WSDP Bulletin (27-06-2023)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. For MBBS admissions, NMC withdraws Graduate Medical Education Regulations 2023 ; Check major details READ MORE  
2. The 400 million-year-old fossil changing our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature READ MORE
3. Wagner mutiny shows Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a ‘strategic mistake’: NATO chief READ MORE
4. New Constitution Bench to hear 4 cases READ MORE
5. NHRC sends notice to Maharashtra over torture of 11 workers READ MORE
6. In 10 years of Meitei ST demand, repeated pleas to state, Centre READ MORE
7. ExplainSpeaking: What is Greedflation? Does India also have it? READ MORE
8. US beekeepers fight to replenish honeybee colonies amid high death rates READ MORE
9. World Drug Day: 20 Important Judgments On The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act READ MORE

Main Exam

GS Paper- 1

1. Hundreds stranded as flash flood, landslips disrupt Himachal highways READ MORE
2. A June with extremes in temperature READ MORE
3. Focus on reducing demand for drugs through awareness drives READ MORE
4. Science, humanities and the market forces READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Road Ahead to Save India’s Democracy READ MORE
2. Do the ends justify the means? Amending Dr Ambedkar’s constitutional morality to fit a system that has forsaken it READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. School absences as an early warning system READ MORE
2. Learning to qualify: NEP frameworks overemphasise outcome-based learning while ignoring subjective factors of education READ MORE
3. NFHS Data Reveals Worrying Levels of Malnutrition Among Children in ‘Prosperous’ Gujarat READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. A grand revival: on India-Egypt ties- India and Egypt have re-established close ties in recent years READ MORE
2. Why the country’s boycott of G20 meet in Srinagar must not affect bilateral ties READ MORE
3. Indo-US: Take 2 READ MORE
4. View: In US-China, India-China matrices, competition is the new conflict READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Laying the foundation for a future-ready digital India READ MORE
2. Saving Banks~II READ MORE
3. DC Edit | RBI 4% inflation goal laudable READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Two things that can help us tackle climate change READ MORE
2. Examine patterns in the erratic monsoon READ MORE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Jailbreaking generative AI READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Manipur peace process needs to be accelerated READ MORE

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

1. Transforming India’s disaster management READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Harmonising panch-koshas for abiding anand READ MORE
2. Prone to pleasures READ MORE
3. Get the basics right, excellence follows: Sometimes cosmetics override the basics READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Do you agree with this view that EWS judgement undermines the Constitutional code of equality? Analyse your view.
2. A measure of an economy’s competitiveness derives from its human capital. India’s done well to surpass most countries in economic size but henceforth, intellectual capital will be critical in boosting per capita GDP. Critically comment.
3. Recent developments in India-Africa relations provide an opportunity to build on common ground and expand it into new areas and Egypt can play a critical role in it. Comment.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
• Food and grocery delivery apps keep a constant watch over their delivery partners. In this online slavery, these partners have no control or liberty over their basic rights.
• The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
• Alternative sources of knowledge and learning are posing challenges to the traditional mission of universities, including online and for-profit universities, non-profits.
• There is much value in defining constitutional morality as a paramount reverence of forms and procedures; however, a mere reverence of procedure is insufficient, as evidenced by the judiciary slowly occupying a more and more powerful position within the State structure.
• The US and India’s collaborations to promote solutions around digital infrastructures will continue to undermine the human rights of people in the Global South. In the case of India too, the government has consistently promised to bring privacy legislation, but has failed to uphold Indian fundamental rights.
• This model of digital identity-based development is gonna make a lot of people invested in this project rich, especially the institutions promoting this project.
• A crisis offers us a rare window of opportunity to implement reforms ~ it is a terrible thing to waste. The temptation will be to overregulate, as we have previously done. This creates a perverse dynamic… Perhaps rather than swinging maniacally between too much and too little regulation, it would be better to think of cycle-proof regulation.
• In a developing country, it is not enough to provide recognition for production. The production itself must be increased with the adoption of improved technology.
• Among the many challenges DM authorities face for the future is the strengthening of the district-level system, professionalisation of disaster management through a cadre of professionals, knowledge capture and management, and a more disaggregated early warning system.
• A measure of an economy’s competitiveness derives from its human capital. India’s done well to surpass most countries in economic size but henceforth intellectual capital will be critical in boosting per capita GDP.

50-WORD TALK

• The release of terrorists to a mob in Manipur—among them, the commander of an ambush which claimed the lives of 18 soldiers—is a complete abdication of responsibility. From Kashmir to Chhattisgarh, Indian forces have confronted similar situations with lethal force when needed. To back down surrenders state authority.
• While the basic structure doctrine developed by the Supreme Court has acted as a safeguard against clear violations of the constitutional form, the Supreme Court’s departure from Dr Ambedkar’s vision of constitutional morality has rendered even this doctrine incapable of protecting constitutional morality from the consequences of constitutional amendments.

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.