Important articles for UPSC
Front Page
- GDP expanded 6.1% in 2022-23’s last quarter
- Syllabus – GS- 3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
- Prelims – provisional national income data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO)
- Read about growth terms like GDP GVA GNP etc
Business
- ‘Risks to 6.5% growth goal more evenly balanced now’
- Prelims – Economic and Social development
- Read about office of CEA
- April core sector output growth slows to six-month low of 3.5%
- Prelims – Read about core sectors according to the weightage
- Fiscal deficit narrows to 6.4%, meets target
- Syllabus – GS- 3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
- Prelims – Read about Fiscal Deficit – Impact – Fiscal deficit targets – FRBM Act
- Allow nations to draw plans for sustainable aviation fuel: India
- Prelims – Read About International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Assembly
World
- North Korea spy satellite launch fails as Chollima-1 rocket falls into the sea
- Syllabus – GS -1 World History
- Read about North Korea and South Korea issue
- Prelims – Read about 38th parallel
- UAE withdraws from U.S.-led maritime coalition in the Gulf
- Prelims – Read about Combined Maritime Force – Its members
News
- OTT platforms mandated to show anti-tobacco warnings
- Syllabus – GS -2 Health
- Read about Use of Tobacco and its impact on the society – Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2004
- Treatment worth ₹61,501 cr. provided under PM-JAY scheme
- Syllabus – Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes
- Read about Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY)
- Cabinet nod for second phase of CITIIS programme
- Syllabus – GS- 1 urbanization, their problems and their remedies.
- Read about City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS) project
- World’s largest grain storage plan: Centre to implement pilot project in 10 districts
- Syllabus – GS -3 Public Distribution System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security / Supply chain management
- Govt. calls for applications on semiconductor development
- Syllabus – GS -3 / 2 Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology / Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
- India joins global laboratory network for vaccine tests
- Prelims – Read about Centralised Laboratory Network (CLN) & CEPI
- Nepal’s PM to hold talks with Modi today, likely to sign pacts on energy, trade
- Syllabus – GS- 2 India and its neighborhood- relations.
- Jaishankar to meet Lavrov, Qin during BRICS summit
- Syllabus – GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
Text & Context
- China’s military diplomacy in Southeast Asia
- Syllabus – GS -3 Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
Opinion
Editorial