UPSC CSE Key – March 9, 2022: What you need to read today

India, Nepal and Bangladesh finalise MoU

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests

Key Points to Ponder:

• Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA)-Key Highlights

• What is Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA)?

• Trade between India and other South Asian Countries-know the data

• The establishment of the BBIN initiative is important for trade-How and Why?

• Know about South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA)

• Why Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) if South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is already there?

• Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) is a result of failure of SAFTA or it is just a trade bloc?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Intra-BBIN Trade: Opportunities and Challenges

📍 ‘Trust deficit’ hampering seamless movement of goods between India, Bangladesh: World Bank

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Women’s Day

Syllabus:

Mains Examination: General Studies I: History of the world will include events, Role of women and women’s organization and Social empowerment

Key Points to Ponder:

• International Women’s Day (IWD)-Historical Background (Hint: Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th is strongly linked to the women’s movements during the Russian Revolution, 1917)

• United Nations recognition to women’s day and the year 1975

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Often referred to as the
“Women’s Bill of Rights”-What all you know about CEDAW?

• Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action-Know in Detail

• Global Gender Gap Report 2021-What are the components of this report?

• Global Gender Gap Report 2021 and India

• Greater gender diversity and higher GDPs-give some examples

• What is your basic understanding of the term ‘empowering women’ or ‘women empowerment’?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 ABOUT EQUALITY

EXPRESS NETWORK

With 3% recovery of pilfered funds, Bihar among laggard states

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Social Audit-What do you understand by this?

• Mahatma Gandhi National National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Social Audit

• Social Audit-Issues and Challenges

• Information-Monitoring, Evaluation and Social Audit (I-MESA) under which Ministry?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Social Audit of Social Sector Schemes

EXPLAINED

What makes Ukraine a study destination for Indians and others

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.

Key Points to Ponder:

• How many international students are studying in Ukraine?

• What are the flights being operated to evacuate Indian nationals?

• What preparations are being made for the arrival of evacuated students from Ukraine?

• How many Indian students are there in Ukraine?

• Why eastern Europe is popular with Indian medical students?

• Why is Ukraine preferred for an MBBS courses?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Why students from Punjab, Haryana go to Ukraine to study medicine

📍 Explained: Why eastern Europe is popular with Indian medical students

Looming oil crisis: what now

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Mains Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.

Key Points to Ponder:

• How big a player is Russia in the global oil market?

• Why were oil prices rising even before the Ukraine crisis?

• Can strategic reserves not help meet the gap?

• Ukraine Invasion-What’s at Stake for the Global Economy

• War and Impact on Indian Economy in the context of crude oil prices, inflation, Import and Exports, Current
account deficit, subsidies on LPG and Kerosene

• What exactly is crude oil?

• What do you understand by Sanctions and embargoes?

• Economic sanctions on Russia-Impact

• Can’t there be increased supplies from countries such as Venezuela and Iran?

• Is there a difference in the dependence of the US and its European allies on Russian energy imports?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Autocrats and Oil

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