Whistleblower Mr. X - Vyapam scam
1)
Mr.
X is the whistleblower in the Vyapam scam : corruption
in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board.
2)
Vyapam scam involves massive irregularities and corruption in the
Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) or M.P. Vyavsayik Pareeksha
Mandal, abbreviated in Hindi as Vyapam.
3)
It has been alleged that officials at the board took money to
compromise the examination and recruitment for several professional courses,
mostly teaching recruitments.
4)
The accused are powerful politicians, senior bureaucrats and top businessmen.
5)
“Mr. X”, the whistleblower, is an IT expert who claimed to have
sensitive information from the computers of the main accused.
6)
The Delhi High Court has refused to allow the M.P. High Court
constituted-Special Task Force and the Special Investigation Team to have exclusive
access to information about the scandal or interrogate the whistleblower.
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Maritime Silk Road to reset SL-China ties
1)
China and Sri Lanka have decided to carve a new strategic
framework for their relationship defined by the Maritime Silk Road (MSR).
2)
Both the countries also agreed to avoid a clash with India through
a Beijing-Colombo-New Delhi trilateral partnership.
3)
The Chinese President said that Sri Lanka was a strategic partner
and Beijing wanted to again promote and elevate the China-Sri Lanka
relationship to fulfil an important purpose.
4)
Sri Lankan assured China that work on the stalled $1.4-billion
Colombo Port City Project, would resume after problems were “sorted out".
Ø citing lack of
transparency, the Sirisena administration has called for review of the
multimillion infrastructure projects that had been granted by the rival
government of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
5)
Defining a new conceptual framework for the future, both the
countries agreed to put all the projects in Sri Lanka in the general framework
of the 21st century Maritime Silk Road.
6)
Benefits : The decision implies
that additional sources of funding would be available to Sri Lanka, including
the $40 billion China-backed Silk Road Fund and the Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB).
7)
Recalibration of
military ties
: The recalibration of the military relationship comes after Sri Lanka made it clear
that the country would no longer host the docking of foreign submarines in its ports,
following India’s strong objections to the visit last year of a Chinese
submarine on two occasions in Colombo.
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