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India Pak Agree On Ceasefire

 Sent over 650,000 Bangladesh to escape violent attacks in Rakhine state
 UN Special Envoy on Human Rights. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra‟ad Al Hussein, called it a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing(सफाई).”
 India, which has a proud…history of helping resolve crises in the subcontinent, has done little send basic aid including 500 tonnes of rice, pulses, cooking oil, tea, noodles, mosquito nets, and biscuits.
 Other than inking an “agreement”- normalcy
 40,000 Rohingya in India back to Myanmar.
 Rohingya being susceptible to radicalisation
 While India argues that it is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention,
 China bringing Myanmar and Bangladesh together
 Dhaka and Naypyidaw are paying more attention to Beijing than they are to New Delhi

Big discoveries have small origins

 Economic Survey, released
 Doubling research and development expenditure from its current level of about •1 lakh crore,
amounting to 0.8% of the gross domestic product (GDP).
 Even if instantly doubled through a miraculous diktat, it would still lag behind China
 Israel, Japan and the U.S., each spending more than 2% of their GDP on research.
 For long, attaining the 2% GDP level had remained elusive for Indian science
 Scientists working alone or in small groups with a tight budget rather than in well-funded
mega projects.
 In 2012, the discovery of Higgs boson („God particle‟ in popular media) at CERN,
 The European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, hit the world‟s headlines.
 With $1 billion annual expenditure
 Yet, Higgs boson had humble origins in seminal theoretical works of several scientists,
including Peter Higgs, working independently.
 In 1928, C.V. Raman spent about 200 on his laboratory
 Vikram Sarabhai was experimenting with simple sounding rockets that ultimately grew into the Indian Space Research Organisation of today, that we can justifiably be proud of.
 Time and again, small science projects have demonstrated the potential to emerge as harbingers of technological changes
 U.K.‟s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council distributes nearly 10% of the research budget as grants.
 Clearly, India‟s provision for competitive research grants needs upward revision
 In India, as elsewhere, a significant fraction of the science budget goes to mission-oriented
projects in the areas of defence, space, nuclear and environmental sciences
 Operational missions are important but so is the research ecosystem that provides human
resources and feeds the innovation pipelines connected to these missions
 One route to help the cause of science is by provisioning more funds for small-scale research projects as well.
 The Economic Survey offers that glimmer of hope

A boost to rural entrepreneurship

 The amendments passed by Parliament to the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Act, 1981 support the government‟s push to boost the rural
and agricultural sector.
 The amendments recognise the vital role of micro,small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), as
defined under the MSME Development Act of 2006, in rural entrepreneurship to make financing easier for them.
 1981 Act was enacted to establish a development bank to provide and regulate credit and other facilities in order to promote and develop
 1)-Agriculture,
 2)-Small-scale industries,
 3)-Cottage and village industries,
 4)-Handicrafts, and
 5)-Allied economic activities in rural areas
 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Amendment) Bill of 2017,
 Government explained that with its expanding activities, NABARD needed to be provided
with additional equity from time to time to enable it to meet its objectives of promoting
rural development and sustainable rural prosperity
 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holds 0.4% of the paid-up capital of NABARD.
 The remaining is held by the Central government.
 This causes conflict in the RBI‟s role as banking regulator and shareholder in NABARD
 NABARD (Amendment) Bill, 2017 provides for empowering the Central government to increase the authorised capital of NABARD from •5,000 crore to •30,000 crore in consultation
with the RBI.
 Amendments primarily seek to transfer the RBI‟s balance equity of •20,000 crore in NABARD
to the Central government.

Should States have their own flags?

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-1,10- SC to handle Ayodhya title dispute only as a „land issue‟
 Bench led by CJI refuses to entertain any third party intervention in the issue
 History of religious conflict and violence associated with the Ayodhya site, Chief Justice
of India Dipak Misra addressed a tense and crowded courtroom, saying, “Please treat this
as a land issue.”
 Page-1,12-Khaleda Zia sentenced to five years in jail for graft
 Her son Tarique Rahman and four others got 10-year terms
 Found guilty in a corruption case
 Page-1,6-Supreme Court gives U.P. govt. 4 weeks for Taj protection plan
 Page-1-India rejects Maldives offer
 „As concerns not met‟, New Delhi refuses to meet special envoy
 India rejected an off•er by Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen to send a special envoy to discuss the ongoing emergency in the country, calling instead on the embattled President to •first address its concerns over the suspension of constitutional rights in the Maldives.
 The response indicates a growing strain in ties between New Delhi and Male
 Because the government was unhappy with Mr. Yameen‟s declaration of emergency
 President Yameen has sent special envoys to what he called “friendly countries” — China, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
 PM to talk to students on beating exam stress
 About said 10 crore students are expected to hear the Prime Minister
 Rahul is now my boss too, says Sonia
 „Will work with like-minded parties to defeat BJP, restore tolerant India‟
 Rafale deal: Jaitley counters opposition
 Nation‟s security at risk if details are made public, Minister tells Parliament
 Maldives- China offers mediation, rejects UN intervention
 We won‟t meet U.S. oficials during Olympics, says North Korea