Union Budget

• Overview of the Economy

• FRBM Act

• Subsidies

• Tax Reforms

• Disinvestment Policy

POLITY & GOVERNANCE

• How the political parties in India are classified as State Parties or National parties or both by the Election Commission of India. Bring out the recent judgment of Supreme Court of India on derecognizing political parties. List the national parties in India and bring out statistics regarding number of state and registered parties.

• What do you understand by Contempt of Parliament?
• Bring out the role and responsibilities attached to Law commission.
• Bring out the salient features of The Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010 The Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010
• Bring out the salient features of the Educational Tribunals Bill, 2010
• Bring out the salient features of the Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010
• Write about Nalanda University Bill
• Bring out the salient The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill
• Bring out the highlights of the Seeds Bill 2004.
• What is impeachment? Who decides if a Judge should be impeached? What is the majority needed to pass the impeachment motion? Bring out the details of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy committee on Justice Soumitra Sen.

COMBINED SECTION OFFICERS/STENOGRAPHERS’ (GRADE-‘B’/GRADE-I) LIMITED
DEPARTMENTAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION, 2009, 2010 AND 2011

THE CENTRES AND THE DATES OF HOLDING THE EXAMINATION AS MENTIONED ABOVE ARE LIABLE TO BE CHANGED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COMMISSION. WHILE EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO ALLOT THE CANDIDATES TO THE CENTRE OF THEIR CHOICE FOR THE EXAMINATION, THE COMMISSION MAY AT THEIR DISCRETION, ALLOT A DIFFERENT CENTRE TO A CANDIDATE WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES SO WARRANT. CANDIDATES ADMITTED TO THE EXAMINATION WILL BE INFORMED OF THE TIME TABLE AND PLACE OR PLACES OF EXAMINATION. IT MAY BE NOTED THAT CANDIDATES APPLYING FOR STENOGRAPHERS (GRADE-B/GRADE-I) CATEGORIES ARE TO TAKE THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION AND SHORTHAND TEST FROM DELHI CENTRE ONLY.

GEOLOGISTS’ EXAMINATION, 2012

No.4/1/2012-E.I(B) : A competitive examination for recruitment to the posts mentioned in para 2 below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission commencing from the 1st December, 2012 in accordance with the Rules published by the Ministry of Mines in the Gazette of India dated the 15th September, 2012 at the following centres.

Railway Budget

• Focus and Long Term Goals

• Measures Proposed

• Resource Mobilization

• Metropolitan Projects

• Cooperation with State Governments

• Connectivity to Neighbouring Countries

• Green Initiatives

• Passenger/Rail Users’ Amenities

Sports

FOOTBALL

• Archery

• Badminton Indonesian Open super series

TENNIS

• Tennis Wimbledon 2011

• French Open

• USOPEN CROWN MEN

• Baichung Bhutia Announced Retirement

General Studies Paper – II

1. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each:

(a) India and China agreed to achieve a 100 billion dollars trade target by 2015. What can be done to achieve it?
(b) Critically examine the importance & implications of the ‘Look East Policy’ for India.
(c) Asses Pros and Cons of New liberal visa regime with Pakistan.

खेल

• आॅस्ट्रेलिया ने भारत से चार अंतरराष्ट्रीय टेस्ट मैचों की श्रृंखला 4.0 से जीती
• कामनवेल्थ बैंक त्रिकोणीय श्रृंखला 2012
• विजय हजारे एकदिवसीय क्रिकेट ट्राॅफी
• रणजी ट्राॅफी 2012
• अंतरराष्ट्रीय क्रिकेट परिषद चैंपियंस ट्राॅफी प्रतियोगिता का आयोजन वर्ष 2013 के बाद बंद
• एशिया कप क्रिकेट टूर्नामेंट 2012
• दलीप ट्राॅफी
• सचिन तेंदुलकर ने करियर का 100वां शतक

NATION

• Bring out Srikrishna Committee’s report on Telangana
• Ultra Mega Power projects (UMPP)
• Write about the National c-Governance Plan (NeGP) and its status in-India
• Comment on National Policy for Open Standards in e-governance.
• With respect to Innovation Universities what are the salient features of draft innovation universities bill.
• First Aadhar village in India
• Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna
• Comment in the recommendations of The Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II
• Eastern Freight Corridor
• Bring out the recommendations of Vaidhyanathan committee on Agricultural Statistics.
• Bring out N.R. Madhava Menon Committee recommendations on Autonomy of Central Educational Institutions
• National Forest Land Bank

Awards

• Sahitya Akademi Awards

• Justice P.N. Bhagwati Award

• Clean Development Mechanism Project Award

• Grammy Award

• Golden Globes Awards

• Padma Awar ds for theYear 2012

• Ashoka Chakra

• 20th Saraswati Samman

• Writers’ Guild Awards

• UNESCOMadanjeet Singh Prize 2011

• 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Gist of Yojana Magazine

• All about Genetically modified Foods
• Integrated Coastal Zone Management
• Draft National Telecom Policy, 2011
• Credit Rating
• Protecting Human Rights in India
• Wikileaks
• Recent Steps to Check Generation and Spread of Black Money
• Financial Committees of the Parliament of India
• What is the National Knowledge Network?
• Nuclear Power Programme of India
• Sahitya Akademi Awards

विज्ञान और तकनीक

• सांस से बिजली पैदा करने की प्रौद्योगिकी
• सबसे छोटा कंप्यूटर माउस
• दीवार के पार देखने की तकनीक
• बिजली बनाने की नई तकनीक
• नैनोपार्टिकल्स से दवा देने का सीधा असर
• परमाणु हथियार ले जाने में सक्षम अंतर-महाद्वीपीय बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल अग्नि-5 का सफल परीक्षण

ECONOMICS

• What is Doha Development Round talks of WTO? Comment on the present status of Doha Development Round talks.
• Bring, out the salient features, of the Forward Contracts (Regulation)
• What is new in new Wholesale price Index (WPI) introduced by the Government of India in September 2010?
• What do you understand by the term Financial inclusion? Bring out the status of financial inclusion in India
• With reference to international economic relations, what do you understand by most Favoured Nation (MFN) status and National treatment (NT)?
• The Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA)
• Bring out the salient features of Price Control Bill, 2010
• Bring out the highlights of DMP model or Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of Labour markets.

अर्थव्यवस्था

• आर्थिक समीक्षा 2011-12 वित्त मंत्री प्रणब मुखर्जी द्वारा लोकसभा में पेशरू एक नजर

• आर्थिक समीक्षा 2011-12:  एक नजर

• रेल बजट 2012-13 रेल मंत्री दिनेश त्रिवेदी द्वारा लोकसभा में पेशः एक नजर

• रेल बजट 2012-13: एक नजर

• गंगा नदी के प्रदूषण को कम करने हेतु राष्ट्रीय गंगा नदी बेसिन प्राधिकरण को विश्व बैंक की सहायता

Gist of Editorials & Articles

• Naxalism

• Supporting the Rupee

• Corruption

• India is stands on North Korea

• th Indo-Russian Summit (Moscow)

• North Korea

• National Defense Authorization Bill

• Lokpal

• RBI

• Aadhaar

Gist of Economic Survey 2011-2012

• MICRO-FOUNDATIONS OF MACROECONOMIC POLICY

• FISCAL DEVELOPMENTS AND PUBLIC FINANCE

• PRICES AND MONETARY MANAGEMENT

• FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION AND MARKETS

• BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

• INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• AGRICULTURE AND FOOD

• CREDIT AND INSURANCE

• INDUSTRY

• SERVICES SECTOR

• ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNICATIONS

• A. POWER

SOCIAL ISSUES

• With respect to gender equality in guardianship what are the salient features of Personal Laws (Amendment) Act?
• Bring out the salient features of Sabla scheme.
• Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY)
• Bring out the aims of National Population Policy 2000. Do we really moving towards population stabilization as expected by National Population Policy 2000?
• Bring out the new definition of Slums. Compare the 2001 census data on urban slum with 2011 census.
• Bring out the salient features of Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010
• Bring out salient features of the recent draft Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2010
• What do you understand by the term Social Networking Service What are the emerging trends in Social Network service? Write about the potential misuse of social networking services Bring out the social impacts of Social network.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• What do you understand by the term Neutrinos? Bring out the position of India in Neutrino Physics

• Bring out the appication of Neutrino technoogy

• India-based Neutrion Observatory (INO) project

• What do you understand by HapMap Project? Why HapMap Project has bee in news recenty?

• The first-ever Census of Marine ife (CoM)

• Differentiate cruise missie from baistic missie

• What do you understand by the term breeder reactor? Assess the contributions made by the Fast Breeder

• Test Reactor at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kapakkam Bring out Homi

• Bhabhas vision for the country’s nucear eectricity programme,

• Rustom

• What do you understand by In vitro fertiisation (IVF)?

• What is graphene Bring out the uses of grapheme

• What are geneticay modified (GM) organisms and GM foods? Do you think GM foods are safe?

भारत और विश्व

• भारत, जापान और अमेरिका की पहली त्रिपक्षीय वार्ता वाशिंगटन में संपन्न
• प्रथम भारत-अमेरिका उच्च शिक्षा सम्मेलन
• श्रम और रोजगार के क्षेत्र में सहयोग करने पर भारत और अमरीका के मध्य सहमति
• भारत और श्रीलंका
• एनटीपीसी और सैलोन विद्युत बोर्ड के मध्य संयुक्त उद्यम स्थापित करने हेतु समझौते पर हस्ताक्षर
• भारत और श्रीलंका के मध्य व्यावसायिक प्रशिक्षण केन्द्रों को आधुनिक बनाने हेतु समझौते पर हस्ताक्षर
• भारत और श्रीलंका के मध्य फेरी और नौका सेवा  के बाद पुनः शुरू
• भारत और जापान

Environment (Current)

• Environmental Appraisal Authority Coming

• Environment Ministry Revises Wildlife Habitat Guidelines

• Jairam Lifts Stop-work Order on Maheshwar Hydel Project

• Capacity of Kunnar Dam to be Raised

• B.R. Hills, Kudremukh Forests Set to Become Tiger Reserves

• Site of Proposed Nirma Plant a Wetland, Must Move: MoEF

• Nation’s First Bio-culture Park to Come up in Bhubaneswar

• ‘Need for Regulatory Body to Monitor GM Crops’

• NMDC to Set up Largest Blast Furnace

• Campaign to ‘save’ Eastern Ghats

• Eco-tourism Guidelines Empower Local Communities

• U.N. Report Favours More Investment in Forestry Sector

• Hyderabad to Host Global Biodiversity Meet Next Year

• Great Indian Bustard Facing Extinction

• Proposed UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Western Ghats