Questions from Chrome IAS GS Mains Test Series asked in UPSC Civil Services Mains Exam 2018 – GS Paper-I

Questions from Chrome IAS GS Test Series asked in UPSC CSE (Mains) 2018

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Value Added Article: Are Sewer Deaths the New Normal | Category – Disaster Management | Source – Economic and Political Weekly

The recent deaths of six sewerage workers in Delhi in two separate incidents form part of a continuing series of such deaths. The pressure of poverty forces these workers to descend almost bare-bodied into sewers full of filth and excreta, fully knowing that they may asphyxiate to death as have many others like them.

Continue ReadingValue Added Article: Are Sewer Deaths the New Normal | Category – Disaster Management | Source – Economic and Political Weekly

Value Added Article: Doable and Daunting | Category – Indian Economy | Source – Indian Express

According to statistics released by the WTO in July, the share of India in total world merchandise exports was 1.68 per cent in 2017, a level it has more or less maintained since 2011. The preceding decade was better when India more than doubled its share from only 0.7 per cent in 2001 to 1.67 per cent in 2011.

Continue ReadingValue Added Article: Doable and Daunting | Category – Indian Economy | Source – Indian Express

Static – World History – The Weimar Republic and Hitler (1) | Focus – Mains

By the end of the 1919, a new constitution had been agreed by the German Parliament which was meeting in Weimar because Berlin was still torn by political unrest. This Weimar constitution gave it name to the Weimar Republic, and lasted until 1933.

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