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Essay Paper

1. Lockdown and Welfare of Pregnant Women....……………..…..03

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International Relations

1. North And South Korea’s tiff ……………………..………..….…………05

Snippets

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International Relations

1. President Donald trump’s Presidential Order…………………….06

Governance

2. States to Pay Salaries …………………………………………………………06

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Economic Development 1. Fuel prices rise.………………………………………………………....…..…06

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Essay Paper

Editorial

Q – Lockdown and state’s responsibility towards the Welfare of

Pregnant Women. Discuss?

INTRO = During lockdown, the state appeared to have forgotten

women expected to give birth. Even though recent epidemics have

identified pregnant women as people being ‘high risk’, no reference

was made this time on the need to provide emergency services for

pregnant women. Frontline workers were pressed into community

surveillance, monitoring and awareness building for COVID 19. The

public health system was overburdened with handling the

pandemic: most secondary and tertiary hospitals were either those

designated as COVID-19 facilities or those unequipped with enough

PPE kits.

Past Incentives –

Over the last 15 years, the state has been promising maternal well-

being to pregnant women provided they turn up at public hospitals

during labour, and has been providing a cash incentive to those that

have institutional birth. Consequently, it has become almost routine

for all pregnant women to reach health facilities during labour.

Elaborate tracking systems have been instituted by the Ministry of

Health and Family Welfare to track every pregnant woman, infant

and child until they turn five.

Current Status –

The recent news has been providing many glimpses of the stigma

and paranoia regarding the virus and its fallout upon pregnant

women and infants. There was the 20-year-old in Telangana with

anaemia and high blood pressure, who died after being turned away

by six hospitals and etc. With Innumerable other incidents have

possibly gone unreported.

These indicate that in these 12 weeks, the approximately 9,00,000

pregnant women (15% of the six million women giving birth) who

needed critical care had to face enormous hurdles to actually obtain

treatment at an appropriate hospital. Added to this were the women

who have had miscarriages or sought abortions: that would be

another 45,000 women every single day.

The government rather belatedly issued a set of guidelines a month

after lockdown started, but that only compounded the confusion –

a) Pregnant women had to be ‘recently’ tested and certified COVID-19-negative to enter a ‘general hospital’ but it was not clear how this can happen once they are in labour, as the test results need a day’s turnaround at the very least.

b) Clinics have closed down and private hospitals have stepped back fearing infections, while larger hospitals have begun charging exorbitant amounts. The role of the private sector therefore needs to be scrutinised. India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio came down to 122 deaths per

1,00,000 live births (SRS 2017), from 167 per 1,00,000 births in 2011-

13. Much effort and investment over many years have led to this

decrease. As India struggles to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, the

hard-won gains of the last 15 years can be erased with one stroke. As

the country slowly emerges from a total lockdown into a longer-term

management strategy, it is time to consider doing things differently

for improving maternal well-being.

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International Relations Q – Explain the North And South Korea’s tiff?

BACKGROUND = North Korea blew up a joint liaison office set up on

its side of the border as part of a 2018 peace agreement between

the two countries’ leaders.

And said it had rejected a South Korean offer to send special envoys

to ease escalating tension over defiance by North Korean defectors

and stalled reconciliation efforts, also that it vowed to redeploy

troops to border areas.

The (North) Korean People’s Army said it would deploy troops to Mount Kumgang and Kaesong near the border, where the two Koreas had carried out joint economic projects in the past.

Special Envoy

Tension had been rising this month with North Korea threatening to cut ties with South Korea and retaliate over North Korean defectors in the South sending propaganda leaflets into North Korea.South Korea called on the defectors to stop but they said they intended to push ahead with their campaign.

Mr. Moon offered to send his national security adviser Chung Eui-yong and spy chief Suh Hoon as special envoys, KCNA said. But Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a senior ruling party official, “flatly rejected the tactless and sinister proposal”.

At the 20th anniversary of the first inter-Korean Summit, Mr. Moon expressed regret that North Korea-U.S. and inter-Korean relations had not made progress as hoped but asked North Korea to maintain peace deals and return to dialogue.

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International Relations President Donald trump’s Presidential Order

Following weeks of national protests since the death of George Floyd, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order he said would encourage better police practices.

New order discourages use of chokeholds, creates database tracking misconduct.

Social workers join police when they respond to nonviolent calls involving mental health, addiction and homelessness issues.

Governance Supreme Court’s Directs Centre to direct States to Pay Salaries.

The court should hold the States accountable for payment of salaries of healthcare workers and finding them suitable accommodation.

A Bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan took exception to how quarantine had been done away for all medical workers, except for those in the high-risk category. Doctors are only quarantined if they are in high-risk exposure, where in most cases, medical staffers had their aged parents staying with them. Lack of separate and appropriate accommodation for healthcare workers meant many of them went back home and exposed senior citizens to the danger of contracting the virus.

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Economic Development Fuel prices rise.

State-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) raised retail prices of petrol and diesel for the eleventh consecutive day.

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The price of petrol rose by 55 paise a litre, while diesel became dearer by 60 paise, taking the cumulative price increase to above ₹6 a litre for the fuels over the last 11 days.

A litre of petrol now costs ₹77.28 a litre in Delhi, as per a notification by Indian Oil Corporation, and a litre of diesel now costs ₹75.79 a litre in that city.

How about this today!?

Consider the following Statements – 1. A housing finance company is considered a non- Banking

financial company (NBFC) 2. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed stringent

norms for housing finance companies by mandating 75% of their home loans to individual borrowers by 2024.

3. Concerns related to ‘double financing’ is being addressed under the current norms.

Which of the above statements is/are INCORRECT regarding RBI’s recent rules set for Home Finance Firms? a. 1,2 b. 3 alone c. All of the above d. None of the above

Hey from yesterday….

Consider the following statements –

1. There is a glass formation over the surface of the bed rock of the Lonar crater, which is a basalt rock. This is a new feature not found anywhere else on the Earth and only on the beds of craters existing on moon.

2. There is also a large quantity of a unique material called ejecta blanket, which contains is a substance found on the moon suspending freely floating in the crater water bodies.

Which of the following is/are the findings of the NASA

expert Dr.Shawn Right regarding the Lonar lake that turned

pink in Maharashtra?

a. 1 alone b. 2 alone c. Both d. None Answer: a

NOTE: An ejecta blanket is a generally symmetrical apron of ejecta that surrounds an impact crater; it is layered thickly at the crater's rim and thin to discontinuous at the blanket's outer edge.

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