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9 PM Daily Brief – December 5, 2020
Good evening dear reader Here is our 9pm current affairs brief for you today GS 2 Shadow pandemic GS 3 Economic recovery The many layers to agricultural discontent Exclusive arbitration body for financial disputes 9 PM for Preliminary examination FACTLY Shadow pandemic Source: Down to Earth Syllabus: GS-2- Social justice Context: A village volunteer from… Continue reading 9 PM Daily Brief – December 5, 2020
India-Canada relationship
How India-Canada ties evolved? What are the challenges and opportunities exist in India-Canada ties? This article is based on The Hindu Article “India summons Canadian High Commissioner; issues demarche over Trudeau’s remarks” Relevance: Recently Canadian Prime Minister expressed his views on Indian farm Bills and supported farmer’s protest. Similarly, Canadian PM’s coalition partner also praised… Continue reading India-Canada relationship
Exclusive arbitration body for financial disputes
Context: India needs a special arbitration body for financial disputes. Why financial institutions resort to litigation instead of arbitration for settling disputes? Courts are more powerful: Litigation, offers a more potent forum for recovery of money and resolving financial disputes as the judges are vested with stronger powers than an arbitrator. such as interim measures,… Continue reading Exclusive arbitration body for financial disputes
The many layers to agricultural discontent
Context: The Farm Acts that are the focus of the farmers’ protest bear variously on the different strata of the farming community. How farming distress is shared in common by the different strata? The powerful farmers’ movements that sprouted across India from the 1970s, led by such iconic leaders as M.D. Nanjundaswamy, Sharad Joshi, and Mahendra… Continue reading The many layers to agricultural discontent
Economic recovery
Context: A recovery led by profits, at the expense of wages, has implications for demand, inequality and policy. GDP is typically reported in two ways: The sectoral, production side (agriculture, manufacturing, services) and the functional, expenditure side (consumption, investment, net exports). Third way: On the income side, GDP is calculated as the sum of profits, wages and indirect… Continue reading Economic recovery
Shadow pandemic
Context: A village volunteer from Gharabari village near Siliguri in West Bengal alerted the police of a child marriage in the first week of July. Thirteen-year-old was married off to a 35-year-old man in a discreet manner at her house. More on news: Her parents were warned and a case was filed under the Protection of Children… Continue reading Shadow pandemic
Explained: Surgery as part of Ayurveda
Source: Click here News: Government of India has a notification listing out specific surgical procedures that a postgraduate medical student of Ayurveda must be practically trained to acquaint with as well as to independently perform. Facts: How far is surgery part of Ayurveda? There are two branches of surgery in Ayurveda — Shalya Tantra which refers to… Continue reading Explained: Surgery as part of Ayurveda
RBI monetary policy Explained: Why have rates been kept unchanged yet again?
Source: Click here News: Reserve Bank of India’s(RBI) Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) has announced its bi-monthly monetary policy review for the month of December. Facts: Key Takeaways: Repo Rate: It is the rate at which the RBI lends money to the banks for a short term.It remains unchanged at 4%. Reverse Repo Rate: It is the short term borrowing… Continue reading RBI monetary policy Explained: Why have rates been kept unchanged yet again?
Malayan Giant squirrel could vanish from NE after 2050: ZSI
Source : Click here News: Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has projected that numbers of the Malayan Giant Squirrel could decline by 90% in India by 2050 and it could be extinct by then if urgent steps are not taken. Facts: Malayan giant squirrel or Black Giant Squirrel: It is one of the world’s largest squirrel species… Continue reading Malayan Giant squirrel could vanish from NE after 2050: ZSI
