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150 Important Topics for UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2019

Following 150 are the most important topics from which you can expect many questions in
UPSC civil services Preliminary exam - 2019 (also in mains 2019). You need to prepare 4-5
points on each of these topics keeping in mind the nature of questions that were asked in Prelims
2017 & 2018.

We have covered all these issues in both test series and current affairs. But if you can give
special focus on these topics, you will definitely reap extra benefits.

1. Cyclone Fani (Basics of cyclone, types of cyclones, how they are named etc)
2. Intellectual Property Rights
3. Malaria Vaccine
4. BRI Summit 2019
5. Kimberley process
6. World Heritage Day
7. Western Disturbance
8. Notre Dame
9. Aviation Sector in Crisis
10. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
11. Black Hole
12. Amethi and Raebareli (Important institutions/industries in these regions)
13. El-Nino Effect on Monsoon
14. Space Debris
15. Jammu & Kashmir (Places in news)
16. Intelligence Satellite
17. Kailash Mansarovar
18. Golan Heights
19. Mission Shakti
20. Story of Bangladesh
21. End of ISIS
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22. Lokpal
23. The Electoral Reforms
24. Boeing 737 Max
25. Model Code of Conduct
26. The History of Elections
27. Spice 2000 - Smart Bomb | Spice 2000
28. Permanent Commission for women in Armed Forces
29. PM Shram Yogi Maan dhan Scheme
30. Mahashivratri
31. Geneva Convention
32. SHREYAS
33. National War Memorial
34. FATF : Noose Tightens for Pakistan : FATF
35. Passport Ranking
36. Dial 112
37. Women pioneers in Science
38. Digital Security
39. RBI - Monetary Policy
40. Shifting Magnetic North Pole
41. Motion Of Thanks
42. Supreme Court (Basics from Laxmikanth)
43. Responsible use of plastic
44. Netaji's legacy
45. Budget: Health & Sanitation
46. Sardar Patel
47. Budget: Agri Infrastructure
48. Budget -Social Scheme
49. Budget - Social Security
50. Budget - Health
51. Budget : Agriculture
52. Operation Clean Air
53. EWS Reservation
54. JPC - Joint Parliamentary Committee
55. Other side of Moon
56. The Manned Mission
57. Yamuna Cleanup
58. Coal Minning and Accidents
59. Tsunami
60. International Gita Mahotsav
61. StartUp Ranking
62. Implications of Farm Loan Waiver
63. Brexit
64. Pioneers of Aviaton
65. Rafale
66. Air Pollution : ICMR Report
67. Baba Saheb Ambedkar
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68. Agusta Westland Helicopter Case
69. International Disability Day
70. G-20 and India
71. Kartarpur
72. InSight On Mars
73. North Sentinel Island
74. 20 Years of International Space Station
75. Ayushman India
76. Oral Cancer
77. Indo-Pacific:New Possibilities
78. California Wildfires
79. Mahaparv Chhath
80. Indian Army in First World War
81. Air Pollution
82. Maneaters of India
83. RBI Act Section - 7
84. Restoring Balance of Bio Diversity
85. Statue of Unity
86. Ayodhya
87. India's Engineless 'Train18'
88. Moon: Made in China
89. CBI
90. Indian Police System
91. Chandrayan
92. Sabarimala
93. Strategic Petroleum Reserve I strategic oil reserves
94. Sikkim: India's First Organic State
95. Industrial Revolution 4.0
96. Loknayak JP
97. Cyclone Titli
98. Zika Virus
99. The Nobel Prize
100. Gir Lions Under Threat
101. Gandhi and Swachh Bharat
102. Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Day
103. Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay
104. Interceptor Missile
105. Improving Infant Mortality Rate
106. NOTA
107. HCNG : Fuel of The Future
108. India Post Payments Bank
109. BIMSTEC 2018
110. Biofuel : Increasing Radius
111. Sports Policy | National Sports Day
112. Drone Policy
113. Article 35-A
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114. Facial Recognition
115. Gaganyaan
116. Nanda Devi Mission
117. Quit India Movement
118. Meghalayan Age
119. Discover Shale Oil
120. Earth Overshoot day
121. Assam Accord
122. Missile Shield
123. Blood Moon
124. Kargil War
125. Privilege Motion
126. Motor Vehicles Act 2017
127. No confidence motion (Intent and Objective)
128. BRICS Summit
129. Nelson Mandela
130. Monsoon Session Of Parliament
131. Mob Lynching
132. 74th Constitutional Amendment
133. Indian Medicines and global market
134. Future of WTO
135. Kailash Mansarovar Yatra
136. Swami Vivekananda
137. Virtual ID
138. Mining Of Helium-3 on moon
139. Sant Kabir
140. Powers of Governor & Lt Governor
141. Bank Merger policy
142. SCO Summit 2018
143. Oceans of Plastic
144. S-400 Air Defence System
145. Science of Monsoon
146. Heat wave
147. INSV Tarini
148. BrahMos
149. India’s Nuclear Policy
150. Finance Commission

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