Geopolitics

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•Geopolitics has addressed how geography influences political power through resource distribution, strategic position, and territorial conflict between the different nations.

•It defines how countries are interlinked based on their mutual dependencies while rapidly globalizing into their international and economic world bodies.

•The world was supposed to end in unipolarity where the United States was supposed to remain on top of all other superpower nations.

Three Parent baby

•It uses DNA from three individuals to avoid mitochondrial disease, i.e., two parents and one donor of mitochondria. Healthy mitochondria are obtained from a donor along with the nuclear DNA of both parents.

•MRT is trying to eliminate the risk of hereditary mitochondrial disorder that can cause severe health problems. As a result, such a disease family can conceive genetic children without passing the conditions.

 • The process raises ethical issues on genetic engineering and the consequences of producing embryos using the genetic material of three individuals. Many nations have different laws and opinions on the acceptability of this technology.

New Educational Policy

•NEP 2020 aims to make the education system more holistic by promoting interdisciplinary learning, incorporating vocational education, and developing critical thinking and creativity among students.

•NEP proposes an initiative in school education and teacher training through a National Education Framework that would focus on an elastic and learner-centered curriculum, oriented towards the needs of the 21st century.

•Higher Education Reforms Increase access to higher education. Encourage research and innovation. Improve quality by offering staggered entry/exit options, etc, and Multidisciplinary Teaching and Research Universities (MERUs)