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All sectors looking up, says PM #GS3 #Economy

Pitching India’s resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic as a signal of its inherent strengths, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India’s economy has been stable and all sectors are now
looking up, as he invited global money managers looking for “returns with reliablility” to invest in the
country.
Mr. Modi said the government is finalising a “pioneering multi-modal connectivity infrastructure
masterplan” under the National Infrastructure Pipeline, which envisages investments of $1.5 trillion.
“We are building millions of affordable houses for the neo-middle class. We want investment not just in
big cities but smaller cities and towns too,” the PM said, citing the GIFT City in Gujarat as one such city
being developed.
“Today, each sector in India is looking up… India is the place to be if you want returns with reliability,
demand with democracy, stability with sustainability, and growth with a green approach,” he said.
‘Brave fight’
Addressing a virtual global investor round table attended by 20 large global investment funds managing
over $6 trillion, the PM said India’s “brave fight during the pandemic reflected its sense of responsibility,
spirit of compassion, national unity and the spark of innovation”.
“India has shown remarkable resilience in this pandemic, be it fighting the virus or ensuring economic
stability. This resilience is driven by the strength of our systems, support of our people and stability of
our policies,” Mr. Modi said, explaining that social distancing and wearing of masks practised by the
people helped India put up a strong fight against the COVID-19 virus.
“We are building a new India which is free of old practices… India’s quest to become ‘Atma Nirbhar’ is
not just a vision, but a well-planned economic strategy,” the PM said, listing out recent administrative
reforms as well as legislative changes in areas such as agriculture, labour, education, manufacturing and
the “rationalisation of the public sector”.
The stability of India’s policies has made it a preferred investment destination, the PM said, citing the
13% rise in FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows in the first five months of this year.
“I am happy that the global investor community has been showing confidence in our future… Your active
participation in this round table increases the confidence even more,” he told top officials of these
global institutional investors, which included sovereign wealth funds as well as pension funds.
Economic resurgence
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“India’s growth has the potential to catalyse global economic resurgence. Any achievements by India will
have a multiplier effect on the world’s development and welfare,” Mr. Modi concluded.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/all-sectors-looking-up-says-pm/article33034753.ece
China bars travellers from India, U.K. #GS2 #IR

China effectively barred travellers from India, the U.K, Belgium and the Philippines by temporarily
suspending valid visas, with measures targeting other countries also expected as Beijing moves to
tighten international travel restrictions, citing a rising number of imported COVID-19 cases.
The moves have left unclear whether four repatriation flights announced by India for this month will go
ahead on schedule.
The Indian Embassy in Beijing said a Vande Bharat Mission Delhi-Wuhan-Delhi flight set for November 6
will be rescheduled because it “has not received the required clearances from the Chinese authorities”.
Air India had scheduled VBM flights for November 13, 20, 27 and December 4 to China.
Health authorities in Hubei province said 23 passengers on an October 30 Air India flight from New Delhi
to Wuhan tested positive, of whom 19 were asymptomatic. Four symptomatic patients, including a
couple travelling with a six-year-old, are being treated in hospital.
Essential travel
Officials sources said the Government of India “is in touch with the Chinese side to facilitate essential
travel of Indians to and from China.”
“The announcement made by the Chinese Embassy indicates that the measure is a temporary action and
that changes can be expected in a timely manner,” the sources said, adding that the action taken is to
temporarily suspend existing visas only and future visa applications have not been banned.
“The measure is not India specific,” they added. “It is noted that similar measures have been announced
in respect of several other countries. The reason behind the measure seems to be Chinese concerns on
possible rise in COVID-19 cases globally, aggravated due to the advent of autumn and winter in the
Northern Hemisphere.”
The announcement to bar travellers was made in separate and near-identical notices issued on
Wednesday and Thursday by Chinese missions in India, the U.K., Belgium and the Philippines.
The Chinese Embassy in India said it had, because of the pandemic, “decided to temporarily suspend the
entry into China by foreign nationals in India holding valid Chinese visas or residence permits” and “the
Chinese Embassy/ Consulates in India will not stamp the Health Declaration Forms” that are needed to
travel.
The notice added those “with emergency or humanitarian needs to visit China” can submit applications,
and entry into China “with visas issued after November 3” is not affected. It said the suspension “is a
temporary measurement that China has to adopt to deal with the current pandemic”.
Imported cases
With Beijing broadly controlling the local transmission of cases within the country and China returning to
normalcy in recent months following stringent measures, authorities are now emphasising dealing with
“imported” cases from international travellers as the current priority.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin in Beijing said the moves were “a temporary response
necessitated by the current situation of COVID-19”.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/china-bars-travellers-from-india-uk/article33035135.ece
Capital’s AQI slips to ‘severe’ category #GS3 #SnT

The Capital’s air quality deteriorated on Thursday and settled in the “severe” category with an average
24-hour Air Quality Index (AQI) score of 450, the highest since December 30, 2019, when it was 446.
Air quality monitoring agencies said 42% of the city’s pollution was caused due to farm fires, which was
the maximum so far this season.
On Wednesday, thick smog engulfed the city and the AQI was in the “very poor” category at 343 that
slowly rose to the “severe” category as conditions were unfavourable for the dispersal of smoke from
the farm fires. The smog however, cleared on Thursday. Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Gurugram
and Noida also recorded ‘severe’ air pollution.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/capitals-aqi-slips-to-severe-category/article33035134.ece
Delhi could soon become ‘corona capital’, says HC #GS3 #SnT

Expressing displeasure over the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the Capital, the Delhi High Court said
the city could soon become the “corona capital of the country”.
A Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad made the remark while hearing a bunch of
petitions relating to non-payment of salaries to doctors, paramedical staff, safai karamcharis, teachers
and retired engineers among others, employed with the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
The Bench noted that the Delhi government had made many claims of topping the charts in testing but
the number of cases had also soared. “The city could soon become ‘corona capital’ of the country,
thanks to the number of cases shooting up,” the Bench said, adding it was going to take the matter very
seriously.
The High Court said the unpaid municipal workers and retired staff have faced the real and maximum
pinch during the pandemic, and asked the civic bodies to make an attempt to release their pending
salaries as the festival of Deepavali is round the corner.
During the hearing, the civic bodies raised the issue of non-release of full amount by the government,
leading to non-payment of salaries. The Delhi government’s counsel disputed the claim saying the way
revenue collection had hit the municipal corporations, it had affected the State too.
The court directed the three civic bodies and the Delhi government to file status reports regarding the
release of the salaries and pensions and listed the matter for further hearing on December 16.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/delhi-could-soon-become-corona-capital-says-
hc/article33035126.ece
Active cases stay below 6 lakh #GS3 #SnT

India’s active COVID-19 case load has been fewer than six lakh for seven consecutive days and stands at
5,27,962, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
It said the active cases were now only 6.31% of the total positive cases. Following the national trend, 27
States and Union Territories have fewer than 20,000 active cases.
Ten States and Union Territories account for 78% of the total active cases in the country. Maharashtra,
Kerala, Delhi and West Bengal together account for more than 51% of the active cases.
55,331 discharged
The Ministry said that the total recovered cases stand at 77,11,809. As many as 55,331 patients have
recovered and been discharged in the last 24 hours, whereas the new confirmed cases stand at 50,210,
said the Ministry data.
About 82% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States and Union
Territories. Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka have contributed the maximum to the single day
recoveries, with more than 8,000 recoveries. They together account for more than 45% of the new
recovered cases,” said the Ministry.
Among the new confirmed cases recorded in the last 24 hours, 79% are found concentrated in 10 States
and Union Territories.
8,000 cases in Kerala
Kerala continues to report a very high number of new cases with more than 8,000 cases followed by
Delhi with more than 6,000 cases.
“About 704 fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours. Of these, 10 States/Union Territories
account for nearly 80% of the new deaths. More than 42% of new fatalities reported are from
Maharashtra alone [300 deaths],” said the Ministry.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/active-cases-stay-below-6-
lakh/article33034720.ece
All insults not offence under SC/ST Act’ #GS2 #Governance

All insults or intimidations to persons belonging to Dalit or tribal communities will not be an offence
under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Supreme Court said
in a judgment on Thursday.
An offence is made out under the statute only if “such insult or intimidation is on account of the victim
belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe,” a three-judge Bench led by Justice L. Nageswara
Rao observed. The court said the insult should be specifically intended to humiliate the victim for his
caste.
“Offence under the Act is not established merely on the fact that the informant [complainant] is a
member of Scheduled Caste unless there is an intention to humiliate a member of Scheduled Caste or
Scheduled Tribe for the reason that the victim belongs to such caste,” the court said.
For vulnerable sections
The court said the object of the Act is to punish violators who inflict indignities, humiliations and
harassment. “It is intended to punish the acts of the upper caste against the vulnerable section of
society for the reason that they belong to a particular community,” the judgment noted.
The court was hearing an appeal filed by a man, Hitesh Verma, booked under the Act for allegedly
abusing a Dalit woman in her house.
The court found that allegations against Mr. Verma do not fulfil the basic ingredient under the Act that
such humiliation should have happened in public view. Since the incident occurred within four walls in
the absence of members of the public, allegations against Mr. Verma under the Act do not stand. He can
be tried under ordinary criminal law.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/all-insults-not-offence-under-scst-
act/article33035418.ece
Peace comes with ability to deter war, says Rajnath #GS2 #IR
India is a peace-loving country but determined to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the
face of “unilateralism and aggression”, no matter what the sacrifice is, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
said on Thursday.
His comments come against the backdrop of the continuing stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh.
More partnerships
Speaking at a webinar on the diamond jubilee celebration of the National Defence College (NDC), he said
India had fostered close relationships and partnerships with like-minded countries to further the
common interests of countries in the region and beyond like Australia, Japan and the U.S.
“Recently, India has been facing other challenges on its borders. India is a peace-loving country. We
believe that differences should not become disputes. We attach importance to the peaceful resolution
of differences through dialogue. However, India is determined to protect its sovereignty and territorial
integrity in the face of unilateralism and aggression, no matter what the sacrifice,” he stated.
Peace could only be ensured through “the ability to deter war,” Mr. Singh said. There had been an
attempt to build this deterrence through a judicious combination of capability development and an
emphasis on long term policy of indigenisation.
Ties with U.S., Russia
“Our strategic partnership with the U.S. is stronger than ever before,” he emphasised. He also said that
India also had strong, traditional and deep-rooted relations with Russia and the two countries have
“weathered many a challenge in the past.” “India has also forged a very special partnership with reliable
friends like France and Israel,” he noted.
India and Australia shared “common concerns” and “shared values”, Mr. Singh pointed out. The India-
Australia virtual summit in June 2020 gave a fillip to the already strong comprehensive strategic
partnership.
Towards free oceans
“Our interests to secure trade routes, shipping lines of communication, fishing rights and
communication networks also require the ability to contribute to the global effort, to maintain open and
free oceans,” he added.
Last month, the foreign ministers of the Quad grouping comprising India, Australia, Japan and the U.S.
met in Tokyo and later India agreed to the participation of Australia in Exercise Malabar 2020 along with
Japan and the U.S. The exercise is now on in the Bay of Bengal.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/peace-comes-with-ability-to-deter-war-says-
rajnath/article33034733.ece
‘Pandemic-themed cyberattacks rose in Q2’ #GS3 #Security

Cybercriminals took advantage of COVID-19, adjusting their cybercrime campaigns to lure victims with
pandemic-based themes and exploiting people working from home, according to a study.
Consequently, the second quarter of calendar year 2020 saw cyberattack detections, mostly pandemic-
themed intrusions, rise 605% over the previous quarter, McAfee, a device-to-cloud cybersecurity firm
said in its recent cybercriminal activity study.
The study was conducted with the help of over a billion sensors in India and in other geographies.“The
Q2 of 2020 saw continued developments in innovative threat categories such as PowerShell malware
and quick adaptation by cybercriminals to target organisations through employees working from remote
environments
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-business/pandemic-themed-cyberattacks-rose-in-
q2/article33034623.ece
India’s resolution on counter-terror adopted by UN General Assembly #GS3

#Security
Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations T S Tirumurti on Thursday announced that
India’s annual resolution on the issue of counter-terrorism was co-sponsored by over 75 countries and
adopted by consensus in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly.
“India at forefront of counter-terrorism. Delighted that the annual resolution tabled by India ‘Measures
to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction’ was co-sponsored by more than 75
countries and adopted today by consensus in First Committee of UN General Assembly,” Tirumurti
tweeted.
India, a victim of state-sponsored cross-border terrorism, has been at the forefront in highlighting the
serious threat to international peace and security emanating from acquisition of weapons of mass
destruction by terrorist groups.Through its annual resolution ”Measures to prevent terrorists from
acquiring weapons of mass destruction”, India has urged greater international co-operation to prevent
terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
This resolution, co-sponsored by more than 75 countries, was adopted by consensus without a vote.
India’s call for strengthening national measures to address this issue at the General Assembly also
predates the adoption of resolution 1540 by the Security Council, which obliges all states to refrain from
supporting by any means non-state actors from developing, acquiring, manufacturing, possessing,
transporting, transferring or using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and their means of delivery.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/indias-resolution-on-counter-terror-adopted-by-un-general-
assembly-6968818/
WhatsApp gets nod to start payment services, but there are riders #GS3
#Economy
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has given its approval to Facebook-owned messaging
platform WhatsApp to go live on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in the multi-bank model.
While WhatsApp awaits final clearance from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which will allow the
company to roll the service out to its 400-million-plus user base, with NPCI’s green light, it can be
offered to 20 million users, compared with 1 million now.
However, alongside the clearance to Facebook-owned WhatsApp, NPCI also issued a directive Thursday
asking third-party UPI providers to cap the number of transaction on any platform at 30 per cent of the
total volume of transactions processed in UPI, effective January 1, 2021.
This is expected to be an impediment to WhatsApp’s full rollout, which the company has been awaiting
for over two years while being caught up in various regulatory and legal tussles.
The final clearance for WhatsApp from RBI was subject to the platform meeting regulatory requirements
such as data localisation, which the NPCI had submitted post an audit to be satisfactory. In June this
year, WhatsApp’s parent company Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms
for a 9.99% stake.
WhatsApp had started the beta testing of its UPI-based payment service in February 2018 in India as an
in-chat payment feature that allows users to make transactions via WhatsApp. India’s UPI ecosystem is
flooded with players, including banks that act as the backend infrastructure for the system as well as
provide user interfaces for transactions, in addition to third party providers like Alibaba-
backed Paytm, Google Pay, Flipkart-owned PhonePe, MobiKwik, Amazon Pay, etc.
NPCI’s move to cap the transaction volume of a single platform at 30 per cent comes a week after the
total number of transactions on the UPI platform had crossed 2 billion in a month in October.
In its statement placing the cap on the total number of transactions that any third party apps, NPCI said
that the move was aimed to help address the risks to the UPI platform and protect the ecosystem as it
scaled up in days to come.
Any third party app, which uses the NPCI platform for sending and receiving payments, will not be able
to execute more than 30 per cent of the total payments being done on UPI. The 30 per cent will be
calculated on the total volume of transactions processed in the past three months on a rolling basis.
The cap, however, will not be immediately applicable on the existing players, two of which — PhonePe
and Google Pay — currently enjoy close to 40% market share according to transaction volumes. These
companies have been given time till 2023 to comply with the norms.
https://indianexpress.com/article/business/whatsapp-gets-nod-to-start-payment-services-but-there-
are-riders-6967082/
Body mass index of Indian 19-year-olds among lowest in 200 countries #GS2
#SocialIssues
India ranks third and fifth from the bottom respectively among countries where 19-year-old girls and
boys have a low body mass index, according to a study in The Lancet to be published on Friday. The
study provides new estimates for height and BMI trends in 2019 across 200 countries after analysing
data from 2,181 studies.
BMI is measured as the weight in kg divided by the square of the height in metres. World Health
Organization guidelines define a normal BMI range as 18.5 to 24.9, overweight as 25 or higher, and
obesity as 30 or higher.
The mean BMI of 19-year-old boys is 20.1 in India, compared to a high of 29.6 in the Cook Islands and a
low of 19.2 in Ethiopia. For Indian girls, the mean BMI is again 20.1, compared to a high of 29.0 in Tonga
and a low of 19.6 in Timor-Leste. The mean height of Indian 19-year-olds is 166.5 cm for boys and 155.2
cm for girls, well below the high of Netherlands boys (183.8 cm) and girls (170 cm).
The 20 cm or higher difference between countries with the tallest and shortest mean height represents
approximately 8 years of growth gap for girls and approximately 6 years for boys. For example, 19-year-
old girls in India have the same mean height as 12-year-old Dutch girls, said Prof Majid Ezzati, from
Imperial College, London, and senior author of the study said.
The analysis charts child and adolescent physical growth trends over 35 years. “We used 115 data
sources from India with over 2.1 million participants in the analysis,” Prof Ezzati said by email. “Both
height and BMI have increased from 1985 to 2019 although there is still a great deal of potential for
height while curbing any future rise in obesity so programmes targeted towards the poor from birth
through school years are needed.”
“In developing countries like India, we have a dual burden i.e., overnutrition and undernutrition,” said
Dr A Laxmaiah, head of the Public Health Nutrition division at the National Institute of Nutrition,
Hyderabad. “The prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents of both Indian girls and boys
is lower when compared to children of developed nations. The reasons could be several, like variations
in the epigenetic, dietary intakes, familial, psychosocial, parental education, occupations, income etc,”
Dr Laxmaiah said.
Dr Laxmaiah stressed the need for regular diet and nutrition surveys in India to avert the increase of
overweight and obesity among children and adolescents. “Overweight and obesity are mostly carried
over to adult age and are causes for many metabolic disorders like insulin resistance, diabetes,
hypertension, CVDs, stroke, and some cancers.”
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/india-body-mass-index-research-study-6967516/
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All sectors looking up, says PM #GS3 #Economy

China bars travellers from India, U.K. #GS2 #IR

Capital’s AQI slips to ‘severe’ category #GS3 #SnT

Delhi could soon become ‘corona capital’, says HC #GS3 #SnT

Active cases stay below 6 lakh #GS3 #SnT

8,000 cases in Kerala

All insults not offence under SC/ST Act’ #GS2 #Governance

For vulnerable sections

Ties with U.S., Russia

Towards free oceans

‘Pandemic-themed cyberattacks rose in Q2’ #GS3 #Security

India’s resolution on counter-terror adopted by UN General Assembly #GS3

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