UPSC Key-June 29, 2022: Why to read ‘Dumping’ or ‘Gulabi Meenakari’ or ‘Human trafficking’ or ‘CAPSTONE’ for UPSC CSE

After Prophet row, PM meets UAE President, both underline ties

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interest

Key Points to Ponder:

• How are India’s Bilateral Relations with the UAE?

• India and the UAE diplomatic relations established when?

• India-UAE Economic Relations-Key Points

• What is the Economic Significance of the UAE for India?

• Know the data and statistics on India’s economic ties with the UAE?

• What is an Interim Trade Agreement (ITA)?

• What is Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement?

• Map Work-UAE (Seven Emirates)

• What is ‘The Order of Zayed’?

• Gulf Cooperation Council and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)-compare and contrast

• Gulf Cooperation Council, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and India-Connect the dot

• Is India Member of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation?

• What is the Status of India’s relationship with Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)?

• What does the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) do?

• Which countries include in Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)?

• Why is the Gulf and Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) important for India?

• How much trade does India do with Gulf countries?

• How much oil does India import?

• How many Indians work in the Gulf, and how much remittance do they send?

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📍Explained: What is OIC and why did India slam the group?

📍Why the Gulf matters for India

‘Phantom of Bombay House’, looked beyond India & construction

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: History of India and Indian National Movement. 

Mains Examination: General Studies I:  Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present significant events, personalities, issues.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Personality in News-Pallonji Mistry

• Shapoorji Pallonji Construction Private Limited-Know in brief (Esp. Historical Context)

• The landmark buildings in Mumbai mostly executed by Shapoorji Pallonji Construction Private Limited (SPCL)-Know them in brief

• Shapoorji Pallonji Construction Private Limited was founded in 1865. What was the situation of Industries in India under British rule?

• Know the contributions of Pallonji Mistry in shaping India’s economic growth

• Know in detail the role of Industrialists in the freedom struggle of India

• Why the contribution of the Indian industrialists has not gained much space in the History of India?

• Know the Indian Industrialists initiative of industrialisation at a time when the Crown was indifferent and hostile towards the Indian Industries and industrialists

• What was Mahatma Gandhi’s vision for Indian industries?

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📍Pallonji Mistry: Man with eye for India’s growth story

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

Preparing for 5G

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies III: Changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth and Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Fifth generation wireless technology (5G)-what do you understand by this?

• Difference between 4G and 5G

• 5G Technology – Key Features

• List out the importance of digital infrastructure and critically analyse loopholes in India’s Digital Infrastructure

• The Government of India has taken several measures to build the next generation of digital infrastructure-Know them in detail

• Optical fibre and 5G technology-connect the dots

• What is National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) project?

• National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) project and Bharatnet-Know the difference

• India’s optical fibre industry-Know the Issues and Challenges like unfair competition from cheap imports from China, Indonesia and South Korea

• What do you understand by Dumping?

• How The World Trade Organisation defines dumping?

• What is Total Internal Reflection?

• Total Internal Reflection and optical fibre-connect the dots

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📍Tech InDepth: What is fiber broadband and how does it work

📍Filling the physical gaps in India’s digital push

THE IDEAS PAGE

Not yesterday’s club

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interests.

Key Points to Ponder:

• “The G7 countries managed to present a united front in the backdrop of triple crisis that is The war in Ukraine, the challenge of post-pandemic economic recovery and the eternal issue of climate change”-What author is trying to say in this statement?

• G7 final communique-Know the key highlights

• G7 on China and Russia-Know in detail

• Know the name of G7 countries

• Map Work-G7 Countries

• The G7 countries Global GDP

• How did G7 become G8 and again G7-Reasons

• The G7 countries, during the Leaders’ Summit in Germany, officially launched the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII)- What is G7’s PGII?

• What has been China’s response to the PGII announcement?

• What is Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP) initiative?

• G7 and India-Know in Brief

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📍IN UKRAINE’S SHADOW

📍Explained: The G-7 agenda this year, and what is in it for India

📍Explained: What is the G7?

📍Explained: The G7’s infrastructure investment plan to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative

📍Explained: What is the US-led ‘Partners in the Blue Pacific’ initiative to counter China?

GOVT & POLITICS

Jump in demand for NREGS: 2.6 cr families covered in May

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies II: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes

Key Points to Ponder:

• After a dip in demand for work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MG-NREGS) the demand for work has again seen a rise-Know the reasons

• Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)-Mandate, Goals

• What are the core objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)?

• When was Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act passed by the Indian Parliament?

• What is the relationship between the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA) and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS)?

• In what way paradigm shift has taken place with the implementation of MGNREGA?

• Who are the key stakeholders of MGNREGS?

• What is the role of Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayat in MGNREGS?

• How is Household defined in MGNREGA?

• Issues with MGNREGA?

• What are the eligibility criteria for receiving the benefits under MGNREGA scheme?

• Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)-Nodal Ministry

• COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on MGNREGA?

• Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Social Audit

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📍NREGS wages revised, less than 5 per cent hike in 21 states, Union Territories

Gulabi meenakari brooch to ittar bottles: PM Modi’s gifts to G7 leaders a slice of Indian crafts

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies I: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Meenakari art?

• What is ‘Ek Rang Khula Meenakari’, ‘Panch Rangi Meenakari’ and ‘Gulabi Meenakari’?

• Nizamabad black clay pottery-Know in detail

• What is Dhokra art?

• Dhokra art and lost wax technique-Connect the dots

• How is Dhokra art made?

• What is GI tag?

• Who is a registered proprietor of a geographical indication?

• Know GI products in India

• Importance of GI Tag-Know in detail

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍Explained: The craft traditions behind PM Modi’s special gifts for G7 leaders

THE WORLD

50 illegal migrants found dead in Texas truck, bodies scattered across blocks

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests

Key Points to Ponder:

• What exactly is a refugee, an asylum-Seeker and a migrant?

• What is Human trafficking?

• Human trafficking and migrant smuggling-Connect the dot

• Know about United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

• What is Global Refugee Forum (GRF)?

• What is India’s Refugee Policy?

• 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol and India-Know in detail

• What do you understand by expression ‘right of non-refoulement’?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍Human trafficking and migrant smuggling

NASA’S CAPSTONE LAUNCHES INTO SPACE

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Mains Examination: General Studies III: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.

Key Points to Ponder:

• NASA’s CAPSTONE mission-Know the key details

• Know NASA’s CAPSTONE Mission’s objectives

• What is CubeSat?

• What are SmallSats?

• SmallSats and CubeSats-Compare and contrast

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍UPSC Essentials: One word a day- CAPSTONE

EXPLAINED

Russia’s Gold Reserves, And Why G7 Has Moved To Ban Imports

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Group of Seven nations banned Russian gold imports-Know why?

• How a G-7 Russian gold ban would work

• How much gold does Russia have?

• What other measures have been made on gold trade?

• How will this move punish Russia?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍UK joins US, Canada, Japan at G7 Summit to ban Russian gold imports

Speaker’s powers in a rebellion

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Parliament and State legislatures—structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these.

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Supreme Court made a crucial but unusual judicial intervention while granting interim relief to rebel MLAs of the Shiv Sena- What does the interim order say?

• What does the Tenth Schedule say?

• What was the Nabam Rebia ruling?

• Have legislators used this legal route?

• How can the Speaker be removed?

• What were the reasons for the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision?

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📍BJP asks Governor to direct Uddhav to take floor test

PARTNERS IN THE BLUE PACIFIC

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP) initiative?

• How is China trying to transform its ties in the Pacific?

• What is being done by the US and its allies to counter China?

• Why is the Pacific region strategically important?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍Explained: What is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework?

NITI report on gig economy: the takeaways

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Gig Economy?

• NITI Aayog’s report ‘India’s Booming Gig and Platform Economy’-Key highlights

• What were some of NITI Aayog’s observations?

• What do you understand by ‘female labour force participation’?

• What are NITI Aayog’s recommendations for the gig economy?

• NITI Aayog’s recommendations-Know its significance

• Workforce engaged in the gig economy in India-Know in detail

• Gig Workers in India-Issues and Challenges

• Labour Laws and Reforms in Labour laws in India

• National Commission on Labour’s recommendations and its implementation

• Supreme Court of India on gig Workers

• Unorganised Workers and Gig Workers-Key Differences?

• Code on Wages, 2019-Key Provisions

• Industrial Relations Code, 2020-Key Features

• Code on Social Security, 2020-Key Features

• Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions, 2020-Key Features

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📍 Why social security benefits for gig workers must be expedited

📍 High demand, work control pulled in gig workers; now focus turns to rights

📍 e-Shram registration is a stepping stone towards protection of informal workers

What is Hermit, the Pegasus-like spyware that’s targeted Android, iOS devices?

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies III: Basics of Cyber Security

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Hermit and what exactly does it do on a device?

• How did Hermit get deployed on Android and iOS devices?

• how did they get past both Apple and Google’s security measures?

• What next? How can users keep themselves safe?

• What is Pegasus Software? How does it work?

• How is Hermit different from Pegasus?

• What kind of devices are vulnerable and What information can be compromised?

• Types of Cyber Attacks

• Hermit and Pegasus in India-know in brief

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍Explained: How Pegasus spyware infects a device; what data may be compromised

 

 

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