General Studies Civil Services: Both Prelims/Mains

An electrolyser is a device that uses electricity to facilitate a chemical reaction known as electrolysis. In this process, an electric curr...

  What is the older name of Kartavuya Path? Raj Path. Further details at https://www.livemint.com/news/india/explained-everything-you-...

 The book is written by Sumir Sharma to fulfil the requirements of the students of the Post Graduate course in History of Punjab Unive...

The Indian Economy is part of GS III. There are around 10 questions which relate to Economics in Preliminary Examination. A general u...

The GS III paper includes questions on Security and Disaster Management. There are similar questions which can be expected in Preliminary. ...

A Study of India is highly important for Preliminary as well as GS I , GS II and GS III. In Wikipedia Books, Aman Agarwal has compiled ...

Free Books on Science: Basic In brief, Check the links below. They are compiled articles from Wikipedia. They can be useful for prepa...

The Questions on Geography form an important part of the Preliminary Examination on General Awareness. As per the different estimates ther...

FSSAI: Full form: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (Memory tag: resembles Sports Authority of India SAI, here it is Stan...

National Ayurveda Day is celebrated on Dhanvantri Jayanti every year. The theme for 2016 National Ayurveda Day is Prevention and Cont...

“Sowa-Rigpa” commonly known as Amchi system of medicine is one of the oldest, Living and well documented medical tradition of the world. It ...

Ministry of AYUSH: The Ministry of AYUSH was formed on 9th November' 2014. Earlier it was known as the Department of Indian System of M...

The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gases ...

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer Vienna Convention is a Multilateral Environmental Agreement. It was agreed upon ...

The Union Budget presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley, for FY 2015-16, announced the formation of MUDRA Bank. Accordi...

Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is National Mission for Financial Inclusion to ensure access to financial services, namely, Banking/ ...

What is RuPay Debit Card? Ans. Rupay Debit Card is an indigenous domestic debit card introduced by National Payment Corporation of India (N...

What is BSBDA Account? Ans. Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) has been defined by RBI vide its circular dated 10.08.2012. Its sal...

The Civil Aviation Ministry has launched the Regional Connectivity Scheme on October 21, 2016. It is one of the objective of the National Ci...

: Vidyanjali - (School Volunteer Programme) is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education ...

Scoville Scale: It is the measurement of pungency of chili peppers and other spicy foods as reported in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). The measu...

All the Nobel Prize Winners of 2016 can be noted from the site of the Nobel Prize Site itself. Click HERE to access the page. It is repea...

Full form of PAVA Shells: Pelargonic Acid Vanillyl Amide (PAVA) The Riot Control device and munition has been developed by Indian Institute...

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón: Juan Manuel Santos the President of Columbia. He is the sole winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2016. He was awarded t...

Antonio Guterres: Antonio Guterres will be the next Secretary General of United Nations. He will take over from Ban Ki-moon on January 1, 2...

Arthapedia: It is a portal maintained by the Indian Economic Services. It gives the explanation of the concepts used in India economy polic...

National Pension System Click here for elaboration as given on TOI by Swatantra Kumar

S N Reddy on ITCSA blog has given a very useful post on How to use India Year Book ( Click Here to access ). It is a "You Must Read Cat...

RTGS stands for Real Time Gross Settlement. For an authoritative FAQ check HERE a RBI FAQ . For Wikipedia article, which contains a wider ...

Check this Book HERE . The book is available on Indian Telugu Civil Servants Association blog. The link will take you that site. The ...

Kindly Check the Report HERE on Civil Services Examination Reforms. No comment for present.

I recommend that the fresh aspirants must read the post by S N Reddy, IRS ( Click Here for the Post ). It is nicely written in a lucid Engl...

Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize of her historic fiction "Bring up the Bodies". It is her second Booker Prize. She becomes the...

Business studies are now important part of the General Studies Preliminary and Mains examinations. The suggested post here (Click to acc...

Justice Altamas Kabir has been sworn as the Chief Justice of India. He is the 39th chief justice of India. His predecessor was Justice S. H....