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,
• 1. the procedure Delhi police followed is just?
  2. 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

• 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
• “Those who don’t want yoga can leave India”
• Yoga not linked to religion: Sushma –

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Yoga sessions will be organised in 191 countries, barring Yemen, where the Indian embassy has shut down and moved to Djibouti.
  4. ‘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:
  1. 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.
  2. Maxio is a robot that is used to deliver the medicine precisely to the nerve root where the pain originated.
  3. It has reduced the risk of damaging motor and sensory nerves that could, if damage, lead to paralysis.
  4. It is developed by developed by Chennai-based start-up Perfint Healthcare

International / World Affairs

• Axe falls on over 4,000 NGOs

Asia/Europe

• Setback for Erdog˘an

• 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 )

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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