WSDP Bulletin (30-03-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Rashtriya Gokul Mission READ MORE
2. S. Senate approves $52 billion chips bill in bid to reach compromise READ MORE
3. Assam-Meghalaya Sign Agreement to Resolve Border Dispute in 6 Locations READ MORE
4. As told to Parliament: 75% cropland treated with chemical fertilisers READ MORE
5. Warm Arctic waves, La Niña to blame for early heat waves, depressions: Experts READ MORE
6. New Director-General of the International Labour Organization elected READ MORE
7. Nehru Memorial in Delhi to become ‘PM Museum’ READ MORE
8. Assam: Rhino population rises by 200 in Kaziranga National Park READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Society’s pushback could blunt bigotry READ MORE  
2. Irreversible damage: Erosion of glaciers must be slowed READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Responsible Management: The new paradigm READ MORE
2. Educated Muslim Women Term Hijab Verdict ‘Judicial Overreach’ READ MORE
3. Decoding the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 READ MORE
4. This scheme mapping ‘abadi’ village areas is a win-win situation for Gram Panchayats READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Centralising tests: A common test as the sole determinant of merit for admission is problematic READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Bridging the bay in quest of a stronger BIMSTEC: The grouping has potential as a natural platform for development cooperation in a rapidly changing Indo-Pacific region READ MORE
2. A missed chance for India-China relations READ MORE
3. Quad as ineffectual bloc: Quadrilaterals have been about common goals but lack the strategic depth READ MORE
4. China’s outreach to South Asia READ MORE
5. What good is the UN in its present shape READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. India’s space economy boom is here READ MORE
2. Subsidise petrol, check fuel prices READ MORE
3. Is Entrepreneurship A Viable Alternative To Jobs? READ MORE
4. The Future of Fiscal Consolidation in India READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY  

1. The principles of wildlife management READ MORE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Why India Needs a National Biosecurity Policy READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Let there be peace in the ultimate reality too READ MORE
2. Self-knowing & meditation READ MORE
3. What philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ has to do with the war in Ukraine READ MORE
4. Gandhi’s Moral Agents READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘The economic and strategic significance of the Bay of Bengal is growing rapidly with a re-emergence of the idea of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ region’. In the light of the given statement, discuss how India with the help of BIMSTEC can secure its interest in this region?
2. ‘BIMSTEC has huge potential as a natural platform for development cooperation in a rapidly changing geopolitical calculus and can leverage its unique position as a pivot in the Indo-Pacific region’. Analyse the statement in the light changing dynamics in Indo-pacific region.
3. ‘Despite, having many failures, the importance of UN can’t be neglected in world peace and without it, the influence of large countries themselves would be the more disastrous for world’. Justify the statement with the help of appropriate examples.

 QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Politics and religion are obsolete. The time has come for science and spirituality.
• When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love. Thoughts of war bring destruction to all harmony, well-being, restfulness and content. Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship, and happiness.
• In the emerging post-Covid-19 global economic scenario, India has to attempt uplifting its growth rate closer to its potential while restoring fiscal consolidation so that sustained growth and stability in government finances can be achieved.
• A comprehensive employment strategy must extend far beyond entrepreneurship if we want to realise the productive potential and aspirations of our youth.
• The economic and strategic significance of the Bay of Bengal is growing rapidly with a re-emergence of the idea of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ region.
• BIMSTEC has huge potential as a natural platform for development cooperation in a rapidly changing geopolitical calculus and can leverage its unique position as a pivot in the Indo-Pacific region.
• If we can control the mind, then we can regulate peace in ourselves. If we are peaceful, then we can influence the state of peacefulness around us. If we are powerful or influential, the range of our control is widespread.
• Knowledge and self-control can lead us to a peaceful mind. When we have an abundance of peace in ourselves, it automatically diffuses to the surroundings.
• Event-specific evaluation of regulators can be harmful. Objective and periodic assessment of their performance is the need of the hour.
• Responsible management is all about growing and becoming successful without compromising on ethics, community development and safety of the earth.
• This integrative model for responsible management can be seen as the highest level in the evolution of responsible business thinking, since it incorporates the three background domains of sustainability, responsibility and ethics as distinct and equally important bases.

50-WORD TALK

• Fears about the misuse of a proposed new law allowing collection of biometric data from individuals accused of crimes are not unfounded. True, the US and UK have similar laws. But police powers are abused in India and concerns that innocents will be framed are real. Effective safeguards are needed.

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 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.