Front Page
- Exports dip again; trade deficit hits 5-month high
- Syllabus – GS- 3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
- Read about India’s major Import and Export Products – Trade deficit and its impact
- Strong winds batter Gujarat as cyclone makes landfall
- Syllabus – GS -1 Geography
- Read about Tropical Cyclones and related topics like Bay of bengal/ Arabian sea cyclones – Naming of Cyclones – Landfall – Mitigation measures – Odisha model of disaster preparedness
- Delhi Police seek to cancel POCSO case against BJP MP
- Syllabus – GS -2 laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
- Read about POCSO
Business
- ‘Fed’s talk of more hikes not a big risk’
- Syllabus – GS- 3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
- ‘Generative AI could automate 50% of tasks’
- Syllabus – GS -3 Science & Technologu
- Prelims – Generative AI
World
- CCP dominates AIIB, says former executive
- Syllabus – GS -2 Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate.
- Read about AIIB
- U.S. military gets access to Papua New Guinea bases
- Map marking Papua New Guinea
News
- 80 castes to be added to Central OBC list
- Syllabus – GS -2 Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
- Read about NCBC – process of adding into the list of backward classes – Mandal Commission – Creamy layer – Constitutional Provisions wrt obc reservation and commission
- Open market sales of foodgrains stopped to contain inflation: Centre
- Prelims – Open Market Sale Scheme
- South Manipur cut off as women-led vigilante groups block arterial roads
- GS -3 Internal Security
- Read about recent issues in Manipur – Process of adding to the ST list
- Prelims – CAPF and CRPF
- India to buy 31 MQ-9 Reaper UAVs; announcement during PM’s U.S. trip
- GS-2 – Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
- Prelims – MQ9 and UAV – uses
- Mains – India – US Relationship
- India and Pakistan envoys participate in talks with Taliban
- GS -2 India and its neighbourhood Relations
- India-Pakistan Relationship – India – Afghanistan Relationship – India – Taliban Relationship
- BIMSTEC to adopt Bangkok Vision 2030 at next summit
- GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
- Read about BIMSTEC-Countries involved-Benefits
- Home Ministry to meet leaders from Ladakh on June 19
- Prelims – Sixth schedule
Text & Context
- Is the ranking system of colleges flawed? (GS-2)
- Are non-communicable diseases increasing in India? (GS-2)
Opinion
Editorial
- Reflections on Artificial Intelligence, as friend or foe (GS-3/4)
- Jumpstarting the next phase of U.S.-India defence ties (GS-2)
- Culture shift (GS-2)
- Code red (GS-2)