The material for Prelims and Mains has been divided into two sections TRADITIONAL (including Polity,History,Geography,Economics,General Science etc) and APPLIED( in accordance with the requirements of the examination) part.
Material for the traditional section would be based on the compilation of standard texts.It will be available in 5 concise modules.
APPLIED PART
1.Discuss the need for a renewed energy policy centered around the shale gas sector?/“In the light of China’s aggressive energy policy there is a need for India to engage in aggressive oil diplomacy in its immediate neighbourhood.” Assess this statement in light of the current scenario.
2.Prepare a note on the TAPI pipeline project
3.“The Islamabad Conclave brings a new impetus to the need of solving the Kashmir challenge with renewed dexterity to normalize the Kashmir equation.”-Comment
4.“Without new vistas of cooperation SAARC will become aspirational rather than effectively operational.”-Discuss
5.Suggest measures for greater Indo-China interactions to balance the US movement in Middle East.
6.How can we engage the tools of cultural diplomacy to acquire greater partnership in the East Asian region?
7.Issues pertaining to nuclear power
8.Indradhanush -IAF-RAF joint exercise
9.Discuss the feasibility of a “graduated approach” towards addressing Indo-Pak trust deficit.
10.G-20 deal clinched at last moment
11.India signs nuclear liability treaty
12.“looking East” is no longer an economic jargon; it is descriptive of the totality of India's relations with Southeast Asia.Discuss this statement in light of emerging geo political and security challenges in South and Southeast Asia
India and the World2.Prepare a note on the TAPI pipeline project
3.“The Islamabad Conclave brings a new impetus to the need of solving the Kashmir challenge with renewed dexterity to normalize the Kashmir equation.”-Comment
4.“Without new vistas of cooperation SAARC will become aspirational rather than effectively operational.”-Discuss
5.Suggest measures for greater Indo-China interactions to balance the US movement in Middle East.
6.How can we engage the tools of cultural diplomacy to acquire greater partnership in the East Asian region?
7.Issues pertaining to nuclear power
8.Indradhanush -IAF-RAF joint exercise
9.Discuss the feasibility of a “graduated approach” towards addressing Indo-Pak trust deficit.
10.G-20 deal clinched at last moment
11.India signs nuclear liability treaty
12.“looking East” is no longer an economic jargon; it is descriptive of the totality of India's relations with Southeast Asia.Discuss this statement in light of emerging geo political and security challenges in South and Southeast Asia
1.India Mozambique
- India Mozambique credit relations
2.India, Japan
- India, Japan strengthening strategic relations
- A strategic corrective in Indo –Japan ties
3.India-Malaysia
- A new dawn in India-Malaysia relations
- Reset the India-U.S. ties.
- Threat to Indian innovative fix-dependent system
- India's space-related entities to be removed from U.S. list
- India signs $10-billion worth deals with U.S.
- U.S., India paradigm beyond Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Obama's UNSC statement and its implication
- $10-b infra debt fund to be created
- U.S. to help in shale gas technology
- U.S. investments to improve infrastructure
- India-U.S. CECA the next logical step
- The Obama visit a perspective
- Fulbright Programme: fostering Indo-U.S. ties
5.India Bangladesh
- Chottakhola Park
- Indo Bangladesh rise of new relations
6.Indo-Russia
- Indo-Russian ties
7.India-German
- Indo-German cooperation in skills development
8.India-Syria
- India, Syria resolve to upgrade economic ties
9.India China
- An ambitious agenda for Indo-China engagement
- Time to reset the India-China relationship
10.India-France
- India, France step up space ties
- India, France sign 5 nuclear pacts
- Indo French cooperation in security measures
11.India International organisations
I. India IAEA
- In IAEA fuel plan, India role as supplier
I2. India UN
- What India can bring to the high table of Security Council
- UNSC: India's membership and the road ahead
13.India Africa
- Horn of Africa: Indian outlook
International Affairs
1. The meaning of Turkey's referendum
2. Russia resets with U.S., sprints with China
3. IBSA: a new perspective
4. Commonwealth requires a renewed purpose of commitment
5. Vietnamese outlook towards Cam Bay
6. Fault lines in Obama’s Middle East policy
7. Arctic's strategic value for Russia
8. Agreement on the High North in the Arctic Ocean
9. Obama Asian tour and its influence in the geopolitical scenario of Asia
10. NATO pact on missile defence
11. China plans S-E Asia rail links
12. China or India the perennial question
13. The Asian rise
14. Challenges before rising Asia
15. Gulf Cooperation Council summit
Science and Technology
- India set for building prototype gravitational wave detector
- An initiative to promote real-time text technologies
- China's lunar probe launch successful
- Graphene: a novel material with myriad uses(nobel prize physics)
- Rustom 1 test-flown successfully
- Opioid substitution therapy being promoted in Manipur to check drug abuse
- Neuro feedback gains popularity and lab attention
- Lasker Award winner finds way to fight blindness
- ‘Think tank Initiative -Outstanding research can shape better policy'
- World's biggest' solar power plant planned
- Scientists create “mini Big Bang”
- Third generation Synchrotron to be set up
- IPv6 task force units will be in place soon
- Indigenous integrated life support system for fighter aircraft pilots
- Stuxnet worm was perfect for sabotaging centrifuges
- Wireless-NGN: the future of communication
Social Issues
1. Need for improving the urban services
2. h2.0 Initiative
3. Information as a right
4. Food insecurity in urban India
5. Universal PDS only way forward
6. The need for lasting national prestige beyond Commonwealth Games
7. An appraisal of water resources
8. Agricultural growth remains central to poverty reduction
9. Expert group on universal health coverage set up
10. Concerns in UID
11. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for 2009 and 2010.
12. Conditional maternity benefit scheme launched
13. Issues pertaining to wages under MNREGA
14. Population stabilisation target date pushed back to 2070
15. Unique identification numbers soon for school kids
16. Action Plan for 60 Naxal-hit districts
17. Can India garner the demographic dividend?
18. Managing the anticipated food crisis
Reference material to the above questions as well as objective type questions for prelims on above mentioned topics is available in Module 3.To know more about the E-Correspondence course click and acquire Sample Notes click here
