WSDP Bulletin (25-01-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Houses of Parliament to work in shifts READ MORE
2. The US Fed’s Aggressive Monetary Policy Tightening and New Headwinds for Emerging Markets READ MORE
3. Sundarbans is cyclone capital of India: IMD report READ MORE
4. Explained: What Australia hopes to achieve with its unique Online Safety Bill READ MORE
5. What are subsidies and why countries need it? READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Tribals and their Religion READ MORE
2. Cover-up: A few Karnataka colleges are debating whether girl students should be allowed to wear hijab READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Rights-duties conundrum READ MORE
2. FSSAI GM regulation puts health in a soup READ MORE
3. Why a Gender Sensitisation Training is the need of the hour READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

4. The devastating impact of school closure READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. India’s challenge in European geopolitics READ MORE  
2. Testing time ahead for Indian diplomacy READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Dealing with the macroeconomic uncertainties: The Union Budget needs to maintain an accommodative fiscal stance to support the sustainability of economic growth READ MORE
2. Helping Indian economy down the road to recovery READ MORE
3. Wanted: A job guarantee scheme for cities READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. Why the Tonga Volcano Was So Violent, and What It Tells Us About Future Eruptions READ MORE
2. Sundarbans is cyclone capital of India: IMD report READ MORE
3. Middle East: Running Out of Water READ MORE

SECURITY

1. India needs a national security document too. But don’t do a Pakistan READ MORE

TECHNOLOGY

1. Avoidable delay: India would have gained from an early 5G roll-out READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. True dharma begets peace, purity and prosperity READ MORE
2. Classrooms as sites of ahimsa: Compassionate mode of listening can encourage appreciation of plurality READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. The right and the duty are meaningful only in conjunction. Do you agree with the statement? Justify your view.
2. Prolonged school closure in India during pandemic is unreasonable and unscientific. Critically analyse.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The good that violence seems to do is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
• Education is a constitutional right. By closing schools for this long and providing a poor substitute with online education, we have violated children’s right.
• Rising unemployment needs to be addressed through an urgent policy response that strengthens job guarantee programmes. The welfare models of the Government in providing food security to poor households and designing gender budgeting in energy infrastructure are also welcome.
• The Union Budget needs to maintain an accommodative fiscal stance to support the sustainability of economic growth.
• Greater engagement with Europe and dealing with its multiple contradictions must necessarily be important elements of India’s international relations today.
• Public investment in infrastructure is a major growth driver. Bringing down the fiscal deficit to threshold levels can be detrimental to the recovery.
• The Constitution allows the freedom to practice religion, but the law limits the protection to practices found essential and integral to religion.
• India’s soft power has not only been its ancient achievements such as yoga but also its modern democratic traditions which flow from the Indian renaissance. The country will pay an external cost too if these traditions are diluted.
• The government must use fiscal policy to the best of its ability to push growth & create jobs.

50-WORD TALK

• As Subhas Chandra Bose’s statue rises at India Gate, his rightful status as freedom movement icon must not devolve into idol-worship. Was his silence on Nazi and Japanese war-crimes justified? How important was his armed struggle to winning freedom? Enough time’s passed to discuss the truth, with all its greys.

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.