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2 Lecture 1- Quote 2- Editorials 3- Current Affair Q 4- Subjective Q 5- Vocabulary 6- Maps Practice 7- Capital & Currency 8-News Analysis 9-Revision

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4 Delhi Edition of The Hindu

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8 All that data that Aadhaar captures Very foundation of Aadhaar must be reconsidered in the light of the privacy judgment After denying the right to privacy for years, the government promptly changed gear and welcomed the judgment. Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of the Unique Identi cation Authority of India (UIDAI), suddenly asserted, The Aadhaar Act is based on the premise that privacy is a fundamental right. He also clarified that the judgment would not affect Aadhaar as the required safeguards were already in place.

9 Types of information Fact of the matter is that Aadhaar, in its current form, is a major threat to the fundamental right to privacy. The nature of this threat, however, is poorly understood. There is a common perception that the main privacy concern with Aadhaar is the con fidentiality of the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR). This is misleading for two reasons. 1)-One is that the CIDR is not supposed to be inaccessible-> On the contrary, the Aadhaar Act 2016 puts in place a framework for sharing most of the CIDR information. 2)-The second reason is that the biggest danger, in any case, lies elsewhere. To understand-> Distinguish between three different types of private information: Biometric information, Identity information and Personal information.

10 Continue The first two are defined in the Aadhaar Act, and protected to some extent. Aadhaar s biggest threat to privacy, however, relates to the third type of information-> In the Aadhaar Act, biometric information essentially refers to photograph, fingerprints and iris scan, though it may also extend to other biological attributes of an individual specified by the UIDAI. The term core biometric information basically means biometric information minus photograph, but it can be modified once again at the discretion of the UIDAI. Identity information-> such as name, address, date of birth, phone number, and so on. Personal information (not used in the Act)-> Includes identity information + also other information about a person->1)-where she travels, 2)-whom she talks to on the phone, 3)-how much she earns, 4)-what she buys etc.

11 Continue Aadhaar Act-> Restricted to biometric and identity information. In practice, the biometric database is likely to be hacked sooner or later. Be that as it may, the UIDAI can at least be credited with trying to keep it safe, as it is bound to do under the Act. Far from protecting your identity information, the Aadhaar Act puts in place a framework to share it with requesting entities. The core of this framework lies in Section 8 of the Act, which deals with authentication. Section 8 underwent a radical change when the draft of the Act was revised. In the initial scheme of things, authentication involved nothing more than a Yes/No response to a query as to whether a person s Aadhaar number matches her fingerprints (or possibly, other biometric or demographic attributes). In the fi nal version of the Act, however, authentication also involves a possible sharing of identity information with the requesting entity.

12 Continue When you go through Aadhaar-based biometric authentication to buy a SIM card from a telecom company, the company typically gains access to your demographic characteristics from the CIDR. Even biometric information other than core biometric information (which means, as of now, photographs) can be shared with a requesting entity. Section 8, of course, includes some safeguards against possible misuse of identity information. Another important loophole: the Aadhaar Act includes a blanket exemption from the safeguards applicable to biometric and identity information on national security Considering the elastic nature of the term, this effectively makes identity information accessible to the government without major restrictions. Aadhaar enables the government to collect and collate all this personal information with virtually no restrictions.

13 Conclusion In short, far from being based on the premise that privacy is a fundamental right, Aadhaar is the anti-thesis of the right to privacy. Perhaps further safeguards can be put in place, but Aadhaar s fundamental power as a tool for mining personal information is bound to be hard to restrain. The very foundation of Aadhaar needs to be reconsidered in the light of the Supreme Court judgment.

14 Indicators that matter Governments must be judged on the quality and extent of public health care they provide Hospital in Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad, both in Uttar Pradesh recently, reflect state of public health in India. India s public health-care sector has been ailing(ब म र) for decades. According to the latest Global Burden of Disease Study, India has the 154 th rank, much below China, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Health is a State subject-> States have been reducing their health-care spending UP-> number of primary health centres, went down from 3,808 in 2002 to 3,497 in The gravity of the situation is understood better when we juxtapose this with the 25-30% increase in the State s population during the same period. Statistics show that health has never been a political priority in the State.

15 Continue 1)-Scientific discoveries, 2)-Technological improvements and 3)-Government efforts to improve sanitation and hygiene have successfully controlled infectious diseases globally. The government s lack of understanding of the importance of public health has played the most important part in U.P. s health predicament. After World War II-> governments in Europe became extensively involved in health care. A notable example is the National Health Service, a publicly funded health-care system in the U.K., set up in Government health spending now accounts for 80-90% of total health expenditure in most countries of the European Union; Public expenditure contributes to less than 30% of the total health expenditure in India. People are left with no option but to seek services from private providers,

16 Continue Thailand, Cuba or Costa Rica have achieved universal health care, although they have taken different routes-> Even before it started reforms to attain universal health coverage, it began massive investments to build public health facilities in rural areas. If we want the people of this country to enjoy a health status-> not only should there be more resources available for health, but also the government s approach towards health needs to be radically changed.

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18 News Analysis Page-1,10- Unruly fliers now face life ban Quantum of punishment will depend on gravity of offence Aggrieved passengers can appeal within 60 days to an Appellate Committee, constituted by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and chaired by a High Court judge.

19 Continue Page-5- Aranmula regatta held amid colour and gaiety(आम द-प रम द) Aranmula Boat Race -> Kerala, Held during Onam (August September).

20 Continue Page-8- Army to induct 800 women into military police First time women are joining non-officer military ranks Significant step towards inducting women into the military, the Army on Friday said it would admit nearly 800 women into the Corps of Military Police in nonofficer ranks over the next few years. While the decision had been in the pipeline for some months now, the announcement came a day after India s first full-time woman Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman assumed office

21 Continue Page-8- Bali action puts India on other side of debate Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were all among countries that joined the Bali declaration

22 Continue Page-11- GST Council meet to discuss pending issues The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will meet for the 21 st time, on Saturday to discuss pending issues in the implementation of the new indirect tax regime, including the quantum of cess to be levied on luxury cars and the problems businesses are facing while logging onto the GST Network portal to file returns.

23 Continue Page-11- Remove govt. layers from bank appointments: Rajan Hopefully, no more surprises like demonetisation in future Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday said government layers must be removed from the appointment of chief executives and board members of public sector banks. The Banks Board Bureau was set up last year with the objective of appointing board members, including CEOs. In practice, the BBB conducts interviews and only suggests names to the government, which decides on appointments.

24 Continue Page-12- Income inequality in India at its highest level since 1922 Top 1% of earners captured less than 21% of total income in the 1930s, which dropped to 6% in the 80s and has risen to 22% now, says economist. It is also likely that privatisations principally benefited richest income groups, those who already had capital, rather than the majority of the population which didn t access equity

25 Continue Page-18- Sea water helps grow vegetables in Jordan Jordan, a water-poor country that is 90% desert, has launched a project to turn its sand dunes into farming land to produce food using sun and sea water. The project, whose funders include Norway and the European Union, is to be expanded from three hectares to around 200 hectares of desert.

26 Continue Page-18- Scientists make fuel from oxygen in air Scientists have found a way to produce methanol using oxygen in the air. Cardiff University in the U.K. have discovered they can produce methanol from methane through simple catalysis that allows methanol production at low temperatures using oxygen and hydrogen peroxide.

27 Last Day- Q s- Ans Lake in Bengluru -> Bellandur Lake On Fire Broken Temple in Myanmar -> Ananda Temple-> Damaged -> Earthquake in Tomb of Mugal Emperor Jhangir -> Lahore ( Pakistan ) Gauri Lankesh Patrike -> ' Weekly Magazine ' Started by Her Father ' P. Lankesh '. Mudered Journalists are > Narendra Dabholkar> M.M. Kalburgi> Govind Pansare Secularism was added -> 42nd Ammendment Act, 1976 World Press Freedom Index -> Reporters Without Borders

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