WSDP Bulletin (18-10-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. What is card tokenization and why should you go for it READ MORE
2. At DefExpo-2022, India to pitch military hardware to Africa, IOR countries READ MORE
3. PM Modi launches ‘One Nation, One Fertiliser’ scheme: All you need to know READ MORE
4. Fight against inflation will be prolonged and dogged, says RBI READ MORE
5. New Covid-19 variants like BF.7, XBB spreading across globe: what risk do they pose? READ MORE
6. of poor in India fell by 415 mn in 15 years: UN report READ MORE
7. Justice DY Chandrachud next CJI, oath on Nov 9 READ MORE

Main Exam

GS Paper- 1

1. In the hijab row, let education not suffer READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Judicial comity over arithmetic: Changes are required in terms of how larger Benches are constituted READ MORE
2. Time the electoral system is reviewed READ MORE
3. Succession Planning for Top Positions in Government Should Be High Priority – But Isn’t READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Recovery analysis that points out what India got wrong READ MORE
2. Fact-Checking the HDI tally: UNDP needs to compute Indian data more accurately, India needs to provide more timely data READ MORE
3. Learn, not nitpick: Instead of trashing Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022, Govt should draw some lessons from its findings READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND RELATIONS

1. C Raja Mohan writes: India, America and the China challenge READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Strengthening dollar shrinks foreign reserves across nations READ MORE
2. Tread carefully: Price, growth trends need to be watched closely before raising interest rates READ MORE
3. Economic Outlook READ MORE
4. India has pushed back poverty, still home to most poor people in world: UNDP index READ MORE

SECURITY

1. A better global police to counter emergent challenges READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. In Rama Tirtha’s woods of God-Realisation READ MORE
2. NO ONE IS SMALL in God’s scheme READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘In light of the extreme climate events in the current year, the world needs to implement climate policies that will ward off catastrophic climate change’. Comment.
2. ‘India’s real food problem isn’t hunger but loss and wastage of food’. Comment and suggest how India can stop the wastage of food?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The less you fear, the more power you will have.
• Being fiscally conservative resulted in a rise in extreme poverty, with there being no signs of any course correction.
• While the fall of the rupee has been relatively moderate, the pace at which India’s foreign exchange reserves are dwindling are a cause for concern.
• Indian and American policies are converging. For both Delhi and Washington, Beijing presents the main national challenges. The current churn offers a promising opportunity for collaboration.
• Public-spirited efficient policing is the most meaningful confidence-building measure that people across diverse geopolitical contours desire and deserve. Interpol and cross-national law enforcement agencies must endeavour to build, maintain and operate a people-centric ecosystem to meet evolving challenges.
• The orthodoxy does not care about the education of girls. But institutions in a democracy must. They have to adopt a more compassionate view of women students wearing the hijab, allowing room for accommodation to account for tough social circumstances.
• The International Monetary Fund report titled ‘World Economic Outlook 2022: Countering the Cost-of-Living Crisis,’ released in October 2022, warns all countries, including India, of an impending economic downturn.
• In light of the extreme climate events in the current year, the world needs to implement climate policies that will ward off catastrophic climate change.

50-WORD TALK

• We follow the Westminster model in which the candidate with the highest number of votes is declared the winner. We should look at the proportional representation system in which every party gets a share of seats proportional to the share of votes it secures. Ideally, a mixed model, as is followed in Nepal & Germany, may be considered.

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.