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19th September 2018

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TEST SERIES WITH VIDEO SOLUTIONS

MAINS 2018
GS + SOCIO + ESSAY CRASH COURSE

STATE PCS MAINS

GS CRASH COURSE
Overview
✤ Child Mortality Rate

✤ Pluto as Planet

✤ Jurisdiction & Powers of SC

✤ B&RI China

✤ Mutual Funds
History
✤ Fraser Commission (1902-03) (Police Reforms)

✓ recommended appointment of Indians at officer

level

✓ abolished Thugee and Dakaiti Department created

by William Bentinck in 1835

✓ during the tenure of Lord Curzon

Society
✤ Child Mortality Rate

✓ death of children below the age of 5 years per 1000

live births

✓ estimated at 39

✓ But, gender gap in child survival remains below

global average
Geography
✤ Is Pluto a planet ?

✓ Conditions for being a planet

❖ must orbit the Sun

❖ massive enough to acquire approximately spherical

shape

❖ clear its orbit

✓ Pluto affected by Neptune’s gravity

Polity & International Relations
✤ Jurisdiction & Powers of Supreme Court

✓ Original

✓ Writ

✓ Appellate

✓ Advisory

✓ Court of Record

✓ Power of Judicial Review

✓ Others
Polity & International Relations
✤ Belt and Road Initiative

✓ Belt : overland interconnecting infrastructure corridors (Silk Road Economic Belt)

❖ Eurasian Land Bridge (Western China to Western Russia)

❖ China-Mongolia-Russia

❖ China-Central Asia-West Asia (W. China to Turkey)

❖ China-Indochina Peninsula (S. China to Singapore)

❖ BCIM

❖ CPEC

✓ Road : sea route corridors (21st C Maritime Silk Road)

❖ contiguous water bodies - South China Sea, South Pacific Ocean & Indian Ocean

✓ Ice Silk Road : to foster development in Arctic region

Polity & International Relations
Economy
✤ Mutual Funds

✓ pool of money from numerous investors who wish to make money just like you

✓ investing in MFs is easier than buying and selling individual stocks and bonds on your
own

❖ Professional management

❖ fund ownership : you own shares of mutual funds, not individual securities

❖ diversified

✤ H.R. Khan Committee

❖ banks should be allowed to pledge corporate bonds as collateral to borrow funds

from RBI’s repo window
Science & Technology
✤ ISRO’s Incubation Centres

✓ 6 centres planned to build capacity

❖ Agartala (Tripura)

❖ Jalandhar

❖ Bhubaneswar

❖ Tiruchi

❖ Nagpur

❖ Indore
Science & Technology
✤ Humans on Moon

✓ Apollo Program (1969-72) : NASA

❖ Apollo 11 (1969) mission landed Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin on Moon

❖ launched by Saturn V Moon rocket

✓ SpaceX Lunar Tourism Mission

❖ proposed spaceflight to fly Yusaku Maezawa and other artists on a

circumlunar trajectory

❖ flight will occur on Big Falcon Spaceship

✓ First space tourist was Dennis Tito who flew in a Russian Spaceship in 2001