What you should be reading from today’s news paper..
Lot to read today.. happy reading..
The Hindu
National
- Delhi Minister held for holding ‘fake’ degrees – Analyze the article in the context of constitutional crisis(state v/s center) and beyond that what should be code of conduct or ethical limit for a leader?
- Army, Assam Rifles kill 50 ‘ultras’ -Read the article in the context of Myanmar (Rohingya ) recent crisis and judge that is it also the impact of unstable Myanmar? Also analyze in the context of , LBA and Modi’s visit to Bangladesh that how can be the recently concluded LBA help to control incidents like this in North Eastern state? What sort of role Bangladesh should play?
- An arrest by rule book, but personal liberty an issue – Read this along with first article (in the begging of post) and analyze this with two important questions,
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- the procedure Delhi police followed is just?
- Is the crime so grave that he should be arrested?
My take: Highest standard of ethics must be maintained in discharging public duty while holding any public office. Both the parties looks incorrect from different angles and correct from their own angles. But it’s a binary situation, both can’t be true at the same time, one has to be come clean whereas the other have to be teach a lesson of highest standard by the court. It is also important to strike a constitutional balance between the organization. Since, Institutions are the building block of any democracy. They must be preserved and protected
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Songbird may be eaten to extinction – A once abundant bird in Europe and Asia is being hunted to near extinction because of Chinese eating habits, according to a study
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Yoga not linked to religion: Sushma –
- Government take : yoga was being promoted for its holistic impact on health and for the contribution it can make to global peace and India was not using coercion on any community or institution to participate.
- government is also making a bid to enter the event at Rajpath into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest yoga assembl
- Yoga sessions will be organised in 191 countries, barring Yemen, where the Indian embassy has shut down and moved to Djibouti.
- ‘47 Muslim nations are co-sponsoring the International Yoga Day on June 21 and this showed that yoga was not associated with a particular religion.
Important take: India has been labeled as the soft power state, ever since the word has been coined by Joshep Nye. But the fact of the matter is India was and is a soft power. Whether or not we are Super (soft ) Power that could be debated and it is open to interpretation. Yoga, is one of the other initiative which GoI took to ensure India remain on the the path of soft power diplomacy. It need no proof that GoI is right on track. International yoga day is testimony of that. What haunt us is that is it a religious practice or practice beyond religion? Why are Indian Muslim fraternity opposing this , when the rest of the Muslim world has acknowledged its underlying advantages to health. it is time to introspect and move on.
* Judicial appointments are too vital for a hit-and-trial method, says SC
Science and Tech
- Stempeutics gets Japanese process patent for stem cell drug
- Funding structure hits robot-maker –
- Robot can beat cancer, but not red tape -Important points:
- X-ray imaging: It is perhaps the most familiar type of imaging. In this, X-ray is passed through soft part of the bodies. Images produced by X-rays are based on the absorption rate of tissues, which are different from each other. Calcium in bones absorbs X-rays the most, so the bones look white on a film recording of the X-ray image, called a radiograph. Fat and other soft tissues absorb less, and look gray. Air absorbs least. It is used mostly to check broken bones.
- Maxio is a robot that is used to deliver the medicine precisely to the nerve root where the pain originated.
- It has reduced the risk of damaging motor and sensory nerves that could, if damage, lead to paralysis.
- It is developed by developed by Chennai-based start-up Perfint Healthcare
Economy
International / World Affairs
Asia/Europe
- Nepal parties reach long-awaited deal
- Sri Lankan Cabinet clears new electoral system
- Exchange of enclaves from midnight of July 31
Editorial/Opinion ( Issues of National & International Importance )
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The incomplete case of Aruna Shanbaug – Central theme: We are a constitutional democracy, not a lynching one. It may mean going against the tide. But the court does not have to be popular. It has to be just. And defend the Constitution for Sohanlal Valmiki as it did in the Aruna Shanbaug case.
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Hardly the soft sciences – There is an urgent need to initiate a generational change in India’s university leadership.
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When even rape is legal –
- Justice Verma Committee in 2013.Justice Verma Committee in 2013. rgued that the “relationship between the accused and the complainant is not relevant to the inquiry into whether the complainant consented to the sexual activity”. The law has evolved in the manner that it put burden of proof of consent on the accused.
- Government take ; Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary reply was that the government had no plans to do so, as marriage is a sacred institution in India. Intresting is that all Political parties could put the criminalisation of marital rape on their election manifestos.
Central theme: The law is an important means of enabling social change, but without a wider change in social attitudes, it can be quite ineffective. The archaic mindsets of people have to be change for the wider acceptance of law.What Ambedkar believed many years ago was that political reforms should be given preferences over social reform, but what government of the day is prioritizing economic reform relegating the other two into back. It is plausible to say that our founding fathers were visionary, they could do well to visualize the situation , it reflects well in Ambedkars statement ” Rights are protected not by law but by the social and moral conscience of society… if fundamental rights are opposed by the community, no Law, no Parliament, no judiciary, can guarantee them in the real sense of the word”
Indian Express – Opinion /Columns
- The Coal Connection – Inefficient mining is keeping electricity costs high for distributors and consumers
- A next step called Teesta – For now, Bangladeshi sceptics are silent. But Delhi and Dhaka will soon need to take stock of the unanswered questions and necessary follow-up measures the for agreements signed.
- Enabled by consumerism – Nice article, which would give you food for thought.
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