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Shock tobacco users

 India now has the third largest warnings in the world after Nepal and Vanuatu.
 India has moved to the third rank among 205 countries with 85% implementation of pictorial
warnings on tobacco products packs,
 In September, India will follow the World Health Organisation‟s Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control (FCTC) guidelines by using scarier images to shock tobacco users.

Substance and optics of the summit- Wuhan

 Wide range of subjects discussed, from
 Bilateral
 Regional
 Global challenges
 Bilateral front, they decided to “issue strategic guidance to their militaries to
strengthen communication”, essentially to avoid another Doklam-like sitution
 Both sides addressed measures to better balance the ballooning trade deficit
 Discussed a joint project in Afghanistan.
 Finally, they attempted to reduce the heat over unresolved issues such as
 China‟s block on India‟s NSG membership bid or
 UN‟s terror designation for Pakistan-based groups, and
 India‟s opposition to the Belt and Road Initiative
 Tibet issue
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 Two neighbours have been to war only once;
 Since the Agreement on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquility was signed in 1993,
 Neither side has fired a weapon along the 3,500-km boundary
 Wuhan summit has recommitted India and China to managing bilateral relations in a manner that creates the conditions for the “Asian Century”
 Summit was a much needed one and has added to the ongoing attempts to bring the bilateral relations between the two Asian giants back on track
 India China relations have been under great stress in recent years.
 The 2017 military standoff at the Doklam tri-junction
 Wuhan summit was preceded by the visits of Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to China for Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings
 Reflecting a positive rethink on bilateral ties and a desire to avoid future military standoffs.
 While tensions with Pakistan wouldn‟t be costly for the BJP from an electoral point of view, a
„failed China policy‟ could potentially be used by the Opposition to take on Mr. Modi

Food first

 There is no substitute for hot-cooked meals to address poor child nutrition
 Raising nutritional standards for young children has become a policy imperative
only in recent years, with the National Food Security Act, 2013
 Newly-formed inter-ministerial National Council on India‟s Nutrition Challeng
es has chosen to continue the current practice, overruling the Minister for
Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, who proposed distribution
of packaged nutrients to beneficiaries
 Supplementary Nutrition (Integrated Child Development Services Scheme) Rules,

2017, laying down entitlements.
 Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan‟s emphasis on strength
ening these legal guarantees by providing more nutritious hot cooked meals
and rations with the help of local self help groups

 If the ICDS scheme, now called the Anganwadi Services Scheme, is to achieve better outcomes
, it must focus on the provision of physical infrastructure and funding
 Besides closer monitoring of the nutrition mission.
 Theoretically, the mission covers every child, but in practice it is not accessible to all
 Centre recently launched POSHAN Abhiyaan, an integrator that will build capacity
 National Family Health Survey-4 shows drop in underweight and stunted children under five
years of age compared to the previous survey, but the absolute numbers are still high
 POSHAN Abhiyaan should rigorously measure levels of access and quality of nutrition,
and publish the data periodically.

Pyongyang‟s next steps

 North Korea and South Korea have jointly declared that the Korean War will be finally over.
 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who met
for the first time on Friday
 Optimistic(आशावादी) phrases such as “a new history begins now” and “the Korean people
cannot remain separated”
 Summit between the U.S. and North Korea will take place as scheduled.
 Differences between on the question of denuclearisation
 The Indian template Denuclearisation is key to the whole process as it means
different things to different people.
 For the U.S., the models are Iraq, Libya surrendered their nuclear assets in return for
peace and normalisation.
 But North Korea seems to have another model in mind; an Indian model nuclear deal in
which it gets recognised as a “technologically advanced responsible state” on
the basis of certain strategic assurances.

 North Korea sought to leave the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT) regime.
 The direct threat that they faced from the U.S., South Korea and Japan must have resulted in
the aggressive approach, but now that North Korea has established its nuclear capability,
it is inclined to negotiate
 India‟s nuclear test of 1974
 China since 1964 and the danger of China passing on nuclear secrets to Pakistan
 U.S., which initially had refused to be dragged into a discussion and only wanted
to punish India
 Mr. Kim is obviously hoping to reach a similar agreement with the U.S. to legitimise his
Nuclear arsenal and earn a designation similar to India‟s “technologically advanced
responsible state”
 Indian model will help North Korea in restoring peace in the Korean Peninsula and having a
cooperative relationship with the U.S. and the rest of the world.
 Some amount of domestic reform at home, in terms of civil liberties, make its case better.

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-1- India, Pak. To take part in war games
 In a first, arch rivals India and Pakistan will be part of a multi-nation counter-terror
exercise in Russia in September. It will also be joined by China and several other countries.
 The exercise will take place under the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a China-dominated security grouping which is increasingly seen as a counterweight to NATO

 Page-1- North Korea plans to shut n-site in May
 To invite experts from the South, U.S.

 Page-1- All villages electrified, says PM Modi
 All villages in India have now been electrified, PM Narendra Modi announced on Sunday.
 The milestone was achieved 12 days ahead of the 1,000-day deadline set by Mr. Modi on
August 15, 2015.
 On Saturday evening, Leisang in Manipur‟s Senapati district became the last village
to be connected to the national grid.
 As per official data, there were 18,452 villages without electricity when the NDA government
took office in May 2014
 4 crore rural and urban households by March 2019 under the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) initiative

 Page-7- Nutrition panel drops Maneka proposal
 Rejects idea to replace ready-to-eat food rations with energy-dense nutrient packets for benefi ciaries
 National Council on Nutrition (NCN) has unanimously rejected Union Minister for Women a
nd Child Development (WCD) Maneka Gandhi‟s proposal to replace ready-to-eat food as takehome dry rations with energy-dense nutrient packets

 „U.S. will quit Iran deal if there is no progress in talks‟
 Koreas unite behind one time-zone
 Kim says the North‟s clocks would be moved 30 minutes forward to show the
same time as the South
 Foreign fund flow till Apr. the lowest since 2011