UPSC Civil Services Exam

Please find the important news and practise questions for the newspaper dated 15 Jan 2020. Lets start with the idea of how to read ' The Hindu ' for UPSC prep. Q: Is reading a newspaper compulsory to clear UPSC CSE exam? A: Looking at the syllabus, it becomes clear that current affairs play a major role in the selection.  In Prelims:  Current events of national and international importance In Mains: Current affairs will add special flavour to your answers in GS2 and GS3 in particular and all the  remaining  papers in general In personality test- UPSC checks " Candidates are expected to have taken an intelligent interest not only in their special subjects of academic study but also in the events which are happening around them both within and outside their own State or Country as well as in modern currents of thought and in new discoveries which should rouse the curiosity of well educated youth" Hence one cannot afford to ignore the current affairs part. Q