WSDP Bulletin (21-07-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Cheetah to arrive in India by August 15 as country signs agreement with Namibia READ MORE
Phased implementation of digital currency for wholesale, retail segments in the works: RBI official READ MORE
RBI prepared to spend $100 billion more defending rupee READ MORE
With $87 billion, India top remittance recipient in 2021: UN report READ MORE
Explained: MSP and govt panel’s task READ MORE
SC nod to 27% quota for OBCs in local body polls READ MORE
Gaganyaan abort mission this year; solar, lunar missions in 2023 READ MORE
Explained: A major India-Africa conclave is taking place in New Delhi — why is it important? READ MORE

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

Examining the defection laws READ MORE
Policy needs to demarcate the difference between gambling and gaming READ MORE
Models of welfarism: The distribution of freebies has its limits READ MORE
Human rights: Access awaiting approval READ MORE
Indian judiciary is crying for basic infrastructure. Here’s what Centre & states need to do READ MORE
As SC Mulls Referring Sena Dispute to Constitution Bench, Tenth Schedule’s Relevance Under Scrutiny READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

Revamp India’s school health services: As schools reopen, there is a need and an opportunity for States to look at a comprehensive package of services READ MORE
Saving mothers: Data on MMR should lead to restructuring health-care systems for women READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

India-Vietnam ties, from strong to stronger: As New Delhi pursues its ‘Act East Policy’, Hanoi has become a valuable partner in the Indo-Pacific region READ MORE
New Cold War a test of India’s strategic skills READ MORE
Quad: India’s outreach booster READ MORE
India takes G20 Presidency READ MORE

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The cost of misrepresenting inflation: The inadequacy of monetary policy to address food-price-driven inflation has been recently flagged READ MORE
Central Bank Digital Currency – The Future of Money? READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

Europe heatwave: a number of reasons, climate change most worrying READ MORE
A robust plan to tackle heightened heat stress READ MORE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

‘As New Delhi pursues its ‘Act East Policy’, Vietnam has become a valuable partner in the Indo-Pacific region’. Comment.
A long-drawn-out new Cold War, generating myriad political and economic problems, calls for an onerous balancing act by India in international power politics. In the light of the statement, discuss how India can use its diplomatic and economic assets to enhance its strength as a regional and global player?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

If I destroy nature, I destroy myself as well. I lose my dignity.
The inadequacy of monetary policy to address food-price-driven inflation has been recently flagged.
As New Delhi pursues its ‘Act East Policy’, Vietnam has become a valuable partner in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) framework presents immense opportunities for India-Vietnam relations to aid regional progress and peace.
A private 5G network can deliver higher efficiencies compared to a public telecom network. This will be critical as enterprises are increasingly digitising their processes.
Heat stress in India is no longer a surprise, which is why it demands an all-hands-on-deck response.
While stopping illegal mining, the government should ensure transparency in all aspects of mining and the open-market sale of sand, gravel and other construction material.
India must use its diplomatic and economic assets to enhance its strength as a regional and global player.
A long-drawn-out new Cold War — generating myriad political and economic problems — calls for an onerous balancing act by India in international power politics.
An economic ideology which projects the market as the answer to mankind’s diverse needs and holds profit maximisation as its motto subsumes all other priorities.

50 WORD TALK

It will be crucial for India to steer the global economic dialogue platform in a manner which is most beneficial for the region, and the country in decades to come. The global leaders from the G20 countries already recognise India’s growing importance in Southeast Asia and in overall world order. India is already in some form of bilateral, plurilateral or multilateral dialogue with most of G20, except for China, with which the relationship has turned frosty post the physical clashes in India’s North-western boundaries. The redeeming feature is that many G20 partners share similar concerns about China.

Things to Remember:

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