CONTACT FOR QUERIES
info@sleepyclasses.com
Facebook
YouTube
6280133177 (11.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.)
Donate Us
sleepylogo
GS - 2020
Sociology
Prelims Test Series-2020
Pre + Mains 2020 Test Series
  • Home
  • UPSC Resources
    • UPSC Prelims 2019 Answer Key
    • Syllabus
      • GS Syllabus
      • UPSC Sociology Mains Syllabus
    • Previous Year Papers
      • Mains
      • Optional
        • Sociology
        • Political Science
  • Paid Courses
    • Last Batch GS – 2020
    • Sociology Optional 2020 Last Batch
    • Prelims Test Series-2020
    • Essay Course 2020
  • General Studies
    • Polity & Governance
    • Indian Economy
    • Environment & Ecology
    • History
      • Ancient
      • Medieval
      • Culture
    • Ethics
  • Optional
    • Sociology
    • Political Science
  • Daily Quiz
    • PRE-Mix 2020
    • MAD – 2020
    • PRE-Mix 2019
  • Current Affairs
    • PRE-Cure 2020
  • Compilations
  • Books
  • Discussion
Prelims Test Series
Mains Test Series

PRE-Cure 2020

Home PRE-Cure 2020

Welcome To My Blog

Featured Video Play Icon

1. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 1

June 6, 2019sleepyclasses

Srirangam Ranganathaswamy Temple Tiruchirapalli Srirangam Ranganathaswamy Temple, Tiruchirapalli In news: Won the UNESCO Award of Merit Awarded by UNESCO Asia Pacific region for the reconstruction activities undertaken in temple without affecting its traditional splendour About the Temple: A temple at Srirangam is mentioned in Tamil literature of the Sangam era (1st to the 4th century CE), including…

Featured Video Play Icon

2. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 1

June 6, 2019sleepyclasses

BIMSTEC The leaders of the member states of BIMSTEC were invited to the swearing ceremony of PM-Narendra Modi. It was regarded as a key aspectofIndia’s‘neighbourhoodfirst’and‘ActEast’policy. Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation is what BIMSTEC stands for. Comprising of seven member states, it is a regional organization. India along with Bangladesh, Bhutan,…

Featured Video Play Icon

3. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 1

June 6, 2019sleepyclasses

DIGHI PORT The port is located on the bank of Rajpuri creek, in the Raigad District of Maharashtra. The unique feature of the port is its ideal location within a natural harbor and exclusive channel offering a depth of 14.5 m, making it one the deepest port of Maharashtra. Dighi Port is the first Greenfield…

Featured Video Play Icon

4. PRECURE – Environment – WEEK – 1

June 6, 2019sleepyclasses

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY (WED) World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on 5th June every year. World Environment Day is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. Since it began in 1974, the event has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in…

Featured Video Play Icon

5. PRECURE – SCI & TECH – WEEK – 1

June 12, 2019sleepyclasses

Nipah Virus In 2018, Kerala witnessed its first outbreak of the Nipah virus Nipah is a zoonotic disease A disease transmitted from animals to humans Virus belongs to a new genus termed Henipavirus About the Virus It is a fragile virus It may survive in the environment for several hours up to a couple of…

Featured Video Play Icon

6. PRECURE – GEO – WEEK – 1

June 12, 2019sleepyclasses

GEO-POLITICS QUADILATERAL MEET Quadrilateral meet among India, Japan, Australia and the United States ➢ Bangkok, Thailand. THE QUAD GROUP: The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD, also known as the Quad) is an informal strategic dialogue between the United States, Japan, Australia and India that is maintained by talks between member countries. The dialogue was initiated in…

Featured Video Play Icon

7. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 2

June 12, 2019sleepyclasses

Losar Bahubali Khaju Losar • Losar is characterized especially by dancing, music, and a general spirit of merrymaking. • The celebrations are an amalgamation of ancient rituals, staged dance dramas, the dance of the Ibex deer and lots of music, dance, and revelry for the people. • Houses are decorated with good-luck signs. • Prayer…

Featured Video Play Icon

8. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 2

June 12, 2019sleepyclasses

Recognition of Parties in India: • Last week, Meghalaya’s National People’s Party led by Conrad Sangma was recognised as a “national party”. The NPP is the eighth party to get that recognition — after Congress, BJP, BSP, NCP, CPI, CPI(M) and Trinamool Congres— and the first from the Northeast. • The Election Commission lists political…

Featured Video Play Icon

9. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 2

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

GDP-PPP Big Mac Index The Big Mac Index is published by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. Sugar production Uttar Pradesh is the highest sugarcane producing…

Featured Video Play Icon

10. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 2

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

Asiatic Golden Cat The Asiatic golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is listed as near threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species. It is found across eastern Nepal through north-eastern India to Indonesia. Golden is no longer the only colour the elusive Asiatic golden cat can be associated with. Its…

Featured Video Play Icon

11. PRECURE – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – WEEK – 2

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

Table of Contents Hong Kong Protests BIMSTEC Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ASEAN+3 Hong Kong Protests As a result, Hong Kong has its own legal system and borders, and rights including freedom of assembly and free speech are protected The Chinese government said in 2014 it would allow voters to choose their leaders from a list approved…

Featured Video Play Icon

12. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 2

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

GEOMORPHOLOGY PACIFIC RING OF FIRE ➢ Mount Sinabung volcano ➢ Sumatra Island, Indonesia. RING OF FIRE: ➢ Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. ➢ The Ring of Fire is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt. ➢ About 90% of the world’s…

Featured Video Play Icon

13. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 3

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

Jagannath Temple and Mithila Paintings

Featured Video Play Icon

14. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 3

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

Speaker and Pro-Tem Speaker in Lok Sabha: • The Speaker of the Lok Sabha is the presiding officer of the Lok Sabha. The speaker is elected generally in the very first meeting of the Lok Sabha following general elections. • Serving for a term of five years, the speaker is chosen from sitting members of…

Featured Video Play Icon

15. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 3

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

WTO – Subsidies India has submitted a new proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), suggesting that developing countries and the least developed countries (LDCs) should be exempted from prohibitions for granting certain fisheries subsidies if the fishing occurs within waters under a country’s own authority. At the Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December…

Featured Video Play Icon

16. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 3

June 27, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX  India to host UN meet on land degradation in September  The United Kingdom (UK) is on track to become the first G7 country to legislate for net zero emissions by 2050.  Environment and energy ministers meet of the Group of 20 major economies  REN21’s Renewable 2019 Global Status Report (GSR)…

Featured Video Play Icon

17. PRECURE – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – WEEK – 3

July 1, 2019sleepyclasses

Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) •It is an intergovernmental forum for enhancing cooperation towards promoting peace, security, and stability in Asia •It is a forum based on the recognition that there is a close link between peace, security, and stability in Asia and in the rest of the world •It pursues…

Featured Video Play Icon

18. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 3

July 1, 2019sleepyclasses

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY: GI TAG ➢ Kolhapuri chappal ➢ jointly received by Karnataka and Maharashtra GI TAG ➢ A geographical indication (GI) is a name or sign used on products which correspond to a specific geographical location or origin (e.g. a town, region, or country). ➢ The use of a geographical indication, as a type of…

Featured Video Play Icon

19. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 4

July 1, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

20. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 4

July 1, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

21. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 4

July 1, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

22. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 4

July 1, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX • US EPA scraps Obama-era plan limiting coal emissions • Bihar bans tree-felling • Ozone pollution in Delhi worse this summer than last: CSE • Among the world’s worst polluters, ASEAN vows to tackle ocean waste • Device to trap ocean plastic waste relaunches • Indian temple helps nurture ‘extinct’ turtle back to life…

Featured Video Play Icon

23. PRECURE – SCI & TECH – WEEK – 4

July 1, 2019sleepyclasses

Astrobee •It is a free-flying robot system that will help researchers test new technologies in zero gravity and perform routine work alongside astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ✓They can move in any direction and turn on any axis in space ✓Astrobee system consists of three cubed-shaped robots, software and a docking station used…

Featured Video Play Icon

24. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 5

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

Bhakti Movement Bhakti It is derived from the Sanskrit root word Bhaja whose literal meaning is ‗to utter‘. The significance of the word Bhaja is ‗to adore‘ or ‗to love with honour‘. In the devotional literature the word is used to mean ‗unquestionable faith and utter devotion to God‘. Thus in a general sense Bhakti…

Featured Video Play Icon

25. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 5

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

Leader of Opposition: The Congress has demanded the post of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha both as the second largest party in the Lok Sabha and as leader of the United Progressive Alliance which had 92 seats. Leader of the Opposition is the leader of the largest party that has not less than a…

Featured Video Play Icon

26. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 5

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX 316 out of 651 protected areas under final ESZ notification: Environment Ministry MOSAiC mission Alarm sounded over the shrinking of frigid zones Winged wonder: Tamil Yeoman declared state butterfly of Tamil Nadu Jal Shakti Abhiyan 316 out of 651 protected areas under final ESZ notification: Environment Ministry Over 30% of India‘s protected area has…

Featured Video Play Icon

27. PRECURE – SCI & TECH – WEEK – 5

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

International Pulsar Timing Array Context Pune-based National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) hosted the five-day annual International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) meet in June o The meet is a collaboration of radio astronomers from a dozen countries across the globe Upgrade of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune and the Ooty Radio Telescope…

Featured Video Play Icon

28. PRECURE -GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 5

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

INFRA: NATIONAL GRID Water Grids One Nation, One Grid What is National Water Grid? The National Water Grid is a large scale engineering proposal for the management of water resources in India by the interlinking of the Indian rivers through networks of reservoir and canals. The idea is to divert excess water from surplus regions…

Featured Video Play Icon

29. PRECURE -POLITY – WEEK – 6

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

Foreigners Tribunals: Foreigners‘ Tribunals are a key player in the exercise to identify illegal immigrants in Assam, and in focus now ahead of the July 15 publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Foreigners‘ Tribunals — 100 existing and 200 more to be functional by September 1 — are quasi-judicial bodies meant…

Featured Video Play Icon

30. PRECURE -ECONOMY- WEEK – 6

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX Utkarsh 2022 Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS) SEBI gets teeth to probe new-age cases Govt widens RBI‘s scope in bid to change narrative on regulator‘s autonomy Women Startup Summit 2019 Farmer earnings skewed across States, show data US drags India to WTO Basel finds some RBI large exposure rules stricter than required NHAI…

Featured Video Play Icon

31. PRECURE -ENVIRONMENT- WEEK – 6

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX Environment Ministry plans to use immunocontraceptives for wildlife population management Honour for ‗Plan Bee‘ that helped save jumbos Bengal port records country‘s highest sea level rise in 50 years India‘s first elephant rehabilitation centre in the works at Kerala‘s Kottoor A Japanese touch to Telangana green drive  CPCB pulls up 52 firms over handling…

Featured Video Play Icon

32. PRECURE -INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & SCIENCE & TECH- WEEK – 6

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

33. PRECURE -GEOGRAPHY- WEEK – 6

July 19, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

34. PRECURE – HISTORY- WEEK – 7

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Bhakti Movement –Part II: Origin Originated inSouth India, during the seventh to eighth century C.E., spread northwards from Tamil Nadu throughKarnatakaand gained wide acceptance in fifteenthcenturyBengalandnorthern India. Started with the SaivaNayanarsand the VaisnavaAlvars, who lived between 5th and 9th century C.E. Their efforts ultimately helped spreadbhaktipoetry and ideas throughout India by the 12th–18th century CE….

Featured Video Play Icon

35. PRECURE – POLITY- WEEK – 7

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

36. PRECURE – ECONOMY- WEEK – 7

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

37. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT- WEEK – 7

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

38. PRECURE – SCI & TECH – WEEK – 7

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

39. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 7

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

40. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 8

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

41. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 8

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Whip • The Office of Whip is a purely British Institution. The Whips are not officially recognised in the standing orders of the House of Commons or the House of Lords. but long tradition has given them a secure place in the parliamentary machine • According to Dr. Radha Kumud Mookerji the working of Buddhist…

Featured Video Play Icon

42. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 8

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Sugar Buffer Stock What Centre to create a Sugar Buffer Stock 4 million tonnes Why – Bumper domestic production – Pending sugarcane arrears of more than ₹ 15,000 crore The buffer stock will help maintain demand-supply balance and to stabilise sugar prices. Approved in the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) (headed…

Featured Video Play Icon

43. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 8

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX Large-scale burning of grasslands detrimental to invertebrates: study Sarus Cranes Order to cull Himachal Pradesh’s ‘Vermin’ monkeys draws activists’ ire Researchers discover new tree species in Tanzania mountains Madhya Pradesh government to declare Ratapani sanctuary a tiger reserve Stubble Cutting Machines LARGE-SCALE BURNING OF GRASSLANDS DETRIMENTAL TO INVERTEBRATES: STUDY A recent study on “prescribed…

Featured Video Play Icon

44. PRECURE – SCI & TECH – WEEK – 8

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Public Health Emergency of International Concern WHO has declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) • Some serious public health events that endanger international public health may be determined under the Regulations to be public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC)…

Featured Video Play Icon

45. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 9

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses
Featured Video Play Icon

46. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 9

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019: The Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 that makes all declaration of talaq, including in written or electronic form, to be void (i.e. not enforceable in law) and illegal. It defines talaq as talaq-e-biddat or any other similar form…

Featured Video Play Icon

47. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 9

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Amendments in the Companies Act Intended to bring: More discipline in the compliance of Corporate Social Responsibility De-clogging the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Ease of doing business for small, medium, and large companies CSR Carrying forward the unspent corporate social responsibility (CSR) amount to a special account to be spent within three financial years….

Featured Video Play Icon

48. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 9

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX Tiger Census Komodo Dragon Earth Overshoot Day Kerala – Elephants TIGER CENSUS – INTRODUCTION In 2010, at the Tiger Summit of St. Petersburg, world leaders committed to doubling tiger numbers by 2022. The tiger population of India is the largest for any country, accounting for >80% of the Global population of 3,159 adult free-ranging…

Featured Video Play Icon

49. PRECURE – SCI & TECH – WEEK – 9

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Public Health Emergency of International Concern WHO has declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) • Some serious public health events that endanger international public health may be determined under the Regulations to be public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC)…

Featured Video Play Icon

50. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 9

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

INDUSTRY SILK SAMAGRA SCHEME The scheme is being implemented by the Central Silk Board (CSB).= It focuses on improving the quality and productivity of domestic silk thereby reducing the country’s dependence on imported silk. It comprises the following four components: • Research & Development, Training, Transfer of Technology and I.T. Initiatives • Seed Organizations •…

Featured Video Play Icon

51. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 10

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Bhakti Saints – Part II Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486—1534): About: • Chaitanya also known as Sri Gauranga, was a popular Vaishnava saint and reformer from Bengal. • At the age of 25 he took to monastic life at the feet of Kesava Bharti. Some time later he went to Puri, where many disciples gathered round him….

Featured Video Play Icon

52. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 10

August 8, 2019sleepyclasses

Union Minister for Home Affairs, Shri Amit Shah, introduced two bills and two resolutions regarding Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) in Lok Sabha on August 6, 2019. These are as follows: 1. Constitution (Application to Jammu & Kashmir) Order, 2019 {Ref. Article 370(1) of Constitution of India} – issued by President of India to supersede the…

Featured Video Play Icon

53. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 10

August 22, 2019sleepyclasses

GEOPOLITICS: INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES (INF) TREATY The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and its successor state, the Russian Federation). U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty on 8 December 1987. The United States Senate approved the treaty…

Featured Video Play Icon

54. PRECURE – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – WEEK – 10

August 22, 2019sleepyclasses

UNRWA • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency which supports more than 5 million registered Palestinian refugees, and their patrilineal descendants, who fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war as well as those who fled…

Featured Video Play Icon

55. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 11

September 3, 2019sleepyclasses

KISAN URJA SURAKSHA EVAM UTTHAAN MAHABHIYAN The Central Government has announced the Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan or KUSUM scheme which aims at furthering the production of solar power in India and also give the benefits of solar farming to farmers. KUSUM SCHEME DETAILS The Ministry responsible for this scheme is the New and…

Featured Video Play Icon

56. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 11

September 3, 2019sleepyclasses

SCED (Security Constrained Economic Dispatch) Power generating companies raise capacity utilisation of more efficient plants or of those units which are located closer to coal mines and thus have lower freight cost. As a result, the cost of power production goes down. It benefits both the distribution companies (discoms) and end consumers. The mechanism then…

Featured Video Play Icon

57. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 11

September 3, 2019sleepyclasses

INDEX World Biofuel Day Northeast Crowds List of States with Most Dense Tree, Forest Cover More Than Half of Forest Wildlife Declined since 1970: WWF India to Seek Boost to Protection Status of 5 Species at CITES Centre Unveils Plan for Coastal Zone Management Army vehicles to be exempted from BS-VI norms Global Coalition to…

Featured Video Play Icon

58. PRECURE – SCI & TECH (DEFENCE) – WEEK – 11

September 3, 2019sleepyclasses

Chief of Defence Staff PM Modi announced the creation of the post of CDS to provide “effective leadership at the top level” to the three wings of the armed forces, and to help improve coordination among them CDS is a high military office that • oversees and coordinates the working of the three Services, and…

Featured Video Play Icon

59. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 12

September 3, 2019sleepyclasses

KHADI AND VILLAGE INDUSTRIES COMMISSION (KVIC) The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is a statutory body formed by the Government of India, under the Act of Parliament, ‘Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of 1956’. It is an apex organisation under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, with regard to khadi and…

Featured Video Play Icon

60. PRECURE – POLITY & GOVERNANCE – WEEK – 12

September 4, 2019sleepyclasses

National Digital Health Blueprint report: In order to fulfil the vision of National Health Policy 2017, the Committee constituted by the Health Ministry to create an implementation framework for the National Health Stack (NHS), has come up with the National Digital Health Blueprint after surveying the global best practices in adoption of digital technologies holistically….

Featured Video Play Icon

61. PRECURE – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – WEEK – 12

September 4, 2019sleepyclasses

G7 • G7 (or Group of Seven) is an organisation made up of the world’s seven largest so-called advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States • The group regards itself as “a community of values”, with freedom and human rights, democracy and the rule of law, and prosperity…

Featured Video Play Icon

62. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 12

September 4, 2019sleepyclasses

TRAFFIC REPORT • India, with the world’s largest wild tiger population, topped in the trafficking of tigers and tiger body parts over 19 years since 2000, a new TRAFFIC analysis from Geneva has revealed. The report titled ‘Skin and Bones Unresolved: An Analysis of Tiger Seizures from 2000-2018’ was the fourth in a series on…

Featured Video Play Icon

63. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 12

September 4, 2019sleepyclasses

RIL-Aramco Deal Reliance Industries (RIL) decision to sell a 20 per cent stake in its refining and petrochemicals business to Saudi Aramco. Saudi Aramco is among the largest oil producers in the world. It will supply around 500,000 barrels per day, or 25 million tonnes per annum, of crude oil to RIL’s twin refineries at…

Featured Video Play Icon

64. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 13

September 4, 2019sleepyclasses

RESOURCES: COMPOSITE WATER MANAGEMENT INDEX (CWMI) The National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog has developed the Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) to enable effective water management in Indian states in the face of extreme water stress. The Index and this associated report are expected to: (1) establish a clear baseline and benchmark for state-level…

Featured Video Play Icon

65. PRECURE – POLITY & GOVERNANCE – WEEK – 13

September 4, 2019sleepyclasses

NISHTHA: • The Union Ministry for HRD launched the National Mission to improve Learning Outcomes at the Elementary level- NISHTHA, National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement. The Programme comes with NISHTHA Website, Training Modules, Primer Booklet and a Mobile App. This is the largest teachers’ training programme of its kind in the…

Featured Video Play Icon

66. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 13

September 4, 2019sleepyclasses

INDIA TO REJUVENATE 50,000 HECTARES OF DEGRADED LAND • India had committed to rejuvenate 50 lakh hectares (5 million) of degraded land between 2021 and 2030. • India faces a severe problem of land degradation, or soil becoming unfit for cultivation. • About 29% or about 96.4 million hectares are considered degraded. • 5 million…

Featured Video Play Icon

67. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 14

September 6, 2019sleepyclasses

GEOPOLITICS: RCEP: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and its six FTA partners (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations…

Featured Video Play Icon

68. PRECURE – GOVERNANCE & POLITY – WEEK – 14

September 6, 2019sleepyclasses

One Stop Solution to Verify & Authenticate Voter Details: • On the occasion of the nationwide mega million launch of Electors Verification Programme, a special camp was held at Election Commission of India Headquarters in New Delhi on September 1, 2019 where there was unveiling of the initiative on National Voters’ Service Portal (https://www.nvsp.in/) and…

Featured Video Play Icon

69. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 14

September 6, 2019sleepyclasses

GOVERNMENT TO DEVELOP A MASTER PLAN FOR TIGERS AT HIGH ALTITUDE Union Environment Minister has released recently, a report on Status of Tiger Habitats in high altitude ecosystems. The reveals that ecology at high altitude is compatible for the tiger growth and the inputs from this study can be used to prepare a high altitude…

Featured Video Play Icon

70. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY – WEEK – 15

September 12, 2019sleepyclasses

PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA (PMUY) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Tagline : Swachh Indhan, Behtar Jeevan The PMUY is a scheme to provide LPG (liquid petroleum gas) to households below the poverty line. This is to have universal coverage of cooking gas in the country. The chief aim of this scheme to protect the…

Featured Video Play Icon

71. PRECURE – HISTORY – WEEK – 15

September 12, 2019sleepyclasses

Tulsidas (1532 – 1623 C.E.) Tulsidas was a great poet, a Vaishnava saint and a devotee of Rama. To Tulsidas, Rama was a personal and supreme God, who had feeling of compassion for the humanity which suffered. He is best known for his retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana in the epic Ram Charit Manas in…

Featured Video Play Icon

72. PRECURE – POLITY – WEEK – 15

November 15, 2019sleepyclasses

Motor Vehicles Amendment Act, 2019: The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 is based on the recommendations of the Group of Transport Ministers of States. The penalties in Act will be increasing by 10 percent every year on April 1, as notified by the Central government. The Bill seeks to amend the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988…

Featured Video Play Icon

73. PRECURE – ECONOMY – WEEK – 15

November 15, 2019sleepyclasses

Blue Revolution 3 types of support: 1. Infrastructure development in harbours 2. Subsidies to joint venture projects to set up hatcheries/nurseries/quarantine facilities 3. Viability Gap Funding to establish processing plants, and cold chain facilities at harvest or landing sites Around Rs.25,000 Crore will be disbursed through different schemes such as: – Pradhan Mantri Sampada Yojana…

Featured Video Play Icon

74. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 15

November 15, 2019sleepyclasses

NILGIRI TAHR Nilgiri tahrs‘ sightings in the Mukurthi National Park have risen from 568 in 2018 to 612 this year. Officials said this was the second consecutive year that an increase in the population of the animal had been recorded in the park, meaning the population of the Nilgiri tahr, also known as the Nilgiri…

Featured Video Play Icon

75. PRECURE – IR- WEEK – 15

November 15, 2019sleepyclasses

Salmonella In News Some batches of a spice mix sold by MDH were taken off the shelves in the United States for salmonella contamination About Salmonella It is a bacteria that commonly causes foodborne illness, sometimes called ‗food poisoning‘ It is characterised by acute onset of fever, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea and sometimes vomiting Transmission…

Featured Video Play Icon

76. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY- WEEK – 16

November 15, 2019sleepyclasses

KARTARPUR SAHIB PILGRIM CORRIDOR The Kartarpur is an under-construction border corridor between the neighbouring nations of India and Pakistan, connecting the Sikh shrines of Dera Baba Nanak Sahib (located in Punjab, India) and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur (in Punjab, Pakistan). Currently, under planning, the corridor is intended to allow religious devotees from India to visit…

Featured Video Play Icon

77. PRECURE – POLITY- WEEK – 16

November 15, 2019sleepyclasses

National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2019 launched the National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP), aimed at eradicating foot and mouth disease (FMD) and brucellosis in livestock. India has the world‘s largest livestock population of 125-crore plus heads, but cattle productivity is low, and animal diseases are a major…

Featured Video Play Icon

78. PRECURE – ECONOMY- WEEK – 16

November 19, 2019sleepyclasses

National Dairy Plan National Dairy Plan Phase I (NDP I) is a Central Sector Scheme for a period of 2011-12 to2018-19. NDP I Objectives: To help increase the productivity of milch animals and thereby increase milk production to meet the rapidly growing demand for milk To help provide rural milk producers with greater access to…

Featured Video Play Icon

79. PRECURE – ENVIRONMENT- WEEK – 16

November 19, 2019sleepyclasses

VULTURE CULTURE : In the late 1990s, when the population of the vultures in the country had begun to decline sharply, one White-backed vulture was rescued from Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, where vultures were dying at an alarming rate.  To study the cause of deaths of vultures, a Vulture Care Centre (VCC) was set…

Featured Video Play Icon

80. PRECURE – INTERNATIONAL RELATION- WEEK – 16

November 19, 2019sleepyclasses

India-Mongolia A landlocked country in East Asia, sandwiched between Russia and China Contains very little arable land, as much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south Its capital Ulaanbaatar shares the rank of the world‘s coldest capital city with Moscow,…

Featured Video Play Icon

81. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY- WEEK – 17

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

GEOPOLITICS HODEIDAH AGREEMENT (UNMHA): Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of United Nations (UN) appointed India‘s Lieutenant General (Retired) Abhijit Guha as the head of UN mission in Hodeidah, Yemen. BACKGROUND YEMEN CIVIL WAR The Yemeni Civil War is an ongoing conflict that began in 2015 between two factions: the Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led Yemeni government and…

Featured Video Play Icon

82. PRECURE – HISTORY- WEEK – 17

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural  Heritage  : A total of 13 Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) elements from India have been inscribed till date on the UNESCO‘s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of For inclusion of an element in the UNESCO‘s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the state parties are required to…

Featured Video Play Icon

83. PRECURE – POLITY- WEEK – 17

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

      Multipurpose National Identity Card (MPNIC): Speaking on the occasion of laying the foundation for a new office  building for the Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner in New Delhi, Home Minister Amit Shah  spoke  about  the  potential  of  using the upcoming 2021 Census data for future planning, development initiatives and welfare schemes….

Featured Video Play Icon

84. PRECURE – ECONOMY- WEEK – 17

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

PMC Bank Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Ltd.) Founded in 1984. PMC Bank was the youngest bank to get the status of a scheduled bank in 2000. Why in News It has been put under the directions of the RBI. What is the Issue It turned out that the bank had suppressed the sticky assets…

Featured Video Play Icon

85. PRECURE -ENVIRONMENT- WEEK – 17

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

UN CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT : It took place on 21-23 September at UN Headquarters in New York. The main focus was on raising ambition and accelerates action to implement the Paris Agreement. Having the key focus on raising ambition and accelerate action to implement the Paris Agreement, the Climate Action Summit focuses on nine interdependent…

Featured Video Play Icon

86. PRECURE – SCI & TECH- WEEK – 17

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

Health & Medicine  E-Cigarettes Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or non-combustible tobacco products are known by many names — vapes, e-hookahs, electronic cigarettes and e-pipes. E-cigarettes may be manufactured to look like traditional cigarettes and are marketed as tobacco-free nicotine delivery devices. Working Instead of burning tobacco leaves like in traditional cigarettes, an e-cigarette, which…

Featured Video Play Icon

87. PRECURE – GEOGRAPHY- WEEK – 18

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

PACESETTER FUND PROGRAMME The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recently awarded grants to the awardees of the second round of PACEsetter fund programme. The PACEsetter fund was constituted by India and the USA in 2015 as a joint fund. The mission of the PACEsetter Fund is to accelerate the commercialization of innovative off-grid clean…

Featured Video Play Icon

88. PRECURE – POLITY- WEEK – 18

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

‘Sardar Patel National Unity Award’: Government of India has instituted the highest civilian award in the field of contribution to the unity and integrity of India, in the name of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The Award seeks to recognize notable and inspiring contributions to promote the cause of national unity and integrity and to reinforce the…

Featured Video Play Icon

89. PRECURE -ECONOMY – WEEK – 18

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

India & IMF Finance Minister is the ex-officio Governor on the Board of Governors of the IMF. RBI Governor is the Alternate Governor at the IMF. India is represented at the IMF by an Executive Director, who also represents three other countries as well, viz. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. After Quota Reforms: India’s share…

Featured Video Play Icon

90. PRECURE -ENVIRONMENT – WEEK – 18

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

ENZYME TECHNOLOGY FOR CHEAPER BIO-FUEL DEVELOPED BY INDIAN SCIENTISTS GETS US PATENT A process to produce a cocktail of enzymes that enhances the production of biofuels from agricultural waste developed by scientists in a New Delhi lab has received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The scientists are from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering…

Featured Video Play Icon

91. PRECURE- GEOGRAPHY- WEEK – 19

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

 GALO COMMUNITY: Members of the Galo community in Arunachal Pradesh can recall the name of their ancestor from 20 generations, and this is made possible by their system of naming. The Galos belong to the Tani group inhabiting Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, besides Tibet. They trace their common origin to a primeval ancestor, Abotani. They…

92. PRECURE- HISTORY- WEEK – 19

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

UNESCO’S REPRESENTATIVE LIST OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE – PART II     UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage: A total of 13 Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) elements from India have been inscribed till date on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. For inclusion of an element in the UNESCO’s Representative…

93. PRECURE-ECONOMY-19

November 20, 2019sleepyclasses

    Doubling Farmers’ Income It has three important pillars: Increasing the total output from agriculture by realising higher productivity To ensure cost-effectiveness through efficient use of resources To ensure remunerative prices to farmers Doubling Farmers’ Income Various initiatives taken forward in this regards are: Realising higher output through productivity Soil health card Micro-irrigation Neem…

Featured Video Play Icon

94. PRECURE-ENVIRONMENT-19

November 21, 2019sleepyclasses

INDIA’S FIRST E-WASTE CLINIC TO BE SET UP IN BHOPAL The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) have joined hands to set up the country’s first e-waste clinic in Bhopal, which would enable segregation, processing and disposal of waste from both household and commercial units. It will be a three-month…

Featured Video Play Icon

95. PRECURE-GEOGRAPHY-20

November 22, 2019sleepyclasses

      RCEP: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and its six FTA partners (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand).The Regional…

Featured Video Play Icon

96. PRECURE-POLITY-20

November 22, 2019sleepyclasses

One Nation One FASTag: Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the “One Nation One FASTag” scheme. The scheme will be implemented from December 1, 2019, and can be availed upon activation by new cars having Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags on national and state highways throughout the country. FASTags are stickers that…

Featured Video Play Icon

97. PRECURE-ECONOMY-20

November 22, 2019sleepyclasses

India halved its poverty rate since 1990s: World Bank Since 1990, India has made efforts to: Eliminate extreme poverty Which has helped address climate change Annual growth exceeding seven per cent over the last 15 years halved its poverty rate since the 1990s. Highlighting: Growth can cause development. What more needs to be done: Land…

Featured Video Play Icon

98. PRECURE-ENVIRONMENT-20

November 22, 2019sleepyclasses

  CENTRE CLARIFIES ON DEFINITION OF LAND AS FOREST The freedom to define land, not already classified as forests by the Centre or state records, as forest has been the prerogative of the States since 1996 and stems from a Supreme Court order called the Godavarman judgement. The States need not take the Centre’s approval to define…

Featured Video Play Icon

99. PRECURE-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-20

November 22, 2019sleepyclasses

FATF Grey List Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering was founded in 1989 on aG7 initiative to tackle money laundering •Initially it was tasked with monitoring legislative, financial and law-enforcement activities at both national and international levels Post 9/11, its role became more prominent and it expanded its operations and included terror financing under…

100. PRECURE-GEOGRAPHY-21

November 22, 2019sleepyclasses

MOUNT KILIMANJARO: Mount Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa. VAN DHAN INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME Ministry of Tribal Affairs. VAN DHAN YOJANA Van Dhan Yojana was launched in 2018. A Van Dhan Vikas Kendrais set up under the program. The…

Posts navigation

1 2 >

Youtube Channel Guide

Sociology Batch 2020

GS Course 2020

Contacts

SCO 305, 2nd Floor - 38D, Chandigarh
+916280133177
info@sleepyclasses.com
All © reserved at sleepyclasses Policy Disclaimer