Daily News Prescription - 5th July, 2021

The Hindu

GS2: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.

• Literacy, numeracy mission deadline pushed to 2027 The Centre’s new mission to ensure that every Class 3 child has foundational literacy and numeracy within five years will be rolled out on Monday

GS3: Science and Technology

• Chinese astronauts complete first spacewalk at new station (Tiangong space station) They are the first crew aboard Tiangong space station

Indian Express

GS2: Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s interests

• Explained: US has put Pakistan, Turkey on Child Soldier Recruiter List; what does it mean?  The recruitment or use of children below the age of 15 as soldiers is prohibited by both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions, and is considered a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

GS3: Environmental Degradation

• "Explained: What is the Arctic’s ‘Last Ice Area’ that is now showing signs of melting earlier than scientists expected?" In a paper published in the journal “Communications Earth & Environment”, researchers note that in August 2020 the area where the Last Ice Area (LIA) is located, experienced a record low concentration of sea ice

GS3: Economics of Animal-Rearing

• Why the dairy sector needs more private players Amul has just raised its milk prices for consumers by Rs 2/litre and this has become national news. This increase works out to about 4 per cent of existing prices, and is well below the increase in the overall consumer price index (CPI) which has already crossed the tolerance limit of RBI at 6 per cent.

GS2: Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s interests

• Explained: Exiting Bagram & a long war To the world, he will always be the warmonger who invaded Iraq in 2003 in search of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction that were never there. But Afghanistan remembers Rumsfeld for reasons more than the hunt for the al-Qaeda and their Taliban hosts.

GS3: Economics of Animal-Rearing, Environment

• Feed supplement reduces methane emissions by livestock Belching cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats in India emit an estimated 9.25 million tonnes (mt) to 14.2 mt of methane annually, out of a global total of 90 mt-plus from livestock. And given methane’s global warming potential – 25 times of carbon dioxide (CO2) over 100 years, making it a more potent greenhouse gas – that’s cause for concern.

GS3: Infra

• BharatNet fails to enter fast lane: Both phases staring at delays amid Covid A gram panchayat is considered service ready when it is connected to the main grid of the internet of the block headquarters of that area, whereas the internet connectivity in that gram panchayat is considered open only if there are end users connected to the internet grid.

GS2: Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections of the population by the Centre and States

• "Govt invites suggestions: Draft anti-trafficking Bill widens scope of offences, includes stringent penalties" The Ministry of Women and Child Welfare on Sunday invited suggestions and comments for its Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021 which it has released

Down to Earth

GS2: Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health

• India responsible for largest drop in open defecation since 2015: WASH report India was responsible for the largest drop in open defecation since 2015, in terms of absolute numbers, according to a new report by the Wash Institute, a global non-profit organisation July 1, 2021.

 

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