WSDP Bulletin (29-06-2022)

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Prelim and Main

1. SII’s Covovax gets DCGI’s nod for emergency use in children aged 7-11 yrs READ MORE
2. Explained: How a G-7 ban on Russian gold would work READ MORE
3. Explained: What is Hermit, the Pegasus-like spyware that targeted Android, iOS devices? READ MORE
4. Explained: What is the GST Council, and what does it do? READ MORE
5. Explained: As NATO meets in Madrid, Russia, and China challenges before the alliance READ MORE
6. Explained: Who was Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, whose statue is coming up at Bengaluru airport? READ MORE
7. Rajasthan enters uranium mining, issues LoI to Uranium Corporation READ MORE

Main Exam   

GS Paper- 1

1. End of critical pedagogy READ MORE
2. Cooking with ‘dirty’ fuels affects women’s mental health READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Bring the shine back on government jobs: Instead of expanding contractual employment, we should seek to bolster public services READ MORE
2. The essence of time: Judicial intervention should strengthen anti-defection law, not undermine it READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

1.  Towards better mental health infra READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. The G7 plan to counter the Belt and Road initiative READ MORE
2. G7 is trying hard not to be yesterday’s club READ MORE
3. The rules of engagement: China wishes other nations to acknowledge that it is America’s equal READ MORE
4. BRICS leads globalisation mission READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Gig concerns: Platform workers’ needs should be addressed, even as their prospects improve over time READ MORE
2. Going green with sovereign bonds READ MORE
3. Twin deficits cloud growth prospects READ MORE
4. Economic warfare: At the meeting in Germany, the leaders are inching towards an agreement to begin the process of imposing price caps on Russian oil READ MORE
5. Wheat Crisis: Government procurement goals not met, food security risk increases READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. UN Ocean Conference: Experts call for ending policy blindspot to avert ‘ocean emergency’ READ MORE
2. Is eastern Africa’s drought the worst in recent history? And are worse yet to come? READ MORE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. 5G technology will soon be here. India must prepare READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Transparency in the selection of CDS is a must READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Mysticism can link finite with infinite READ MORE
2. Expand yourself READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Analyse how India’s participation in the G7 meeting as an observer serves to advance its foreign and security policy objectives?
2. ‘Green bonds are a voluntary capital market initiative to channel resources towards meeting the looming threat of climate change’. Examine.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The same equations have the same solutions.
• Instead of expanding contractual employment, we should seek to bolster public services.
• ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ used to be a driving motto for the government of the day. Instead, treating them as dispensable seems to be the norm.
• Judicial intervention should strengthen anti-defection law, not undermine it.
• India’s participation in the meeting as an observer serves to advance its foreign and security policy objectives.
• The need of the hour is to unlock the full potential of India’s optical fibre industry and enable India to emerge as a major manufacturing and technology hub while achieving atmanirbharta in its 5G journey.
• Internet connectivity is critical for making the Digital India project inclusive, and widespread use of optical fibre in the remotest corners of the country is vital to ensure that no one is left behind in this endeavour.
• India needs to invest in R&D, offer production-linked incentive schemes to support indigenous high-tech manufacturing and develop intellectual property in critical aspects of digital connectivity.
• A regulatory and institutional framework to deal with the gig economy must be put in place that deals with specific issues in a holistic way.
• The Social Security Code may have been extended to the gig workers but the law needs to be precise for such definitions as ‘employee’, ‘employer’ and their relationship with each other for benefits such as PF to accrue to them.
• Green bonds are a voluntary capital market initiative to channel resources toward meeting the looming threat of climate change.
• Human-induced warming has raised the temperature of the western Pacific Ocean.
• There is an urgent need to decide on a new Western strategy in case of a prolonged economic confrontation with Russia, and educate the voters about the possible consequences.

50 WORD TALK

• If the government has over-borrowed to meet its expenditure and the fiscal deficit is high, the net upshot is low investment and high input costs which make the economy uncompetitive. This reduces the export potential of the economy and adds to the current account deficit. Thus, the twin villains are lax govt control on spending and high global commodity prices, causing inflation and loss of competitiveness.

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.) 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.