Current Affairs Quiz 13 August 2026
Daily Current Affairs Quiz Prelims Practice 2027 Score: 0 / 0 Q1 With reference to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), consider the following statements: UPI was developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a body set up jointly by the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian Banks’ Association. Under the zero-MDR mandate […]
Current Affairs 13 August 2026
Legacy IAS Academy · Daily Current Affairs News Analysis — 13 August 2026 7 syllabus-mapped news items, in depth · plus “Also in News” briefs · a UPSC-pattern Mains question with every topic The Hindu · Delhi Edition The Indian Express · Delhi News Analysis 7 Also in News 4 In-Depth News Analysis7 Items Core […]
Editorials/Opinions Analysis For UPSC 13 August 2026
Legacy IAS Academy · Editorials, Opinions & Explained Editorials & Explained — 13 August 2026 The most exam-relevant op-ed, ideas & explainer pieces · mapped to the syllabus · a Mains question with each The Hindu · Editorial The Hindu · Opinion Editorials, Opinions & Explained2 Items Core TopicImportantConcise EditorialsOpinion · The Hindu 01National Food […]
PIB Summaries 13 August 2026
Legacy IAS Academy · Daily PIB Analysis PIB Analysis — 13 August 2026 2 syllabus-mapped government releases, analysed · scheme anatomy, context and critique · a UPSC-pattern Mains question with every topic Press Information Bureau Government of India PIB Analysis 2 Also in News 2 In-Depth PIB Analysis2 Items Core TopicImportantConcise Polity, Governance & Social […]
LPG Challenges to Public Administration Explained
Released: 13 August 2026 · Public Administration Optional Challenges of Liberalisation, Privatisation & Globalisation to Public Administration The New Economic Policy of 1991 forced Indian public administration to reinvent itself — from a licensing, controlling, directive administration to a regulatory, facilitative, performance-oriented one. Thirty-five years on, the transformation is profound but incomplete, contested and constitutionally […]
Public Choice Approach in Public Administration
Released: 13 August 2026 · Public Administration Optional Public Choice Approach in Public Administration Thinkers, Schools, Criticism & Indian Examples for UPSC The Public Choice Approach applies economic reasoning to political and administrative decision-making, treating voters, politicians and bureaucrats as rational, self-interested utility maximisers rather than selfless servants of the public interest. Built between the […]
The Hindu UPSC News Analysis For 13 August 2026
The Hindu — UPSC Analysis Thursday, 13 August 2026 Bengaluru City Edition · Vol. 57 No. 192 · Curated for Prelims & Mains | GS I · II · III · IV Legacy IAS Academy 📋 Today’s Topics FCRA Bill referred to a 31-member JPC — and why the Centre softenedGS2 Justice Yashwant Varma: inquiry […]
Static Quiz 13 August 2026 (Economics)
Daily Static Quiz Prelims Practice 2027 Score: 0 / 0 Q1 Which one of the following statements regarding the Repo Rate and the Reverse Repo Rate is correct? AThe Repo Rate is the rate at which commercial banks lend money to the RBI, while the Reverse Repo Rate is the rate at which the RBI […]
New Public Administration: Social Equity & Minnowbrook
Released: 12 August 2026 · Public Administration Optional New Public Administration: Social Equity as the Third Pillar, Minnowbrook & the Indian Story New Public Administration emerged from the 1968 Minnowbrook Conference convened by Dwight Waldo at Syracuse University, in a year of war, civil rights struggle and the Kerner Commission’s verdict that America was becoming […]
Evolution & Current Status of Public Administration
Public Administration Optional · Paper I · Introduction Evolution and Current Status of Public Administration as a Discipline As an activity Public Administration is as old as civilisation — Egypt, China, India and Mesopotamia. As a discipline it is barely 140 years old, beginning with Wilson in 1887. This chapter traces the journey through Nicholas […]