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Warm Greetings. INDEX
Essay Paper
DnD aims to provide every day news analysis in Editorial
sync with the UPSC pattern. 1. The Morale of the Police forces in India in light of handling the
Hathras Rape Incident ……………………………………………………….….…03
It is targeted at UPSC – Prelims & Mains.
GS 2
Daily articles are provided in the form of Social Justice
1. India’s negligence regarding implementing protective legislations….05
Question and Answers
To have a bank of mains questions. GS 3
Economic Development
And interesting to read. 1. How further past the Budget target is the fiscal deficit of India........07
Providing precise information that can Snippets
be carried straight to the exam, rather GS2
than over dumping. Constitution
1. The Babri Masjid Demolition Case and What has the final verdict
come down to ………………………………………………………………………….....09
International Relations
Enjoy reading.
2. What does being the new Emir of Quwait mean?...........................11
THE HINDU - TH GS3
INDIAN EXPRESS - IE Economic Development
BUSINESS LINE - BL 1. The Current Account and what does its surplus indicate…………………..…11
ECONOMIC TIMES - ET
TIMES OF INDIA - TOI
Security
2. The significance of BrahMos Surface to Surface Cruise Missile in face of
the Indo-China standoff at the border……………………………………………………..12
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Essay Paper In a democracy, the state is granted the monopoly of violence, but, in
Editorial turn, it is bound to fairness, justice and due process for all — and not
Comment on the status of the Morale of the Police forces in India in just the few. But lawkeepers, unless held accountable to law, remain
light of handling the Hathras Rape Incident? a weapon in the hands of the powerful. The Hathras incident
underlines that the all-powerful UP policeman, impatient with the
INTRO = The gangrape and maiming of a 19-year-old woman from the
checks of procedure and law, stands against the vulnerable and
Dalit community in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, ended with her death,
powerless. The UP police has often justified its excesses in the name
and a hasty, lonely cremation in the dead of the night. It was a crime
of maintaining law and order; it must ask itself what law was
that stands out for being enabled by many inequalities and injustices.
protected by violating the sanctity of a 19-year-old girl’s last rites.
The most striking is the caste privilege that allows upper-caste men
entitlement, with apparent impunity, over the bodies of Dalits. (The For Prelims –
accused are from a Thakur family with a record of caste violence
against the victim’s family). It is one more example of the epidemic of
sexual violence that regularly crushes Indian women and girls.
UP police officials stand accused of cremating the woman, without
allowing a last glimpse to the grieving parents and without their
consent. To be able to inflict so much cruelty takes insensitivity, of
course, but it is also a function of a reflex, honed over years, to bend
to entrenched systems of power.
The Uttar Pradesh police, in the last few years, has consistently
chipped away at its facade of being a professional police force. In the
service of “a tough administration” and a “nationalist” macho
government, it has crossed several red lines.
Extra-judicial killings are projected and celebrated as justice, despite
reprimands from the Supreme Court — and no police officer is held
accountable
EX - As an investigation in this paper has shown, the National Security
Act (NSA) is used recklessly in cases of cow slaughter — often a dog
whistle in heartland politics against the minorities — and also to book
those protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The
crackdown against protestors during the anti-CAA protests, their
naming and shaming through posters in public places, were all
giveaways of a police force ready to use a heavy hand to serve a
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A total of 45,935 cases were registered for committing crimes
against the SCs, showing an increase of 7.3% over 2018 when 42,793
such cases were recorded.
At 11,829 cases, Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of
crimes against the SCs in 2019, followed by 6,794 cases in Rajasthan
GS 2 and 6,544 cases in Bihar.
In the number of cases of rape of women belonging to the SCs,
Social Justice
Rajasthan topped the list with 554, followed by Uttar Pradesh at 537
Q – India’s negligence regarding implementing protective
legislations reflects in the increased rate and types of crimes against and Madhya Pradesh at 510. Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest
Scheduled Castes and Tribes observed by the National Crime number of cases against the STs as it recorded 1,922, followed by
Records Bureau. Analyse? Rajasthan, which recorded 1,797 and Odisha 576. The highest
BACKGROUND = Crimes against members of the Scheduled Castes number of incidents of rape of tribal women (358) was registered in
(SCs) and the Scheduled Tribes (STs) saw an increase of over 7% and Madhya Pradesh.
26% in 2019 compared with the 2018 figures, according to the annual A total of 51,56,172 cognisable crimes, comprising 32,25,701 Indian
Crime in India 2019 report published by the National Crime Records Penal Code ones and 19,30,471 Special and Local Laws crimes were
Bureau (NCRB) . Due to “non-receipt of data” from West Bengal for registered in 2019.
2019, the 2018 data had been used to arrive at national and city-wise The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), a police reforms
figures
advocacy group, said few cases were being registered for specific
discriminatory action against the SCs and the STs.
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GS 3 ICRA, reckoned that the deficit will rise to ₹14 lakh crore and the
Centre would have to scale up its borrowings by at least ₹1.1 lakh
Economic Development
crore, even if no further fiscal support measures were announced.
Q – How further past the Budget target is the fiscal deficit of India
and what are its implications? Fiscal slippage would be quite wide. “We expect central government
BACKGROUND = India’s fiscal deficit went further past the Budget deficit to be in the region of 9% this year. This is notwithstanding the
target of nearly ₹8 lakh crore in the first five months of 2020-21, fact that there may be no new stimulus involving additional
touching ₹8.7 lakh crore or 109.3% of the deficit target. expenditure.
1) Revenue receipts stood at just 18.3% of the Budget targets, while Budget 2020-21 had set a fiscal deficit target of 3.5% of GDP.
expenditure touched 41%.
2) Core sector output fell harder in August than July, contracting 8.5%
compared to a year ago, indicating that a recovery remains elusive.
a) With coal and fertilizers being the only two sectors registering
growth of 3.6% and 7.3% year-on-year.
b) The sharpest decline on a year-on-year basis in August was
registered in refinery products (19.1%), followed by cement (14.6%)
and natural gas (9.5%).
c) For the five months from April to August, the core sectors, which
account for a little over 40% of the Index of Industrial Production,
shrank 17.8%.
3) . The plan to raise ₹2.1 lakh crore from disinvestment is waylaid,
even as the Finance Ministry extended the deadline for bids to buy
BPCL by two months.
4) The Centre held off any expansion of its proposed borrowings of
₹12 lakh crore, with Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj stating
that revenues are picking up with re-opening of economy.
Implications being that the Revenue Deficits may further grow –
Revenue collections were largely to blame for the fiscal deficit
hitting ₹8.70 lakh crore compared to the target of ₹7.96 lakh crore,
as tax revenue declined across the board. Rating agencies expect
the fiscal deficit slippage to be much higher by the end of the year.
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GS 2 A special CBI court acquitted senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, former
Constitution Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh and 30 others in the Babri
Q – Give a timeline of the Babri Masjid Demolition Case and What Masjid demolition case, almost 28 years after the December 6, 1992
has the final verdict come down to after 28 years of the incident? incident, for lack of credible evidence.
It observed that a group of “arajak” (hooligan) kar sevaks from the
main crowd “suddenly got agitated” and indulged in violence even as
senior VHP leader Ashok Singhal appealed to them to retreat that
fateful day.
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The court said in the 2,300-page verdict that evidence submitted by the
CBI in the form of newspaper clippings, video cassettes,
tapes, printed material, speeches, and witness testimonies made it
“clear that there was no moment when the accused persons gathered
in a room to plan the scheme to demolish the structure.” “None of the
witnesses have clearly named any of the accused to say they were
demolishing the disputed structure”.
Twenty-six of the 32 accused — most of them linked to the Sangh
Parivar — were present in court.
International Relations
Q – What does being the new Emir of Quwait mean?
Kuwait’s Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah was sworn in before
Parliament as the ruling Emir of the tiny oil-rich country, propelled to
power by the death of his half-brother after a long career in the
The surplus in the current account in the first quarter of 2020-21
security services. was on account of a sharp contraction in trade deficit to $10 billion
His accession touched off speculation about who will become the next due to a steeper decline in merchandise imports relative to exports
Crown Prince in the country known for its lively elected Parliament and on a year-on-year basis.
relative independence in the neighbourhood of Gulf Arab monarchies. The current account surplus in Q1 was well above our expectations,
The challenges and responsibilities for Sheikh Nawaf are manifold. as the fall in remittances was remarkably muted, despite the
Gridlock in Parliament has blocked the passage of a public debt law adverse economic conditions globally amid the ongoing pandemic.
needed to raise $65 billion and mitigate the country’s looming liquidity With domestic and global lockdowns to fight COVID-19 [having] a
crisis. A major credit agency last week downgraded Kuwait for the first differentiated impact on exports and imports, the merchandise
time in its history, citing the government’s swelling budget deficit. trade deficit shrunk to just $10 billion in Q1, most of which was
Plunging oil prices amid the pandemic have robbed the wealthy accounted for by the net oil balance.
country of cash.
GS 3 Security
Economic Development Q – What is the significance of BrahMos Surface to Surface Cruise
Q – What contains the Current Account of a country and what does its Missile in face of the Indo-China standoff at the border?
surplus indicate? The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
India recorded a surplus of $19.8 billion (3.9% of GDP) in its current successfully test-fired the BrahMos surface-to-surface cruise
account balance in the first quarter of FY21, on top of a surplus of $0.6 missile with an indigenous booster and air frame sector, along with
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billion (0.1% of GDP) in the preceding quarter, according to RBI data. A other sub-systems made within the country.
deficit of $15 billion (2.1% of GDP) was recorded a year earlier.
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The supersonic missile is one of the prime precision-strike missiles How about this today!?
used by all three forces, the Army, Navy and the Air Force. Match the following Indo-China bilateral agreements to their
The BrahMos Land-Attack Cruise Missile (LACM) was cruising at a objectives –
top speed of Mach 2.8. The missile weighs around 2.5 tonnes and Agreements Objectives
has a strike range of approximately 300 km. 1. 1959 Agreement A. Maintenance of peace &
The test comes at a time when BrahMos has been deployed in Tranquillity
2. 2005 Agreement B. Confidence Building Measures
Ladakh as well as the Eastern Sector in Arunachal Pradesh to tackle
(CBM) in the military field
any threats in the ongoing standoff with China. 3. 1996 Agreement C. Maintaining political
parameters and guiding principles
4. 1993 Agreement D. Defining Line Of Actual Control
(LAC)
a. 1A, 2C, 3D, 4A
b. 1D, 2C, 3B, 4A
c. 1D, 2C, 3A, 4B
d. 1B, 2A, 3D, 4C
Hey from yesterday….
Which from the following list of Indian Vessels is the Guinness
record holder for the longest serving warship in the world?
a. INS Viraat
b. INS Vikrant
c. INS Arihant
d. INS Jalashwa
Answer: a
NOTE: INS Viraat had completed 30 years in the Navy and
had earlier served the British navy as HMS Hermes in 1959-
84. INS Viraat, which served the country for several years
and was retired in 2017, has reached its final destination and
is being planned to be turned in to a museam.
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