(Online Course) Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012: India and The World - Role of technology in India’s Foreign Relations
India & The World
::Role of Technology in India’s Foreign Relations::
Question : How Technology helped in the Past?
Answer:
- Technological experiments in agriculture
- Use of composite bow by Mongols on horse back
- Cannons used by Babur in the battle of Panipat.
- Use of atomic bomb for the immediate surrender of Japan.
Question : What requires in the pursuit of technology?
Answer :
- Innovation and improvisation
- The ability to question conventional assumptions and beliefs.
- Moving ahead of uncharted areas.
Question : Principles of India’s foreign policy.
Answer:
- Constructive
- Nuclear test ban
Question : What all are the arms control negotiations?
Answer:
- NPT
- Nuclear Test Bun treaties
- Chemical and biological weapons.
Question : What should be the main thrust of our policy in nuclear arena?
Answer :
- To continue to develop our nuclear programme
- Reject the NPT as an unequal and unbalanced treaty.
- To call for total abolition of nuclear weapons.
- Support CBM such as ban on first use of nuclear weapons.
- Measures to reduce false alerts and alarms, etc.
Question : The areas covered by civil nuclear co-operations are?
Answer:
- Facilitating civil nuclear commerce
- Import uranium fuel for its civilian enactors.
- Nuclear sector remain with government
Question : What is MTCR?
Answer :
- To curb the spread of unmarried delivery systems for nuclear weapons.
Question : What was senaar Arrangement?
Answer :
- A multilateral technology export control regime with 40 participating states.
Question : What is chemical weapons convention?
Answer :
- Outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.
- The prohibition of use and production of chemical weapons.
- The destruction of all chemical weapons.
- Systematic evaluation of chemical and mellitus plants.
Question : What is convention on Biological diversity?
Answer:
- Agreement covers all ecosystems, species, and genetic resources.
- Fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources especially for commercial use.
- Highlights the precaution us principle that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biodiversity.
