About 9 PM Brief<\/strong>- With the 9 PM Daily Current affairs for UPSC brief we intend<\/span> to simplify the newspaper reading experience. In 9PM briefs, we provide our reader with a summary of all the important articles and editorials from three important newspapers namely The Hindu, Indian Express, and Livemint. This will provide you with analysis, broad coverage, and factual information from a Mains examination point of view.<\/p>\r\n About Factly<\/strong>- The Factly initiative covers all the daily news articles regarding Preliminary examination. This will be provided at the end of the 9 PM Brief.<\/p>\r\n Dear Aspirants,<\/p>\r\n We know for a fact that learning without evaluation is a wasted effort. Therefore, we request you to please go through both our initiatives i.e 9PM Briefs and Factly, then evaluate yourself through the 10PM Current Affairs Quiz.<\/p>\r\n We plan to integrate all our free daily initiatives to comprehensively support your success journey. GS-2<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n GS-3<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Source \u2013<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0The Hindu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n Syllabus<\/b><\/strong> \u2013\u00a0GS\u00a02-\u00a0Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Context<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Controversy is brewing in India due to the opacity surrounding the regulatory approval granted to Favipiravir for the treatment of COVID-19 patients with mild or moderate symptoms.<\/p>\n Process\u00a0for demonstrating the efficacy of a drug in treating a particular disease:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Issues associated with Glenmark\u2019s\u00a0Favipiravir\u2019s\u00a0trial and data:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Suggested Solution<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Way Forward –\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>The pandemic has not only exposed the dire situation of the public health infrastructure, but also the opacity with which drug\/medical device approvals are granted in India. This needs to be resolved at the earliest to restore public confidence in regulator as regulator is supposed to protect interests of general public rather than jeopardising them.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>The Hindu<\/b><\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Syllabus: GS 2- India and its neighbourhood- relations<\/b><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>India, followed by Pakistan, has decided to halve the strength of diplomatic missions in each other\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n India Downgrading ties with Pakistan:\u202f<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Diplomatic expulsions are not uncommon but this is the first such measure at this scale taken by India since 2001.<\/p>\n Similar diplomatic feuds:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Recent Downslide in relations\u00a0between India and Pakistan:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n \u202fConclusion<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n The relations between\u00a0India and Pakistan\u00a0are getting worse and even the future\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0augur well\u00a0in the backdrop of\u00a0India-China tensions.\u00a0Ties between them seem strained beyond immediate repair.<\/p>\n Source<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Hindu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n Syllabus\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>\u2013\u00a0GS 2\u00a0– Government\u00a0policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Context<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0For the thinking Indian, the management of the pandemic, is both unsatisfactory and misguided due to lack of National Plan to fight the COVID 19.<\/p>\n Institution versus Individual leader<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0– B.R. Ambedkar said to all who are interested in the maintenance of democracy, not \u2018to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or to trust him with power which enable him to subvert their institutions.\u2019<\/p>\n Following are the challenges associated with absence of holistic approach to deal with pandemic:<\/p>\n Way Forward<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0– Andr\u00e9 Gide, the French writer, once said, \u201cEverything has been said before, but since nobody\u00a0listens,\u00a0we have to keep going back and begin all over again.\u201d Thus, we need the implementation of National\u00a0Disaster Management Act, 2005 in spirit as well as\u00a0letter instead of following a leader\u2019s command and ad-hoc mechanisms.<\/p>\n
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