27 May 2024, The Indian EXPRESS
Criminal abdication
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GS3-Disaster and Disaster Management
- Two devastating fire incidents in less than 12 hours, which have snuffed out lives, many of them children, including, most heartbreakingly, newborns at a pediatric hospital in Delhi, are reminders of the shockingly low priority accorded to basic safety measures in Indian cities.
- Fire preparedness is a well-developed discipline in most parts of the world. Yet outbreak after outbreak in the last three decades has highlighted the failure to learn from it and bring it into the design of public spaces, housing apartments, hospitals, commercial and office complexes.
- The emerging details of Saturday’s fire at a Rajkot indoor gaming centre evoke a terrible déjà vu.
- The centre did not have a no-objection certificate from fire safety authorities, it had only one route for entry and exit and welding work was underway during business hours.
An exercise in strategy
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GS2- Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests
- The seventh edition of the India- France Joint Military Exercise SHAKTI concluded Monday, at the Umroi Joint training node in Meghalaya.
- It is a biennial training event conducted alternatively in both India and France. The last edition was conducted in France in November 2021.
- The Indian Army contingent comprising of 90 personnel was represented by the 22nd Battalion of the Rajput Regiment.
LVM3 commercialisation is a big step forward, at right time for Indian say experts
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GS3- Achievements of Indians in Science & Technology; Indigenization of Technology and Developing New Technology
- ISRO’s recent invitation to private firms to build India’s heaviest rocket is a long-awaited step to ensure greater participation of the private sector in the country’s space programme.
- And it will help India emerge stronger in the international space market amid a rapidly-increasing demand for satellite launches, according to experts The Indian Express spoke to.
NDA curriculum revamp in pipeline, in line with evolving nature of war
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GS3-Various Security Forces and Agencies and their Mandate
- A thorough revamp of the curriculum of the National Defence Academy (NDA) is in the pipeline to incorporate key subjects in line with the changing nature of warfare.
- The syllabus overhaul is expected to add advanced studies in network centric warfare, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning as well as warfare in the domains of cyber, space and information.
- The changes are being incorporated after recommendations from the Inter Services Study Group, officials said.
Cyclone Remal hits coast: Air, train ops suspended, heavy rain in south Bengal
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GS1-Important Geophysical Phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc.
- Cyclone Remal, this year’s first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal which triggered suspension of rail and air services in West Bengal, hit the Indian coastline late on Sunday night in an area between Sagar Islands and Khepupara in neighbouring Bangladesh.
- The cyclone touched the coastline after 9 pm on Sunday, and the ‘landfall’ continued for about four hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
- Remal had wind speeds, ranging between 110 and 120 km per hour, when it hit the coast.
- The Indian coastline along northern Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal, as also the adjoining areas of Bangladesh, routinely receive much stronger cyclones every year.
With high withdrawals, patent process still under stress; approvals up, says govt
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GS3- issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights
- A little over two days after Proctor and Gamble (P&G) received a request for clarification on its patent application on October 5, 2018 for a detergent composition, the patent office rejected its application on October 8 without giving the company the prescribed six months to deal with the issue.
- Following a legal challenge, the Delhi High Court in a order on December 8, 2023 pulled up the patent office saying that the manner of dealing with the application filed by the American multinational company was “extremely arbitrary and whimsical”.
Hamas rocket attack sets off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv for 1st time in months
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GS2- Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s interests
- Hamas fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza that set off air raid sirens as far away as Tel Aviv for the first time in months on Sunday in a show of resilience more than seven months into Israel's massive air, sea and ground offensive.
- There were no immediate reports of casualties in what appeared to be the first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January.
