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The measure of tests Allowing students to take JEE and NEET twice a year is logical

An ideal system, admission to higher education courses would be based on assessmenttesting process that is transparent, accessible and fair

India’s policymakers have struggled to create accommodates the diversity and plurality

Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to technological institutes such as theIITs, NITs and IIITs, and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical courses are steps in this direction

Although much work remains to be done to make them accessible, especially for ruralstudents who suffer from various handicaps

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Continue Viewed against this background, the decision of the Centre to form a National Testing Agency

to conduct these and some other examinations is a progressive move.

A professional agency would look at nothing other than the suitability of the candidate to pursue a particular programme

The idea of multiple opportunities to take a test in a single year, which the Centre has now adopted for JEE (Main) and NEET, is not really new, and is familiar to students entering universities abroad, particularly those in the United States

In fact, the Ashok Misra committee set up by the Human Resource Development Ministry toreview the JEE three years ago recommended- The move to make both JEE (Main) andNEET available twice a year is consistent with that advice.


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Equally important is the issue of regulation of coaching institutes a sector worth about ₹2•4,000crore a year, according to the Ashok Misra panel

Ultimately, any process of reform at the level of entrance examinations can be meaningfulonly if the school education system is revamped, and learning outcomes are improved


Living in uncertain times U.S. President effecting a meeting with a North Korean leader.

Till very recently, North Korea was seen by U.S., and much of the West, as the principal part of the “axis of evil”.

U.S. has announced that North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat

Russia‟s Vladimir Putin is pitted against almost the entire Western world, and is beingblamed for an array of human rights violations

Afghanistan is rocked almost daily by terror attacks by the Taliban, the Tehreeke Taliban Pakistan, or the Islamic State

Syria is worst affected, Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Muslim world


Continue South Asia, even tiny countries like Maldives are challenging bigger neighbours like India.

Europe may not be convulsed(ह िंसक पीह़ित) with the same degree of violence, but political uncertainty is the prevailing order- UK, Germany, France

Stable dictatorships- Autocracies or dictatorships remain more stable- UnderPresident Xi Jinping, China

Wiping out poverty & becoming a moderately prosperous society by 2021‟ (100th anniversary of the founding of the party); a „Made in China target to be completed by 2025‟; and turning „China into a fully developed nation by 2049

Other dictatorial regimes, such as Turkey


Continue Indian democracy, unfortunately, is not an exception. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) currently projects an image of a strong centralised party.

Absence of a debate of this nature in Parliament has a direct impact on the conduct ofaffairs of state- Brute majority in the Lok Sabha

Friction in ties- India U.S. relations- 2+2 dialogue- Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan

The time has, hence, come for the government to seek out the Opposition to debate some of these issues inside Parliament, so that foreign policy


In need of a practical plan The judges of subordinate courts are appointed by the Governor in consultation with the chief

justice of the High Court of the concerned State.

A minimum of seven years of practise as a lawyer at bar is a necessary qualification for direct entry level to become a District Judge upon a written examination and oral interview by a committee of High court judges, the appointment of district judges is notified by the state Government.

District judges are also appointed by way of elevation of judges from courts subordinate to district courts

Failure to fill almost a quarter (23%) of vacancies that persist


Don’t blame it on WhatsApp A private company cannot and should not perform the duties of a democratically elected

government

As per public commentary, it is WhatsApp that has caused the loss of more than 20 livesin the past two months alone in the country.

Rumours on WhatsApp that there are child kidnappers and cattle traders roaming around have led to mob lynchings.

Three facts- The first fact is that the government maintains no central data on public lynchings

Absence of state protection were significant factors in the distrust which rose to the level of organised mob violence.

“Lynching without end”, which collated data from 2015 to 2017 and was published last year


Continue Escaping accountability- We ignore the problems within our legal framework and law

enforcement and prescribe policy choices with the same ease with which we install applications on our smartphones.

Such framing is leading to WhatsApp being made the principal offender in designing a technical architecture

But WhatsApp cannot- should not perform the duties of our democratically elected govt.

Our problematic framing is leading to public officials and police departments escaping accountability


High on atmospherics Punjab needs a sober(श ांत), well-thought-out strategy to deal with drug abuse

During the campaign for the Punjab Assembly elections last year, Amarinder Singh, thenthe Congress‟s chief ministerial candidate, had pledged to eradicate the State‟s drugproblem within four weeks of coming to power

Given the complexity of the issue, hardly anyone took his pledge seriously butit did convey his concern.

After coming to power, Capt. Singh took little time to set up a Special Task Force (STF) to tackle the problem.

The STF claimed to have arrested about 15,000 drug peddlers.

It also claimed that the supply line of drugs had been choked


Continue Cascading problems- tightening of supply chains, many turned to cheaper and spurious

drugs.

The last one month witnessed a spurt in deaths due to overdose or usage of spurious drugs.

Government maintains that there were only two such incidents, the local media reported over 25 deaths during the period.

Punjab Cabinet has asked the Centre to amend the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985 to include the death penalty for even firsttime offenders.

It followed this up with a declaration that all 3.4 lakh government employees would have toundergo a dope test- Recommendation of the death penalty for firsttime offendersin NDPS cases is a dangerous overreaction.

Currently there are about 15,000 convicts and undertrials in jails.


Continue Besides, the courts have already described as unconstitutional an amendment introduced

in 2001 providing death penalty for repeat offenders under the NDPS Act

The government is clearly aiming at the wrong target.

It is wellknown that the vast majority of drug addicts are unemployed youth.

It is this segment of youth who need to be targeted for proactive and preventive measures

This can be done by involving volunteers and elders from localities and villages.

Families and teachers need to be put through counselling

Such action requires an understanding of the situation, sincerity and patience.


Continue The problem also lies in the poor handling of drugrelated cases by police and prosecution

agencies

It requires sensitive handling rather than kneejerk(automatic and unthinking) reactions which can be counterproductive.


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- SC says it is ready to go live, Centre moots a TV channel This will be an extension of the open court system, says Chief Justice Misra


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- No review, Delhi bus rapists told Supreme Court on Monday rejected the plea of three of the four convicts in the Delhi bus rape

case to review its May 2017 judgment confirming their death penalty.

IISc, IIT-D chosen for special grants Institutions of Eminence list released


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- Modi, Moon inaugurate world‟s largest mobile factory‟ in Noida Samsung aims to double production, make India export hub


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- Policemen told to arrest pot bellies Lose weight or face action, personnel of the Karnataka State Reserve Police told


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Amarinder defends dope test for govt. employees


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis SC questions female genital mutilation „Can‟t violate woman‟s bodily privacy‟


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

The earliest Tamil compositions are known as 'Sangam'. Why these texts are called 'Sangam'?A. These texts were the meeting of the best of the ancient wisdom and contemporary values.B. The poets composing the texts named it so.C. They were composed in the city of Sangam.D. They were composed and compiled in assemblies of poets which were known as Sangams

Buddhacharita, written by Ashvaghosha, isA. a treatise of all Buddhist teachingsB. a critical commentary Buddhist ideas on MahayanaC. a biography of the Gautama BuddhaD. a treatise drawing parallels between Buddhist teachings and Vedic ideas


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