A.P. GAS LEAK: SC DECLINES TO INTERFERE WITH NGT ORDER
Why in news? The Supreme Court did not interfere on 19th May with an order passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The NGT had ordered LG Polymers to pay ₹50 crore as interim compensation for the gas leak at its Visakhapatnam plant. NGT also set up a five-member fact-finding committee to inquire into the incident […]
INDIA ISN’T PREPARED TO MEET ITS DEFENCE NEEDS
Introduction India’s military security challenges, both current and long-term, came into unintended focus in this month, with the increase in foreign direct investment in defence manufacturing to 74% being announced as a part of the Economic Stimulus Package. India’s Military Security Situation The eastern Ladakh sector saw a stand-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in […]
SELF-RELIANCE, NOT SELF ISOLATION
Introduction The spread and severity of Covid-19 have proved to be the perfect foil to re-ignite fears about open borders and stretched out supply chains India’s Position on Globalisation with Aatmanirbhar Bharat In his May 12 address to the nation the PM made it clear that an Atmanirbhar Bharat wouldn’t be ‘self-absorbed’ but would rather integrate […]
DEVOLUTION OF POWERS TO STATES TO MICRO-MANAGE
Introduction As COVID-19 lockdown is easing up, the states will now have to take care that they open up in a manner that does not aggravate the pandemic, while also addressing economic and humanitarian imperatives. Not a time to start relaxing The doubling rate of the coronavirus infection has improved to 13.6 per cent and […]
THE CHANGING NATURE OF CHINESE DIPLOMACY
Introduction: Foreign Policies of Persuasion and compromise U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt believed that if you “speak softly and carry a big stick: you will go far”. Zhou Enlai, the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China, practiced Roosevelt’s belief. Where Mao preferred to exercise his power from “out of the barrel of a gun”, […]
20th May – Editorials/Opinions Analyses
Contents The changing nature of Chinese diplomacy Devolution of powers to states to micro-manage Self-Reliance, Not Self Isolation India isn’t prepared to meet its defence needs THE CHANGING NATURE OF CHINESE DIPLOMACY Focus: GS-II Governance Introduction: Foreign Policies of Persuasion and compromise U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt believed that if you “speak softly and carry a […]
20th May Current Affairs
Contents A.P. gas leak: SC declines to interfere with NGT order UNODC: COVID-19 unlikely to affect illicit drug supply Hotter oceans spawn super cyclones India, U.S. to collaborate on COVID-19 vaccine trials Reform or face permanent funding cuts, Trump tells WHO Changed dynamic along India-China border Criteria for ‘medium’ MSME units to be revised India […]
BRACING THE ECONOMIC FALLOUT OF CORONAVIRUS
China today is a bigger contributor to global growth than the US, Europe and Japan added together. It is a given that the lockdown in Hubei province will have a significant impact on the $13.6 trillion Chinese economy that is today the fulcrum around which global trade growth turns The beleaguered Chinese banking system is […]
DEFANGING AI
AI should be deployed for purposes that raise productivity but do not displace workers in the country, makes good sense, given India’s problem of unemployment For decades, production has been highly capital intensive despite the abundant availability of labour Rules that make it hard to let go of workers also act as a disincentive to […]
EVOLVING BRAIN: IMPACT OF INCOME INEQUALITY
Income inequality is an undeniable reality in India and in most other parts of the world Research studies seek to understand how income levels may be correlated with differences in the structure of the human brain. The brain evolves constantly over a person’s lifespan This happens as a response to the brain’s external environment—which is […]