WSDP Bulletin (25/05/2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. What is the controversy around Odisha’s Jagannath temple Heritage Corridor Project? READ MORE
2. Rise of social media leading to privacy & IP disputes. Indian laws need teeth to tackle them READMORE
3. All you need to know about the Quad, the current summit, and initiatives READ MORE
4. Glass cliff READ MORE
5. G20 climate goals just won’t do the job, claims new report READ MORE

GS 1

1.      What is the controversy around Odisha’s Jagannath temple Heritage Corridor Project? READMORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. ‘For Cover of Fundamental Rights, Person Must Submit to Process of the Law’: SC READ MORE
2. Rise of social media leading to privacy & IP disputes. Indian laws need teeth to tackle them READMORE
3. India’s Coming Misadventure With Rice Fortification in All Food Schemes READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Glass cliff READ MORE
2. Gender Gap at Work Worsens in Low, Middle-Income Nations, but Reverses in High-Income Countries: ILO READ MORE
3. Do tribal lives matter? Life expectancy, and health indicators stay poor in Madhya Pradesh READMORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Quad is a ‘force for good’, says PM Modi READ MORE
2. All you need to know about the Quad, the current summit, and initiatives READ MORE
3.  Caution and clarity: On the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity READMORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. scraps import duties on sunflower, soyabean oil READ MORE
2. India must stabilise the value of the Rupee READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Time to REJECT FOSSIL FUELS RIGHT AWAY READ MORE
2. G20 climate goals just won’t do the job, claims new report READ MORE
3. Into the ocean twilight zone: How new technology is revealing the secrets of an under-researched undersea world READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Delighted you create, in misery you destroy READ MORE
2. Why Judge People? READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. SDG 5 on gender equality is seen as a key goal, both in itself and for achieving other goals. In this context, examine how crucial gender equality is for development of the country?

ESSAY TOPIC

• Equality at the workplace is a distant dream for women.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• One should be rooted in oneself, because the way from oneself moves deep down to God, to existence. If you belong to a crowd, you belong to an impasse and no further growth is possible from there.
• Forget about the world, society, utopias and Karl Marx. Forget about all this. You are just here for a few years, to be. Enjoy, delight, be happy, dance and love. Out of your love and dancing, out of your deep selfishness, an overflowing of energy will start, and you will be able to share with others.
• In India, the subject of content regulation has always been important due to the diverse structure of Indian culture in terms of religion, economic standing, caste, and language. The policies and acts that currently govern social media are the Copyright Act 1957 and the Information Technology Act 2000. The laws still lack complete coverage over many issues such as platforms that contain links to infringing content. If India is to follow other countries in the regulation of ownership rights on social media service providers, it will have to take into account, among other things, the rights of the users as to the exclusive right over their original content.

50-WORD TALK

• The US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework — a version 2.0 of the collapsed Trans-Pacific Partnership — is welcome counter to China’s economic might in Asia. IPEF focuses on harmonising supply chains and standards, sidestepping political opposition to free trade. To challenge the China-dominated Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, IPEF must prove it’ll boost trade.

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 on 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.