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S.NO. NEWS ITEM
SYLLUBUS
1.
India-US nuclear a) I.R
deal can apply to
other countries
(Page 14)
2.
Sirisena visit
a) I.R
expected to boost
ties (Page 14)
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Modi may engage a)
with Pak (Pages 1
and 14)
Tangibles and
a)
imponderables of
a visit (Page 12)
China-funded port a)
project still on
track (Page 16)
Will terminate
a)
climate change
(Page 15)
b)
8 percent GDP
a)
growth helped
reduced poverty: b)
UN report (Page
15)
c)
Surplus
a)
foodgrains to be
sold in open
b)
market (Page 15)
I.R
ESSENCE OF THE ARTICLE
a) France official and Modi discussed on various
fields, including energy, urban planning, space and
tourism and many areas, along with the nuclear
cooperation.
a) The coming visit of Sri Lankan President is
expected to increase ties.
b) Skill development and green cities will be the focus
of discussions during the visit of Singapore President.
a) Pakistan official said that India and Pakistan must
restart talks.
I.R
a) The Joint Statements of US-India Joint Strategic
Vision for the Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean Region
and the India-US Delhi Declaration of Friendship
highlight the cooperation of India and US.
International a) After the report of Environmental impact, the Sri
Lankan govt said it would go ahead with the China
funded port city project.
National
a) Official said the Sub-national govts have the power
to cut 80 percent of the greenhouse gases.
Environment
National
a) India has achieved first Millennium Development
Goals.
Economy
Social issue
National
a) Govt decided to sell the excess stocks of FCI in the
open market.
Economy
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S.NO. NEWS ITEM
1.
India-US nuclear a)
deal can apply to
other countries
(Page 14)
SYLLUBUS
I.R
BACKGROUND
a) India – France
relations
b) Civil nuclear
cooperation
IMPORTANT POINTS
a) Frances Minister for
Foreign Affairs accepted that
the elements of the recent
Indo-US agreement on
nuclear liability could apply
to other nations.
c) Indo-US civil nuclear
b) France was eager on the
agreement
details of the civil nuclear
d) Indian liability Act cooperation between India
and the US.
e) Jaitapur nuclear
c) India and France
project
already have a civil nuclear
cooperation under which the
French company Areva is to
set up six nuclear reactors in
Jaitapur.
d) Regarding his meeting
with Modi, he said we
discussed on different
subjects of our strategic
partnership in various fields,
energy, urban planning,
space and tourism and many
areas.
e) He said the issue of
terrorism was also discussed
as it was a common concern.
2.
Sirisena visit
a)
expected to boost
ties (Page 14)
I.R
a) India – Sri Lanka
relations
b) India – Singapore
relations
c)
Skill development
f) He spoke with
Javadekar on various issues
of environment protection
and climate change.
a) The Ministry of
External Affairs announced
that Sri Lankan President
Sirisena will visit India on
Feb 15 and the visit is
expected to increase ties.
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d)
Green cities
b) Ties between the two
nations dissatisfied under the
previous govt in Sri Lanka,
which leaned towards China.
c) The Ministry also said
that skill development and
green cities will be the focus
of discussions during the
visit of Singapore President
to India from Feb 8 to 11.
3.
Modi may engage a)
with Pak (Pages 1
and 14)
I.R
a) India – Pakistan
disputes
b)
Terrorism
c) Peshawar school
attack
d)
JuD
e)
LeT
d) Singapore is setting up
a skill development institute
in Delhi and India has
requested a similar institute
in the North East.
a)
In a meeting with NSA
Doval and Foreign
Secretary, Pakistans former
National Security Adviser
said that India and Pakistan
must cash in on the moment
to restart dialogue.
b) He said his impression
is that PM Modi would like
to move forward on the
dialogue but would rather
not pick up the old format of
the composite dialogue
process.
c) However both India and
Pakistan were quick to
dismiss the meetings as
official.
d) His claim that there was
a new moment of an antiterror resolve by the Pakistan
govt after the Peshawar
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school incident was
contradicted by anti-India
rallies in Pakistan held by
Hafiz Saeed and the JuD.
4.
Tangibles and
a)
imponderables of
a visit (Page 12)
I.R
a)
India – US relations
a) Talks between Modi
and Obama comprehensively
covered most aspects of
b) US-India Joint
India-US engagement and
Strategic Vision for the
Asia-Pacific and the Indian provided greater depth to the
relationship.
Ocean Region
b) The Joint Statement,
c) India-US Delhi
Declaration of Friendship together with the US-India
Joint Strategic Vision for the
d) Indias Act East Policy Asia-Pacific and the Indian
Ocean Region and the IndiaUS Delhi Declaration of
e) Civil nuclear deal
Friendship, convey the
impression that they have
f) Nuclear Suppliers
reached a common
Group (NSG)
understanding, placing closer
g) Missile Technology cooperation in the future.
Control Regime (MTCR)
c) It also highlights that
Indias Act East Policy and
h) Wassenaar
the USs rebalance towards
Arrangement
Asia, provide opportunities
for India, US and other Asiai) Australian Group
Pacific countries to work
closely to strengthen
j) United Nations
Convention on the Law of regional ties.
the Sea (UNCLOS)
d) Several areas of mutual
cooperation are mentioned in
k) South China Sea
the Joint Statement. These
include defence technology
l) Defense Trade and
and related aspects as well as
Technology Initiative
defence and homeland
(DTTI)
security cooperation with an
emphasis on developing new
areas of technology
cooperation.
e)
The statement commits
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India and the US to
achieving a defining counterterrorism relationship for the
21st Century.
f) The segment on civil
nuclear cooperation only
welcomes the understanding
reached on civil nuclear
liability issues and
administrative arrangements
for civil nuclear cooperation.
g) No assurances have
been given that the US
would effectively press
Indias case for entry into the
NSG, the MTCR, the
Wassenaar Arrangement and
the Australian Group.
h) The climate change
segment contains routine
references to increasing
bilateral cooperation on
adaptation measures, as well
as on joint research
development and technology
innovation.
i) The Joint Strategic
Vision for the Asia-Pacific
and Indian Ocean Region is
emphatic about the need to
ensure freedom of navigation
and overflight throughout the
region, especially in the
South China Sea.
j) It calls on all parties to
avoid the threat of use of
force and to follow
resolution of territorial and
maritime disputes through
peaceful means in keeping
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with principles of
International Law and
UNCLOS.
k) On economic
engagement, the US has
promised finance facilities
worth $4 billion. Both sides
have set their sights on
greater trade and investment,
and on developing their
economic partnership
further.
l) The status of Indias
nuclear liability law and the
liability of suppliers of
nuclear equipment remains
unclear.
m) The codevelopment
and co-production projects
announced under the DTTI
have relatively modest
objectives such as miniUAVs and the like.
n) The acid test for India
would be how to manage the
weak balance that exists
between India and China,
following implicit references
in the Joint Strategic Vision
Document to Chinas
growing economic and
military strength and its
assertiveness.
o) Analysts see the
document as showing that
India and the US now see
each other as a crucial
partner in balancing Chinas
increasingly assertive role in
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Asia.
p) Redefining the
relationship is also seen as a
step towards reviving the
Quad (a security
collaboration arrangement
between Australia, Japan,
India and the US).
q) Aspects such as the
disturbance in West Asia, the
situation prevailing in
Afghanistan, Pakistan and
parts of South and SouthEast Asia hardly find
mention.
5.
China-funded port a)
project still on
track (Page 16)
International
r) One of the
imponderables of the visit
was Obamas pointed
reference to religious
freedom and gender
inequalities in his public
address at the conclusion of
the visit.
a) Sri Lanka – China
a) The Sri Lankan govt
relations
said it would go ahead with
the $1.34-billion China
b) Chinas projects in Sri funded project.
Lanka
b) A report on the
environmental impact of
reclaiming land near
Colombos beachfront said
the project was fine.
c) The decision comes
after PM Wickramasinghe
announced (prior to
elections) that the massive
port city project would be
stopped due to concerns over
possible environmental
damage to the islands
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coastline.
6.
Will terminate
climate change
(Page 15)
a)
National
a)
Climate change
b)
Environment
b) Delhi Sustainable
Development Summit
(DSDS)
c) R20 Regions of
Climate Action
d)
7.
8 percent GDP
a)
growth helped
reduced poverty: b)
UN report (Page
15)
c)
National
Economy
Social issue
Greenhouse gases
d) The port city (Sri
Lankas single largest foreign
investment started by
Chinese President Xi in Sept
2014) is coming up near
Colombos container
terminal, also built by the
Chinese.
a) At the opening of the
DSDS, the former Governor
of California Arnold
Schwarzenegger said the
climate change is not science
fiction and it is impacting us
right now.
b) He (who is the
founding chair of R20
Regions of Climate Action)
was all praise for PM Modi
and called Gujarat as the
California of India in terms
of its clean energy actions.
c) He said the Subnational governments can
lead the way and they have
the power to cut 80 percent
of the greenhouse gases.
a) GDP growth
a) UNs ESCAP has said
the 8 percent GDP growth in
India from 2004 to 2011 led
b) United Nations
to a sharp decline in poverty
Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and from 41.6 percent to 32.7
percent and achieved the
the Pacific (ESCAP)
first MDGs set for 2015 of
reducing poverty by half.
c) Millennium
Development Goals
b) In a report, it said other
(MDGs)
MDGs achieved include
gender parity in primary
d) Poverty
school enrolment, maternal
mortality reduction by three-
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fourths and control of spread
of HIV/AIDS, malaria and
tuberculosis. India also
achieved MDGs related to
increased forest cover,
halved the proportion of
population without access to
drinking water.
c) The report says the
MDGs that India has missed
are universal primary school
enrolment and completion
and universal youth literacy
by 2015, empowering
women through wage
employment and political
participation, reducing child
and infant mortality and
improving access to
adequate sanitation to open
defecation.
8.
Surplus
a)
foodgrains to be
sold in open
b)
market (Page 15)
National
Economy
d) Over 270 million
people in India in 2012 still
remained trapped in extreme
poverty making the post2015 goal of eliminating
extreme poverty by 2030
challenging but feasible.
a) Food Corporation of a) An IMG set up to take
India (FCI)
decisions on surplus food
stocks and decided to sell in
the open market excess
b) Inter-Ministerial
stocks that are with the FCI.
Group (IMG)
c) Minimum support
price (MSP)
b) The govt had last year
made available about 100
lakh tonnes of wheat for sale
during the year under the
open market sales scheme at
a price higher than the MSP.
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