22nd June 2018- The Hindu Editorial Complete Analysis

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Dangerous spiral

 There will be no winner in the ongoing global trade war
 global trade war is hotting up as major economies continue to impose tariffs on each other.
 India is the latest to join the tit-for-tat battle by slapping tariffs as high as 50% on a list of 30
goods imported from U.S.
 Earlier this week, U.S. President announced that he had ordered his administration to frame
new tariffs on $200-billion worth of Chinese imports.
 This was in retaliation to tariffs on $50- billion worth in American goods imposed by China
last week in response to Mr. Trump‘s earlier round of tariffs on Chinese goods
 1st shot in the spiralling trade war was fired by the U.S. in March when Mr. Trump unveiled
tariffs to discourage the import of steel and aluminium into the country.
 Latest round of tariffs imposed by the U.S. will be the highest in terms of the value of goods.
 In all, U.S. tariffs will now affect Chinese goods worth $450 billion to put this in perspective,
total Chinese imports into the U.S. last year were worth around $500 billion.
 The European Union also joined the trade war this month, imposing tariffs on $3.3 billion
of American goods
 India‘s notification to the WTO says that U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium would cost India
$241 million- ―measures and counter-measures‖.
 For long, global financial markets largely ignored risks of an all-out trade war among major
economies, but things are changing quickly.
 The fact is that all sides engaged in a trade war eventually lose
 The longer it goes on, the greater the cost as growth slows down under the increasing burden
of taxes.
 Only gainers in a trade war will be special interest groups, such as U.S. steel industry, which
also happens to be a major vote bank for Mr. Trump
 Mr. Trump‘s rejection of G-7 communique that endorsed a ―rules based trading system‖
 Nevertheless, global powers must try their best to bring an end to the ongoing trade war
before it gets out of hand.

Wave of lynchings(वध करना)

 Local authorities must show good faith, and facilitate policing to deal with mob violence
 Uttar Pradesh‘s Hapur district- Rumours that cow smuggling
 Qasim‘s son says his father‘s death was the outcome of a conspiracy(साजिश)
 Administration officials say it may all have been a case of road rage(सड़क पर चालक ोद्वारा जहोंसकरष)- Investigations are on
 But given lynchings across north India by ‘cow protection‘ vigilantes
 Chennai, was battered to death on such suspicion, as was a car-borne woman pilgrim in
Tiruvannamalai district, who offered some sweets to children while seeking directions.
 This month, in Assam‘s Karbi Anglong district, two men from Guwahati were killed by
a mob on the same anxiety that they were looking to kidnap children

 Yet, irrespective of whether the lynchings are due to fear of kidnappings or are deliberate
acts by cow protection vigilantes, the local authorities should work on it.
 Murder is murder, but the killing of another human being by a murderous crowd out to
enforce mob justice
 The police must make it clear, by word and action, that murder and mob violence will be stric
tly dealt with.
 What is needed is an administration that reaches out to local communities to keep them in the loop in order to check trouble-makers — and that conveys sufficient good faith
 So individuals will trust it to keep the peace and sift real threats from mischievous rumours

Making children happy

 We must redefine the purpose of school education
 In 2016, yoga was inscribed on UNESCO‘s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage of Humanity.
 Thanks to a unanimous resolution of the UN General Assembly, the International Day of
Yoga is also celebrated annually on June 21
 Many schools in India have introduced yoga at early ages.
 Principal says yoga improves students‘ mental, emotional, physical and behavioural health:
―Yoga is all about balance of mind, body and soul.
 It improves not only the health of the students but also their concentration
 Growing scientific evidence suggests that yoga and mindfulness training allow young people
to improve ―self-regulation‖
 Ability to control attention & emotions, avoid aggression, and engage in self-directed learning
 Over recent decades, access to education has expanded significantly throughout the world.
 Countries are increasingly achieving universal basic education, extending their coverage
to secondary education.
 However, at the same time, there is a concern that education systems are becoming too
competitive, stress-fuelled and exam-oriented
 Causes of these are many and complex, but there is an increasing consensus that something
must be done to redefine the purpose of school education.
 UNESCO promotes the notion that schools must provide an environment conducive to
learning where children
 Feel physically and mentally safe,
 Encouraged to make and learn from mistakes, and
 Be recognised and respected for their multiple talents apart from academic excellence.
 But these factors can be easily forgotten in a highly competitive environment
 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, based in Bangkok, has launched the
Happy Schools Project, with the aim of promoting happiness in schools through enhanced
learner well-being and holistic development.
 We are in the process of operationalising Happy Schools framework, with the involvement of
the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP).
 MGIEP is the first UNESCO institute of its kind in the AsiaPacific region and is generously supported by the Indian government.
 It has developed a social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum called Libre,
 Which is designed to build four competencies – critical inquiry(महत्वपूर्णिाोंच),
mindfulness(सचेतन), empathy(सहानुभूजत) and compassion(दया).
 School pilots of this curriculum start this year in India and Malaysia.
 We hope that this will pave a way for integrating SEL in school curricula as a vital component
of making schools happier places.

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-1-J&K separatist leaders held as protest shuts down Valley

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-1- India notifies higher tariffs on U.S. imports
 India on Wednesday notified higher tariffs on several items imported from the U.S., including agricultural products such as apples, almonds, chickpeas, lentils, and walnuts, and industrial
inputs such as some grades of iron and steel products. This is the latest salvo in the ongoing tariff tiff between the U.S. and several of its trading partners.
 ‘Access to Aadhaar database will help solve cases faster‘
 Unidentified bodies can be identified, says NCRB Director
 World‘s hungry population on the rise again, says UN report
 Conflicts,
 Climate change are main hurdles in meeting development goals

 India, Maldives hold discussions to sort out issues
 India, U.S. 2+2 Dialogue on July 6
 Defence, External Affairs Ministers to hold talks with U.S. counterparts
 U.S. ends ‘separation’ policy
 Trump’s order ensures immigrant children will be detained with their parents
 Bolton to visit Moscow to arrange Trump-Putin meet
 Upgrade software at ATMs by June 2019 or face penalty, RBI tells banks
 Still running on Windows XP and other unsupported software

Last Day- Q’s- Answers…

 Swatch Bharat Mission: 2nd October 2014(launched) and 2nd October 2019(aim to achieve
on the 150th anniversary of Gandhi Jee)
 Failure of constitutional machinery in any other state of India, President’s Rule is imposed
under Article 356 of the Constitution.
 But failure of constitutional machinery in case of J&K, as mention under Article 370
Section 92 of state Constitution, Governor’s Rule s imposed for six months.
 3. Economic Survey 2017-18: Pink-Color(special emphasis on Gender and Son metapreference)