JLF #SupremeCourt #ICA #apexcourt

US offers missile defence systems to India
The Trump administration has approved the sale of armed drones to India and has offered integrated air and missile defence systems aimed at helping the country boost its military capabilities and protect shared security interests in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region.
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#missile #India #MTCR #THAAD #COMCASA #China #DonaldTrump

‘Nishan Izzuddeen’ for PM
The Maldivian government on 8 June 2019 announced it will confer its highest honour accorded to foreign dignitaries, Order of the Distinguished Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister will depart to the Maldives on his first bilateral visit on 8 June 2019 after returning to power.
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#NishanIzzuddeen #PMModi #AbdullaShahid #Maldivian #government #SriLanka

India's second moon mission
India's rocket carrying an orbiter, lander and a rover in a stepped up moon mission to uncover lunar secrets launched into space successfully in its second bid from the Sriharikota launch pad on 22 July 2019.
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#India #mission #moon #Chandrayaan2 #ISRO #Earth

No Vishaka guidelines at religious places
The Supreme Court on 22 July 2019 dismissed a PIL seeking directions to implement sexual harassment committees in religious institutions. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said judicial orders can't be passed on this plea as Visakha guidelines cannot be extend to religious places.
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#SupremeCourt #PIL #RanjanGogoi #CEDAW #apexcourt #sexual #VishakhaGuidelines

World Bank study on PMGSY
A recent independent World Bank assessment of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) rural roads programme meant to establish ‘farm to market connectivity’ shows that the PMGSY roads, in fact, “triggered a shift from farm to non-farm employment” in the habitations studied between 2009 and 2017 as with roads in place, people chose employment opportunities outside their habitations over expanding their farming.
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#WorldBank #PMGSY #independent #Yojana #women

India enters 37-year period of demographic dividend
Since 2018, India’s working-age population (people between 15 and 64 years of age) has grown larger than the dependant population — children aged 14 or below as well as people above 65 years of age.
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#India #UNFPA #SouthKorea #TFR #demographic #dividend

Biggest reason for migration in India
The most common reason for migration in India is marriage. The finding, which was part of the 2011 Census, was published recently and showed that 46% of the total migrants moved because of marriage and of these, 97% were women. As many as 20.58 crore women in India migrated for marriage, the data shows.
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#India #Census #UttarPradesh #marriage #migration #Haryana

FC constitute a panel
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (FC) has constituted a panel to examine whether a separate mechanism be set up for the funding of defence and internal security.
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#FC #NKSingh #GDP #FRBM #GST #XVFC

SC rejects new schedule for AGR payments
In a major setback for the telecom companies, the Supreme Court on 14 February 2020 rejected the plea seeking new schedule of AGR payments. Coming down heavily on the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for not taking coercive action against telcos for failing to repay, the apex court ordered contempt proceedings against Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea.
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#SC #AGR #DoT #apexcourt #SUC #COAI #SupremeCourt

India, Portugal ink seven pacts
India and Portugal on 14 February 2020 signed seven agreements to boost cooperation in a range of areas after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa held extensive talks.
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#India #Portugal #Modi #RashtrapatiBhavan #AbuSalem

RK Pachauri died
RK Pachauri, 79, founder director of New Delhi-based think tank The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) and former chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), passed away on 13 February 2020.
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#RK #Pachauri #IPCC #Teri #IndianRailways #NPP

Space snowman reveals secrets
NASA’s space snowman is revealing fresh secrets from its home far beyond Pluto. More than a year after its close encounter with the snowman-shaped object, the New Horizons spacecraft is still sending back data from more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away.
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#Space #NASA #snowman #spacecraft #NewHorizons