भारत और मालदीव के बीच स्‍वास्‍थ्‍य क्षेत्र में समझौते को मंजूरी
केंद्रीय मत्रिमंडल ने भारत और मालदीव के बीच स्‍वास्‍थ्‍य क्षेत्र में समझौते को मंजूरी दे दी है। इस समझौता ज्ञापन पर दोनों देशों ने 8 जून, 2019 को हस्‍ताक्षर किए थे। इस समझौता ज्ञापन के तहत निम्‍नलिखित क्षेत्र आयेंगे:
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#Maldives #health #India #PMModi #agreement #MoU #Telemedicine

राजद्रोह कानून खत्म करने का इरादा नहीं'
केंद्रीय मंत्री नित्यानंद राय ने कहा कि सरकार का राजद्रोह कानून खत्म करने का विचार नहीं है। मोदी सरकार के पहले कार्यकाल में राजद्रोह कानून को लेकर कुछ राजनीतिक दलों और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं ने काफी आपत्ति जाहिर की थी। राजद्रोह कानून को सख्त बनाने की जरुरत है। वोट का अधिकार सरकारी नौकरी एवं सुविधाओ से वंचित लोक सभा राज्य सभा सहित किसी भी चुनाव मे लड़ने पर रोक लगनी चाहिये।
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#laws #NityanandRai #Modi #LokSabha #IPC #RajyaSabha #JNU #KanhaiyaKumar

RBI forms working group CICs
The Reserve Bank on 3 July 2019 said it has constituted a working group that will review the regulatory and supervisory framework for core investment companies.
In August 2010, RBI had introduced a separate framework for the regulation of systemically important core investment companies (CICs), recognising the difference in the business model of a holding company relative to other non-banking financial companies.
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#RBI #CICsCorporateAffairs #investment #framework #TapanRay

NDIAC Bill introduced
A bill to set up an independent and autonomous regime for institutionalised domestic and international arbitration was introduced in Lok Sabha on 3 July 2019.
The New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2019, seeks to replace an ordinance issued in March this year by the previous government.
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#NDIAC #LokSabha #ICADR #RaviShankarPrasad #NewDelhi #SupremeCourt

Code on Wages Bill approved
The Union Cabinet on 3 July 2019 approved the introduction of a bill that will codify relevant provisions of four existing laws and intends to increase the legislative protection of minimum wage to the entire workforce. The Codes on Wages Bill, 2019 would benefit about 50 crore workers.
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#UnionCabinet #WagesBill #BonusActAct #EqualRemuneration #Act1976

UNESCO report on disabilities
More than one in four children with disabilities between ages 5 and 19 in India have never attended any educational institution, while three-fourths of five-year-olds with disabilities are not in school. A report by UNESCO and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences released on 3 July 2019 recommends structural, funding and attitudinal changes to ensure that no child is left out of the right to education.
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#UNESCO #India #primaryschool #RTEAct #SocialScience #TataInstitute

Co-origination pact lend to MSMEs
The troubled shadow banks are not yet out of the woods and the largest lender SBI has stitched a co-origination agreement to finance small businesses--which used to be a major customer-base for the crippled financiers.
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#MSMEs #SBI #RBI #NBFCs #ReserveBank #agreement

DRDO hands over design of MMR
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) handed over the design of Mobile Metallic Ramp (MMR) to the Indian Army at a ceremony held at DRDO Bhawan. With load bearing capacity of 70 metric ton (MT), the MMR has been designed and developed by DRDO’s premier research laboratory.
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#DRDO #MMR #MT #CFEES #TDEs #DSO #DTDP #Bhawan #IndianArmy

Chandrayaan-2 enters 2nd Lunar orbit
The second Lunar orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully completed on 21 August 2019, said India Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
According to ISRO, the orbit manoeuvre began at 12.50 p.m. and took 1,228 seconds to complete. The orbit achieved is 118 km X 4,412 km. All spacecraft parameters are normal.
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#Chandrayaan2 #spacecraft #ISRO #Vikram #GSLVMkIII #Lunar #orbit

Compliance report to FATF
Pakistan has submitted compliance report on its 27-point action plan to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), as three separate evaluations currently in progress will determine the country's possible exit from the grey list of the anti-money laundering watchdog by October.
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#FATF #Australia #APG #Pakistan #BaqirReza #Bangkok #ImranKhan

Rocky exoplanet of Moon or Mercury
Scientists at NASA have achieved to get a rare glimpse of the conditions on the surface of a rocky exoplanet orbiting a star beyond the Sun. Using the data of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have detected the light from the planet LHS 3844b, which is located 48.6 lightyears away from the Earth.
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#Moon #Mercury #NASA #JPL #TESS #LHS #Mdwarf #planet

India pulls out of RCEP pact
India on 4 November 2019 pulled out of the 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, capping six years of talks to clinch the world’s biggest free-trade deal in the face of stiff resistance from domestic industries and political circles and reluctance of partners like China to grant it meaningful concessions despite hard negotiations in recent weeks.
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#RCEP #India #Bangkok #ArvindPanagariya #NItiAayog #ASEAN #FTAs

US formally moves to exit the Paris Agreement
The United States formally notified the United Nations on 4 November 2019 that it was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, said US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
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#US #Paris #Agreement #KyotoProtocol #COP21

Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative
The United States formally notified the United Nations on 4 November 2019 that it was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, said US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
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#IPOI #NarendraModi #ASEAN #EAS #USA #EastAsia

Clues to cosmic shoreline
Scientists have decoded the signals sent by NASA’s Voyager 2 from about 11 billion miles away from interstellar space, which will help scientists paint a clearer picture of cosmic shoreline, where the heliosphere ends and interstellar space begins.
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#NatureAstronomy #MilkyWaygalaxy #spacecraft #Voyager2 #NASA

SC refuses plea for minority status
The Supreme Court 20 February 2020 refused to entertain a plea seeking to define the word 'minority' and laying of guidelines to accord minority status based on state-wise population of a particular community.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22921-sc-refuses-plea-for-minority-status.html
#SC #minority #Articles29 #VikasSingh #RFNariman

Pakistan retained on grey list of FATF
Pakistan has been retained on the “grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for another four months, with a stern warning from the global watchdog that met in Paris (February 19-21) to complete the 27-point action plan it has been given by June 2020 or face being put on the “black list”.
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#Pakistan #FATF #UNSC #greylist #blacklist

Agreement on violence cut pact
The United States and the Taliban will sign an agreement on Feb. 29 at the end of a week long period of violence reduction in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Taliban said on 21 February 2020.
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#Agreement #violence #GMT #IEA #RIV #Afghanistan

Today's Headlines - 22 July 2023
India, Sri Lanka adopt vision document
GS Paper - 2 (International Relations)

India and Sri Lanka adopted an ambitious vision document to significantly expand economic partnership after wide-ranging talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe. In his statement, the PM, referring to the economic difficulties in Sri Lanka last year, said India stood "shoulder-to-shoulder" with the people of the island nation during the crisis as a close friend.

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An agreement for launch of the UPI payment system in Sri Lanka will result in fintech connectivity between the two sides.
The security interests and development of India and Sri Lanka are intertwined and it is necessary to work together keeping in mind each other's security interests and sensitivities. A vision document for economic partnership has been adopted.
The vision is to accelerate mutual cooperation in areas of tourism, power, trade, higher education, skill development and connectivity.
The vision is to strengthen maritime, air, energy and people-to-people connectivity between the people of both the countries.
It was decided that talks will start soon on an agreement on economic and technological cooperation.
A feasibility study will be conducted on the India-Sri Lanka petroleum pipeline.
On the fishermen issue, the prime minister said it should be handled under a humanitarian approach.

#upsc #news #india #srilanka #document #ambitious #economic #launch #agreement #UPI #payment #development #cooperation #tourism #technological #cooperation #feasibility #study #petroleum #pipeline

Today's Headlines - 09 September 2023
India, ASEAN agree to deepen strategic ties
GS Paper - 2 (International Relations)

India and 10-nation ASEAN agreed to deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership with concrete actions through practical implementation of the 'Plan of Action' to implement the ASEAN-India partnership for peace, progress and shared prosperity.

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In a joint statement on maritime cooperation, it was agreed to support India's connectivity initiatives in the region to ensure seamless connectivity in the Indo-Pacific, besides boosting cooperation in a range of areas including blue economy, space and food security among others.
The two sides agreed to deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership with concrete actions through practical implementation of the 'Plan of Action' to implement the ASEAN-India partnership for peace, progress and shared prosperity.
They reaffirmed the importance of maintaining and promoting peace, stability, maritime safety and security, freedom of navigation and overflight in the region, and other lawful uses of the seas and unimpeded lawful maritime commerce and to promote peaceful resolutions of disputes, in accordance with universally recognised principles of international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The two sides agreed to further strengthen ASEAN-India cooperation on maritime safety and security, promote cooperation in a Blue Economy and develop new and renewable energy including marine-based renewable energy, among others.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is considered one of the most influential groupings in the region, and India and several other countries including the US, China, Japan and Australia are its dialogue partners.
ASEAN-India dialogue relations started with the establishment of a sectoral partnership in 1992.
This graduated to a full dialogue partnership in December 1995 and a summit-level partnership in 2002. The ties were elevated to a strategic partnership in 2012.
What is ASEAN?

On 8 August 1967, five leaders – the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – came together in Bangkok.
Thailand was brokering some disputes among Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and it eventually led to the signing of a document.
The five Foreign Ministers who signed it – Adam Malik of Indonesia, Narciso R. Ramos of the Philippines, Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia, S. Rajaratnam of Singapore, and Thanat Khoman of Thailand – would subsequently be hailed as the Founding Fathers of probably the most successful inter-governmental organisation in the developing world today. And the document that they signed would be known as the ASEAN Declaration.
The ASEAN Declaration signed by the five leaders conveyed the aspiration to further regional cooperation. These were about cooperation in the economic, social, cultural, technical, educational and other fields, and in the promotion of regional peace and stability and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter.
Its major pillars that help lay out a blueprint for cooperation are Political-Security Community (APSC), Economic Community (AEC) and Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC).

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Today's Headlines - 10 September 2023
Supreme Court restores party symbol for Ladakh
GS Paper - 2 (Polity)

The Supreme Court on 6 September 2023 restored to the National Conference, its party symbol – the plough – after the Ladakh administration refused to allot the symbol to the party’s candidates for the upcoming election to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) in Kargil.

How did the matter of the symbol for NC candidates reach the courts?

With the announcement of the LAHDC polls for Kargil, the election commissioner for the UT of Ladakh refused to allot the symbol of the plough to the NC.
In its arguments against reserving the plough symbol for the NC, the Ladakh administration said that no state party, including the NC, is a recognised party in Ladakh, and that the NC could therefore not claim its plough symbol in the UT.
However, the NC challenged this decision in the High Court of J&K and Ladakh and the courts ruled in their favour.
The NC and Congress have a seat-sharing agreement for the upcoming election to 26 seats in the Hill Council. Polls for the council were slated for 10 September 2023 however the 6 September 2023 order by the Supreme Court is likely to push the election further.
What is the LAHDC?

The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils were constituted under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils Act, 1997.
For effective governance in the districts comprising Ladakh – Leh and Kargil – two councils were constituted in 1995 (LAHDC, Leh) and 2003 (LAHDC, Kargil). The law was deemed to come into force from June 1995.
What are the powers of the LAHDC?

Powers to both councils include drafting development plans for the region, formulation of budgets for both districts, implementation of movement schemes, promotion of language and culture, public health, education, local road transport and its development among other concerns.
Small-scale industries, non-conventional energy and tourism also form part of the 28 subjects under the LAHDC’s ambit in governance in the Ladakh region.
The Hill Councils also have the authority to levy and collect taxes and other fees in their jurisdiction.

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