WSDP Bulletin (10-01-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. 24th National Conference on e-Governance 2021 successfully concludes at Hyderabad READ MORE
2. Explained: France’s controversial vaccine pass bill READ MORE
3. India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier begins another phase of sea trials READ MORE
4. Galápagos islands volcano erupts spewing lava and clouds of ash READ MORE
5. Expanded tiger reserve may see return of gharials in Assam READ MORE
6. Scientists can detect animal species by vacuuming their DNA out of the air READ MORE

Main Exam   

GS Paper- 1

1. A prudent heritage-CSR partnership is needed READ MORE  
2. Empowering Women or Curbing Rights? Increasing the minimum marriage age is not just tokenistic, but harmful. READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Some Raj Bhavans are on the war path READ MORE
2. Unchanged: After much loss of time, SC allows EWS quota income norm to stay for this year READ MORE
3. Apprehensions persist over electoral bonds READ MORE
4. Imprudent Judgement Leaves Detainees in Despair: The human cost of detention and the implications of re-verification of NRC. READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Changing Education~II READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Maldives, China ink key deals, agree on visa exemption READ MORE
2. Japan-Australia pact shows others can move on without India in Quad READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. The Devas arbitration READ MORE
2. What GDP data says about state of economy, its influence on budget priorities READ MORE
3. How India can give a boost to biofuels: Rather than bank on crop residue and used oilseeds, the focus must shift to a few feedstock crops to produce biofuels READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Zero the way to go READ MORE
2. 2022 may continue the trend of world’s warmest years: UK Met Office READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Politics with the Value of ‘Honesty’? READ MORE
2. The unreality of fact and reality of fiction READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Compare between Dissent and Disagreement in a democracy. Do you think that dissent is in principle against the social contract for the state. Justify your view.
2. The institution of bureaucracy in India is showing signs of fatigue in keeping with modern times. Do you agree?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
• Increasing the minimum marriage age is not just tokenistic, but harmful.
• Brandishing honesty through conducting raids is something that results from one’s moral discomfort with the truth.
• The National Education Policy 2020 has all the right intentions in place to propel the higher education institutions of this country in a trajectory of catalyzing innovative growth and economic development.
• India continues to harbour the illusion that more partners are better than deeper partnerships. This makes creating a regional balance against China more difficult.
• Communalism can be resisted, not by a different version of it, but only by constitutionalism. The politics of hatred need to be checked by politics of love and inclusiveness.
• India’s built heritage is predominantly falling under the jurisdictions of urban areas being governed by respective urban local bodies.
• The law would take its own course and time, but political parties in the Opposition will have to fight the elections in the meantime.
• The investment in the infrastructure to synchronise the electricity produced from RE sources with that from conventional power stations will contribute to energy security, ensure ecologically sustainable growth, and spur employment generation.
• Rather than bank on crop residue and used oilseeds, the focus must shift to a few feedstock crops to produce biofuels.

50-WORD TALK

• Fearful the health system could collapse as the Covid third wave accelerates, panicked citizens have begun stockpiling the antiviral Molnupiravir. But self-medication and over-prescription caused immeasurable harm last summer; avoidable mucormycosis deaths were just one particularly grim result. The government must ensure the use of life-saving medicines is carefully regulated.
• The Supreme Court has finally weighed in on the much-delayed NEET-PG OBC/EWS reservation matter. Not a day too soon. This will contribute immensely toward filling doctor shortages, especially when many of them are getting infected. The allocation of colleges should now be taken up immediately without the usual administrative sloth.

Things to Remember:

• For prelims-related news try to understand the context of the news and relate with its concepts so that it will be easier for you to answer (or eliminate) from given options.
• Whenever any international place will be in news, you should do map work (marking those areas in maps and also exploring other geographical locations nearby including mountains, rivers, etc. same applies to the national places.)
• For economy-related news (banking, agriculture, etc.) you should focus on terms and how these are related to various economic aspects, for example, if inflation has been mentioned, try to relate with prevailing price rises, shortage of essential supplies, banking rates, etc.
• For main exam-related topics, you should focus on the various dimensions of the given topic, the most important topics which occur frequently and are important from the mains point of view will be covered in ED.
• Try to use the given content in your answer. Regular use of this content will bring more enrichment to your writing.