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9pm Compilation July, 2021 9 PM Compilation for the Month of July, 2021 General Studies - 1 1. The power of an apology 2. Envisioning the post-pandemic smart city 3. Why a grassroots mass movement is necessary to fight dowry 4. Is digitisation opening up a can of worms? 5. Ecological urbanism – Key to sustainable urbanization 6. Challenging negative social norms 7. Tapping on the potential of the youth 8. Family mis-planning 9. Sudden interest in ‘population control’ in Assam and UP points to political bad faith 10. How we fail our culture 11. Conjugal rights before Supreme Court 12. Why UP’s proposed population control bill is bad as policy and politics 13. Clean energy: How AI can help spot the copper we need 14. Accepting radical otherness 15. Getting all Indian tap water may be desirable. But what’s really needed is safe drinking water 16. Population populism: UP draft population bill fails tests of necessity, intrusiveness 17. Uttar Pradesh’s draft population bill has an ableism problem 18. It begs the question- Begging is a matter of survival, not choice. Invisibilising destitute solve nothing- 19. No need for a drastic population policy General Studies - 2 1. On the margins with full equality still out of reach 2. Pakistan on FATF grey list- What does it mean for India? 3. Police reforms are not enough 4. Fear, myths and lack of awareness leads to Vaccine hesitancy 5. The law of sedition is unconstitutional 6. Keeping alive conversations about AIDS 7. What India can learn from China’s foreign Policy 8. False notions of gender roles should be corrected early 9. Apt judicial reminder in era of over-criminalisation 10. The trouble with rankings 11. The future of learning in India is ed-tech 12. How much can a four-year-old really learn from a smartphone? 13. Mendez principle to replace torture and coercive interrogation 14. What CCI has to do with economic opportunity? 15. Election no guarantee against tyranny, says CJI 16. Small doses 17. Significance of India and France’s successive presidencies at UN Security Council 18. Location no bar 19. How police can serve citizens better 20. What pushing delimitation does to talks on peace and statehood in J&K 21. Explained: ‘Union’ or ‘central’ government? 22. Two big gaps in our vaccination programme that need attention 23. Delhi’s lame duck Assembly 24. All WHO-approved jabs must be recognised for travel: UN 25. Compassion & caution 26. Rule of Law vs Rule by Law 27. The country needs a framework for a universal social security net Created with love ❤ by ForumIAS‐ the knowledge network for civil services. Visit academy.forumias.com for our mentor‐based courses. ForumIAS 9 PM Compilation for the Month of July, 2021 28. Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate framework deal 29. In centenary backdrop, this is no hand of peace 30. Unjust green 31. Net Loss 32. India should stand with developing countries 33. Court correction 34. Why ex-bureaucrats speak up 35. How a PPP can overhaul India’s health infrastructure 36. World without narrow domestic walls 37. Without Aadhaar, without identity 38. India to divert excess waters under Indus treaty to irrigate own land 39. Crafting a unique partnership with Africa 40. Will a national judiciary work? 41. How India and China are shaped by the idea of national humiliation 42. Gauging pandemic mortality with civil registration data 43. What India must keep in mind when it comes to Turkey 44. The complex geopolitics of our times offers us a big opportunity 45. Unpacking China’s game plan 46. Seeking a paradigm shift in mental health care 47. Vacancies send a wrong signal 48. When we lost oxygen 49. Let’s chalk out a plan to reopen our schools before it gets too late 50. Let’s keep pace with the world on covid research 51. UAPA should go the way of TADA & POTA 52. How Radio Dhimsa is helping Odisha’s tribal students? 53. A long road for migrant workers 54. Confronting Xi: India should engage both the Dalai Lama and Taiwan 55. A geopolitical roadmap in uncertain times 56. Tracking fugitives everywhere 57. Troubling prospects in Afghanistan 58. The judicious choice 59. Puzzle out how to make vax ring-fences succeed 60. Ideas drawn from nudge theory could weaken a third covid wave 61. Repeal UAPA 62. The bar on criticism that muzzles the advocate 63. Undead section 64. In defence of India’s noisy democracy 65. The Afghan knot 66. Sedition law has no place in a modern democracy 67. Falling government school enrolment is alarming and it needs to be addressed soon 68. COVID-19 vaccines: Too many hurdles, still 69. Bangladesh boom fuels Indian exports 70. Our children need education. How much longer can schools remain shut? 71. Judges are arbiters, not lawmakers 72. Did central planning end in July 1991? 73. Constitutional crisis in Uttarakhand – Explained 74. A ride to safety 75. Shaping a trilateral as Rome looks to the Indo-Pacific 76. Regional powers and the Afghanistan question 77. The power of scrutiny 78. Prioritising school reopening on the road to recovery Created with love ❤ by ForumIAS‐ the knowledge network for civil services. Visit academy.forumias.com for our mentor‐based courses. ForumIAS 9 PM Compilation for the Month of July, 2021 79. It may be safer for school kids to stay maskless in classrooms 80. It is time for New Delhi to review its old ‘one China’ policy stance 81. Why Centre’s new rule for digital media face legal test 82. Framing the legislation, forgetting the transparency 83. The upcoming crisis in Indian federalism 84. Disable unconstitutional sections 85. It’s time victims of UAPA demanded restitution, justice 86. Courts shouldn’t step into executive’s domain: Supreme Court 87. Jobs lost, middle-class Indians line up for rations and ‘worry about meals’ 88. Number, No Privacy Threat 89. Ghost of Section 66A 90. Interference an investigating officer can do without 91. A strong Indian state must be humane too 92. Hard knocks for soft power 93. What the post-Covid doctor must know 94. Abolish the law 95. B3W – An alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative 96. India needs a renewed health-care system 97. Sensitive and precise 98. Why India is missing its vaccine targets 99. Towards freedom of expression 100. Areas of Cooperation and Competition 101. A new chapter in Nepal’s quest for political stability 102. How India can guard its interests should Kabul fall to the Taliban? 103. Long game with Beijing 104. How OPEC+ deal to withdraw output cut impacts India 105. Co-operation ministry: Harbinger of hope? 106. One in three couldn’t afford food year-round in 2020 107. A more humane police force 108. The crisis ahead, from learning loss to resumption 109. Making India a sporting nation 110. The role that industry could play in India’s Indo-Pacific outreach 111. How a four-minister MEA could amplify India’s diplomatic power? 112. Legislature won’t act criminalisation of politics: SC 113. A compromise amid uncertainty 114. Prosecutor, not persecutor 115. Why the Supreme Court order on registration of migrant workers is welcome 116. A cardinal omission in the COVID-19 package 117. How lack of proper identification of arrested persons slows down legal process? 118. India must directly engage with Taliban 2.0 119. Federalism and cooperatives 120. The direction that the NCF needs to take 121. Bringing skills and education closer 122. China-led South Asian Initiative 123. How Open Network for Digital Commerce could disrupt India’s e-commerce space? 124. ‘Gatekeeper Model’ mooted to prevent suicides in prisons 125. MGNREGA was safety net for workers during first wave, but there are holes in it now 126. A Bill to stop strikes at ordnance factories 127. Countering China means more role for Navy and Airforce 128. Afghanistan without Pak & Islam 129. Delhi and Tehran can work together on Afghanistan Created with love ❤ by ForumIAS‐ the knowledge network for civil services. Visit academy.forumias.com for our mentor‐based courses. ForumIAS 9 PM Compilation for the Month of July, 2021 130. Can SAARC fill the power vacuum left by US withdrawal from Afghanistan? 131. The great convergence and a lag 132. Opposing Sedition Law is Good Optics and Politics 133. Guardrails of Privacy 134. Healthcare privatization has not served India well 135. An emigration Bill that does not go far enough 136. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana water-share war seems far from over 137. Evaluating India’s options in Afghanistan 138. Needed, a more unified Asian voice for Afghanistan 139. India can act as a peace Agent in the Security Council 140. Towards a lean tax department 141. Needed: an anti-trafficking law 142. A judgment that must be taken in the right spirit 143. Mending the British-made Assam-Mizoram dispute 144. The Housing Boost 145. The vision of the National Education Policy must be served by its implementation 146. A pandemic-optimized plan for kids to resume their education 147. India-US ties key to anchoring Indo-Pacific region 148. One nation, one police is a reform that is long overdue 149. Corporate Management isn’t What Civil Service Needs 150. In the interest of the public 151. Indus Waters Treaty is worth preserving 152. Shared values: On India and the U.S. 153. Law and lawmakers 154. How does a democracy die? 155. How a Supreme court order could render the new co-op ministry a non-starter 156. Quotas don’t solve what’s really wrong with education 157.
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