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UPSC Mains 2025 Answer Writing: 7/5/3 Rule for Effective Answers
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•Anjali Arora
Jun, 2025
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UPSC Mains 2025 Answer Writing: 7/5/3 Rule for Effective Answers
AN
•Anjali Arora
Jun, 2025
•4 min read
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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - “In the villages itself no form of credit organization will be suitable except the cooperative society.” – All India Rural Credit Survey. Discuss this statement in the background of agricultural finance in India.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•2 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - In a globalised world, Intellectual Property Rights assume significance and are a source of litigation. Broadly distinguish between the terms—Copyrights, Patents and Trade Secrets.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•1 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - In 2012, the longitudinal marking for high-risk areas for piracy was moved from 65 degrees east to 78 degrees east in the Arabian Sea by the International Maritime Organisation.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•2 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - How does illegal trans-border migration pose a threat to India’s security? Discuss the strategies to curb this, bringing out the factors which give impetus to such migration.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•2 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the defence sector is now set to be liberalized: What influence this is expected to have on Indian defence and economy in the short and long run?
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•2 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - Explain how Private Public Partnership arrangements, in long gestation infrastructure projects, can transfer unsustainable liabilities to the future. What arrangements need to be put in place to ensure.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•2 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - Environmental Impact Assessment studies are increasingly undertaken before a project is cleared by the Government. Discuss the environmental impacts of coal-fired thermal plants located at coal pitheads.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•1 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - Drought has been recognized as a disaster in view of its spatial expanse, temporal duration, slow onset and lasting effects on vulnerable sections. With a focus on the September 2010 guidelines from the NDMA.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•1 min read

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UPSC 2014 Mains GS3 Model Answer - China and Pakistan have entered into an agreement for development of an economic corridor. What threat does this pose for India’s security? Critically examine.
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•Mayuri
Feb, 2025
•2 min read