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. P R O F I L E PRASHANT MAVANI MSc. in Management, University of Surrey (UK) Senior Faculty: StudyIQ Follow/Contact me: @PrashantTMavani Download PDF notes of this lecture from my FB Page
Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission health cover of D5 lakh per year to 10 crore poor and vulnerable families Union Cabinet A first step Note Considering the small window, just over a year, available before the term of the present government ends, urgent action is needed to roll out such an ambitious scheme.
Apex council: steer the programme Governing board: operationalise it in partnership with the States States, which have a statutory responsibility for provision of health care, have to act quickly Roots in universal health coverage system - Universal health coverage is defined by the WHO as a state when all people obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them
Affordable housing Planned urban development Pollution control Road safety Food we eat outside our home Raising not just core budgetary spending every year - NITI Aayog advocated a State-specific approach rather than a grand national health system
U.S. Federal Reserve: raised its benchmark short-term interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.50-1.75%, the highest in a decade. Squeeze: markets and the wider economy London Interbank Offered Rate international banks lend to each other risen for more than 30 consecutive sessions Risk of default: particularly overseas borrowers Trade wars India: fund outflows Rising risks
2015 Iran nuclear deal Donald Trump and the art of breaking a deal Curtails Iran s nuclear programme in return for lifting international sanctions. Certified every 90 days: under U.S. law May 12: deadline Mike Pompeo, Jim Mattis, John Bolton: hard-line critic of Iran
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Main objective of the deal - stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons The only alternative to a diplomatic deal to stop Iran going nuclear was war Together USA and Iran: stabilising Afghanistan and Iraq and defeating the Taliban and the Islamic State. Israel and Saudi Arabia the allies of USA USA s reputation as dealmaker is at stake.
Tibet is not a card Leaked memo to officials telling them to stay away from events that commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Dalai Lama s 1959 flight to India. This has led to the cancellation of several public events related to Tibet. Government is attempting to appease China by giving up its Tibet card. Ties between New Delhi and Beijing have deteriorated over the past few years for a number of reasons unconnected to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan population in India
Doklam U.S. s Indo-Pacific Nuclear Suppliers Group Masood Azhar South Asia It would be simplistic to assume that these problems would go away if India were to make the Tibetan community and its leader less visible. New realities in Tibet What about future leadership? -
- The past few years have seen a rise in the younger and more radical Rangtsen (freedom) groups that says they will settle for nothing short of an independent Tibet. Dalai Lama and Xi Jindping Indian foreign policy establishment needs to stop seeing the Tibetan population in India as a strategic tool.
Important News Office-of-profit issue: Delhi HC reinstates 20 AAP MLAs Poll panel s advice to President bad in law as it had failed to hear the lawmakers BJP bags 12 seats, Cong. 5 in Rajya Sabha elections
Important News Three killed in series of attacks in France Attacker was on police watchlist Three persons were killed and 16 wounded, two of them seriously, in Friday s shooting spree in southwest France by a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State, President Emmanuel Macron said. A police officer, who took the place of a female hostage, is fighting for his life, he said after the shootings in Carcassonne and Trebes. The gunman, a 26-year-old drug dealer monitored as a possible Islamic extremist, carried out three separate shootings. He was killed by security forces who stormed the supermarket in Trebes, where he had taken shoppers hostage.
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Important News Venkaiah angry over chaos Reads out two-page note over 15 consecutive days of Opposition protest No wrong done, says Sushma Minister says she had never said that men kidnapped in Mosul were alive
Important News Centre issues notice to Cambridge Analytica Accused of misusing data of 50 million Facebook users Power minister urges battery producers to Make in India Future bids for solar, wind projects to include storage
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