WSDP Bulletin (27-06-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Memorandum on the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment READ MORE
2. Iran launches a rocket into space ahead of nuclear talks READ MORE
3. Reviving cultivation of a traditional crop READ MORE
4. Global food crisis: 1 new child suffers severe malnutrition every 60 seconds, says UNICEF READ MORE
5. Report on India’s Gig and Platform Economy launched by NITI Aayog READ MORE
6. Explained | Can virtual servers bypass India’s VPN rules? READ MORE
7. Egypt approves India as a wheat supplier; to import about one million tonnes READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Self-help groups play a big role in the empowerment of women READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Equality Commission: A solution to discrimination? READ MORE
2. More needed on administrative reform READ MORE
3. The crisis in Maharashtra shows the anti-defection law to be ineffective, even counterproductive READ MORE
4. New surrogacy rules: Now comes the tricky part of implementing them READ MORE
5. Federalism Can Also be “Uncooperative”: Significance of the Supreme Court’s Recent Judgment READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES AND JUSTICE

1. Regressive, inhumane: By removing the constitutional right to abortion, U.S. Supreme Court is on the wrong side of liberty READ MORE
2. Pandemic worsened a lot of Indian women READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. How Hanoi and New Delhi are fortifying defence ties READ MORE
2. How BRICS can strengthen itself READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. A weakening rupee and its broad implications on our economy READ MORE
2. Frontiers of regulation READ MORE
3. India emerges as leader at WTO ministerial meet READ MORE
4. India needs National Technology Coordinator. An Indian model in digital infrastructure is ready READ MORE
5. Inflation, RBI and the Tale of Two Economic Advisors READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Why Germany is pushing for a ‘climate club’ READ MORE
2. Improving India’s Poor Environmental Performance READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Elusive ethics READ MORE
2. Power of Thought READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘Instead of providing stability, the Anti-Defection law is undermining our democracy. Scrapping it would provide institutional leverage to express intra-party dissidence’. Do you agree with this view? Analyse your views.
2. How far do you agree with this view that as a lead grouping of developing nations, BRICS has lost its relevance and the group needs to re-invent itself? Justify your view.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• On a reduction, the right to equality should be read as right against unjustified discrimination.
• In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. In a world where information is power, snooping is quite generic and even friends are not exempted. Governments snoop on each other.
• By removing constitutional right to abortion, U.S. Supreme Court is on wrong side of liberty.
• Although the China factor has provided impetus to solidifying India-Vietnam ties, it is also important to consider that mutual cooperation is not driven solely by it. Both countries have expanded areas of collaboration and are supportive of each other’s individual and multilateral involvements within the rubric of the Indo-Pacific.
• Instead of providing stability, the Anti-Defection law is undermining our democracy. Scrapping it would provide institutional leverage to express intra-party dissidence.
• The anti-defection law has undermined not just the very principle of representation but has also contributed to polarization in our country by making it impossible to construct a majority on any issue outside of party affiliation.
• The RBI is right in being wary about innovative fintech practices but its regulation should be soft touch.
• The relevance of BRICS in the medium, or even longer term, to India is now minimal.
• Democracies can survive authoritarians; they cannot survive the absence of an energetic opposition.
• Cooperative federalism (something which the GST Council aspires to promote) may require non-cooperation as much as it may require active cooperation by state units. By this methodology, the Supreme Court interlinks federalism and democracy.

ESSAY TOPIC

• Democracies can survive authoritarians; they cannot survive the absence of an aware citizens.

50 WORD TALK

• Indian decision to reopen its embassy in Kabul is brave. New Delhi has critical interests in Afghanistan. It also makes strong strategic sense to keep channels open with the Taliban. It just needs to be on high alert against violent Islamist groups within Afghanistan and troublemakers across the Durand Line.

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.