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Online IAS Coaching for IAS Mains - Public Administration 2013
(Audio Notes) Current Affairs Daily : 20 August 2013 "Topic : Mental Health Care Bill"
(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 20 August 2013
(News) NET Exam Pattern will change from next June by UGC.
Link to a Better Relation: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013
Corruption in Sports: Money at Any Cost: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013
(Sample Material) IAS Mains GS Online Coaching : Paper V (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude) "Aptitude"
(Sample Material) CSAT Online Coaching : Basic Numeracy "Average"
(Sample Material) IAS Online Coaching : Polity - Anti - Defection Law
Today's Important News: 21 August 2013

Online IAS Coaching for IAS Mains - Public Administration 2013

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 06:35 AM PDT

Online IAS Coaching for Public Administration for IAS Mains - 2013

Dear Candidates,
In the last few years the top ranks in IAS have been achieved by candidates having Public Administration as one of the optional subjects. Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2008 - Shubhra Saxena , All India Rank (AIR) 1, CSE 2009- Shah Faesal (AIR 1) and CSE 2010-S Divyadharshini (AIR 1) have given immense popularity to this optional. For this year (2013) Civil Services Mains Examination we are launching Study Kit for Public Administration, we have compiled the Study Kit by analyzing the last few years question papers of UPSC- IAS & also keeping in mind the present trend evolving in this subject.

This online course in Public Administration has been designed with keeping in view the best study material with a summary of the chapter in the slide presentation, comprehensive reference material (Administrative Reports, Categorized Papers of IAS Mains, Case Studies, Diagrams and Charts, Solved Papers of IAS Mains and Gist of IIPA Journals), online interaction with course director on discussion forum, and continuous evaluation through a regular online writing session in every chapter.

Both online discussion forum and evaluation page will give you insight to utilize the online study material & how to present your answers with the assistance of the Course Director. Although Participation in discussion forum and evaluation page is voluntary but we will encourage all our registered users to make active participation in both places with Course Director for generating various views of opinions so that in Mains examination you never fall short of words and concepts.

This online course in Public Administration is unique in itself and no other course in resemblance to it is available in online or offline market. It is simply 'The Ocean in Pot'.

Although this course is designed for UPSC- IAS but aspirants preparing for State Public Service Commission can also get advantage from it and can improve their overall understanding of the subject, depths and final marks in the examination.

This course is going to start at All India Level on first week of September and going to end on last week of November. Any aspirant preparing for UPSC-IAS and State Civil Services Examination and have even no background in Public Administration can join and easily understand this comprehensive course.

Our fees are always very nominal only to meet our course development and management expenses.

Details of Batches and Dates

Batch	Commencement Date	Course Duration
Batch-1	5th September 2013 Registration Open	90 Days

Structure of The Course:

Public Administration Online Reading Material (with both Discussion forum and Answer evaluation page support)
Slide Presentation of the Summary of Every Chapter
Summary of Administrative Committees Recommendations (National and International) like Santhanam Committee on prevention of corruption, Sarkaria Committee, Punchhi Commission, Baswan Report and many more.
Gist of Selected Journals of IIPA (Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi) of last 25 years (As per your requirements in the exam, which we know better)- This section will help you to improve your quality of answers of comments and long and short questions.
Categorized Unit and Sub-Unit Wise Question Papers of Public Administration of last 24 years
Solved papers of Public Administration of IAS-Mains of last 2 years
Case Studies on Public Administration-Collected from National and International Journals and Newspapers - Examples of case studies improve the quality of your long answers.
List of Useful Diagrams and Charts- While answer writing in Public Administration always pictorial presentations with explanations (of Diagrams and Charts) pay rich returns. We will provide you the list of few diagrams and charts with explanation and on the same pattern you have to develop exhaustive list.
Strategy and Suggested Reading - It is full of tips on areas of emphasis, caution while reading and writing ,how to write the answer (?) and Suggested Reading on Public Administration.
Overview of Main Linkages- In Public Administration in your answer you have to form linkages from five to six topics. This is shortest key to get high score in Public Administration. We will provide you the list of few main linkages and on the same pattern you have to develop exhaustive list.

For Any Query Call our Course Co-Ordinators at: 011 65023618, 011 45041881 (Between 11 AM to 6 PM)

What candidates have to do:

1. Deposit the Fee & register yourself before the commencement of a schedule batch.

2. Your active participation is must.

3. candidate can provide genuine feed back and suggestions.

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(Audio Notes) Current Affairs Daily : 20 August 2013 "Topic : Mental Health Care Bill"

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 06:03 AM PDT

Current Affairs Daily Voice Notes

Spotlight/News Analysis (20 Aug):

Topic of Discussion: Mental Health Care Bill
Expert Panel: Prof. Nimesh G. Desai (Director Institute of Human Behavior & Alive Sciences), Aarti Dhar (The Hindu)

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(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 20 August 2013

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:27 AM PDT

Questions:	3
Attempts allowed:	Unlimited
Available:	Always
Pass rate:	75 %
Backwards navigation:	Allowed

These MCQ's Are Based On "THE HINDU" 20 August 2013

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(News) NET Exam Pattern will change from next June by UGC.

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:17 AM PDT

University Grants Commission

National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET)

UGC Planning To Change NET Exam Pattern

The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) is most likely to see a change in its pattern from next June, Prof DN Reddy, UGC member, has said.

During the consultations, Reddy said that two anomalies were pointed out by the faculty and students in the current NET examination pattern. They are conducting the exam in objective pattern without negative marking and testing subjects in paper-II and Paper-III out of three papers. The former JNTU vice-chancellor was addressing the UGC regional consultation on review of NET examination pattern at Osmania University here on Saturday organised by the UGC's Southern Eastern Regional Office (SERO).

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Link to a Better Relation: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:40 AM PDT

Link to a Better Relation

The Karakoram Pass played a significant role in the flourishing trade on the Silk Route between India-China and Central Asia. The pass was shut down and trade stopped in 1949 when Xinjiang became a part of People's Republic of China. Leh was a busy cosmopolitan commercial town, with traders from Central Asia, Kashgarh, Yarkand, Kabul, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh who stayed on for one or two months after their exhausting journey.

The trade, through the Karakoram, influenced the dress, food and dance forms of Ladakh. On the other side of the Pass, "Chini Bagh" at Kashgarh (the residence of the British Joint Commissioner of Trade), "Gurdial Sarai" and "Kashmiri Kucha" (street) at Yarkand, where Indian traders used to stay, still remind us of the magnitude of commerce that took place. The Bactrian camel (double hump) of Nubra valley is a relic from Xinjiang. A generation of people in Nubra still speaks the Uyghur dialect. Food served in some of old streets of Leh has a distinctly Central Asian flavour.

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Corruption in Sports: Money at Any Cost: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 01:20 AM PDT

Corruption in Sports: Money at Any Cost

Sport is a big phenomenon of today, it is very important part of today life. However, sport is rather contradictory phenomenon. It is connected with big humanistic values and it formats life and values of billions of people on the one side. It is also connected with dirty business, doping, corruption and violence on the other side. Corruption in sport should be matter of concern not of pessimism. We are not speaking about decline of sport values. But we are facing of a new challenge. This challenge is higher as the issue is still not dealt with properly. We may perhaps compare doping in sport with corruption in sport. However, doping has been seriously treated for many years now, with number of experts, scientific background and international co-ordination structures. Nothing of it exists in the area of corruption in sport yet.

Just over a decade after cricket was hit by one its biggest scandals, three Pakistani cricketers were given prison sentences last week by a London court on charges of spotfixing. For the first time in cricket's history, players face jail terms of between six and 30 months, besides the prospect of never again playing the game. This is in stark contrast to investigations into match-fixing in 2000 where the central figure was the former South African captain, Hansie Cronje. Cricketers from various countries were alleged to have been involved, including a former captain of the Indian team who is now a member of the Indian Parliament. Enquiry commissions were set up in South Africa and Pakistan following the scandal, but most players got away with bans, fines or in some cases just a reprimand. After the events of 2000, cricket's governing body, the International Cricket Council, set up the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to tackle the menace of match fixing. But ironically it was a sting operation by the now discredited and defunct News of the World in 2010 which exposed the spot-fixing by the Pakistani cricketers and provided evidence for sentencing.

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(Sample Material) IAS Mains GS Online Coaching : Paper V (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude) "Aptitude"

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 01:04 AM PDT

Sample Material of Our IAS Mains GS Online Coaching Programme

Subject: General Studies (Paper 5)
Topic: Aptitude & Fundamental Values for Civil Service

(Sample Material) CSAT Online Coaching : Basic Numeracy "Average"

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:57 AM PDT

Sample Material of Our Online Coaching Programme

Subject: Basic Numeracy
Topic: Average

1. Jitu scores 60, 80, 40, 50 and 90 per cent marks in the subjects A, B, C, D and E respectively. However, the weights attached to those subjects are 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 respectively. Which of the following represents the weighted average of marks scored by Jitu in these five subjects
(a) 75
(b) 78
(c) 62
(d) 79

(Sample Material) IAS Online Coaching : Polity - Anti - Defection Law

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:55 AM PDT

Sample Material of Our Online Coaching Programme

Subject: Polity
Topic: ANTI - DEFECTION LAW

Ques. 1 : 'Defections are a source of political instability'. In this context examine the steps taken to address defections in India?

Ans. Defections are a source of political instability; breach of representative faith and indicate power-hunger among legislators. Therefore, they need to be prevented and punished.

The Anti-defection Law made by the Constitution (Fifty-Second Amendment) Act, 1985 aims to do that. It amended Articles 101, 102, 190 and 191 of the Constitution regarding vacation of seats and disqualification from membership of Parliament and State legislatures respectively and inserted a new Schedule (Tenth Schedule) to the Constitution setting out certain provisions regarding disqualification from membership of Parliament and the State Legislatures on the ground of defection, from the political party to which the Member belongs.

Anti-Defection Law details the grounds of defection and also prescribes disqualification for the defectors for being Members of the House. The grounds of detection are as under:

Today's Important News: 21 August 2013

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:43 AM PDT

Today's Important News (21-08-2013)

The Hindu

National:

Missing coal block files disrupt House

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