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Tatas Hard Choice
What is the issue?
Tata Steels recent merger is a proof of hard commercial considerations in overseas
acquisitions.
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Global operations have become a millstone around Tata Steels neck.
ThyssenKrupp has been progressively shedding its commodity businesses to focus on
high-margin capital goods.
This merger seems to be an intermediary step to a complete exit.
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. Challenges With Cross Border Data
What is the issue?
In the present digital era, the governance of cross-border data is a major challenge for
countries.
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What are the challenges for India?
India struggles to discover regulations that would facilitate its economic growth while
ensuring data flow doesnt affect citizens' privacy.
Creating effective domestic regulations is a big challenge.
The choice of the right policy mix is difficult as they may overlap with other complex trade
issues such as IPR.
Foreign investments in Make-in-India industries would be influenced by data regulations.
Data regulations are also critical in terms of the security risks they involve, particularly
financial risks arising from lapses in cyber security and data theft.
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Instead, a stay on the disqualification would have addressed the fears of those disqualified
as well as obviated the need for the questionable stay on the floor test to be extended.
The court could have then adjudicated only the constitutional question on whether the
Governor ought to be directed to order a trust vote.
Speaker - The main question in Speaker's order is that would expressing lack of
confidence in the Chief Minister amount to voluntarily giving up the party membership.
Disqualifying rebellious MLAs as a way of ensuring the majority of a Chief Minister is
highly questionable and needs scrutiny.
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Viability Of Bullet Train Project
What is the issue?
India is planning its first high-speed railway.
Some see the project as a non profitable extravaganze.
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Under this, function that can be performed by the lowest tier of government should be vested in it.
The report also provides for the creation of a second parliamentary chamber representing the
provinces.
The report commits that the controversial terms unitary and federal be avoided.
Instead, Sinhala and Tamil terms that suggest an undivided country be used to describe the
republic.
Besides, the electoral system solely based on proportional representation is proposed to be changed.
A mixed method under which 60% of parliamentary members to be elected under the first-past-the-
post system is to be introduced.
Complying to earlier demands, the interim report aims at abolishing the executive presidency.
The government has promised that the pre-eminent status given to Buddhism will remain as such;
an assurance that may help overcome opposition from the majority.
What is the way forward?
While the interim report is a significant step, there is a possibility that the whole process could be
derailed by the extremists.
Demands from some opposing factions for retaining the states unitary character and the feature of
executive presidency are getting stronger.
On the other hand, the TNA had taken the unprecedented position that they would agree with the
contents of the interim report.
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Zero Hunger Programme
On the occasion of world food day (October 16), three districts in India will initiate
India's ambitious 'Zero Hunger' programme through interventions in farm sector.
The three districts are Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, Koraput in Odisha and Thane in
Maharashtra.
It is a dedicated farm-based programme in sync with India's Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) to end hunger by 2030.
It will be initiated by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in association
with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the M S Swaminathan Research
Foundation and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).
These three districts would act as a model of an integrated approach adopting suitable
agricultural/horticultural practices.
The programme consists of organisations of farming system for nutrition, setting up
genetic gardens and initiation of Zero Hunger training.
A genetic garden for biofortified plants/crops contains the germplasm of naturally
biofortified crops or such crops through plant breeding.
It has plants and crops that help supplement micro-nutrient deficiencies, including iron,
iodine, vitamin A and zinc among others.
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Mahamana Express
The Mahamana Express, superfast series trains between Varanasi and Vadodara was
recently inaugurated.
The name of the train was chosen after the name of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
who was popularly known as Mahamana and also the co-founder of the Benaras Hindu
University.
The first Mahamana express was flagged off in 2016 between Varanasi and New Delhi
route. It is also in service between Bhopal Khajuraho route.
VASTRA 2017
VASTRA 2017 is an international textiles and apparel fair organized by the Union
Minister of Textiles in Jaipur.
The international fair was started in 2012 and it is considered as the place for
disseminating technology in textile sector.
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