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ECONOMY

World Trade Organisation (WTO)

"The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization established in 1995 to regulate and facilitate international trade among member countries. It aims to create a fair and open trading system by enforcing trade agreements, resolving disputes, and promoting free trade. It ensures that trade flows smoothly, predictably, and freely across nations."

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https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/05/30/world-trade-organisation-wto/
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IS INDIA THE WORLD’S FOURTH LARGEST ECONOMY?

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects India’s nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at USD 4.19 trillion in 2025, marginally eclipsing Japan and making India the world’s fourth-largest economy at market exchange rates (MER). In purchasing-power-parity (PPP) dollars, however, India has already been the third-largest economy since 2009 and is expected to retain that slot through 2030. The political narrative that celebrates the new ranking is therefore highly method-dependent."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/03/is-india-the-worlds-fourth-largest-economy/
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ECONOMY

The World Bank

"The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. It consists of two main institutions:

1. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD): The IBRD focuses on middle-income and credit-worthy low-income countries. It provides loans and technical assistance to finance development projects such as infrastructure, education, healthcare, and environmental protection."

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https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/05/30/the-world-bank/
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Mains Focus

MISINFORMATION A BIGGER THREAT THAN COVID-19 UPTICK

"India has begun to register ~200-400 fresh severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 cases per day since mid-May 2025, with ~4,000 “active” infections on 3 June 2025; Kerala, Karnataka, and Haryana are driving the numbers. Genome sequencing shows that almost all samples belong to the Omicron descendant lineage JN.1 and its faster-spreading grandchildren LF.7 and NB.1.8.1, now tagged “variant under monitoring” by the World Health Organization."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/03/misinformation-a-bigger-threat-than-covid-19-uptick/
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Mains Focus

WHEN GANDHI MEETS AMBEDKAR: HOW HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS CAN CHANGE OUR VILLAGES

"The Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) completed its first decade in November 2024. Conceived at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and later adopted by the Ministry of Education, it seeks to link every Higher Education Institution (HEI) with a cluster of villages, so that cutting-edge knowledge fertilizes grassroots development while students and faculty learn directly from rural realities.

Today the programme straddles both the Gandhian ideal of Gram Swaraj and B. R. Ambedkar’s insistence on dismantling caste-bound hierarchies, offering a living laboratory where technology, social justice and democratic decentralisation meet."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/03/when-gandhi-meets-ambedkar-how-higher-education-institutions-can-change-our-villages/
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Mains Focus

MISINFORMATION A BIGGER THREAT THAN COVID-19 UPTICK

"India has begun to register ~200-400 fresh severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 cases per day since mid-May 2025, with ~4,000 “active” infections on 3 June 2025; Kerala, Karnataka, and Haryana are driving the numbers. Genome sequencing shows that almost all samples belong to the Omicron descendant lineage JN.1 and its faster-spreading grandchildren LF.7 and NB.1.8.1, now tagged “variant under monitoring” by the World Health Organization."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/03/misinformation-a-bigger-threat-than-covid-19-uptick/
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Mains Focus

DOES THE CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION NEED REFORM?

"The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination (CSE) has morphed from Macaulay’s 1854 merit test into today’s three-tier marathon. Yet with 13.4 lakh applicants for Prelims 2024 and barely 14,627 qualifiers (≈1 per cent success), the gateway now resembles a “jealous gate-keeper” rather than a talent-scout. Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao calls this prolonged ordeal a “colossal waste of productive years” and urges a second makeover."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/05/does-the-civil-services-examination-need-reform/
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Forwarded from Lukmaan IAS Official
Daily PIB Highlights (10-06-2025)

Topic- 1: India–Switzerland Economic Partnership
GS-2 & 3: IR and Economy

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry held extensive engagements with Swiss industry leaders on 9th June 2025 in Bern, Switzerland, aimed at deepening economic cooperation and exploring new avenues under the signed Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/11/daily-pib-highlights-10-06-2025/
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Forwarded from Lukmaan IAS Official
Mains Focus

A STRATEGY FUELLED BY VISION, POWERED BY ENERGY

"India has overtaken Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy (nominal GDP ≈ USD 4.3 trillion). Energy is both the “flywheel” and the “speed-governor” of this growth: India is already the third-largest primary-energy consumer and, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), will account for the single-largest share of global energy-demand growth to 2040 (≈ 25 per cent)."


https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/05/a-strategy-fuelled-by-vision-powered-by-energy/
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Forwarded from Lukmaan IAS Official
CSP-2025-WR-RollList-Hindi-110625 (1).pdf
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📢 UPSC Prelims 2025 Results Declared!

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the result of the Civil Services Preliminary Examination held on 25th May 2025.
Candidates who appeared for the exam can now check their Roll Numbers in the official result list.

📄 Download the PDF and check your result now!

🤩Congratulations to all qualified candidates, and best wishes for the Mains preparation!

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Mains Focus

AIMING FOR AN ERA OF ‘BIOHAPPINESS’ IN INDIA

"The United Nations’ International Year of Millets (2023) and India’s “Shree Anna” initiative have revived interest in forgotten foods even as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) presses nations to halt species loss by 2030. India, a “mega-diverse” country sheltering ~8 % of global biodiversity on 2 % of land, is therefore uniquely placed to pioneer an era of “biohappiness” — a term coined by M.S. Swaminathan to link ecological security with human well-being."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/05/aiming-for-an-era-of-biohappiness-in-india/
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Mains Focus

IS IBC AN EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION TOOL?

"With eight full years of implementation, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has resolved 1,194 corporate debtors (CDs), helped creditors realise ₹3.89 lakh crore (32.8 per cent of admitted claims; 170 per cent of liquidation value) and induced early settlement of defaults worth ₹13.78 lakh crore in 30,310 cases that never even entered insolvency."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/11/is-ibc-an-effective-resolution-tool/
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Daily PIB Highlights (07-06-2025)

"Topic- 1: The nation’s multiple development projects worth over Rs 46,000 crore at Katra, Jammu & Kashmir
GS- 3: Infrastructure

The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone, inaugurated and dedicated to the nation multiple development projects worth over Rs 46,000 crore at Katra, Jammu & Kashmir on 07th June 2025. Saluting the land of the brave Veer Zorawar Singh, he remarked that today’s event is a grand celebration of India’s unity and determination. PM inaugurates Chenab bridge – world’s highest railway arch bridge and Anji bridge – India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/11/daily-pib-highlights-07-06-2025/
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Mains Focus

MISSING CLIMATE DISASTERS BY FOCUSING ON GLOBAL WARMING LEVELS

"Record-breaking mean global temperatures in 2023 and 2024 (1.45 °C and 1.55 °C above the 1850-1900 average) have revived debate on whether the Paris‐Agreement guard-rails of 1.5 °C and 2 °C are still meaningful yardsticks. The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Global Climate 2024 confirms that long-term warming is still below 1.5 °C; yet, at least one year between 2025 and 2029 now has an 86% probability of breaching that level, with a non-trivial 1% chance of exceeding 2 °C in a single year."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/11/missing-climate-disasters-by-focusing-on-global-warming-levels/
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Forwarded from Lukmaan IAS Official
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WATER MANAGEMENT IN INDIA NEEDS A NEW COURSE

"World Water Day 2025 foregrounded glacier preservation, while the
UN World Water Development Report 2025 branded mountains and glaciers “global water-towers,” underscoring upstream–downstream interdependence. Simultaneously, the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) highlights the increasing coastal hazards and marine pollution, emphasizing the need for integrated governance of land-to-ocean systems."

https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/11/water-management-in-india-needs-a-new-course/
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