WSDP Bulletin (12-05-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Shallow and deep ecologism READ MORE
2. Explained: What is the sedition law, and why Supreme Court’s fresh directive is important READ MORE
3. WMO report: Below normal mercury in India from 2022 to ’26 READ MORE
4. 70% infections can be prevented if good hand hygiene is followed, says WHO READ MORE
5. What Is Omicron’s Future? And Will the Delta Variant Stage a Comeback? READ MORE
6. National Technology Day: Everything you need to know READ MORE
7. India elected as Chair of Association of Asian Election Authorities for 2022-24 READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Psychiatrists warn of internet addiction in children READ MORE
2. Upwardly mobile: Digital empowerment of citizens a work in progress READ MORE
3. A Caste Census Is the Answer to the Impasse Over Political Reservations for OBCs READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Frozen sedition: The Government must heed the spirit of SC order and help prevent misuse of sedition law READ MORE
2. Don’t just reform – remove: Even a changed sedition law will be misused. SC’s review must end in scrapping Section 124A READ MORE
3. Power overreach strains Centre-state ties READ MORE
4. WHO estimate and the problem with data in India READ MORE
5. Regulators don’t need constitutional status READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Still a long way for termination as an unconditional right READ MORE
2. Delhi HC delivers split verdict on marital rape READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. The Ukraine war will impact Asian politics READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Heading for GST Exit READ MORE
2. Reviving rural consumption likely to be a long haul READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Climate crisis: Invest in a holistic approach READ MORE
2. India Eases Green Rules for Coal Mines to Tackle Fuel Crisis READ MORE

SECURITY

1. India’s critical need for cyber doctrine READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Overcoming constraints to spiritual awakening READ MORE
2. Non-violence: the essence of the culture of peace READ MORE
3. TN: ‘Poor Police Accountability Leads to Human Rights Violation’ READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Sustaining GST requires restoring trust in the Centre-state relationship’. In the light of the statement highlights the issue with this tax regime and how a fundamental reset of the Union-States relationship can fix them?
2. ‘In a democratic country, there must not be any space for sedition’. Critically Examine.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace.
• The Government must heed the spirit of the SC order and help prevent misuse of sedition law.
• Despite amendments, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act does not foreground the woman’s right to decide.
• While access to abortion has been available under the legal regime in the country, there is a long road ahead before it is recognised as a right of a person having the capacity to become pregnant to decide, unconditionally, whether a pregnancy is to be continued or not.
• GST isn’t just about economic efficiency conceived by technocrats. Sustaining it requires restoring trust in the Centre-state relationship.
• Fixing GST requires a fundamental reset of the Union-states relationship and nurturing it back to a state of mutual trust and respect.
• The rising mercury put stress on the coal-fired energy systems, indicating how much climate action and energy transition needs are intertwined.
• With its humongous consumer base, the country needs to focus on the productive utilisation of mobile data to leverage its digital gains.
• The government needs to understand that better official statistics are required not just to counter estimates by global agencies. It is required for better policymaking.
• Keeping the WHO pandemic death estimates aside, the bigger issue that has cropped up time and again is the reliability of India’s official numbers in many areas.
• At present, storing specific data may prove effective to prevent cybercrimes or incidents.
• If we are to improve the democratic foundations of our country, there must not be any space for sedition.
• Dissent, criticism and differences of opinion are vital for the functioning of any democracy.
• Accountability and transparency are effective ways of ensuring that they remain truly independent.

50-WORD TALK

• The Supreme Court should be complimented for taking a clear and historic position to keep the sedition law in abeyance. It should follow this up with lower courts to speedily free those languishing in jails for sedition. Modi government should use this opening to bury this obnoxious law for good.

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.