The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 28th Dec 2017

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Nepal

China card is not a new phenomenon in Nepal.
Nepal now an eager participant in the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.

A very flawed(त्रुटिपूर्ण) law

• Proposed Bill criminalising instant talaq has no legal basis
• Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017, which is set to be tabled in Parliament today.
• Talaq-e-biddat.
• Talaq – Shall be punished with imprisonment for a term. which may extend to three years and fine.
• Talaq-e-biddat breaks the marriage, and, therefore, needs to criminalised.
• Offence would be -Cognizable and Non-bailable.
• Misreading of the August 2017 Supreme Court judgment.
• This is the law of the land under Article 141.

Out at sea

• India should remain a balancing power, and anchored in the Indian Ocean
• National Security Strategy (NSS), the U.S. has called China a “challenger” and “rival”
  while welcoming India‟s emergence as a “leading global power and stronger strategic
  and defence partner”
• Declared that it seeks to increase „Quadrilateral‟ cooperation with Japan, Australia, and India
• U.S. would support India‟s growing relationships throughout the region.
• Indo-Pacific sounds
• it is in the nation‟s as well as global interest that India remains a balancing power.
• For instance, India‟s vote in the UN General Assembly over Jerusalem should be seen in
  line with a “rulesbased world order.”
• At the same time, there is no question that India should hedge(बाडा) against the rapid
  expansion of Chinese presence in the IOR
• Recent acknowledgment by the People‟s Liberation Army that it is “planning to explore
  the possibility of more foreign military outposts in Africa, West Asia and other areas
• India Should remain the IOR, stretching from the Gulf of Aden to the Strait of Malacca.

Key initiatives

• Last month, India and Singapore concluded an overarching bilateral agreement for naval
  cooperation
• Access to the Changi naval base at the mouth of the Strait of Malacca.
• With Singapore‟s assistance, India is also working out modalities for joint multilateral
  exercises with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• India is also negotiating similar logistics agreements with several other countries. These devel opments show the way forward for India to engage with like-minded countries in the region
• Goa Maritime Conclave hosted by the Indian navy last month where Navy Chiefs
  and maritime heads of 10 Indian Ocean littoral states on ways to improve cooperation
  in the region
• India to take forward to build its primacy in the IOR

Securing net neutrality

• Federal Communications Commission
• Give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and
  online services their customers see and use
• Able to block websites they do not like and charge Web companies for
  speedier delivery of their content
• Major blow to “net neutrality”
• After- the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate pact- This is new gift.

The diagnostic lens

• It‟s time doctors updated their understanding of encephalitis
• Encephalitis — found in Malkangiri district of Odisha.
• killed over 100 children last year was thought to be due
  to the Japanese encephalitis ( JE) virus.
• Now researchers say it was likely due to the consumption of a
  wild bean, called Bada Chakunda- in the region.
• Like several natural toxins- cause fatal dysfunction
  of the liver, heart and brain in underfed children
• Uttar Pradesh‟s Saharanpur district- where too a recurrent
  encephalitis outbreak was traced to this bean
• While more data may be needed to con•firm this link
• Yet, investigating agencies such as the
  National Centre for Disease Control and the National Institute
  of Virology have persisted in focussing on JE.(Q-?)

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

• Page-2– Infiltration(घुसपैठ) via LoC touches 4-year high: Home Ministry
• Over 230% increase in ceasefire violations in 2017
• Page-1– Indian Science Congress to be held in March
• Historic event will be hosted by Manipur University
• The 2018 edition of the historic Indian Science Congress will be held at Manipur
  University, Imphal, in March
• The event was scheduled at the Osmania University (OU), Hyderabad, in the •rst
  week of January but had to be moved out due to “security problems.”
• This was the fi•rst time the 106-year-old ISC — the largest congregation of scientists in India
• All Bihar villages electrified: Nitish
  „Every household to get free power connection by next calendar year‟
• Page-7– „Cooperate on curbing online sex determination ads‟
• Supreme Court has held that the government has a role in
  controlling the virtual world
  and has ordered major online search engines such as
  Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to co-operate with the
  Centre to make concrete
  suggestions against publication of online pre-natal sex
  determination ads rather than oppose any move to
  make the Internet safer
• Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques
  (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 are not violated
• Page-11- Israel takes India’s vote in its stride
• Coming visit of Prime Minister Netanyahu will focus on technology and counter-terrorism
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‟s visit to India in a fortnight will focus
  on taking cooperation on
  “the double­T‟s” of technology,
  including on agriculture
  and water conservation, and
  (counter-) terrorism to the
  “next level”, according to officials
  •familiar with the planning of the visit.
• Page-12– Kabul-Mumbai cargo service on
• Real, unimpeded connectivity for Afghan traders, says India envoy
• Israel proposes to name station after Trump
• „Comfort women issue still unresolved‟
• S. Korea calls for legal compensation

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