How many tigers are too many?

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Project Tiger and National Tiger Conservation Authority

• Map Work-Sunderbans

• Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CATS)

• Section 38V (1) of The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972

• Wildlife Institute of India-Under which Ministry?

• Know the Difference between Extinct, Extinct in the Wild and Critically Endangered

• Human and Animal Conflicts-Reasons

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 126 Tiger Deaths Recorded in India 2021: NTCA

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Russia’s ally Belarus and its role in Ukraine war

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Map Work-Belarus

• Belarus in the war

• Belarus-Russia and Belarus-Ukraine-Bilateral relations

• Ukraine crisis: What does Belarus have to gain, and lose?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Belarusian forces will not take part in Ukraine war, Lukashenko says

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