Mains Question:
Q1. What do you understand by ‘war crime’? Do you think that, in practice, there exists a significant gray area for war crime? (150 words)
Approach
- Introduction- definition of war crime
- Discuss its different categories
- Recent happenings around the globe
- Conclude accordingly
Q2. Climate change is leading to the staggering loss of plants and animals and the countless benefits they provide. Comment (250 words)
Approach
- Introduction- current status of climate change and its consequences
- impact on plants and animals
- consequences for mankind
- Recent report from international organisations
- challenges/issues
- required measures
- Way forward
In election-obsessed India, there is hardly any time to discuss the advances of modern science and the repercussions
Direction of medical science
- A medical team in New York attached a kidney from a gene-edited animal to a person declared brain dead to see if the animal kidney was able to do the job of processing waste and producing urine.
- The second case is from the University of Maryland where a team of doctors used the heart of an animal, which had genetically modified features, as a replacement heart on a patient who had run out of available options.
- The third case is the news report that a doctor in Germany, who has been working in the area of xenotransplants, plans to develop a farm to cultivate genetically modified organs for such transplants.