This Section will be helpful for these following topics:

1. CONSTITUTION OF INDIAN AND INDIAN POLITY:

• Constitutional, legal, administrative and other issues emerging from the politico-administrative system prevalent in the country.

2. INDIA AND THE WORLD

• This part will include questions to test candidate’s awareness of India’s relationship with the world in various spheres such as the following:
• Foreign Affairs with special emphasis on India’s relations with neighbouring countries and in the region.
• Security and defence related matters. Nuclear policy, issues, and conflicts.
• The Indian Diaspora and its contribution to India and the world.

3. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND INSTITUTIONS

• This part will include questions on important events in world affairs and on international institutions.

National

1. WHO WILL JUDGE THE JUDGES?
2. PROTECTING WHISTLEBLOWERS
3. THE PROBLEM WITH EVMS
4. THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF CORRUPTION
5. BROKEN WINDOW SYNDROME
6. INFORMATION AS A RIGHT
7. ‘SEDITION' VERSUS FREE SPEECH
8. CORRUPTION IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA
9. PERILS OF BECOMING A REPUBLIC OF SCANDALS
10. PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY' — IMPERILLED?
11. NRHM: ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES
12. CAPITALISM: REGULATE, REWORK, TRANSFORM
13. RETOOLING LAWS FOR JUSTICE
14. THE MINISTER VERSUS THE CIVIL SERVANT
15. INDIA'S NUMBERS
16. LESSONS FROM THE KIDNAPPING
17. JUDICIAL STANDARDS & ACCOUNTABILITY BILL
18. NEW VIGILANTISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
19. WHAT PRICE ‘FOREIGN PROVIDERS'?
20. JAN LOKPAL: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
21. ON THE RETURN OF CASTE IN THE CENSUS
22. MAINSTREAMING LDCS: ISTANBUL AND BEYOND

International

1. THE NEED FOR A THIRD PARTY IN WEST ASIA
2. CHANGING FACE OF RUSSIA-PAKISTAN TIES
3. ISRAEL-PALESTINE: THE TALKS WHICH ARE MEANT TO FAIL
4. WHAT THE U.S. ARMS DEAL WITH SAUDIA ARABIA MEANS
5. CHINA-AFRICA: EVALUATING A GROWING PARTNERSHIP
6. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY AHEAD
7. HISTORIC AGREEMENT ON THE HIGH NORTH
8. OBAMA TOURS ASIA AS U.S. INFLUENCE WANES
9. RUSSIA AND NATO: RECASTING TIES
10. CHINA AND NORTH KOREA
11. THE RETURN OF THE ASIANS
12. CHALLENGES BEFORE RISING ASIA
13. THE DARK SIDE OF GLOBALISATION
14. TUNISIA: THE FIRST ARAB REVOLUTION
15. YEAR OF TRANSITION FOR THE OPCW
16. UNIQUE AND ALMOST 50
17. EASTERN PROMISE, WESTERN FEARS
18. A STARTER FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT?
19. ARAB UNREST PROPELS TEHRAN AS RIYADH'S INFLUENCE DECLINES
20. RESETTING THE “RESET” IN U.S.-RUSSIA TIES
21. WATER WOES
22. SAVING CIVILIANS: MURKY GEOPOLITICS
23. U.N. INTERVENTION BROKE THE IMPASSE
24. NEW CALL IN ISRAEL FOR TWO-STATE SOLUTION
25. END TO A MISGUIDED SAGA AT THE UN
26. ROAD MAP FOR A TWO-STATE SOLUTION
27. REGIME CHANGE UNDER UNSC COVER
28. FRENCH COLONIAL PAST CASTS LONG SHADOW OVER POLICY IN AFRICA
29. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL
30. THE NEW GREAT GAME IN WEST ASIA?
31. WHAT THE END OF BIN LADEN MEANS
32. A FORK IN THE ROAD FOR THE U.S. IN SOUTH ASIA
33. THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENSUS AND LEGITIMACY

India & The World

1. DEALING WITH INDIA-PAKISTAN PRISONERS
2. SOUTH ASIA BECKONS CHINA
3. SCO: 10 YEARS OF EVOLUTION AND IMPACT
4. LOOK EAST POLICY — MILLENNIA APART
5. IBSA: TALKING SHOP OR POWERHOUSE?
6. INDIA IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL
7. WHAT INDIA CAN BRING TO THE HIGH TABLE
8. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS & INDIA
9. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM OBAMA'S VISIT
10. NEW ECONOMIC IDIOM IN LOOK EAST POLICY
11. UNSC: INDIA'S MEMBERSHIP AND THE ROAD AHEAD
12. TRADING ONE HYPHEN FOR ANOTHER
13. BETWEEN INDIA AND THE U.S., A DEFINING PARTNERSHIP
14. NOT SO BEAUTIFUL FROM THIS ANGLE
15. THE OBAMA VISIT: HOW SUCCESSFUL?
16. OBAMA AND INDIA'S FIGHT AGAINST TERROR
17. THE U.S. IS WALKING THE WALK
18. NATO AND SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY
19. INDO-RUSSIAN TIES: WHICH WAY?
20. TIME TO RESET THE INDIA-CHINA RELATIONSHIP
21. INDIA AND THE EAST: TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK
22. IS THE GLASS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY?
23. HORN OF AFRICA: WHY INDIA SHOULD CARE MORE
24. WHEN INDIA SITS AT THE HORSESHOE TABLE
25. 2010: INDIA'S UNDECLARED YEAR OF AFRICA
26. INDIA AND AFGHANISTAN: THE WAY FORWARD
27. INDIA-RUSSIA TIES IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA
28. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY — THE TASKS AHEAD
29. RABINDRANATH TAGORE'S VISION OF INDIA AND CHINA
30. EGYPT: HOW INDIA SHOULD RESPOND
31. STRATEGIC THINKER PAR EXCELLENCE
32. ENGAGING INDIA'S FAR EAST
33. U.S. MOVE TO MENTOR INDIA IN NEW EAST ASIA
34. WE MOVED QUICKLY ON EVACUATION'
35. INDIA'S TRYST WITH LDCS: IS IT WORKING?
36. BRICS WORKS FOR SHARED PROSPERITY
37. PAKISTAN CONFRONTS U.S. AFGHAN STRATEGY
38. BRICS SET TO OUTSHINE IBSA?
39. SOME STICKS YET MORE CARROTS FOR PAKISTAN
40. MANMOHAN SINGH RESETS AFGHAN POLICY
41. INDIA'S HOUR IN AFRICA
42. THE EPR HAS IMPROVED SAFETY SYSTEMS'
43. INDIA'S STAKE IN AFRICA'S FUTURE
44. ‘AFTER MMRCA, STAY THE COURSE ON DEFENCE TIES'

Economics

1. UNCOVERING SECRET HOARDS
2. A NEW MEASURE AND OLD WORRIES
3. A STRATEGIC CORRECTIVE
4. POST-DATED CHEQUE FROM SEOUL
5. REFORMING MICROFINANCE
6. RAGHUVANSH PRASAD SINGH
7. GOING ROUND AND ROUND
8. CHANGING AN ESTABLISHED ORDER
9. CREATIVE ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT

Science & Technology & Others

1. ‘IN THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR INCIDENT, VICTIMS MUST GET PROMPT COMPENSATION’
2. DISTRIBUTE, PROCURE, STORE AND SOW
3. THE VERDICT ON AYODHYA: A HISTORIAN'S PERSPECTIVE
4. WHY WE NEED GM LABELLING
5. LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT
6. RESCUING BIODIVERSITY
7. ENVIRONMENTALISTS VS NUCLEAR POWER
8. CANCUN: HELD TOGETHER BY OPTIMISM
9. A NEW PROTOCOL
10. DEVELOPMENT' VS ENVIRONMENT
11. GROWTH VERSUS ENVIRONMENT?
12. GREEN REFORM
13. TRACKING SHER KHAN
14. A SHOCKINGLY UNETHICAL TRIAL
15. BIG BROTHER RULES

Articles By C. Raja Mohan

1. WEST BY NORTHWEST
2. KARZAI IN PAKISTAN
3. OBAMA’S TROOP CUTS IN AFGHANISTAN
4. SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE
5. THE CHANGING GAME
6. UNDOING THE NETWORK
7. CLINTON IN PAKISTAN: TERMS OF RE-ENGAGEMENT
8. RESTRAINING PAKISTAN
9. OUT TO AFRICA
10. WE SHALL PROTECT YOU
11. US-PAKISTAN EQUATIONS
12. THE KABUL GAME
13. SWEET AND SOUR
14. PAKISTAN’S NEXT COUP
15. AMERICAN EXIT?
16. AMERICAN EAGLE, AFGHAN CAGE
17. HAINAN BECKONS
18. A BAG OF BRICS
19. DISASTER DIPLOMACY
20. IT’S NOT WEST VS THE REST
21. WISE DALAI LAMA TESTS BOTH INDIA, CHINA
22. HOW TO INTERVENE
23. INDIA AND THE US CENTRAL COMMAND
24. ART OF THE DEAL
25. THE NEED TO GET SMART
26. HE DARED TO BREAK DOWN SILOS, CHANGE NATIONAL SECURITY DISCOURSE
27. INDIA’S BRIDGE TO THE PACIFIC
28. CHINA AND US RELATION
29. THE MYANMAR PATTERN
30. CHINA’S STAPLED VISA UNSTAPLES ITS STAND ON ARUNACHAL
31. THE GREAT POWER TEST
32. A CROWD OF THREE
33. AMERICAN REAMS
34. DEFENCE DIPLOMACY
35. BEYOND THE DEALS
36. UNSC: BEIJING OFFERS CONSULTATIONS AND UNDERSTANDING, BUT NO SUPPORT
37. OBAMA’S PARTING WORDS TO INDIA YES, WE CAN
38. DAY 1: OBAMA TALKS TERROR, ECONOMICS
39. INDIA-US NEGOTIATIONS CARRY ON TILL LAST MINUTE
40. INDIA MAY FACE HEAT ON OUTSOURCING; CTBT, CLIMATE ON BACK
41. IN THE SHADOW OF THE EAST

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