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Fodder Points: Ease of doing business

GS 3: Economy: Reforms

GS 2: Government Policy

Government should be a facilitator of business and entrepreneurship rather than a regulator.
Role of the state must be minimized where ever possible and it has to end its monopoly over various sectors.
Ease of doing business is directly related to adoption of technology at every level.
Earnest efforts need to be made in terms of economic reforms.
Economic reforms are aimed at improving business environment, improving tax buoyancy and gob creation.
Innovation in policy making and optimization of existing policies can help achieve a healthy business environment.

Bilateral maritime exercise between Australia and India
Biennial – once in two years (every other year)
First edition began in Sep, 2015
Got a push after the Prime Ministers of the two countries signed a Framework for Security Cooperation in 2014.
Aim: Strengthen Maritime security and strategic interests in Indian Ocean

Active exchange of Sanskrit and Persian ideas flourished in the royal Mughal court primarily under three emperors: Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan.
There are two main reasons why Sanskrit ceased to be a major part of Mughal imperial life during Aurangzeb’s rule.
One, during the 17th century, Sanskrit was slowly giving way to Hindi.
Aurangzeb discouraged Sanskrit to distinguish his rule from previous Mughal rulers

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Having an abundance of energy resources, West Asia was and is geo-economically extremely relevant for the U.S. and its European allies.
Euro-Atlantic powers used coercive tools for prompting their narrow political-economic agendas in this region after the end of the Cold War.
Iraq is in ruins, even though it does not possess any weapons of mass destruction.
Libya which was bombed by NATO in 2011, is currently a battleground for different ethnic groups.
On the pretext of supporting pro-democratic forces in Syria, western powers ended up helping the radical groups, providing necessary fodder for the birth of the deadly Islamic State.
Afghanistan, also one of the known battlefields of the Cold War, was deserted by the West after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Post 9/11 US war against Afghanistan (to destroy Al-Qaeda’s terror network) the country went back into total ruins.

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