Daily PIB Analysis For UPSC/IAS | 1st December 2018 -

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G-20

Buenos Aires, Argentina
This meeting should be a source of reassurance amidst the ongoing trade war between the US and China that threat ends to hurt global growth.
The Leaders’ Declaration reaffirmed a basic commitment to a rules-based international order, and agreed to reform the WTO.
Reforms at the WTO, that is meant to ensure smooth trade flows, must include appointing judges to get its appellate body working to hear and resolve disputes.
Reportedly, the US is blocking appointments and that goes against the tenet of multilateralism.
A tighter regime on intellectual property rights is in order.
China forces foreign companies to part with IPR to access its markets.
It denies foreign patent holders the basic patent right to stop a Chinese entity from using the technology after a licensing contract ends.
China must stop arm-twisting and comply with WTO rules.
Terrorists and tax evaders should get no refuge.
Its thrust against base erosion and profit shifting and automatic sharing of financial information is prudent.
India purposefully used the forum to push for cooperation to deal with the menace of fugitive economic offenders.

India, Japan and the US have agreed that a free, open, inclusive and rules based order is essential for the Indo-Pacific’s peace and prosperity as the leaders from the three countries held a first ever trilateral meeting.
Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had a very good and friendly meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit. “जापान, अमरीका, इंडिया – जे.ए.आई. इसका भारत के अंदर मतलब होता हैजय। जय का मतलब होता है-सक्सेस। तो एक प्रकार सेजे.ए.आई. येसक्सेस का मैसेज देकर के हम एक शुभ शुरूआत कर रहेहैं।

They have never shied away from a challenge and a responsibility to larger society.
Today we are facing a problem related to disposal of crop residue and of safe and clean removal of husk or stubble.
In an extreme form, the burning of such items is leading to pollution that affects even little children.
It is for all of us, including the state governments, the skilled and largehearted farmers, and other stakeholders, to come up with a solution. And no doubt technology will help us find a solution.

World AIDS Day
Government is not only fully funding the HIV/AIDS programme but also increasing the resource envelope in accordance with the programme needs.
Smt. Anupriya Patel informed that the HIV/AIDS Programme has focused on more than one million people from high risk group and kept the infection of HIV in control through comprehensive and intense targeted interventions services.
The Programme has also given attention to eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV and Syphilis by 2020.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan complete ante-natal check up facility is provided to all pregnant women across the country, including HIV testing.
In 2017-18 more than 2 Crore HIV testing among pregnant women was undertaken.
Reiterating the commitment to end the epidemic by 2030, Smt. Anupriya Patel stated that the National programme has laid a great emphasis on counseling and testing among general clients and NACO has initiated community based screening of HIV to reach first 90 out of the target 90:90:90 by 2020.
She further said that with the launch of ‘Test and Treat’ in 2017, every PLHIV is eligible to be put on ART as soon as he/she is detected HIV positive irrespective of the CD4 count and today 70% of PLHIV who know their HIV status are on ART.

With women’s safety in mind, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today announced a pan-India single-number “112” under an emergency mobile app.
He said it will have a special women safety feature to get immediate assistance from police and volunteers.
Launching the Emergency Response Support System, ERSS, in Nagaland, Mr Singh said a ‘SHOUT’ feature has been made available exclusively for women in the mobile app. It is connected to ERSS.