President of India has appointed Dr. (Mrs) P. Kilemsungla as a member of the prestigious Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

The appointment letter was issued by Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Dr. (Mrs) P. Kilemsungla is the first Naga to be appointed as a Member of the UPSC.

UPSC is a constitutional body authorized to conduct examination for appointments to the services of the Union such as Civil Services, Engineering Services, Combined Defence Services etc.

Sindhu makes badminton history

• P.V. Sindhu made history by becoming the first Indian woman singles player to win a medal at the World Badminton Championships, defeating the host nation’s Shixian Wang to enter the semifinals at Guangzhou in China.

• She is thus assured of at least a bronze medal.
• Sindhu, who hails from Hyderabad, is now ranked 12th in the world.
• In 1983, Prakash Padukone won the bronze in the men’s singles in Copenhagen.
• In the 2011 World Championships in London, Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa bagged the bronze.

Indigenous cryogenic engine to power GSLV-D5 on Aug. 19

• As Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) is slated to lift off around from Sriharikota, and various checks showing that the vehicle is in the pink of its health, the mood is one of optimism at the spaceport.

• The mission’s significance is that GSLV-D5 is powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has used every expertise available in the country to ensure that the engine performs smoothly this time.
• The rocket will put India’s advanced communication satellite called GSAT-14, weighing 1,980 kg, into orbit.

•  “The Mission Readiness Review (MRR) has cleared the vehicle. The integration of the satellite with the launch vehicle has been completed. On August 11, we plan to move the vehicle to the launch pad.”

• There is enormous focus on this mission, as the GSLV flight with an indigenous cryogenic engine failed in April 2010. The subsequent GSLV flight with a Russian cryogenic stage also failed in December of that year.

Official Sample Questions for IAS Mains GS PAPER V - Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude

PAPER V - ETHICS, INTEGRITY AND APTITUDE

Candidates may please note that the sample questions below are indicative but not exhaustive. The range and depth of questions that would be asked may differ.

SAMPLE QUESTION NO. 1

What do you understand by ‘ Ethical Human Conduct’? In what way is it important to be ethical along with being professionally competent?

SAMPLE QUESTION NO. 2

What do you understand by the following terms ? Point out their specific relevance in public service;

(i) Intellectual integrity
(ii) Empathy
(iii) Perseverance
(iv) Spirit of service
(v) Commitment

Indicate two more attributes which you consider very important for public servants. Justify your answer.

SAMPLE QUESTION NO. 3

Which great Indian personality has inspired you the most as a role model and how have you been able to benefit in your own life by such an inspiration ?

SAMPLE QUESTION NO. 4 ( CASE STUDY )

You have been working with your team for almost a year. One of your  subordinates Mr. A is very effective and hard working, he takes  responsibility and gets things done. However, you have heard that Mr. A  makes loose comments about women. Mrs X who is working under A,  comes to you, she is visibly disturbed. She tells you that Mr. A has been  making undue advances towards her and has even asked her to go  out for dinner with him. She wants to give a written complaint seeking  action against Mr. A. what would you do and why ?

INDIAN ECONOMIC SERVICE / INDIAN STATISTICAL SERVICE  EXAMINATION, 2012

Based on the results of the written examination of Indian Economic  Service/Indian Statistical Service Examination 2012 held by Union Public Service  Commission in December 2012 followed by Personality Test in June 2013, a list of  31 candidates [16 General (including 01 PH2), 08 Other Backward Classes, 05 Scheduled Castes and 02 Scheduled Tribes], in order of merit, who have been  recommended for appointment for the Indian Economic Service against 31 vacancies [16 General, 08 OBC, 05 SC and 02 ST] including 01 vacancy each  reserved for PH-2 & PH-3 and a list of 21 candidates [10 General, 09 Other  Backward Classes, 02 Scheduled Castes], in order of merit, who have been  recommended for appointment for the Indian Statistical Service against 38 vacancies [16 General, 07 OBC, 10 SC and 05 ST] including 02 vacancies  reserved for PH-1 & 1 vacancy for PH-3.

2. The candidature of the Roll Nos 4071 & 5575 (IES) and 1957 & 7731 (ISS) is provisional.

Conservation talks on Antarctica’s living marine resources fail

• The commission for conservation of Antarctic marine living resources (CCAMLR) in an extraordinary meeting held at Bremerhaven, recently, failed to reach any concrete agreement on the two proposals put forward for creation of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Antarctic. CCAMLR’s members are drawn from 24 countries and the European Union.

• The meeting was a follow up to last year’s CCAMLR meeting in Hobart, Australia, which also concluded without any consensus on marine protected areas for the Antarctic.
• The US and New Zealand proposal calls for CCAMLR to designate a Ross Sea MPA of 2.3 million square kilometres including a ‘fully protected’ area of 1.6 million square kilometres.
• The second proposal from Australia, France and the European Union would designate seven marine protected areas in East Antarctica covering about 1.63 million square kilometres.
• At Bemerhaven, this year, the proposals would have been carried forward to implementation, had not one member Nation — Russia — voted against them and scuttled the whole process.

Sun’s magnetic ‘flip’ may affect our climate

• In the next three to four months, the Sun’s magnetic field is expected to undergo a 180-degree “flip” that will see its magnetic north and south poles reverse positions.
• The warning comes from NASA, which has been monitoring solar activity, and the U.S. space agency has cautioned that it could affect storms on Earth and even disrupt satellites.
• The outer layers of the Sun consist of a soup of charged particles whose constant motion influences the alignment of the Sun’s magnetic field. There are two “winds” of such charged particles, one moving east-west and the other, north-south.

• These tug at each other to move the magnetic north and south poles of the Sun, making them go a full-circle once every 22 years. This period is called a solar cycle, understood as a reorientation of the solar dynamo which is the source of the Sun’s magnetic field.

Durga Sakthi Nagpal's suspension has stirred the imagination of countless IAS aspirants as they hotly debate the twists and turns and possible outcome of the case alongside preparing for the civil services exam. For hundreds of these students in Delhi, Durga's become their role model.

राजस्थान लोक सेवा आयोग, अजमेर

 विज्ञापन संख्या:- विज्ञापन सं. 03/2013-14

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Raghuram Rajan,new RBI chief

• Chief Economic Adviser Raghuram Govind Rajan was appointed as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for three years.

• He will take over from D. Subbarao who demits office on September 4.

• At 50, by far one of the youngest to become RBI Governor, Dr. Rajan, who is credited to have correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis, is set to take over the mantle of the central bank at a time when the economy is faced with a multi-pronged crisis of high consumer price inflation, industrial slowdown, a free fall of the rupee and a widening current account deficit.

• Dr. Rajan, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sought to paint the task he is faced with.

• Japan’s biggest warship since WWII

• Japan unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top destroyerthat has raised eyebrows in China and elsewhere because it bears a strong resemblance to a conventional aircraft carrier.

• The ship, dubbed “Izumo”, has a flight deck that is nearly 250 metres long and is designed to carry up to 14 helicopters.

• China launches first Giant Panda channel

• Panda lovers across the world will be able to enjoy from Tuesday, live 24-hour high-definition (HD) Internet broadcasts of the daily activities of the 80 cuddly, endangered animals at China’s premier panda breeding facility.

• China Network Television has installed 28 HD video cameras in five gardens at the Chengdu Research Base of the Giant Panda Breeding in the southwest Sichuan Province.

• Documentaries and a 30-minute panda-themed programme will also be broadcast everyday on the site ipanda.com, State-run Xinhua reported.
• Giant Pandas are one of the world’s most endangered species. About 1,600 pandas live in the wild, mostly in the mountains of Sichuan, while more than 300 live in captivity.

Foreign telecom vendors hang up on testing lab

• Two years after the Department of Telecom (DoT) decided to set up a telecom equipment testing lab at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore,
• It will address security issues, foreign vendors have now refused to share their design details with the premier academic institute as it could hurt their business interests.
• This sudden turn of events will now further delay the setting up of a full-fledged ‘Telecom Testing and Security Certification Centre’ (TTSCC), which should have become fully operational by April 2013. It will also hurt India’s preparedness towards creating the ‘Telecom Security Directorate’ as mandated by the National Security Council.
• Cochin shipyard to float out Vikrant on August 12

• The State-owned Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) will use a pontoon-assisted method, designed in-house, to float out India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-I)— to be named INS Vikrant — on August 12, four years after its keel was laid.

• “Additional pontoons have been welded to the underwater hull of the IAC, which will increase the buoyancy of the vessel and overcome the limitation on the launching weight,”
• The launch marks the end of the first phase of carrier construction with nearly 75 per cent of the vessel structure, including the ski-jump and most underwater equipment in place.
• It will be redocked again for completion of superstructure and extensive outfitting, slated to be attained by 2016.
• The revised schedule for induction of the home-made carrier into the Navy is 2018, four years later than planned.

Indian junior girls hockey team win BRONZE

• Historic win:Jubilant Indian Junior women hockey team members celebrate after winning the bronze medal at Junior World Cup (Women) in Monchengladbach, Germany
• India beat England 3-2 via penalty shootout after the regulation time of 70 minutes ended at 1-1.— In fact, this is the maiden success for the Indian women’s hockey team, across age groups, at the world level.
• Their best before this was a fourth place finish, at the 1974 World Cup and the 1980 Olympics.

Rouhani to form govt in IRAN

• In the midst of parliamentarians, senior clerics, top officials and an array of foreign dignitaries, Hassan Rouhani sworn in as Iran’s new President..
• A moderate cleric backed by the former President Mohammad Khatami and the reformists, Mr. Rouhani has emerged as a unifying figure — his comprehensive victory in the June elections amid high turnout being widely interpreted as an event that brought closure to the divisive and fractious 2009 presidential elections.
• For the first time, Iran has invited foreign guests for a presidential inaugural, signalling Tehran’s extrovert approach during the Rouhani presidency.
• Russia-China conduct military drill
• Russia and China flagged off their regular anti-terrorist war games in Russia’s Urals region seen by experts as preparations for a local military conflict in Central Asia.
• The “Peace Mission 2013” drill in the Chebarkul military training area 1,700 km east of Moscow involves 1,500 troops and more than 250 units of military hardware, including 20 aircraft and helicopters.
• China has dispatched over 600 personnel as well as tanks, armoured personnel carriers, reconnaissance vehicles, self-propelled guns, JH-7A fighter-bombers and helicopters to participate in the drill, which will continue till August 17.
• Joint military exercises held since 2005 alternatively in Russia and China within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) are invariably described as anti-terrorist, but in reality go far beyond their official agenda.
• Though the scenario of the drills in Chebarkul typically provides for the destruction of large terrorist gangs, the weapons and equipment involved suggest “preparations for a full-scale local war on land”, said analyst Vasily Kashin of the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.

Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, 2013
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES FOR FILLING IN THE ONLINE DETAILED APPLICATION FORM

1. The Main Examination in the scheme of the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, 2013 will be held in October, 2013. The detailed Time Table of Examination will be made available along with the e- dmit Card.

2. The Main Examination will be held at following centres :—

Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Dispur (Guwahati), Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Nagpur, Port Blair and Shimla.

In the interest of coordinated and secured logistics, the Commission may not operate centres where the number of candidates is very low. In such cases, the Commission may allot nearest centres to the candidates. The decision of the Commission in this regard will be final and no further correspondence will be entertained from candidates.

It was 1904. Gandhi was travelling from Johannesburg to Durban on a train. His friend Henry Polak had given him a book by John Ruskin named ‘Unto this last’.He read this book during the long journey. This short book contained four essays written in 1860. The book drew from a parable of New Testament which was interpreted by Ruskin as a critic of the industrial society of late 19th century Britain. The book had a profound impact on Gandhi. He translated and paraphrased it as ‘Sarvodaya’. Debunking the utilitarian principle of ‘greatest good of the greatest number of people’, Gandhi insisted that true happiness of a society can be realised only by making the person standing at the lowest rung happy.

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PROMISING FUTURE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

Forty years ago, 45-year-old Martin Cooper made the first nond held mobile call in public. On 3rd April 1973, Cooper made the world’s first mobile call from a Manhattan street corner to Joel Engel, his rival in AT&T. Widely regarded as the “father of the cell phone”, Cooper told Enget “I’m calling you on a real cell phone; a personal portable hand-held cell phone.”

The clunky- heavy phone was Motorola’s DynaTac 8000x far removed from the modern, ultrathin, super-light smart phones of today It was 9 inches tot; an inch and a half wide and weighed 2.5 pounds - no wonder it was called “the brick”. It had a battery life of only 20 minutes and a single-line text-only LED screen. It would be a decade before the phone would finally reach the hands of consumers at a whopping cost of $ 3,995.