Mains Practice Questions

Q. Discuss how emerging technologies and globalization contribute to money laundering. Elaborate measures to tackle the problem of money laundering both at national and international levels.

Q. Describe the key points of the revised Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) recently released by the World Health Organisation (WHO). How are these different from its last update in 2005? What changes in India’s National Clean Air Programme are required to achieve revised standards?

Q. The Nobel Prize in Physics of 2014 was jointly awarded to Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura for the invention of Blue LEDs in 1990s. How has this invention impacted the everyday life of human beings?

Q. Explain the purpose of the Green Grid Initiative launched at World Leaders Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November, 2021. When was this idea first floated in the International Solar Alliance (ISA)? (150 Words)

Q. Do you agree that the Indian economy has recently experienced V-shaped recovery? Give reasons in support of your answer. (250 Words)

Q. Discuss how India’s North-East is emerging as a drug trafficking corridor. Also highlight its implications on national security and local population. (150 Words)

Q. Social Engineering attacks are not only becoming more common against Businesses and Small and Medium Enterprises, but they are also increasingly more sophisticated. Analyse how Social Engineering attacks pose challenge to internal security in India? (250 Words)

Q. Describe the major outcomes of the 26^th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). What are the commitments made by India in this conference? (250 Words)

Q. Discuss about the vulnerability of India to earthquake related hazards. Give examples including the salient features of major disasters caused by earthquakes in different parts of India during the last three decades. (150 Words)

Q. Artificial Intelligence has the potential to provide large incremental value to a wide range of sectors. Comment. (150 words)

Q. Energy is the most fundamental requirement of every society or nation as it progresses through the ladder of development. In the light of the statement discuss the role of nuclear energy. (250 Words)

Q. How is S-400 air defence system technically superior to any other system presently available in the world? (150 Words)

Q. Describe the various causes and the effects of landslides. Mention the important components of the National Landslide Risk Management Strategy. (250 Words)

Q. Discuss the causes of high GHG emissions from the agriculture sector and the steps that can be taken to minimise the emissions. (250 Words)

Q. How and to what extent would micro-irrigation help in solving India’s water crisis? (150 Words)

Q. Analyse the multidimensional challenges posed by external state and non-state actors, to the internal security of India. Also discuss measures required to be taken to combat these threats. (250 Words)

Q. How did land reforms in some parts of the country help to improve the socio-economic conditions of marginal and small farmers? (150 Words)

Q. Analyse the complexity and intensity of terrorism, its causes, linkages and obnoxious nexus. Also suggest measures required to be taken to eradicate the menace of terrorism. (250 Words)

Q. Explain the difference between computing methodology of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) before the year 2015 and after the year 2015. (150 Words)

Q. Distinguish between Capital Budget and Revenue Budget. Explain the components of both these Budgets. (150 Words)

Q. Discuss the opportunities offered by the establishment of a digital university, especially when the covid-19 pandemic has disturbed the functioning of the whole education system. (250 Words)

Q. Discuss the unemployment scenario of India and what measures can be taken to tackle this unemployment wave. (250 Words)

Q. The citizens’ right to protest is a pillar of Indian democracy. However, protests and demonstrations often become a law and order problem and a challenge to internal security. Why is it so? Discuss (250 Words)

Q. “Conventional energy sources are more reliable and should not be abandoned until the alternatives like clean energy have been stringently stress tested.’’ Discuss. (250 Words)

Q. How do you analyse the perceived trade-off between poverty reduction and environmental sustainability? (150 words)

Q. Discuss the need for a comprehensive space strategy that India shall adopt to become one of the major space powers. (250 Words)

Q. Enumerate the major threats to wetlands in India? How can “wise use approach” help in mitigating these threats? (150 words)

Q. “Advancing human development is impossible if we continue to create planetary pressures for others”. In the context of Planetary pressures-adjusted Human Development Index (PHDI), Analyse the statement. (250 Words)

Q. Air pollution is a transboundary problem, it transcends rural and urban boundaries. But the issue of air pollution in rural India is rarely discussed and action plans are rigid. Analyse. (150 words)

Q. Mindless human development has only exacerbated negative impacts on ecologically vulnerable regions of the Western Ghats. In the light of the statement discuss the measures needed to conserve the fragile ecosystem. (250 Words)