few important topics for punjab national bank exam-descriptive paper

How to handle agitations?

1. • Telengana MP’s fast to drop charges against students
2. • Gujjar Stir
3. • Shiv sena protest against removal of Dadoji Konddeo’s statue: 50
4. buses destroyed
5. • Loss of public property
6. • Disturbance to normal life
7. Corruption and Scams • 2G Scam
8. • Commonwealth Games scam
9. • Adarsh Housing
10. • Allegation on CVC P. J. Thomas
11. • Allegation on B. S Yedurappa
12. • Illegal Mining in Karnataka
13. • S-Band spectrum issue
14. • Black Money
15. • Radia tapes controversy
16. • Demand for JPC
17. • Karnataka Lokayukta issue

Internal Security

1. • Kashmir Issue
2. • Naga issue
3. • Separatist movement in North Eastern states
4. • Naxalism
5. • New initiatives for internal security and Coastal Security

Centre State relations

• Karnataka: Role of governor, anti defection and centre state

relations

Inter state water dispute

1. • Krishna tribunal award
2. • Babli project
3. Babri verdict
4. • What to prevail: Faith or Reason
5. • Appreciation and Criticism
6. Civil liability for nuclear damage bill 2010
7. • The Act
8. • CSC

Voting Behavior

• Landslide win of Nithish Kumar

• Return of UPA in power

AFSPA

1. • Should it be repealed.
2. Caste census
3. • Why and why not?
4. • Merging caste enumeration and head count: pros and cons
5. Declining Parliamentary behavior
6. • Disruptions in parliament

Politics of Regionalism

• Telangana issue

• Srikrishna panel report

Freedom of expression

• Book ban and freedom of expression

• Freedom of expression and contempt of court

Women Reservation in India

1. ADMINISTRATIVE
2. Aadhar: Unique Identification Scheme
3. Census 2011
4. Electoral Reforms
5. Police reform
6. • Narco test & supreme court;
7. Criticism of planning commission

Judicial reform

1. • Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill
2. • Centres for Advanced Legal Studies and Research Bill, 2010
3. • The Prime Minister has recently called for a major overhaul of the
4. legal education system in the country to bring it in tune with the needs of the current socio-economic scenario.
5. • Impeachment proceedings against justice Dinakarna and Sukumar Sen
6. • Uncle Judge syndrome

Educational reform

1. • Higher education and Research bill
2. • Educational tribunals bill
3. • Foreign universities bill
4. • Privatisation of higher education ©VISION IAS
5. • FDI in Higher Education

Health Sector reform

• Medical ethics and clinical trial;

• Bachelor of Rural Health Care course

• Medical Courses in IIT

Industrial disasters

• Bhopal Gas Tragedy

• Chitra oil spill

Accidents

• How to reduce accident in IAF;

• Railway Safety

Civil Services Reform

• ARC

• Civil Services Survey

Social

1. Death penalty
2. • Philosophical Debate
3. • Mercy plea
4. Honor killing
5. • about 1000 killed every year
6. Gender equality
7. • Gender equality and armed forces
8. Death of RTI activists;
9. Provisions and programs for
10. persons with disabilities;
11. Surrogacy in India
12. • law and morality superstitions

Socio-Economic

Naxalism

• IAP-LWE(Integrated action plan for left wing extremism affected areas)

Food security

1. • Food security: Universal or Targeted
2. • New proposed bill
3. • Difference between NAC and PM/PC
4. • Demand for PDS Reform
5. PDS reform
6. • Behind the success story of universal PDS in TN
7. • Inflation & public investment in agriculture ,universal PDS, Future trading
8. • Maharashtra using GPS to track kerosene tankers of PDS
9. • PDS and biometric, GPS, SMS
10. • PDS reforms conferenceInflation
11. • New WPI
12. • New CPI
13. • ESMA
14. Paid news
15. • SEBI's direction to PCI(PCI's guidelines) regarding private treaties between media houses and listed or to be listed non media

companies ;

• Corruption in media

• Radia tapes controversy

Environment and Development

1. • Jaitpur power plant& peoples protest
2. • Plan to give tribal a share of mining profits
3. • potential future value of land must be considered for compensation
4. • Media hype and reality of new India
5. • Implementation of FRA
6. • Illegal mining
7. • Commission to probe illegal mining of coal, iron and manganese;
8. • New Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2010
9. • action plan to curb illegal mining;
10. • Climate change and Developing countries.
11. • POSCO issue
12. • National Green Tribunal
13. • GM crops
14. Decontrol of petrol prices
15. • Revenue neutral regime for petroleum tax; Population
16. • Population in the era of globalization: asset or liability

Economic

Need for Super Regulator

• Regulatory bodies : what , why, balance b/w autonomy and accountability

• ULIPs , IRDA and SEBI

• issue of overlapping jurisdiction of regulators

• FSDC

TAX REFORMS:GST&DTC

• benefits and hurdles

FDI in retail

• Discussion paper

Financial inclusion

1. • launch of ‘Swabhimaan', a special campaign for financial inclusion to bring banking to the masses
2. • New Banking licenses
3. • Bank denying Muslim scholarship accounts;
4. • One rupee bank account;
5. • Mobile Banking
6. • Financial inclusion and India post International Issues
7. Wikileaks :pros and cons
8. Currency war
9. Migration, Globalisation etc
10. MDG

Pro democracy protests in Mediterranean and Arab countries.

• Egypt, Libya, Yemen etc.

Environment issues

1. • Global warming/Cancun Summit
2. • Biodiversity/ Nagoya summit
3. Middle East peace process Bilateral
4. India's Global Leadership
5. • P5 heads visited India in 2010
6. • India's Cancun efforts appreciated
7. • Global reports predict bright Vibrant Economy
8. • India in the Security Council
9. 2010 - Scripting a landmark year in Indian diplomacy
10. Recent Bilateral Updates.
11. • USA, Russia, France, China, UK, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia etc.