Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode as we continue on with our VGC Series 9 content We are going to be featuring an Iraq winner team with some very cool pics in here Specifically that cinderace there that is at the top of the team as always you'll find the the poker face for this team Down in the description below will have a couple of games with the team as always will pilot it through Hopefully have a lot of fun while we're doing it and then we'll throw up the rental for you guys to try the team out for Yourselves at the end of the episode so hopefully you enjoy this one today as I say we'll have a couple of games with the team We'll talk through all the strategies ins and outs and everything and It's it's got some quirks to it and some throwbacks to some old series as well in here So hopefully we can get all the kind of things going that we want to in this episode and sit back and enjoy Hopefully you do enjoy it without further ado. We'll get into our first match of today Okay, first up today, we have a hitran grim snarl a really boom a polygon to zapdos and urshifu team So what are we looking at speed control from the P2 for trick room mode and then air stream from zapdos Otherwise, it would be something like scary face from the grim snarl looking at screen support as well The heat round looks pretty scary here But I mean to be honest like a rack when it in trick room does an amazing job against pretty much most things on This team got to be very careful around the zapdos of course air stream and electric type attacks on something that rack when it wants to deal with But if we can get the weakness policy set up on it, I think we should be alright even with screens there It's just about getting a Yeah, it's just about getting the trick room set up to be honest and what helps us do that the best I could see urshifu coming out from my opponent is a way to kind of prevent that I'm kind of tempted to lead like wimmy cinderace I think helps pave the way and then Iraq when it like dust cops in the back. Yeah, let's go for that and let's try and Get set up that way and see if we can get off to a good start on this Nice easy Friday afternoon set us up perfectly for a good weekend All I want is the spider mode to work But this do you know there's other modes in there the wimmy in the cinderace and the wimmy in the thunderous works Quite nicely as well. We are gonna see grim snarl and zaptos come off from my opponent. All right So Wow, we can get some huge damage onto the the zaptos early on and we can get rid of the grim snarl The grim snarls may be not a bad target to kind of go after but we can't tickle that slot because of its dark typing Unfortunately, I don't really want to tailwind right now We could help in hand as well to get around potential fake out. Um, I mean we could just go tickle and And then just go for a pyro ball I don't really want to max in the race because I kind of want to max Iraq when I did in this match We are gonna see the zaptos max, but we're gonna be able to get that tickle and pyro ball off. So that's that's a nice Option for us to to go down Wimmy should get through this turn depending on what the grim snarl does of course But I'd imagine we seen a stream into Wimmy here So no fake up from the grim snarl probably see screens as we get a tickle into the zaptos trick Huh, okay Ha flavor the week of the minute this trick grim snarl stuff So we lose a life or but I mean it's kind of alright. We get a huge pyro ball into that zaptos Which is always useful And then the airstream taking us down which is fine. Okay, so this sets us up pretty well for Getting dust globs onto the field Getting a trick room set up And Then getting a rack when it in but it just leave us a little bit short with kind of you know We have to get a rack when it in pretty sharp ish There's where we want my opponent to kind of take down the whimsicott this this this time around But I don't know if they will Okay, let's go moon blast and let's go trick room And then we could see like screens here from grim snarl. I think makes sense No fictures coming out. Okay. Are we seeing that into dust globs? Okay? Max lightning but a better boom. We should take it though What we actually don't take it what? Mine is too. How is that zaptos so strong? Now we're knackered now. We are knackered and I Rack when it not gonna be able to do the job Not gonna be able to do the job. We get this special attack drop which is always useful But a rack on it is in a bad bad bad bad bad bad place Without trick room. What can we do? I didn't expect that to take us down now. I really didn't okay I'm gonna have to go moon blast And I think we have to go max guard, you know, I think we have did we go max guard or do we I think we just protect. I think we go moon blast and protect here Because I think what we can do is have our weakness policy propped by the zaptos I think they decided to attack attack into the rack on it here. They may not though You know the problem is a rack when it's so slow. It can't really take advantage of the um A tailwind which is a little bit unfortunate as we see a fake tears And max lightning.  Okay crit. That's huge for us zaptos down Now it's all down to arachnid can arachnid do this That's the question Wimmy has tickle And we have a full health wimmy chipped away. Oh, okay p2 It's got thunderbolt. It's got thunderbolt. It's got thunderbolt But a tailwind Might allow us to dodge Might allow us to dodge the p2 like we'll be able to outspeed the p2 here I would imagine in a tailwind. I'm hoping Depends on the speed of the p2 But we cannot dodge the fake tears, but kind of plus two Max guys that take down this p2 Gotta hope it can I if we had the rain up. I would be way more confident Okay tailwind. Come on. Come on spidey spidey. You can do this. Come on. Come on Oh, we don't see the fake tears. Okay. That's perfect. Okay. That's good Special attack drop. That's fine. We'll take that all day long max geyser. We get the rain up, which is ideal P2 killer here we go. Okay, we didn't even need the rain. I've never seen a p2 bar drop so quick. That was amazing Oh, that was so satisfying. Okay inertia food coming in We should have this now from a really bad looking spot to a Pretty good looking spot. Now. Do we go after the inertia food here or do we go after The grim snarl. I'm kind of tempted to go after the grim snarl and just moon blast Yeah, because I think the ocean food may protect here No, no protect but then the moon blasts kind of fine anyway Not near enough Okay surgeon surgeon strikes. They're gonna be enough to get there with me No, nowhere near Maybe with a spirit break you probably get it But then you you're not going to be able to deal with the arachnid Spirit break double up into wimmy.  I would yeah, no doubt about it If we drop a p2 like we just did there's no way that grim snarls taking that and there's no way that Oshifu's taking that either even though resist it. We're just clicking the same button Spider is too good. Okay. This is the perfect start for us here I didn't think we'd get through this, you know I mean we get lucky taking this abdos down when we did right as the air detect How much is it's going to do through this hex? Rain boosted plus two. Let's see. I'd love it to knock out. I would really love it to knock out It's very close very close But the nice thing is we resist every single attack that the Oshifu's got access to so we're kind of all right Big spider mini spider No more totem arachnid and we'll just go for a Liquidation and we'll be able to pick the win up here to kick us off in Fine form today, which is perfect My opponent just thinking about what they got. I mean they could have A surprise option surge and strikes. Let's see what this does Doing a respectable damage, you know, it's not bad damage We've taken a bit more Damage initially might have been a different story Especially boosted by the rain Bosh There we go. Good game to my opponent Didn't make it easy. The big thing for us was obviously getting rid of the zapdos But when the zapdos dropped the dust globes, I thought everything was everything was gone at that point I thought there's no coming back. We can't a rack when it cannot function without its trick room But it turned out we didn't do too bad after all so Um Nice one for us to kick off with and with that friends We will jump straight over into our next match of the episode. Okay up next We've got Ethan playing a team of metagross spectrea whimsicott charizard regi rock and taboo finny So uh, quite a nice team here. We've got tailwind support from the whimsicott Probably got sunny day as well to support the charizard You've probably got bulldoze on the spectrea that'll probably work with the metagross proper weakness policy there and disrupt everything on our side of the field Regi rock just one of those pokemon that's pretty obnoxious to deal with maybe curse there Um And that kind of set and then the taboo finny kind of rounds things off with terrain support I guess which helps Protect the metagross if you do get that weakness policy activated now How are we approaching this one because I feel like dust clops are equinated in a trick room can be very very good here The issue would be um Well, it's a much of an issue getting our trick room up Not a great deal Um, I probably shouldn't lead urshifu, but I kind of like thunderous is the best option for us here. Maybe with With wimmy. Hmm Maybe urshifu is better in dust clops So you said I don't want to get blunt. I don't want dust clubs get blown up by like charizard turn one which would be Pretty awkward Which is where like thunderous would give a little bit more protection Iraq on it in turn two and then I think round things off with urshifu And can we lock it in we can just about just about running out of time Um, okay urshifu not bad late game pokemon at all That's tough though because you kind of want the urshifu there is protection you want thunderous there is protection So it's making that that kind of the right call see what my opponent leads out with though and we'll see how right we were Okay spectra and regi rock Because you've got to worry about taunt from the spectra, which is the big the big issue, of course safety goggles salt vest Okay I don't know if we'll be able to get I don't think we're going to be able to get attric room up But getting urshifu onto the field isn't a bad thing at all in this situation um I don't want to max thunderous. I think just a file playing to spectra is not a bad shout We'll be able to get it off before the regi rock and kind of can attack Yeah, there's a taunt Like a job here is to get rid of the spectra and then it gives us a kind of a bit more room to um That's not even close to picking up the knockout. Wow rocks like gonna do a big chunk of damage Okay, well, we probably want to preserve thunderous for later on in this game And I think it's probably not a bad idea going for the wicked blonde and the spectra and now pulling the switch with Thunderous into dust clubs will not take much damage from a rock slide from the regi rock And I can't see the spectra going for something like taunt into thunderous here They may predict the switch From our end, but even burnt urshifu will be able to get the spectra from this range So I'm not worried too much about the willow isp And the best case scenario is we just force the spectra out and it opens the door for dust clubs to get Yeah, get a free kind of trick room up Okay, finny coming in and that's all right And the nice thing and knowing that the regi rock is assault vest is you know We can't set up things like curse and stuff like that, which is sometimes the big problem Big problem Moves that it's got and you kind of don't want to allow it that much room But no, and it's got the assault vest, you know, it hasn't got those options So it can just sit there and just attack attack attack attack and that and that's all sense, you know And drain punch coming out. That's fine I think we're going to use urshifu is kind of cannon fodder this next turn as we set up a trick room A big worry here, of course would be the tap of finny having like taunt It might use the room to calm mind as well But I think we use this this room to go just for a cross combat and to regi regi rock And have urshifu go down and urshifu is one of those pokemon that you can't really ignore So you kind of it it's not like my opponent is going to leave it alone this turn while the trick room gets set up They need to deal with it now because it's just such a threat in the late game And pretty much any point of the game when it's on the field We're going to see a drain punch and they calm mind. Okay. Well, this is This is still all right. Actually actually, this is super fine. This is super fine Drain punch better be okay, that's fine. Yeah, get your health back Now I think we can catch this tap of finny off guard because we do have poison jab on our rack on it I don't know if it's worth going for it now or whether or not would go after the the regi rock initially I don't want the tap of finny to get too much health back though And I don't really want to set the rain up for the finny either because with the calm mind It's going to be able to do Is it going to be able to do really much damage? I don't think it is I don't think so I think we just maxed guys to the regi rock. I think we just got rocked to him I think we just proc our weakness policy and just got a town on the the the regi rock to be honest And we can worry about the tap of finny after it might go for them. It might max here and go for max starfall, but I mean It's not going to be knocking anything out on our side of the field or getting close to it's not going to To hit go anything either Um Max geyser in the rain is a different story with dusk globs, of course But I think we get rid of regi rock now And then we go after the tap of finny maybe the next turn Depends what comes in like if spectra comes in as well, obviously that's going to be a big target that can do big damage And at the end of the day, we still got thunders in the back that can come in In the very late game against that finny Um In pick up a knockout with with with wild charge. We're not going to see the finny max here I wonder if it's going to go for another calm mind potentially Or we proc that weakness policy Here goes the spider Bye bye regi rock Now what comes in now you got to think that the spectra is pro the spectra isn't sashed It's a safety goggles so we can definitely get rid of that in one one turn So you're moon blast now that's not doing too bad damage But I do think a nightshade and a poison chat Max ooze that's the issue isn't it it's limited Okay, I think what we do is we go after the spectra But this is the turn where I think the finny max is if i'm honest, I think max is now a max star falls so A spectra go protect it's unlikely like spectra very rarely carry protect Yeah, so we're just going to see the nightshade no max yet either Right, that's the damage we need we just need that again next turn with the max the poison jab and then we're done Spectra going down I go in front of the moon blast I think yeah Okay, it's fine And then we have to we have to double tap to finny this next turn I think Depending on what their last pokemon is of course, it's charizard. Okay, that's fine Well, like we don't mind that one little bit how many turns of trick room we got left um to Yeah, it's got max who's Into tap of finny and go nightshade into tap of finny And I think that combination should be enough to get finny I just worry about like obviously max who's isn't the best it would be better Like obviously getting rid of And now it protects of course now it protects because we're gonna see a hurricane from the charizard. I don't imagine No, the charizard protects. This is better for us actually because Now we've got the poison jab, which is a lot more powerful and that will be able to knock out the finny But we could actually choose to just go after the charizard the next turn I think Because that's the pokemon that causes a bit more Of an issue because it's got access to speed control. It's got access to residual damage from the gmax wildfire So going after that this next turn, especially on our last turn of trick room It's probably the better option even though um The finny might be able to pick us up, especially if they max and go max starfall But just just check i'm sure we got one turn. Yeah last turn of trick room left We're there. We're there. Are we are we plus three special attack with arachnid? We are We should have like surf here. Um, no, what are we doing? We're going to liquidation into charizard and we're going to nightshade Into tapu finny I think it's going to be bizarre that max is but there's no way to take in a rain boosted liquidation plus two no no chance Finny's your best. Yeah finny is the best the best option you've got But then I think it's going to take too much damage from a nightshade Um, and I think a wild charge nightshade is going to be enough Charizard going for the double protect. Yeah makes sense nightshade do some nice damage liquidation Yeah, and I don't think the poison jab there would have been enough to get the finny It'd be nice if we survived this and then we could maybe find out But I don't think we're going to be able to take a plus one starfall from this range Now finny going to be able to do the job But I mean now we just wild charge into the finny and set trick room up And that combination is going to be more than enough for at least either picking the knock up out with with thunderous or Clearing cleaning up with dust globs after that So the timing is perfect for us And this wraps up the episode pretty nicely before we get that rental card for you all So the spider's done pretty well in this in these games today, which is always nice to see Yeah, we'll go for the wild charge and we will go for a cheeky old trick room to wrap this one up I don't think wild charge is going to be enough to take down the finny if we were live fall But I'd say otherwise. I think yeah, we probably get it But I don't think from this range. It might it might it might be very very surprised here But I don't think okay Max guard, which is fine, which makes sense. You know, they want to avoid that but The night shades are going to be more than enough from the dust globs and we've got pain split as well We're in a really awkward spot. This is where like fly would have been the real like the big call there fly trick room Just to get around these max turns from my opponent Uh, we'll just go wild charge again and then we just go night sheet and a few night shades, especially with leftovers recovery going to be more than Capable of closing this one down for us max guys. I wonder if you go after now You can't go after the the dust globs here. You have to go after them.  You know the finny's not gonna like yeah Let's see It's got to be close to like two night shades though. I think two night shades will do it It has yeah, well 100% will do it two night shades So there's gonna have to be a lot of protecting around dust globs here. Yeah, there's one protect get this leftovers health back And then you're relying on muddy water not missing, you know There's some leftover recovery But still I still believe two night shades will still do the trick even after the leftover recovery So there's one night shade and then they're gonna protect the next turn after this Yeah, we get it muddy water Okay That does a lot of damage that does a lot of damage does a lot more than what I expected it to do So let's go for that night shade. I mean how many tins of trick room we've got left? one They just protect here This might be a bit tricky. It's we might lose this, you know Yeah with the trick room ending now um Hmm I think it's just out of sight now. So we have to trick and we have to trick room and just hope I mean we We should take another muddy water the moon blast. We'll take this Yeah, and then we have to pay and split Oh, but then The rain does stop I don't think a pain splits gonna help us out one little bit and I think they just win now They need too good. They need too good Uh, and let's say protect here. I think we have to pay and split at this point Yeah, they protect I mean the more health they get the better because then we pay and split and then we can night shade We just got to hope that um The pain split is going to be enough recovery for us to to take a moon blast But it's tricky 54 is it going to be enough? They got 54. They're going to be they're going to be out of range of yeah I don't know if we'll be able to do it No, and I don't think the crit even mattered there very good game to my opponent really well played with the type of finny there We maybe should have dealt with it a little bit earlier, but I mean it's difficult at that point. Isn't it like which which decision do you make? Um, obviously the charizard double protecting probably would have been wiser at that point to go for the finny with the poison jab And night night shade it was the bigger threat, of course But you can't discount things like hurricane on charizard. So I think I don't have any regrets from that I think my opponent just played it very well, but we got to see the spider in action as well So that's that is all that matters So very good game to my opponent there nice one for us to end on and um, we'll jump over now and get you All the rental code for today's team. Okay friends here is today's rental team And I hope if you do try it out, you have a lot of fun with it Obviously it's got a lot of Tricks within it to help you kind of get through teams and rip holes and teams to kind of get their position for a late game Sweep with the arachnid set up Obviously the the tickle there works really nicely with the whimsicott onto Cinderace and supporting thunderous and even the urshifu to a certain extent But the big kind of core of the team is going to be the dustclops and the arachnid They obviously the the rock tomb there and getting their weakness policy propped and then going from there makes things very Very dangerous and difficult for your opponent to kind of get a handle on if you do try the team out though Please let me know in the comment section as always if you do and if you've had fun with it And that's a big thing with this team I think it's just having a bit of fun with it But it might inspire some ideas to take forward I do think arachnid is a very dangerous pokemon and under the right circumstances It's just getting it set up Which is sometimes a bit tricky obviously getting the trick room set up and then getting the weakness policy activated And then having some support around there Maybe something like lightning road support might be something to think about with arachnid that could definitely help out And so maybe more solid faster pokemon to have up top You know the problem with like things like whimsicott cinderace And thunderous to a certain extent even with the assault vests is they're all quite frail pokemon and go down quite quickly So you've got to get returns On each kind of turn playing out with these pokemon Otherwise the game kind of slips away from you quite fast So have fun with the team as I say thank you as always for tuning in Have a great weekend whatever you're up to take care of yourselves And I'll see you all soon for another episode here on the channel So until then friends take care of yourselves and bye. 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Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Reyes Academy. Displayed are the list of news articles selected for today's analysis and the page numbers of Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles are provided in the description box. And for the benefit of mobile phone viewers, the time stamping of the news articles are also provided in the comment section. Now let us move on to the first news article. This news article is an open editorial which is based on a discussion with a member of Rajesh Saba and one of the founding members of Association of Democratic Reforms. Now this will be relevant in your prime syllabus under current events of national importance and under political system in Indian polity and governance. And it will also be relevant in GS paper 2 under parliament and state legislature and also in important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability. This discussion can also be linked to the salient features of representation of people act because it talks about elections. One of the main issues with respect to regional or state parties with respect to holding simultaneous elections is that as long as there is article 356 in Indian constitution, the state government can easily be removed by the central government. Article 356 deals with the provisions in case of failure of constitutional machinery in a state. We are discussing about the possibility and the feasibility of one nation, one pole issue. Now imagine we are having simultaneous elections because of some reasons the Lokshaba is dissolved before the completion of its full term that is five year term. In such a situation, though there are stable governments in the states, the central government may use article 356 to dissolve the state legislative assemblies for the purpose of conducting simultaneous elections. And therefore the regional parties are demanding the removal of article 356 from Indian constitution if there has to be simultaneous elections. Now when we talk simultaneous elections or when we talk about one nation, one pole, we actually mean conducting elections for the Lokshaba, the state legislative assemblies of all states and also elections for local bodies. Now the Rajeshabha member has highlighted four instances when Lokshaba was not able to complete its full tenure of five years. The sixth Lokshaba lasted only almost some three years that is from 1977 to 1980. Ninth Lokshaba lasted only for two years that is from 1989 to 1991. The eleventh Lokshaba lasted only one and a half years. Twelfth Lokshaba 13 months. So the opposition parties are saying that there is no solution to the question what if the Lokshaba is dissolved and the elected state governments are stable. Under part six of Indian constitution which deals with the states. States are independent constitutional entity and they also have independent constitutional existence having their own rhythm of elections. The article says that to forcibly change the natural progression of a constitutional entity is unconstitutional and it violates the federal structure which is protected as basic structure by the supreme court. Here natural progression could mean two things. One forcibly changing the normal course of state government to conduct simultaneous election when Lokshaba is dissolved. Or it is now not time to hastily quickly carry out the simultaneous elections without finding solutions to all the concerns expressed by various political parties, civil society, researchers, academic community and also prudent citizens. The article states that the present form of elections is the most effective and most representative democracy and simultaneous elections will paralyze the best practices we have been following so far. Because at present people vote for state level or regional issues when the state elections are conducted. People vote for national issues during the general elections or when the elections to the Lokshaba is conducted. In the present system of elections there is possibility for better representation of national parties along with the regional parties. But if simultaneous elections are conducted it may lead to reduction and elimination of regional smaller and minor parties. In other words this could mean there won't be an opposition. Opposition is important for a democracy to thrive. So if simultaneous elections are implemented there won't be possibility for better representation of regional parties in the parliament and there won't be an effective opposition. Thus it hurts the sentiments of democracy. And we have some instances that prove that if simultaneous elections are conducted there are greater chances that the situation will help a party to remain in power both at the centre and also in the state level. Since 1989 there were instances at which the general elections coincided with the state legislative assembly elections for few states. Even during the recent general election for the 17th Lokshaba we saw state legislative elections happening for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. If we look at such simultaneous elections since 1989. Out of 31 instances in 24 instances the same party was elected to the parliament and also to the state legislature. So this means there is 77% chance for a national party to take advantage of the simultaneous elections or the one nation one election policy. Now let's see the view on the question of saving money by conducting the simultaneous elections. By having simultaneous elections the government is trying to put a monetary value on democracy and elections. It is also trying to give the cheapest possible democracy rather than having the most effective and representative democracy. Also the public money that is spent for the conduct of such present form of elections is miniscule compared to the money that is spent by the political parties and the candidates. So the article says that the questions and the reforms should instead be focused at or aimed at putting a limit on election expenditure that can be made by a political party during elections. Right now we have limit for spending by a candidate and not a limit for the spending of a political party. The article says that had all parties been internally democratic there is no need for parties to spend money for elections and those parties who oppose this simultaneous elections actually they want to know how much money could be saved if we have a concept of simultaneous elections. Now some of the supporters to the idea of one nation one pole are saying that the model code of conduct is an obstacle or a hindrance to the governance. To this argument the experts express that model code of conduct only says that if the government wants to introduce a program or a policy which may have a bearing on the result of elections then the government has to get clearance from the election commission. There are a number of cases when the election commission has given such permission to various programs and policies and election commission gives permission when it has felt that such program or a policy will not have any bearing on the election result. Model code of conduct also does not say that all existing schemes should be stopped. So the member of association of democratic reforms finds the argument to say that development stops because of model code of conduct that argument as something strange. He also adds that the parties the political parties are saying that development comes to halt because of model code of conduct because the ruling parties think about development programs only in the last six months or last three months just before the elections in order to win the election. Actually this adds to unfair elections and therefore we have model code of conduct. Also they say that ministers are thinking about the state elections, local body elections and then general elections throughout their tenure as ministers for a five year term. Therefore they don't have time or patience to focus or concentrate on the development of the people. For this the article suggests that there should be some kind of rules or norms so that ministers of central government should not go for campaigning for state elections and if they go and do campaigning for state elections they have violated their oath of office which requires them to fulfill the ministerial duties and responsibilities. This provision should also apply to the prime minister as well. In such an arrangement they will be focusing only on ministerial duties and not on state elections or local body elections. There is also an understanding among various sections of population that the present ruling party wants to have an absolute control over all the states and that's why they are pitching for one nation, one election so that gradually it can take it from parliamentary form of government to presidential form of government. These sections feel that if that is the case that has to be directly discussed simply by saying one nation, one election they are actually trying to circumvent or override the discussion for presidential form of government. Also the electoral bonds were introduced or brought into picture by the NDA government during its regime during 2014 to 2019. The article says that this is a better way to convert black money into white money. Also these electoral bonds did not ensure transparency. This is because no one other than banks can know the details of who is funding the political parties. This makes the election expense issues even more opaque or even more non-transparent. The article states that the electoral bond scheme has only helped the ruling party because 95% of the bonds were received by the ruling party. So this electoral bonds has also to be seen as an attempt by the NDA government to choke the funding of the opposition parties. So these are all the views expressed in the news article. So there was also one more criticism with respect to electoral bond scheme because it was passed as a money bill under the finance act of 2017. It was stated that it does not fall under the ambit of money bill according to article 110 of Indian constitution. They have passed it as money bill just to circumvent or override the command of Rajesh Abba over this matter. Because if it was not passed as money bill such a scheme would not have been passed by Rajesh Abba because at that time the ruling party did not have a thumbing majority in Rajesh Abba. We know that Rajesh Abba has no control over the money bill. Now this is because Rajesh Abba can only recommend the amendments to a money bill and Lokshaba is not bound to accept the recommendations of Rajesh Abba and the bill is deemed to be passed by both the houses of parliament. Now these are some of the points discussed in the news article with respect to the idea of one nation, one pool. So the overall notion is that for India this idea will not work. Therefore the title of the news article reads as will the idea of one nation, one pool work in India. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. Now let us move on to next news article. This news article is about the mission on natural language translation. Now this is a proposed mission that is yet to be placed before the cabinet. Now this article becomes part of your prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and also in social development. In main syllabus this article can be relevant in GS paper 2 under development and management of social sector or services relating to education. It can also be linked to general studies paper 3 in science and technology, developments and their applications and effects in everyday life. This mission on natural language translation was identified or proposed initially by the prime ministers, science, technology and innovation advisory council which is shortly called as PM STIAC. We have the office of the principal scientific advisor to the government of India. This office was set up in the year 1999. Now the important functions of this office of principal scientific advisor is to evolve policies, strategies and missions for the development of support systems for multiple applications. And also to generate tasks in science and technology particularly in critical infrastructure and in economic and social sectors with partnership with government departments. See now let us come to this PM STIAC council. This council actually facilitates this principal scientific advisor's office to assess the status of science and technology in various specific domains. And another role of this council is to understand the challenges with respect to the domains of science and technology. After understanding the challenges the council has to formulate specific interventions. And finally it also advises the prime minister on matters of science and technology. The chairperson of this prime minister's science and technology and innovation advisory council is the principal scientific advisor to the government of India. Now this council PM STIAC has identified that there is a requirement of high level English knowledge to understand science and technology or to learn science and technology. So as a specific intervention this PM STIAC has suggested a mission. This mission is called as the mission on natural language translation. Now the purpose of this mission is to make the knowledge of science and technology accessible to all by removing the barrier that the English knowledge is required to understand or to learn science and technology. So this mission aspires to enable access to teaching and researching material in two languages one in English language and the other is in the native language of a particular person. That is native Indian language of a particular person. It is proposed that this will be done by a combination of machine translation and human translation. For machine translation they will be using speech to speech machine translation and also text to text machine translation. And a budget requirement of about 450 crore has been proposed for carrying out this mission for a initial period of three years. There are three lead agencies for this mission and they are Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology shortly called as MAITI and Ministry of Human Resource and Development and Department of Science and Technology. See this mission deals with learning so normally human resource and development will come. It deals with learning of science right so department of science and technology will also come learning of science and technology. And it is based on machine translation technology that is linked with IT and IT enabled services. So Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is also one of the three lead agencies. With this we come to the end of this news article. See the displayed practice prelims question will be discussed in the last session. The next news article is about the revision of wholesale price index and about the team that carry forwards this activity. Now the analysis of this news article will be relevant in your prelims preparation under current events of national importance and under economic development. It could be relevant in your minds in GS paper three in Indian economy. The news is that the government has reconstituted the wholesale price index revision team. See this team is given the task of revising the WPI that exists at present. The working group will be chaired by Nithya Yoga member Ramesh chand. This work will also have members from Central Statistical Office and also from Ministry of Finance and from Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Recently on 15 June we have seen in detail about WPI. So have a look for it for further subject clarity on WPI. The government has mentioned the terms of reference for the working group know that terms of reference will include the scope of the activity. Which means what exactly are the activities the particular team has to carry out. Now let us see the terms of reference of the reconstituted working group. The first activity of this working group is to select the most appropriate base year. This is to be done for the preparation of new official series of index numbers of WPI. The current base year for WPI is 2011-12. This base year change was introduced in May 2017. Since 2011-12 significant structural changes have taken place in the economy. So it is now almost the time that these changes should be reflected in WPI. So the government has initiated the change in the base year. Next the working group will also have to review the commodity basket of current WPI series. See this group has to suggest additions or deletions of commodities. When we say commodity basket it refers to a fixed set of consumer products and services. That is valued on an annual basis. This commodity basket of WPI covers various commodities under three major groups. One is primary articles, another is fuel and power group and then manufactured products. Then the working group must also review the existing system of price collection and has also suggest improvements in the price collection methods. See price collection surveys are carried out to know the price trends. Currently the price collection surveys are carried out by National Sample Survey Office. Once the data is collected it is compiled and released on monthly basis by the Office of the Economic Advisor. This Office of Economic Advisor comes under Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. Now this department comes under Ministry of Commerce and Industry. So you know the difference that data collection is done by a different agency and the compilation and release is done by another agency. The working group should also come with a new computational method that will be adopted for the WPI and PPI. Now what is this PPI? In the news article it was also mentioned that a new base year for PPI must be recommended by the working group. This PPI is nothing but producer price index. It measures the average change in the prices of goods and services. It excludes indirect taxes so they are called as output PPI when they leave the place of production and they are called as input PPI as they enter the production process. Say you are a producer of cocoa powder. Now you supply this powder to your friend who is a chocolate maker. So when you sell the good you receive some money which is nothing but the price of the product which you have sold. Thus the output indices measure the average change in prices that producers receive for their outputs which leave their place of production. Think that you are one of the producer out of many producers. Now the cocoa powder which is the output of your industry is the input for your friend's chocolate industry. So the input indices measure the average change in prices that producers pay for their inputs which enters the place of production. The main difference between WPI and PPI is that WPI does not consider services whereas producer price index includes services. Producer price index removes the multiple counting biases which are found in WPI. Producer price index indices can be compiled separately for out PPI's input PPI's and export and import PPI's but WPI captures the price changes at the point of bulk transactions which is at the early stage of transactions. Plus taxes were taken into WPI calculation once. So it amounted to multiple counting. Now let's see the purpose of producer price index. See the PPI's are used by the government and private sector for variety of purposes. They are used as deflaters in national accounts. Deflaters are a figure that is used to better compare the current prices to past prices. Then PPI is used as a short term indicator of inflationary trends. Then the producer price index values are used to inform business and government policy decisions and they are also used by international organizations such as IMF for economic monitoring and comparison. As of now the government uses both WPI and producer price index. Slowly the government may move towards producer price index in the future and the present WPI calculation is conceptually closer to producer price index. Since in 2017 WPI also started measuring the average change in the prices and also indirect taxes are not taken into calculation of WPI since 2017. See that was the time the new series of WPI was introduced with 2011 told as the pace year. One of the terms of reference for the working group is that the working group may recommend roadmap for switchover from WPI to PPI. So we may see the government switching over completely from WPI to PPI in the future. Next we will be seeing about an editorial on BIMSTEC. Now this article will be relevant in prelims levels under current events of national and international importance and it remains in GS paper too. It could come under India and its neighborhood relations and also under bilateral and regional groupings and agreements involving India and or affecting India's interest. The author has stressed the fact that BIMSTEC is a viable option or a feasible option when compared to SARC for more regional cooperation. Firstly the author has mentioned an event that shows India's commitment to neighborhood first policy. She has mentioned that the first foreign visit of the external affairs minister of India was to Bhutan. So this neighborhood first policy is nothing but giving first preference to India's immediate geographical neighbors in the matters of India's foreign policy. The author tells that this rekindling or reviving of India's neighborhood first policy started with the Indian prime minister inviting SARC leaders to his wearing in ceremony in 2014. Now two regional groupings are mentioned here. One is SARC and the other is BIMSTEC. The SARC or the South Asian Association for regional cooperation consists of eight members. They are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SARC was formed in 1985. Afghanistan joined in 2007. Next we'll see about BIMSTEC. BIMSTEC or Bay of Bengal initiative for multi-sectoral technical and economic cooperation consists of seven members. See as the name indicates it consists of members that surround the Bay of Bengal such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. BIMSTEC was formed in 1997. Bhutan and Nepal joined in the year 2004. Now let us see some members that are common in these two organizations. Five countries that are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka are members of both these regional groupings SARC and BIMSTEC. Now let's go back to the editorial. See the author tells that India's focus on regional cooperation has shifted from SARC to BIMSTEC in the last five years. She tells that SARC has failed to promote regional cooperation in these five years. She has stated some facts why SARC failed. Firstly SARC grouping has not met since 2014. Next the author tells that in 2016 terror attacks happened in India and these attacks were allegedly sponsored by Pakistan. So India boycotted the SARC 2016 summit which was scheduled in Islamabad. Also three other member states boycotted the summit along with India in support of extending solidarity to India. These three countries were Afghanistan, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Now because of this the author tells that India had shifted its focus to other regional initiative called BIMSTEC. If you see the present government invited BIMSTEC leaders for the oath taking ceremony. Next the author wants that India needs to be cautious in its approach towards BIMSTEC otherwise it may meet a fate which is similar to the previous attempts of cooperation in the region like SARC. Because she tells that the dynamics in the regional cooperation and relationship have changed from time to time over the past few decades and this change in regional cooperation that is the way the countries interact in a region has also been agreed by those countries. If you see this statement in the editorial where the author tells that there tends to be an acquiescence to the way states interact in the region. The author simply means that the countries go with the flow of changing regional dynamics. The author gives an example of this changing dynamics. She has compared SARC and BIMSTEC here. SARC is more on the strategy and security cooperation whereas India looks BIMSTEC for regional, economic, cultural and social cooperation. The simple reason is the absence of Pakistan in BIMSTEC. The author tells that Pakistan has been an impediment meaning an obstruction for the success of SARC. Pakistan has kept SARC's focus more on security and strategy. We can see that the geographical concerns of India and the mistrust among India and Pakistan have led to the failure of SARC. This is the author's opinion here. When we say geopolitics, geopolitical concerns or geopolitics it means the politics that is influenced by the geographical factors. The author gives one more reason why BIMSTEC could be successful. The main reason is the absence of China. The author tells if China is present in a regional grouping then there may be many obstacles or issues that would hinder the achievement of any organizational goals. This is because China will bring up many bilateral and contentious issues. Also the author tells that India and China have conflicting world views and sometimes they clash or fight on regional goals. So the absence of China ensures that BIMSTEC would be successful. So as of now it is unlikely that SARC will be revived. So the author tells that BIMSTEC might be a viable option for India to maintain its foreign policy discourse. She also suggests that India will have to take into account the fact that economics and politics have historically been deeply integrated in Asia. So both economics and politics go hand in hand or together. And India should not agree blindly or go with the flow of regional dynamics. Now let's move on to the next news article. The practice question will be discussed in the last session. We are in our last session. The practice come revision session. The first question is with respect to money bill. Which article of the Indian constitution deals with money bill? So we have seen in our analysis that article 110 deals with the definition of money bill. Therefore the correct answer for this question is option B article 110. Now see article 75 talks about the appointment of prime minister and other ministers of council of ministers. And it also talks about the collective responsibility. And article 319 talks about the prohibition of holding offices by the members of UPSC and state public service commission. And article 47 talks about the duty of the state to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living and also to improve public health. Article 47 comes part of this directive principles of state policy. The second question is with respect to the national mission on natural language translation. There are two statements and they have given and they are asking which of the statements are correct. The first statement, the national mission on natural language translation aims to remove the barrier of requirement of high level faculty in English to learn science and technology. Now this statement is correct and that is one of the objective of the mission on natural language translation. Here the word faculty will take the meaning of the word knowledge in this context. And the second statement, the ministry of human resource development ministry of information and broadcasting and the department of science and technology or the lead agencies in this mission. Now this statement is wrong because we seen that HRD ministry is involved department of science and technology is involved but the other ministry that is not ministry of information and broadcasting but the ministry of electronics and information technology. And this mission on natural language translation helps to provide access to teaching and researching material in two languages. One is in English and other is in the native Indian language of the particular individual. So the correct answer for this question is option A one only. In respect to BIMSTEC and SARC now the first statement Bay of Bengal initiative for multi sectoral technical and economic cooperation was formed before the formation of south Asian association for regional cooperation. Now this statement is wrong. We have seen that BIMSTEC was formed only in the year 1997. SARC was formed before some 12 years that is in 1985. So SARC precedes BIMSTEC. So the first statement is wrong. India, Bhutan and Nepal are members of both BIMSTEC and SARC. Now this statement is correct and two more countries are also members of both these organizations and they are Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. So the correct answer for this question is option B two only. With this we come to the end of today's the Indu news analysis. 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Well, howdy friends. I know I have been MIA for such a long time on my channel, but I am back. Today is a really fun event and I am going to the Minnesota Planner Addicts. It's, I believe the title is called Plan Your Heart Out Minnesota. And it is 7.25 in the morning and it's going to take me an hour to get there. And registration starts at 8.30. My hair is still wet. I just got out of the shower and my back seat is full of gifts and planner supplies for today's event. Just to address really quick where I've been, if you guys follow me on social media, you would have seen updates here and there. My grandmother had been very ill and she is better now, not 100% recovered, but better now. And I had been spending basically all of my time caring for her and updating my mom about what's going on. If you guys don't know, my parents, they do live in Minnesota for a part of the year, not in the winter time. So they spend the summers here and then they winter in Florida, which is where their main residence is. So anyways, I've been acting kind of like a liaison and then I've also been quite ill as well. So after I got sick, I haven't been allowed by my doctors to go and care for her because I still have a really nagging cough and they just don't want me around someone that has compromised health, if you know what I mean. So anyways, enough about that. I'm gonna vlog today and I'm really excited because there should be about, I think they said about 33 attendees and I'm gonna vlog as much as I can. I'll vlog whatever I'm doing. I am only part of the Minnesota Planner Addicts. I will put a Facebook link below if you guys would like to join if you're in the area. We do planner events twice a year and then we also do planner meetups. I believe every single month. So the meetups are free. The events are paid for events. So this is one of the paid for events today and I'm just really excited. So we are going to the Holiday Inn in Bloomington and like I said, it's gonna take me about an hour. So I should get going and I will see you guys in just a second. So here is my table and I am at the You Rock table. Oh my gosh. Stop moving. That freaking balloon. Cute, right? Now I get to pass out all of these things. Okay, so this was what was in the bags. I have one of these little Erin Condren sticker sheets. Some May Designs notebooks. I got those from Target. Oh, I don't know what the other side looks like. Hold on, it looks like they both look like that. You know, unicorn erasers because it's definitely a staple in everyone's life, right? Got sweet tarts. These adhesive pocket labels from Target. These are amazing. And then a little sticker book. Bunch of different things. And then the little pouch. So that is what was in there. I'm eating a really healthy breakfast. But I do have water, so there's that. Well, hello. So I am home. I just got done walking Doyle. I took my makeup off and it is basically time for bed. But I'm going to stay up for a little while because I just want Doyle to have enough time to eat and drink out of the little thing over there. So anyways, I am home, but I am super tired. And the lighting is really, really horrible. And yes, my tree is still up. And it's the middle of February. But I'm going to take it down tomorrow. I promise, I'm actually going to do that. So I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to vlog all weekend. So I'm going to vlog tomorrow. Actually, I have something fun happening tomorrow. My brother is coming and the dog right now is, I don't know, trying to find something. Doyle, get out of there. Oh, leave it alone. Anyways, but I have a bunch of bags of swag and like things I purchased and fun things that happened that I really want to talk about. I'm like, so not in the mood.  It's really hard to see. But on one of them it says Minnesota. And then the other one is like the Minnesota coordinates. But I'm going to show you guys what I won or this is what I won. And then I won like a little notepad as well. And this didn't really have a brand. It was just like a cute little gold necklace. So I was excited. So I put it on and left the little card at the event in the trash. But there was no like specific brand. So I don't know like where to link it or anything. But anyway, I want to show you the project I did, but it's in all of those bags of stuff. So I'm going to show you guys that tomorrow. But I am just going to like veg out and relax. I need to take another Advil. If you guys don't know, if you follow me on social media, you'll know. But I was quite ill the last couple of weeks and I've just had this like nagging cough. And because I cough so much, like just talking about it is making me cough. It's just like this nagging cough. It won't go away. Like I get headaches because of it. So I have to take like four Ibuprofen's a day, like two in the morning and two in the evening. And like I've had a little bit of a headache for quite a while now. So I need to take a couple of Ibuprofen's for bed and then go to bed, you know? So anyways, Doyle and I are going to say goodbye for now. So bye for now. But I will see you tomorrow. And hopefully I can show you my brother a little bit if he's down for that. I don't know. He's coming over to watch the NASCAR race. And we're going to have some pizza and hang out and catch up. And he's going to watch me take that tree down. That's what's going to happen tomorrow. So I hope you all are having a good day and I will see you in just a moment. Well hello. It is Sunday and I have a special guest. Who's that guy? That's my favorite brother. He is in town and is actually going to stay the night. So very exciting. The tree is still up. Yeah. Not for long. Not for long. I'm going to get to it. I'm going to get to it. But he brought pizza over. We had some pizza and speaking of pizza, I want to show you guys this pizza blanket I got. Brother is like showing it off. One of our committee members named Libby made this. It is so incredibly soft. Like it feels, I don't know, like it's not like a baby blanket material, but it's like, I don't know, it's amazing. By the way, she makes these and I'm going to show you her info because she said I could. There we go. So if you're interested in something like this, feel free to give her a shout on the Instagram or the email or the phone, I guess. So but she makes them and she does ship them. So yes, pretty amazing because you know pizza is life, right guys? Just posted on Instagram my mess over here. So I'm going to flip you around and I'll show you what I'm talking about. This is the collection of all the swag that I either got as a prize or gift or just that was donated to the Minnesota planner addicts. So I just took a couple photos and posted them on Instagram and very thankful to all the shops and everyone that sponsored and donated. I'm very, very excited to use a whole bunch of this in my planner very, very soon. And this is the necklace I was wearing yesterday. I don't know if you guys could see it. I haven't downloaded my footage or anything yet. My brother and I are currently working on eating some of those sweet heart tart things. But I also wanted to show you what I got at Marshall's because I know you guys are probably interested. So I got two of these pillows for spring. And yes, I do realize there is a color in there. So kind of fun. And then I got some of these sistema, I think is how you say it. I got a couple, two of this size and then one larger. And then I found these at Michael's and I thought this would be perfect for, you know, holiday, birthday, whatever time. And then over here, I got some stuff at Michael's. I figured I'd show you my little holly haul thing. So first thing I picked up was this tube of washi. It's kind of like a school theme. I don't know what's not focusing. There it is. And this is the brand Craft Smart. So again, you guys know that I do my washi like this. So I will be making samples for myself. And then also in the same brand is this one. And it's kind of like a wedding marriage one. We're just going on with my focus. It's like not wanting to focus. There we go. Tada. So I thought this was really cute. And then I got this. This is the yeah, the recollections brand. And they're just kind of like some brown washes. Seriously, focus. There it goes. But yeah, I thought these were really, really cute, different, unique. And then I got some sticker sheets. That's the recollections.  These are some really tiny stickers from Craft Smart. And they're all like food related. And then these ones all have food on the top. And then it's got like little like kawai tacos on them. And then these are all of these like cute little llama things. So I thought that was kind of cute. And oh, I was going to show you guys how I won my little thingamajig yesterday. And this is what I did to my little book. So yesterday there was a challenge to do like a bucket list or journaling or something like that. So I actually won my category. And I'll kind of explain it to you. So this is like my Minnesota State Fair bucket list. I was actually getting lots of tips from my table mates. And we start here with this little sticker, which has all the money. So you have to go to the state fair with all the money. Then we're going to go and get a pickle on a stick. Then we go to sweet Martha's, which has cookies, which is what that sticker is.  And then at cheese on a stick, there's actually fresh squeeze lemonade at the same stand. So I put those stickers on there. Then we go to the pretzel factory. And then we go to Turkey to go. If you guys follow one of the admins, her name is Jodi on Instagram. She actually has a cat and she heard the cat's name is actually Churchill, but she calls her cat Turkey. So she gave me a turkey sticker, a turkey time sticker. That's a cat. So that's thought that was kind of funny. Anyway, shaved ice. Then we go to the sugar shack and then the gas station grill to get a burger and the pizza wagon. And then by the time we go home, we have a headache and then we're going to take a nap. So that is my winner. Also, I did put something in my planner for the first time ever. So I want to show you guys that now. So my planner has absolutely nothing in it until yesterday. So one of my table mates actually gave me this sticker, which I thought was very, very fitting.  Today I have done the laundry or I'm still kind of doing the laundry. We had Broadway pizza. The Daytona 500 is on, but it's on mute. And then I'm going to take my tree down and just a little bit. And then my brother is staying the night. So yeah, I haven't done anything for next week, but it's all about a start guys. It's all about a start. So anyway, then it's going to close out the vlog for today. Just wanted to show you guys some stuff in like normal lighting because it was just incredibly dark out last night when I got home. So I am going to jet. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will be back fairly soon with some more things. And let's see if Billy and Doyle want to say goodbye. Maybe they do. Isn't that cute? Bye. Doyle's like, whatever, give me more pets. All right, I'll see you guys later. Bye.