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Opacity in the banking sector

A well- informed public can serve as a watchdog more effectively than existing banking regulatory bodies
Under the RTI
List of defaulters made public

High noon

 Governments must ensure local-level interventions to deal with heat stress.
 India Meteorological Department’s forecast of above-normal maximum and minimum temperatures across the country during the pre-monsoon March-May period is a timely alert for State authorities to review their preparedness
 Even a marginal rise above the normal will lead to enormous heat stress for millions of Indians, given the deprived conditions in which they live.
 Risk for health-related problems during a heat wave, such as senior citizens and people with preexisting disease, mental illness or disability
 Most other States, though, the summer of 2018 may pose a public health challenge
 One scientific estimate of annual mortality attributable to heat waves between 2010 and 2015 ranges between 1,300 and 2,500
 World Health Organisation recommends that countries adopt heat-health warning systems, including daily alerts to ensure that people are in a position to deal with adverse weather
 Water stress is a common and often chronic feature in many States: arrangements should be made to meet scarcity.
 There is some hope that the southwest monsoon this year will benefit from an expected moderate La Niña condition.
 Responsibility of governments to ensure that community-level interventions are taken up to help vulnerable groups

A gathering storm

 World Justice Project released its Rule of Law Index 2017-18 report, which measures the extent to which 113 countries have adhered to the rule of law in that period.
 India’s rank was 62, better than China, Pakistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh; Denmark occupied the top spot.
 Every country’s performance in eight areas, including
 1)-Fundamental rights,
 2)-Absence of discrimination,
 3)-Right to life and security,
 4)-Due process,
 5)-Freedom of expression and religion,
 6)-Right to privacy,
 7)-Freedom of association, and
 8)-Labour rights.
 The survey found that 71 out of the 113 countries have dropped in score.
 This report, along with others the Amnesty International Annual Report 2017-18, indicates the serious erosion of international human rights law in recent times.
 World is worrying- InTurkey and China, the assault on civil liberties and freedoms
 There is increasing hostility towards civil society organisations and hardening of attitudes towards minorities in Poland and Hungary.
 Human rights of refugees are routinely negated, including in Australia and the U.S.
 Mass atrocities (genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity) are or have been committed in Iraq, Myanmar, Central African Republic, and Burundi
 In Myanmar, UN Special Rapporteur who was to investigate the claims of persecution against the Rohingya was denied all access to the country.
 UN system may not be perfect, but it helps sustain international human rights law, and there must be greater engagement with such institutions.

It’s time to reimagine South Asia

India-China-Pakistan cooperation can transform the subcontinent.
 Rs300 a kilo in Lahore, they were available at Indian Rs40 a kilo in Amritsar a mere 30 miles away
 Many Pakistani politicians want nothing to be imported from India, the enemy nation
 This kind of blind nationalism
 India and Pakistan are among the least integrated nations in the world.
 Because of their unending mutual hostility, South Asia too has become the least integrated region in the world.
 The SouthAsian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is in a coma.
 Sadly, the most populous region in the world has also remained home to the largest number
of poor people in the world
 Single seamless socio-economic and cultural entity before 1947, have now completely drifted apart.
 There are no direct fights between their capitals — New Delhi and Islamabad.
 Mumbai-Karachi ferry service was stopped after the 1965 war.
 In this age of information revolution, the number of phone calls between Indian and Pakistani citizens (including calls between close relatives of divided families) is neglig Continue
 Arms manufacturers- profit by this at cost of common Indians and Pakistanis, who need employment, education, health care and food-and-environmental security.
 These needs can be met only through regional cooperation, not regional rivalry.
 China become a part of the solution, rather than being perceived as a part of the India-Pakistan problem?
 A threeway India-China-Pakistan cooperation is not only necessary but indeed possible
 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) provides a practical framework for such partnership.
 Unfortunately, Mr. Modi has allowed himself to be misled by his advisers on the BRI.
 Therefore, connectivity, cooperation and economic integration are the only realistic bases for any future India-Pakistan settlement of the Kashmir dispute
 both China and Pakistan have stated that they are open to India joining CPEC.
 China has also expressed its readiness to rename…CPEC suitably to both address India’s concerns
 Already, Iran,Afghanistan and several Central Asian republics have agreed to join this ambitious regional connectivity project.
 BRI Will it help or hurt India if it joins this renamed initiative as an equal partner? Will it not connect Lahore and Amritsar Sindh and southern Punjab with Gujarat and Rajasthan, and Karachi with Mumbai?
 Gain land access, through Pakistan, to Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia and western China.
 And if our leaders show vision, ambition and resolve, the CPECplus-India can be linked to the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar
 If 1947 divided our subcontinent, here is an opportunity for India, Pakistan and all other countries in the region to come together and rise in shared progress and prosperity.
 Alternative connectivity project by “Quadrilateral” of the U.S., Japan,Australia and India.
 Even if it does, its developmental benefits to India will be limited since it will seek to keep China and Pakistan out
 India’s energy security and accelerated economic growth
 Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) and
 Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipelines
 Could also help resolve three long-standing geopolitical problems in the region, in which
countless people have been killed — terrorism, Kashmir and Afghanistan
 To realise this vision of a resurgent South Asia, two obstacles will have to be removed
 Blind nationalism and
 Unfriendly designs of extra-regional powers
As Karl Marx would have said: peoples of South Asia and China, unite!You have nothing to lose
but your chains; you have a bright new future to win

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-1-‘Don’t pursue probe against Army officer’
 The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Jammu and Kashmir government not to pursue any investigation against Major Aditya Kumar in connection with the killing of three persons after Army personnel allegedly opened fire on protesters in Shopian district
 Odisha govt. launches ‘Ama Gaon, Ama Bikas’ rural programme
 In a new initiative, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday launched the ‘Ama
Gaon,Ama Bikas’(Our village, Our development) programme from the State Secretariat to reach out to people in rural areas and involve them in the development process.
 Threat of new malware looms over cyberspace
 A new threat looms large on the horizon of cyberspace.
 After Mirai and Reaper, cybersecurity agencies have detected a new malware called Saposhi, which is capable of taking over electronic devices and turning them into ‘bots’, which can then be used for any purpose