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Emotional Intelligence: Structure, Components and the Emotionally Intelligent Civil Servant (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Emotions — structure, types, functions — and attributes of the emotionally intelligent civil servant for UPSC GS IV with Maslow and Hockenbury frameworks.
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UPSC guide to the Disaster Management Amendment Bill 2024: UDMA, NDMA empowerment, Sendai alignment, statutory status for NCMC, new definitions, reforms.
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UPSC guide to India's CBDC: e-Rupee, retail and wholesale pilots, benefits, concerns, and 2024-26 digital currency rollout.
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UPSC guide to the Indian diaspora in Africa: Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Reunion, PIO role, Gandhi legacy, AU G20, 2024-26 updates.
Keep Reading →Contemporary Issues in Indian Constitutional Law (UPSC Polity)
A UPSC-focused guide to contemporary constitutional issues in India: free speech, judicial activism, gender, caste, LGBTQ+, minority rights, environment, and education.
Keep Reading →Dr B.R. Ambedkar: Social Justice, Caste and Constitutional Ethics (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Ambedkar's views on social justice, annihilation of caste, constitutional safeguards and political ethics — explained for UPSC GS IV with civil service applications.
Keep Reading →Disaster Financing in India: NDRF, SDRF, NDMF and UPSC Notes (UPSC Environment)
UPSC guide to disaster financing in India: NDRF, SDRF, NDMF, SDMF, 15th Finance Commission, disaster insurance and reform agenda.
Keep Reading →Capital Account Convertibility in India — Pros, Cons, Tarapore Committee
UPSC guide to Capital Account Convertibility: current status, pros and cons, Tarapore Committee preconditions, RBI roadmap and 2024-26 liberalisation.
Keep Reading →Constitution, Constitutionalism and Constitutional Morality — UPSC Polity
Difference between Constitution, constitutionalism, and constitutional morality — Ambedkar's vision, codified vs uncodified debate, landmark cases, UPSC notes.
Keep Reading →Defining Ethics and the Determinants of Ethical Action (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
What ethics is, six determinants of an ethical action (will, purpose, object, circumstance, consequence, means), and factors affecting ethics — for UPSC GS IV.
Keep Reading →Dam Safety Act 2021 — UPSC Notes (GS III)
UPSC guide to Dam Safety Act 2021: NDSA, SDSO, specified dam definitions, Mullaperiyar, criticisms, federal concerns, institutional architecture, reforms.
Keep Reading →India-Bhutan Relations (UPSC International Relations)
India-Bhutan relations for UPSC GS II: 1949 Treaty, hydropower, Doklam, Gelephu Mindfulness City, China border talks, and the Order of the Druk Gyalpo.
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