Environment – Forests
- a law has been instrumental in reducing deforestation
- non-forestry purposes
- wide discretionary powers
- sharp criticism from environmental movements
- India needs to create a carbon sink
- citizens and environmental experts should be allowed to partake in a public consultation process
- a hard-won legal gain after many years of struggle by forest-dwelling communities
- dilute safeguards
- changes need to be done in consultation with forest-dwelling communities
- climate crisis looms over us
Education
- The report lends credence to the belief that NEET tends to give an advantage to students from privileged backgrounds.
- Cancelling that national level examination was an act of political expediency.
- Paying competitive salaries means paying teachers on a par with other professions open to talented college graduates.
- pay scant attention to the needs of the students
Technology – Artificial Intelligence
- Our era is defined by Covid inspired retreat into the digital or virtual world
- Private platforms like Facebook, Twitter and a host of others collect what makes us unique – our opinions, our likes and dislikes, our ideologies – on their platforms
- Algorithms drive news and information that align with our beliefs to our Twitter or Facebook accounts.
- recidivism likelihood amongst prisoners
- grant sentences ( prison sentences)
- Citizens have rights to informational privacy
- It violates a constitutional premise that citizens must have their speech, expression, and liberty rights protected
- There are plans for greater deployment of AI ( artificial intelligence )
Miscellaneous
- collaborators
- British people established their rule in India.
- Troll for something
- Greeks trolled regions such as Balochistan, Sindh and Gujarat
- Turkish communities were insular.
- These practices would have been frowned upon by orthodox people.
- Outlay on something –
- The multiple torches also meant a major outlay on batteries
- (collocation – a massive financial/capital outlay )
- a world beset by crisis
- For a dictator like him there is nothing above him but the heavens
- Lush foliage