WSDP Bulletin (18-06-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. India backs China’s plan for joint border activity READ MORE
2. Election Commission wants people to run from one seat READ MORE
3. Plea for intellectual property rights waiver for COVID-19 jabs hits a wall READ MORE
4. Off to school through swirling waters READ MORE
5. India reports 22% less sowing till second week of 2022 kharif season, compared to last year READ MORE
6. China Test Drives National Digital Currency READ MORE
7. Payments Vision 2025: RBI aims to regulate BigTech, FinTechs, BNPL services READ MORE
8. Explained: What is the Inter-State Council? READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper-1

1. Caste genie threatens to come out of bottle READ MORE
2. South India challenges the notions of medieval Islam—lessons from Deccan history READ MORE

GS Paper-2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Playing with fire: On Agnipath: The Agnipath must be put on hold given the failure to push it as anything but a cost-cutting measure READ MORE   
2. The bulldozer in Prayagraj poses a challenge to the Constitution READ MORE
3. Being truly presidential: 21st-century India needs a president who will be democracy’s conscience keeper READ MORE
4. Incidence, Causes, and Policy Suggestions: Farmer Suicides in Punjab READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. India’s Infant Mortality Rate Improves, But Still Lags Behind Much of Asia READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. China-India Relations: 2 Years After Galwan Clash READ MORE
2. India-Iran Ties Are Ripe for a Reset READ MORE

GS Paper-3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Govt faces a dilemma over e-commerce READ MORE
2. To Tackle Inflation, RBI Needs to Learn From Its Recent Mistakes READ MORE
3. WTO’s MC12 ends, India’s demand on public stockholdings for food grains pushed to 2023 READ MORE
4. India’s Tech Unicorn Count Continues to Grow Despite Broad Market Turbulence READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Explained: Why is the discovery of microplastics in fresh Antarctic snow troubling? READ MORE
2. Course correction: Experts point out gaps in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework READ MORE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. The Importance of Self-Reliance, Scientific Temper and ‘Idea of India’ READ MORE

SECURITY

1.  Securing borders READ MORE

GS Paper-4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Eco-yog: The art of nature-human integration READ MORE
2. Social media and karuna READ MORE
3. Humans & other living beings READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘A recognition that bilateral ties should be governed only to serve national interests can open doors to fully exploit the potential of cooperation between India and Iran’. Comment on the statement in the light of recent development.
2. ‘BRICS has always been something of a talk shop rather than a serious organization’. Critically examine the statement with the help of relevant examples.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not force them to do its will.
• The Agnipath must be put on hold given the failure to push it as anything but a cost-cutting measure.
• Eco-yog, in essence, is an art of awakening mankind and rejuvenating the Earth.
• While social media has its advantages of reaching out to a vast audience to promote positive causes, it also has a dark side of cruelty and hatred that spreads even faster and wider.
• On the fundamental question of animal personhood, the grounds to exclude nonhumans from humans’ moral and legal universe do not hold at all.
• The talk of the brotherhood of man becomes in India the brotherhood of universal life, of animals and of all life down to the little ants — all these are our bodies.
• The errors committed in the monetary policy response post-2009 should help the central bank form a strategic vision with a medium-to-long term action plan for ‘inflation targeting’.
• Iran is also important to India as it provides an alternate route of connectivity to Afghanistan and Central Asian republics, in the absence of permission for India to use the land route through Pakistan.
• BRICS has always been something of a talk shop rather than a serious organization, and this might be normal diplomatic verbiage without much substance.

50 WORD TALK

• Frequent disruptions in the form of road and rail blockades can dash the country’s hopes of becoming an attractive investment destination, besides creating social instability and worsening the law and order situation at a time when communal tensions are already running high. Jobs, not doles, across the board should be the way forward to arrest the dangerous slide.

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.) 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.