WSDP Bulletin (19-01-022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. What you need to know about cybersecurity in 2022 READ MORE
2. Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to remote Borneo READ MORE
3. Activities of 2022 discussed at BRICS STI Steering Committee: India to host 5 events READ MORE
4. Neanderthal-inherited gene variant helps in protecting against severe COVID-19: Study READ MORE
5. ‘Hybrid terrorists’ a huge challenge in year 2022, says Jammu and Kashmir Police READ MORE
6. Legendary ‘Collarwali’ Tigress passes away in Madhya Pradesh READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Explainer: Why Haiti is prone to devastating earthquakes? READ MORE
2. How Does an Underwater Volcano Form? READ MORE
3. A Failed Attempt to Create an Equally Sanitary India READ MORE
4. Preventing genocide: It is imperative that international legal protections against genocide are incorporated in domestic legislation READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. ECI’s gesture: Putting off Punjab polls welcome, but Covid concerns persist READ MORE
2. The Seventh Schedule relook READ MORE
3. Trust key to competition regulation READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Inequality kills: A study of the new OxFam report READ MORE
2. The future of school education lies in learning beyond classrooms READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Preventing genocide READ MORE
2. Explained: Who are the Houthis and why did they attack UAE? READ MORE
3. Strategy to woo the ‘Stans’: Why Central Asia is important to India? READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Inflation conundrum: High price rise trends could continue in 2022, compounding the challenge for policy makers READ MORE
2. Grow the pie: Rising inequality per se isn’t a big problem if economic growth raises incomes overall READ MORE
3. Need quick solutions to address bane of growing inequality READ MORE
4. The challenges ahead for India READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. The groundwater emergency in Delhi READ MORE
2. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26 READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Ideal time for us to begin our own moulting READ MORE
2. Overcome Challenges With Faith And Patience READ MORE
3. New Moral Issues: What Happens When Someone Dies in Space? READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Discuss why despite having a good pace of economic growth in last three decade, inequality is widening in India?
2. ‘Public trust can be enhanced by transparency in governance and the use of modern technology in governance is critical to realise it in true sense’. Comment.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose finite hope.
• In the overall analysis, it is more imperative than ever that international legal protections against genocide are incorporated in domestic legislation.
• Economic growth is indispensable to provide the opportunity of a better life to everyone. Policy needs to focus on obstacles to growth, including rent-seeking.
• The government and citizens must treat groundwater as a valuable resource and its rapid depletion as an emergency.
• It’s widely known that levels of poverty have grown, and the chasm between rich and poor has widened as an economic fallout of the pandemic.
• Coal production must match planned thermal power capacity in light of green goals; the target of 1 billion tonnes (earlier 1.5) by 2025 may now be excessive.
• Deep decarbonisation is a very complex and challenging process and will have costs.
• Indian democracy and its foundations of civility are closely associated with caste and imageries of ‘purity’ and ‘pollution’.
• The Swachh Bharat and the project of building toilets should have been associated with both a collective fight against caste-based discrimination as well as access to better health. In failing to realise these goals, we see a failed commitment to equal citizenship.
• Climate change affects the poor and the smallholders, who earn their livelihoods from agriculture, disproportionately. Technologies and adaptation strategies must, therefore, reduce their vulnerabilities.

50-WORD TALK

• Public trust can be enhanced by transparency in governance, by even handedness in enforcement of the law, and by policies that are fair and sensitive in the distribution of public benefits. The use of modern technology in governance has strengthened public trust in government.

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.