WSDP Bulletin (17-02-2022)

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Prelim and Main

1. Guduchi is safe and does not produce any toxic effects READ MORE
2. Fintech month kickstarts on an inspiring note READ MORE
3. Thousands of Crimson Rose butterflies fly across ocean from India towards Sri Lanka READ MORE
4. Equitable energy access key of environmental policy: PM Modi READ MORE
5. Everyday Economics: What are repo & reverse-repo rates? READ MORE
6. Tonga Eruption Last Month Was Accompanied by Record-Breaking Lightning Storm READ MORE
7. Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link project: Longest tunnel T-49 connected READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Workplace harassment reflects gendered power dynamics READ MORE
2. India’s ‘missing’ forests: DTE analysis exposes big gap in latest national forest survey estimates READ MORE

GS Paper- 1

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. A case for a more federal judiciary READ MORE
2. Stringent checks needed to curb human trafficking READ MORE
3. SC as the guardian of our Constitution READ MORE
4. Hijab ban: Without tolerance, India’s democratic ideals become meaningless READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUE

1. Pipedreams for Indian Academia – II READ MORE
2. Uniformity or Equality? Imposed norms for uniforms in educational institutions cannot be the basis for equality in education. READ MORE

 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Putin and Xi Frame a New China-Russia Partnership READ MORE  
2. India Keeps Floating Away From Its Quad Partners READ MORE

 GS Paper- 1

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. No, policy is not too important to leave to the experts READ MORE
2. Reframing of India’s economic road map READ MORE
3. Address mismatch between skills, jobs READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. India lacks solar waste handling policy READ MORE
2. 56 African heritage sites threatened by extreme coastal events: Study READ MORE

TECHNOLOGY

1. Technology has changed intelligence gathering. Now all you need is an internet connection READ MORE

GS Paper- 1

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Concepts: Negative and Positive liberty READ MORE
2. Tapping the promise of philanthropy READ MORE
3. The artist’s reality READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. “Environmental legislations deal with highly technically complex subject matters which require comprehensive pre legislative consultation otherwise not only there will be avoidable legal challenges but also poor implementation on the ground”. Substantiate with examples.
2. Discuss the importance of forest cover area to minimize the impact of climate change.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honour, as the miser all to money.
• There is an imbalance now which the Supreme Court of India needs to address by empowering High Courts again.
• Economic policymaking needs to be insulated from politics and vested interests of business, as underlined by breaches in NSE.
• The long-term answer to the problem of unemployment is to review and upgrade the quality of education.
• Soft encroachment by the Govt in the ambit of Fundamental Rights can affect the Constitution’s basic structure, which the apex courts guards against.
• Protest is an inherent right in a democracy. But to resort to protest at the drop of a hat makes a mockery of this democratic principle.
• Not just law alone but the core issue of innately gendered power relations at workplaces must be urgently addressed.
• A good bit of the teaching done at India’s formal centres of higher learning today, especially in our metropolises, tends to rely on imported Euro-American theories, concepts, methods and ideologies.
• As the waves of this global pandemic play out, philanthropic capital will be critical in supporting the most hard-hit sectors and organisations to recover and regain resilience.
• Tolerance implies enduring an item or a practice irrespective of the abhorrence that it may engender.
• The AUKUS partnership between Australia, the U.K., and the U.S., in some sense, appeared to be the result of a quiet realization in Washington that it needs more reliable partners in the Indo-Pacific to pursue common security interests.

50-WORD TALK

• NSE’s CEO being taken for a ride for three years by a faceless yogi in matters of running India’s top stock exchange is shocking and absurd. NSE isn’t new to misgovernance controversies but this one beats them all. Letting the perpetrators off with mere fines is a travesty of justice.
• Even though Moscow is withdrawing troops from Ukraine’s borders, the crisis isn’t over. Russia thinks coercion has worked, since NATO expansion is off the table. China has drawn the same lesson from its Asian aggressions. Till the USA shows it can do more than snarl, these powers will keep pushing.

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.