ClearIAS Backgrounder (Current Affairs) – 100 Most Important Topics for UPSC CSE (PDF)

ClearIAS Backgrounder (Current Affairs) is our new product in PDF format which covers the background of the 100 most important topics for the UPSC Civil Services Exam (CSE).

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ClearIAS Backgrounder – Connecting Background of Current Affairs

To understand any current affairs topic in the news, it is extremely important to first understand its background.

Once the background is clearly understood, you can easily connect it with present-day issues/affairs.

What if a book helps you connect the background with the current issues?

It will help you save a lot of time, besides giving you great conceptual clarity. Also, such a compilation would be highly useful for last-minute revision.

This book “ClearIAS Backgrounder: Current Affairs” perfectly does this job.

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Table of Contents (100 Most Important Topics for UPSC CSE)

1. Abrogation of Special Status of Jammu and Kashmir
2. Full statehood to Delhi: Should it be granted or not?
3. Ayodhya dispute
4. Price Deficiency Payment Mechanism
5. Aadhaar and Privacy Issues
6. Election Funding
7. Free Speech: Rights & Limits
8. Frequent promulgation of Ordinance
9. Interstate water disputes
10. Judicial activism and judicial Overreach
11. Judicial appointment: Collegiums vs. NJAC
12. Media freedom and Responsible reporting
13. Muslim Personal law: Polygamy/ Triple talaq
14. NGOs and Development/ Crackdown on NGOs
15. Dalit assertion and Politics of reservation
16. Restriction on the entry of women into places of worship
17. Supreme Court Judgment on Caste, Religion in Polls
18. Parliamentary disruptions
19. Uniform civil code
20. Agrarian crisis: Issues in farmer economy
21. Issues Related to Social Media
22. Criminalization of politics
23. Marital rape
24. ‘Living wills’/ Euthanasia
25. Net neutrality
26. The merger of PSU banks
27. Privatization of Air India
28. Capital Punishment/death sentence
29. Politics and Economics of Farm Loan Waiver
30. The entry of foreign universities into India
31. National Medical Commission Act 2019
32. Barring MPs from practising law
33. Lateral entry: Professionalizing Governance or Committed Bureaucracy?
34. Section 377: Constitutionality Vs Morality
35. Institutions of Eminence: Can the tag help to create world-class universities?
36. Higher Education Commission of India
37. Bad bank: Is it a good idea?
38. Data Protection: Privacy Vs Innovation
39. Ayushman Bharat: Can it make India healthier?
40. SC/ST Act judgment: Protecting the innocent or diluting the Protection?
41. Khap Panchayats and honor killing
42. National Policy on Biofuels
43. Should the SC proceedings be live-streamed?
44. Doubling the Farmer’s income
45. What prevents women from working in India?
46. Special category status
47. National Register of Citizens
48. Death penalty for raping minor
49. Mob lynching: Is it becoming a new normal?
50. RTI: Is it on the brink of extinction?
51. India in SCO: Benefits and challenges
52. Minimum Support Price
53. Reservation in promotion for SC/ST employees
54. No detention under RTE
55. Interlinking of rivers
56. Compensatory Afforestation
57. Non Performing Assets
58. Amendments to the prevention of corruption act
59. Issues related to the appointment of Lokpal
60. Office of the Speaker: Powers and Issues
61. Use and Misuse of sedition law
62. Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)
63. Rights of the Transgender Persons
64. Swachh Bharat Mission and Manual Scavenging
65. NITI Aayog: Old wine in a new bottle?
66. Adultery: Section 497 of IPC
67. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and India
68. The National Digital Communications Policy 2018
69. Sexual harassment at the workplace
70. India’s effort towards fighting Climate Change: Issues and Challenges
71. Issues and challenges before the World Trade Organization (WTO)
72. Forest Rights Act (FRA)
73. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
74. Online pharmacies: Why the opposition?
75. INS Arihant: India’s nuclear deterrence
76. Data interception order: digital surveillance?
77. Surrogacy: Issues and challenges
78. Implementing NOTA in the right spirit
79. Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture: Pepsico case
80. New rules for e-commerce
81. Reservation for Economically weaker sections
82. Election Commission of India: A crisis of credibility?
83. Women’s Reservation Bill
84. Unemployment Crisis in India
85. Official Secrets Act, 1923
86. The water crisis in India
87. Should India shift to proportional representation from the FPTP system?
88. What SAARC can learn from ASEAN?
89. Draft National Education Policy, 2019
90. India’s push for Electric Vehicles
91. Mission Shakti: Anti-satellite missile
92. Code on Wages Bill, 2019
93. Plastic pollution
94. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
95. Ban on cow slaughter/ Beef ban
96. Economic growth vs. environmental conservation
97. Nationalism vs Regionalism
98. Should India spend more on science or Social welfare?
99. Laws to ban certain social practices
100. Is AI a danger to humanity?

Unique features of the ebook “ClearIAS Backgrounder – Current Affairs”

• Most Important Events of National and International Importance are presented in a simple and easy-to-learn language.
• You will get an idea of the background/history of important issues.
• Arguments in favor and arguments against are presented. This will be highly useful for UPSC CSE Mains and Interview to take a stand.
• Reference links to related discussions – text and video – from important websites like Rajya Sabha TV, PIB, PRS India, AIR, etc. are provided.
• Issue-based study (with views and counter-views).
• Helpful for Essay Paper as well.
• The details presented in this ebook will be highly useful to answer various questions from the current affairs section of the UPSC Civil Service Exam – Prelims, Mains, and Interview.

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