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VOCABULARY
1. Fuelled: increased something or made something
stronger. भड़काना
2. Undermining: making someone less confident,
less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or making
something weaker, often gradually. दुबल र्श करना
3. Flutter: a state of nervous or confused
excitement. घबराहट
4. Unflattering: making someone or something look
less attractive or seem worse than usual. अनाकषर्शक
5. Embattled: having a lot of problems or
difficulties. परे शा नयों से घरा
6. Explicit: clear and exact. सुस्पष्ट
VOCABULARY
7. Underpinning: support, strength, or the basic
structure of something. आधार
8. Spur: to encourage an activity or development or
make it happen faster. प्रोत्सा हत करना
9. Hobbled: made it more difficult for somebody to
do something or for something to happen. बाधा डालना
10. Typified: was a typical example of something.
नमूना या आदशर्श होना
11. Abject: (of something bad) experienced or
present to the maximum degree. नतान्त
12. Prevails: to exist or be very common at a
particular time or in a particular place. प्रच लत होना
VOCABULARY
13. Pretext: a pretended reason for doing something
that is used to hide the real reason. बहाना
14. Dubious: not to be trusted, or not completely
moral. सं दग्ध
15. Scant: very little or not much. अल्प
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U.S. federal authorities have arrested Jack Teixeira, 21, a member
of the Air National Guard, in the case of classified information of
the Pentagon that was leaked on social media in recent months,
which analysts say has exposed sensitive data regarding the war
efforts in Ukraine, potentially undermining Kyiv’s plans to push
back the Russian invasion. The top-secret files that were first
leaked on social media websites Discord and 4chan in March this
year also caused a flutter for the Joe Biden administration when it
revealed confidential and unflattering information about U.S.
allies, including South Korea, Israel, and other nations of West
Asia and Africa, and assessments of China’s developing
cyber-attack capabilities.
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Potentially most damaging, though, were the leaker’s posts,
which, reports said, genuinely contained classified information
of the U.S. military, on Ukraine’s air defences being
compromised owing to a shortage of missiles in February. Also
possibly undermining the tactical plans and the element of
surprise for Ukrainian forces were files that spoke of the
embattled country’s long-planned spring counter offensive to
beat back Russian forces starting on April 30 with 12 Ukrainian
brigades. While no explicit propagandistic post of the leaker
has been revealed yet, it is obvious that the dots join to paint a
clear picture of Mr. Teixeira’s intention to discredit the war effort
of Ukraine and its western allies and show up the Biden
administration in a bad light amongst its global partners.
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One thing is clear: Mr. Teixeira is no whistle-blower and,
certainly, comparisons to Chelsea Manning or Edward
Snowden would be misplaced. The latest leak of U.S. federal
government information lacks the moral clarity and ethical
underpinning of the WikiLeaks files and the NSA global
surveillance exposé that Ms. Manning and Mr. Snowden
respectively shared with the world in a bid to highlight the
excesses of the U.S. government and spur conversations on
human rights, foreign policy and privacy in the digital age.
Whistle-blowing in the latter contexts led to introspection, policy
dialogue and reforms to bring about greater transparency in
U.S. government actions, within limits.
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The 2023 Pentagon leaks have, contrarily, achieved nothing of
this sort but fuelled insecurity between the U.S. and other
global powers, and potentially hobbled the war strategies of the
Ukrainian armed forces in their bid to fight off Russian troops
attacking their country. Mr. Teixeira has, appropriately, been
charged for the leaks under the U.S. Espionage Act. The critical
next step for the Biden White House is now to examine how
and why he got top security clearance to handle classified
information, and take steps to further secure and limit the
distribution of sensitive information whose release could
seriously undermine U.S. national security interests.
Murder of law, order
There must be an independent
inquiry into the Atiq Ahmed case
In life and in death, former lawmaker Atiq Ahmed typified the collapse of
the rule of law in Uttar Pradesh. The visuals of both him and his brother
Khalid Azim being shot dead in cold blood, on Saturday, while they were
handcuffed and in police custody, show the abject lawlessness that
prevails in the State. Early in March, Ahmed had approached the Supreme
Court of India expressing fear that he might be “killed in a fake encounter
on one pretext or the other by the U.P. Police”. The Court refused to
entertain his plea. His son, Asad Ahmad, was killed in an alleged
encounter with a U.P. police team on Thursday in Jhansi. Father and son
were both accused in the sensational daylight murder of a political rival in
February. Ahmed, the former leader of the Samajwadi Party and Apna Dal
opened his history sheet at the age of 17 and had more than 100 criminal
cases at the time of his murder at the age of 60. Far from facing the force
of law, he reigned supreme as a doncumpolitician through various regimes
in U.P. since the 1990s. Even when he went to jail, his empire of crime did
not collapse. He was shifted to a prison in Gujarat in 2019, and on his
return to U.P., was facing fresh charges of murder which ended with his
own killing in the most chilling manner.
According to the U.P. police, 183 alleged criminals have been gunned
down in encounters in the last six years. More than 10,900 police
encounters have taken place since March 2017. Due process is central
to any rule of law, and once that is allowed to be shortcircuited, the result
is chaos. The U.P. police and administration have stretched the limits of
its legitimate power by the dubious and discriminatory application of law
and processes. The demolition of properties of people suspected of
crime or participating in political protest has become routine. It appears
that this practice is popular among the supporters of the ruling Bharatiya
Janata Party and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and that makes this
trend not merely lawlessness but also a social pathology. Several
political parties have sought accountability in the double murder that took
place under the watch of the U.P. police. The State has announced a
threemember commission headed by a former High Court judge to
inquire into the lapses. Considering the serious charges that the State
government and its police face of discrimination based on religion and
caste, and scant regard for due process, an inquiry of a demonstrably
independent nature is required.
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Match the words with their meanings.
Column A Column B
Respite not expressing or talking about something
directly or openly
Sustained positive and hopeful
Sanguine continuing for a long time
Myriad a pause or rest from something difficult or
unpleasant
Tacit very large in number, or having great variety
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VOCABULARY FOR ALL
Spur:
Explicit:
Dubious:
Abject:
Unflattering:
Embattled:
Typified:
Hobbled:
Prevails:
Pretext:
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