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The government tricked House on Pegasus, says Cong; moves privilege movement
Program:
Preliminary examination: News of national and international importance
Main examination:
• General Studies II: Parliament and State Legislatures
• General Studies III: Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Key points to ponder:
• What is the Pegasus software? How it works?
• How is Pegasus different from other spyware?
• What types of devices are vulnerable and what information may be compromised?
• Types of cyberattacks
• Pegasus in India – What is the controversy?
• Surveillance Laws in India – Section 5(2) Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, Section 69 Information Act
Technology Act, 2000, and Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Interception, Monitoring and Decryption of Information) Rules, 2009.
• Cyber Security India – Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-IN), Cyber Surakshit Bharat Initiative, National Cyber Security Coordination Center (NCCC), Cyber Swachhta Kendra, India Cyber Security Coordination Center cybercrime (I4C), Cyberdome (Kerala)
• Espionage and Surveillance in the Name of National Security – Where to Draw the Line?
• Supreme Court of India on Espionage and Surveillance – People’s Civil Liberties Union (PUCL) v Indian Union
case in 1996, Rule 419A of the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951
• Justice Raveendran’s Committee appointed by the Supreme Court
• Highlights of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
• Know parliamentary privileges and the motion of privilege
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Evidence of Pegasus being used on phones, cybersecurity experts tell SC panel
📍 Explanation: how Pegasus spyware infects a device; what data can be compromised
📍 ONS calls critics hypocritical and denies breach charges
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
Budgeting for Farmers
Program:
Preliminary examination: Economic and social development
Main examination: General Studies III: Government Budgeting.
Key points to ponder:
• What do you mean by “inflation tax”?
• What is PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana? Is it similar to the Telangana government’s Rythu Bandhu program?
• Role of agriculture in the Indian economy
• Features and Characteristics of Indian Agriculture
• Problems with agriculture in India
• MSP and double farmers’ income
• Recommendation of Ashok Dalwai Committee and MS Swaminathan Committee
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Swaminathan Report: National Farmers Commission
IDEAS PAGE
Case for a Health Booster
Program:
Preliminary examination: Economic and social development
Main examination: General Studies II: Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sectors/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
Key points to ponder:
• Public Health Systems in India – Background
• Current State of India’s Health Infrastructure – World Bank Data:
• COVID-19 Pandemic and Indian Health System:
• Necessary steps to strengthen the current state of health infrastructure in India
• What do you mean by Universal Health Coverage (CSU)?
• Pm Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana and Ayushman Bharat Scheme-Key Highlights
• Is there an explicit/implicit recognition of the right to health or health care under the Constitution? (Hint: directive
The Principles of State Policy in Part IV of the Indian Constitution provide a basis for the right to health)
• Supreme Court of India on Right to Health
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Declare the right to health a fundamental right
📍 Reset and Reform
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Ukraine, Russia and India
Program:
Preliminary examination: News of national and international importance
Main examination: General Studies II: Effect of Policies and Policies of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s Interests
Key points to ponder:
• Historical connection between Russia and Ukraine
• New Delhi’s position on the continuing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
• India-Russia and India-Ukraine Bilateral Relations (Importance of both for India)
• Ukraine, NATO, USA and Russia – where are we?
• Article 5 of the founding treaty of NATO (Collective security)
• Develop polarization in the Russia-Ukraine conflict such as the United States, Europe on the one hand, and Russia, China on the other hand
on the other hand
• What is India’s concern in this whole Russian-Ukrainian conflict?
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 India must follow dangerous developments in Ukraine
📍 Why Ukraine matters to Russia
Visit to India by Al Zaabi of Oman, old friendship and strategic links
Program:
Preliminary examination: News of national and international importance
Main examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
Key points to ponder:
• Card Work-Oman, Muscat, Duqm Port
• India-Oman-Bilateral Relations
• India-Oman and Joint Military Cooperation Committee (JMMC) – Importance
• Why is Oman important from a defensive and strategic point of view?
• What is the importance of the Duqm port?
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 INDIA-OMAN BILATERAL RELATIONS
THE WORLD
NATO concerned about Europe’s energy security in a context of tension
Program:
Preliminary examination: News of national and international importance
Main examination: General Studies II: Important international institutions, agencies and forums – their structure, mandate.
Key points to ponder:
• What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
• Why was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) created?
• Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Europe’s energy security and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict – how are they interconnected?
Other important articles dealing with the same subject:
📍 Europe’s energy security worries NATO in standoff with Russia
📍 Explanation: What happened during the NATO-Russia Council talks?
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