Marksheet for Preliminary exam for CSE 2023 out for IFoS

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🔆National Investigating Agency Act, 2008

✅National Investigating Agency (NIA) was created after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks as need for a central agency to combat terrorism was realised.
✅The National Investigation Agency aims to be a thoroughly professional investigative agency matching the best international standards.
✅The NIA aims to set the standards of excellence in counter terrorism and other national security related investigations at the national level by developing into a highly trained, partnership oriented workforce.
✅NIA aims at creating deterrence for existing and potential terrorist groups/individuals. It aims to develop a storehouse of all terrorist related information.

📍National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)

✅NATGRID is an ambitious counterterrorism mechanism, which will utilise technologies like Big Data and analytics to study and analyse the huge amounts of data from various intelligence and enforcement agencies to help track suspected terrorists and prevent terrorist attacks.
✅A post 26/11 Mumbai attack measure, NATGRID aims to mitigate a vital deficiency — lack of real time information, which was considered to be one of the major hurdles in detecting US terror suspect David Fleadley’s movement across the country during his multiple visits between 2006 and 2009.
✅It is a counter terrorism measure that collects and collates a host of information from government databases including tax and bank account details, credit/debit card transactions, visa and immigration records and itineraries of rail and air travel.
✅It also has access to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems, a database that links crime information, including First Information Reports, across 14,000 police stations in India.
✅This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies.

Syllabus - anti-terror laws in India

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8th Schedule

✅ The 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution consists of 22 languages.
✅ Of these languages, 14 were initially included in the Constitution.
✅ Sindhi language was added in 1967 while Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were included in 1992.
✅ Subsequently Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added in 2004.
✅ English and Rajasthani are not among the 22 languages in the 8th Schedule.

Tax Revenues Distribution

✅ Article 268: Centre levies, states collect (e.g., stamp duties)
✅ Article 269: Centre levies, states collect and retain (e.g., inter-state trade taxes)
✅ Article 269A: GST, distributed as per Parliament's recommendation
✅ Article 270: Centre levies, distributed between Centre and States
✅ Article 271: Surcharge proceeds go exclusively to the Centre.

IFoS Mains 2023 Marksheet Released:
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Interview schedule for APFC.
3rd June - 14th June 2024

Buddhism split up into the Hinayana and Mahayana sects at the Buddhist council held during the reign of Kanishka in AD 72.

Hinayana (Theravadins) - Lesser vehicle, believe in original teachings of Buddha, not believe in idol worship, attend salvation through self discipline and meditation.
2 sects - Vaibhasika and Sautrantika.
Sub-schools - Staviravadins or Theravadins
and Sarvastivada.

Mahayana (Biddhisattas) - Greater vehicle, worship of images of Buddha and Bodhisattas.
Boddhisattas - deeply compassionate beings who accumulated merit through their efforts but used this not to attain nibbana and thereby abandon the world, but to help others.
Sub-schools - Yogachara, Madhyamaka
and Mahasanghika.

✅The Kabini River is an important tributary of the Cauvery.
✅It is a perennial river, 150 to 200 m. wide and has a course of about 240 kms.
✅It rises in the Western ghats in North Wayanad in Kerala State as two streams i.e. the Mannantoddypuzha and Panamarampuzha.

Kolleru is a freshwater lake located between the deltas of Krishna and Godavari rivers.
✅Kolleru serves as a natural food-balancing reservoir between the two rivers.
✅The lake is fed directly by the seasonal Budameru and Tammileru rivers and is connected to the Krishna and Godavari systems by 67 inflowing drains and channels.

✅Black carbon from sources such as diesel engines and coal-fired power plants

✅ Hydrofluorocarbons (HFC’s) from sources such as refrigerants and aerosol propellants

✅Tropospheric Ozone/ Ground-level ozone, an irritating gas that forms above the Earth’s surface.

Mango Shower: Towards the end of summer, there are pre-monsoon showers which are a common phenomenon in Kerala and coastal areas of Karnataka

Blossom Shower: With this shower, coffee flowers blossom in Kerala and nearby areas.