WSDP Bulletin (9/06/2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Commission for Air Quality Management orders phase-out of coal in Delhi-NCR by January 1, 2023 READ MORE
2. Government announces hike in MSP for Kharif season READ MORE
3. Independent central banks READ MORE
4. The future of a Uniform Civil Code READ MORE
5. Inflation’s long shadow: On RBI’s actions READ MORE

GS 1

1. Climate change new research shows alps mountains turning green, white READ MORE
2. Archeology Sensation: An Ancient City Reemerges in Iraq Reservoir READ MORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. The future of a Uniform Civil Code READ MORE
2. Safe foods: On the need to develop lab infrastructure in States READ MORE
3. Pandering to pressure groups READ MORE
4. The future of Indian secularism READ MORE
5. Ambiguity of legislation means over-reliance on judicial interpretation READ MORE
6. Media must be held accountable for mainstreaming hate speech, divisive nationalism READ MORE
7. Why Russia’s Ukraine invasion has put Nal Se Jal’s 2024 deadline in jeopardy READ MORE
8. EC’s pilot on remote voting for migrants is a big plus for democracy. Aim for 2024 full rollout READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. The post-Covid learning challenge READ MORE
2. Climate disasters in Bihar, UP make children more vulnerable to trafficking READ MORE
3. Bihar, Delhi fared worst in Mid – Day meal scheme coverage in 2021-2022 Read More

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Dealing with the Indo-Pacific is not easy READ MORE
2. The Ukraine war and the global food crisis READ MORE
3. India and Vietnam sign mutual logistics agreement READ MORE
4. How tension with Russia & China is pushing Europe to do more business with India READ MORE
5. India, UAE to cooperate in the field of industries, advanced technologies READ MORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Inflation’s long shadow: On RBI’s actions READ MORE
2. GST, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code reforms to push growth after ‘clouds recede’, says Chief Economic Advisor READ MORE
3. Need for Fertiliser Policy and Self-reliance with CPSEs READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. This World Oceans Day let’s talk about marine litter READ MORE
2. Three things scientists don’t know about women farmers and climate change but really should READ MORE
3. An 8% national growth agenda: India’s guiding light should be becoming a $10 trillion economy by 2035, with states also setting high goals READ MORE
4. Environment reports don’t do justice to better measure of India’s carbon footprint READ MORE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Next-generation Corvettes, and the combat edge Navy seeks through them READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Self-Marriage as a means to self-actualisation READ MORE
2. What is Intuition? READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. The independence of central banks from the control of governments has been seen as extremely crucial to achieve economic growth and stability. In the light of above statement analyse the role of Reserve bank of india as an independent decision making body?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Two crucial moves to kick-start the discourse and practice of secularism. First, a shift of focus from a politically led project to a socially-driven movement for justice. Second, a shift of emphasis from inter-religious to intra-religious issues. I invoke the name of two great leaders, B.R. Ambedkar and Jawaharlal Nehru, to make my point. B.R. Ambedkar dispassionately observed that when two roughly equal communities view each other as enemies, they get trapped in a majority-minority syndrome, a vicious cycle of spiralling political conflict and social alienation. This was true in the 1930s and the 1940s. Today, feeling extremely vulnerable, Indian Muslims appear to have opted out of this syndrome. When this happens, the syndrome implodes. The result is neither open conflict nor harmony, simply an exiled existence for Muslims in their own homeland.
• The Nordic countries — Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – provide free higher education to their people, and overseas students were able to study for free until recently. In Denmark, however, tuition fees were introduced for international students from outside the European Union and the European Economic Area, in 2006. Sweden followed suit in 2011. Only Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Germany do not charge international students tuition fees. This ensures that students receive quality education in the streams that they desire rather than pursuing streams that allow them to earn highly so as to repay their student debt.
• There is a strong case for reviving philanthropy and community support for higher education in India. Corporates, generous alumni, and people at large can join in to create strong philanthropic support for higher education and make quality education tuition-free. The government, for its part, should be generous enough to declare such philanthropic donations to the cause of higher education and research tax-free, now that the treasury is full of funds from the ever-growing list of income tax and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) payers.

ESSAY TOPIC

• The future of a Uniform Civil Code in India.

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.