CRASH COURSE FOR GENERAL STUDIES : CIVIL SERVICES MAINS 2012

Date of commencement: 18th August 2012

SUBJECTS TO BE COVERED IN THE COURSE: Indian Economics, Social Issues, Science & Technology, National Affairs,
International Affairs, Bilateral Issues, International Institutions etc….

SOME OF THE TOPICS :

NATIONAL ISSUES: NCTC; Violence in the Bodo Areas; India Launches Radar Satellite; Interlocutors’ Report on Jammu and Kashmir; Major Issues -the Indian Air Force; Cyber and Space Security; India’s Counter Terrorism Policies; India Launches Radar Satellite; Private Sector Participation in Defence Production; Interlinking of river AND MUCH MORE……

ECONOMICS: Inflation; Food Security; Poverty Calculation; impact of EURO Crisis; Black Money; Financial Inclusion AND MUCH MORE……

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES: West African Sahel: Emerging Security Issues; Chinese Inroads into Bhutan; Diplomatic Standoff over Takeshima/Dokdo; Rohingyas of Myanmar; Japan’s Defence White Paper 2012; China’s Rare Earth Monopoly; Senkakus’ Nationalization; Iran's Nuclear Imbroglio; Constitutional and Political Evolution in Nepal; Syrian Turmoil AND MUCH MORE……..

PERSONALITY : Sally Ride; Sunita Williams; Derk O’ Brain; Mary Kon; Tamae Watanabe; chen Guangcheng; Ms. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma AND MUCH MORE…..

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Radar (ASTER); Cable digitalization; Touch Screen; 3G vs 4g; e-Mamta; Ultra High Definition TV (UHDTV); M-money Transfer; Mobile Device Management; Cyber Squatting; Simputer; Social Cloud TV; TMT; Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells; Anti ragging Portal; Biomarker test in Olympics 2012; Soyuz-FG carrier with 5 satellites; Metabo Chip; “Kinesio tape”; Modified Multiple Displacement Technique; Electricity from hot geothermal fluids (Newzealand); Power from microbes (eg: bacteria : Shewanella oneidensis); GAGAN; Rare Earth elements in Moon – rovers to get it back to the Earth; GPS – can also detect nuclear tests; Magnetic fields can prevent heart attacks; Skylon; Artificial meat / Lab grown meat – reduces emissions; Supercomputer – K; Lab grown blood vessels; Morse code of Mosquito; NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft; Phantom Eye; Bionic specs; China’s space program; NASA’s Juno Space Mission; Xiaotingia Zhengix; Graphene – future computers; Microbiome , Probiotics, Prebiotics; Orion Constellation – Oxygen molecules detected; Dyslexics AND MUCH MORE…..

BILATERAL RELATIONS: Myanmar’s Critical Role in India’s Look East Policy; Rafale Wins the MMRCA; Competition; India and the Maldivies; Antony’s Visit to Saudi Arabia; China’s Claim on India’s Eastern Sector; Tipaimukh Dam-Indo Bangladesh Relation; Indo Pakistan; Indo us; Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Sri Lanka AND MUCH MORE…..

ENVIRONMENT: Forest Report; Rio+20; National Green Tribunal; Green Index; REED+; Emission Trade AND MUCH MORE…….

INSTITUTIONS: EU Oil embargo on Iran; The Euro-zone Crisis; Asian Security Conference; Non-Aligned Movement and Nuclear Security; UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka; BRICS-Changing Global World Order; Arms Trade Treaty; AARDO AND MUCH MORE……..