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Saving Afghanistan

 Sunday‘s bomb attack- 57 killed
 Before the Taliban announced…
 Global and regional powers must desist from playing the Great Game‘ and build peace.
 According to UN Assistance Mission in
 Afghanistan, the number of casualties in the first three months of 2018 was already
2,258 (763 killed, 1,495 injured).
 Last year, the U.S. announced a new South Asia policy‘ for Afghanistan.
 Which was officially welcomed by both New Delhi and Kabul
 Although the U.S. administration has taken some steps on Pakistani funding
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 Terrorism across the Durand Line
 Taliban rejecting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani‘s offer of talks ―without preconditions‖ and calling for the targeting of American forces in Afghanistan.
 Afghan forces control just a little over half territory
 Growing U.S.-Russia tensions are creating space alQaeda and IS-related terror groups.
 Ironically, in wake of 9/11 and the Taliban‘s defeat in 2001, for a while all these countries were actually on the same page.
 Defeating terrorism in Afghanistan needs every stake holder to put aside differences, and acknowledge that the current situation is a danger to all.

Anatomy(Study of the structure) of a reset

 India China relationship has always been too complex to classify under a single
theme.
 India’s trenchant critique of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
 India’s entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation,
 The dramatic crisis in Doklam
 Cooperation in the BRICS format, and
 Attempts to foster economic engagement
 What led to this tailspin(out of control) in India China relations?
 Build-up of negativity- how each side viewed the other‘s foreign policies along
with a collapse in geopolitical trust.
 India, China‘s attempt to raise its economic and political profile in subcontinent
 India- Japan, USA & Australia
 China- Pakistan, Russia & Iran

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 On a range of issues –
 The Nuclear Suppliers Group membership,
 Pakistan sponsored terror and
 Hydrological cooperation being the most prominent —
 India failed to receive any give from China.
 With India‘s boycott of the BRI, China too found itself confronting not only the only major
holdout against its flagship international initiative but also its most suspicious and non
cooperative neighbour in Asia.
 India can neither solve on its own nor address with the assistance of external powers
 Sino American cooperation on the Korean nuclear question
 Japan, with a $300 billion trading relationship with China
 Tokyo has even endorsed(समर्थन) the prospect of a ―case-by-case‖ cooperation with the BRI
 Economic cooperation with China can only translate into meaningful outcomes if there is over
all geopolitical stability
 Mr. Modi and Mr. Xi have their task cut out differences.

Nutritional politics

Many children have died of malnutrition in India and yet Women and Child Development
Ministers over the years haven‘t decided what food to give children in anganwadis.
Data on malnutrition should serve as a wake up call for the government:
38% of children are stunted and 35.7% are underweight in India.
About 21% of children under the age of five are wasted (low weight for height), according
to the National Family Health Survey-4 data.
 There no solution because children cannot be quantified as vote banks?

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

Page-1- PM okays diversion of 77 ha of forest land for bullet train.
Gujarat, Maharashtra told to speed up clearances for ₹1lakh crore project
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given in-principle approval for the diversion of
77 hectares of forest land for the ₹1•08 lakh crore bullet train project between Mumbai
and Ahmadabad.

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-12- Kim, Moon to meet at military demarcation line
 It is a symbolic gesture ahead of U.S.-N. Korea summit
 North Korea‘s leader Kim Jong-un and the South‘s president Moon Jae-in will meet at military demarcation line that divides the peninsula before their summit on Friday, Seoul said, in an occasion laden with symbolism.

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Kathua rape: CJI promises a fair trial
 The police in Odisha arrested two minor boys aged 11 and 13 on Thursday for allegedly
raping a six year old girl a day earlier.
 World Bank loan for Biopharma Mission- government has secured a loan of about ₹1•600
 crore from the World Bank to develop new vaccines, medical devices and medicines.
 ‘Shield India from anti-Russia sanctions’.
 Donald Trump administration to take measures to ensure that India is not caught
in the crossfire of anti-Russia sanctions.
 ‘India to lose if oil prices climb more’
 Jio to hire up to 80,000 this fiscal
Nobel Peace Prize 2017
It has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.
Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
Sangam ( Allahabad)
Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati river meets at Allahabad but Saraswati
river now disappear.