UPSC CSE Key – April 5, 2022: What you need to read today

India Inc’s biggest merger: HDFC Bank & HDFC Ltd will be one

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment

Key Points to Ponder:

• HDFC Bank and HDFC Ltd – What is the plan of merger?

• What is the share swap ratio of the transaction?

• How will the ownership change?

• How will the merger benefit the two entities?

• HDFC Bank and HDFC Ltd ‘merger’ and not ‘Amalgamation’-Know the difference between Merger and Amalgamation

• Public Sector Banks (PSBs) and Private Sector Banks-Know the Difference

• What do you Understand by “Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC)”?

• Banking Structure in India-Know in Detail

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Why are HDFC Limited and HDFC Bank merging, what will be its impact?

Running out of time, climate action feasible and affordable, says IPCC

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change

Mains Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Know about Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports (ARs)-Key Highlights

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (Third Part)-Key Highlights

• What are the new insights on climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation from IPCC?

• How will nature and the benefits it provides to people be affected by higher levels of warming?

• How will climate change affect the lives of today’s children tomorrow, if no immediate action is taken?

• Climate Change and India’s Strategy to deal with Climate Change

• What is Climate Resilient Development?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Check emissions fast or nothing will help after 2030: IPCC report

📍 Explained: What is the IPCC, and why are its Assessment Reports important?

IN PARLIAMENT

FDI, not FII, the right measure of India’s economy: Sitharaman

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Effects of liberalization on the economy

Key Points to Ponder:

• What Is a Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)?

• What Is a Foreign Institutional Investor (FII)?

• What Is Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI)?

• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) and Foreign Institutional Investor (FII)-Know
the Differences

• What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)?

• What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Foreign Institutional Investor (FII)?

• What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI)?

• Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) in India?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Foreign Institutional Investor (FII)

📍 Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI)

📍 What Is a Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)?

THE IDEAS PAGE

No accountability Bill

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation

Key Points to Ponder:

• Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022-Key Provisions

• Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022-What does the Bill propose?

• The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 Vs Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022-Compare and Contrast

• Right to Privacy and Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022

• Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (retd.) vs Union of India and ors. 2017 and the Right to Privacy-Know in Detail

• Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022-Significance

• Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022- Issues and Challenges

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 LS passes criminal procedure Bill, Shah says it will defend rights of crime victims

📍 TOO LOOSE, TOO VAGUE

Fuel for the future

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is green hydrogen?

• Hydrogen and its Types

• Why we need green hydrogen?

• How green hydrogen differs from traditional emissions-intensive ‘grey’ hydrogen and blue hydrogen?

• National Hydrogen Energy Mission (NHM) -Key Highlights

• How is the National Hydrogen Energy Mission (NHM) policy set to boost domestic production of green hydrogen
production?

• What are the facilities to boost export of green hydrogen and ammonia?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 What is green hydrogen and why do we need it? An expert explains

EXPLAINED

WHO’s move on Covaxin

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies II: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.

Key Points to Ponder:

• WHO suspended Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin’s supply, Why?

• What did the WHO inspection find?

• What are these upgrades?

• Why did the company not upgrade its facility specifically for Covaxin earlier?

• Can the company shut down and upgrade the facilities now?

• How does the order impact the supply of Covaxin?

• Has the WHO inspected other companies manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines?

• Bharat Biotech-Know about it

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Covaxin’s road to recognition

Emergency in Sri Lanka: history and contours

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies II: India and its Neighbourhood- Relations.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Know in detail about Sri Lanka’s economic crisis

• What happens with Sri Lanka’s foreign debt?

• Why is Sri Lanka’s economy in trouble?

• Emergency declared in Sri Lanka-Why and its Impact

• Emergency Provisions given in Indian Constitution Vs Emergency Provisions in Sri Lanka-Compare and Contrast

• Who is helping Sri Lanka?

• How India is helping Sri Lanka in this crisis Situation?

• India and Sri Lanka Bilateral Relations-Trust Deficit or Close Neighbours?

• Map Work- Sri Lanka

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Sliding in Lanka

📍 Sri Lanka economic crisis explained: How did the country get here, who is helping?

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