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30 May 2019
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30 May 2019
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Today's Editorial
30 May 2019
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30 May 2019
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30 May 2019
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भारत में Childhood Index में सुधार
भारत में साल 2000 से अब तक 15 से 19 साल के उम्र वर्ग की लड़कियों की विवाह दर में 51 फीसद की गिरावट दर्ज की गई है। यही नहीं बच्चों की सेहत, शिक्षा, श्रम, और शादी जैसे मानकों पर भी देश के औसत प्रदर्शन में सुधार हुआ है। ब्रिटेन के ‘सेव द चिल्ड्रन’ एनजीओ (UK-based NGO Save the Children) की सालाना ग्लोबल चाइल्डहुड रिपोर्ट (Global Childhood Report) से यह जानकारी सामने आई है।
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लगातार पांचवीं बार मुख्यमंत्री के रूप में नवीन पटनायक
बीजू जनता दल (बीजेडी) के अध्यक्ष नवीन पटनायक ने लगातार पांचवीं बार ओडिशा के मुख्यमंत्री के रूप में शपथ ले ली है। 72 साल के पटनायक देश में लंबे समय तक मुख्यमंत्री पद पर बने रहने वाले नेताओं में से एक हैं। उनके पिता बीजू पटनायक भी दो बार ओडिशा के मुख्यमंत्री रह चुके हैं।भुवनेश्वर के एग्जिबिशन ग्राउंड में शपथग्रहण समारोह के दौरान मशहूर लेखिका और पटनायक की बहन गीता मेहता भी मौजूद रहीं।
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पनडुब्बी की तरह पानी के अंदर जाकर डॉल्फिन की तस्वीरें लेगा ड्रोन
चंबल नदी में पाई जाने वाली गेंगेटिक डॉल्फिन की गणना अब ड्रोन कैमरे से की जाएगी। यह ड्रोन पानी के भीतर डॉल्फिन और दूसरे जलीय जीवों की तस्वीरें लेगा और वीडियो बनाएगा। इससे जलीय जीवों की सटीक गणना हो पाएगी। राष्ट्रीय घड़ियाल चंबल अभ्यारण्य में पहली बार यह प्रयोग होने जा रहा है। अभ्यारण्य की टीम की ओर से डॉल्फिन और दूसरे जलीय जीवों की गणना के लिए जो ड्रोन इस्तेमाल किया जा रहा है, वह नदी की 500 मीटर गहराई में जाकर फोटो और वीडियो बनाने में मदद करेगा।
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#Dolphin #ChambalRiver #Drones #PrabhudasGevriel #Dehradun #Ganga

India in competitiveness ranking
ndia has moved up one place to rank as the world’s 43rd most competitive economy on the back of its robust economic growth, a large labour force and its huge market size, while Singapore has toppled the US to grab the top position, a global study showed. Singapore has moved up to the top, from the third position last year, while the US has slipped to the third place in the 2019 edition of the IMD World Competitiveness Rankings.
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7th Economic Census
The upcoming economic census will identify villages with no economic activity, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has said. “Villages with no economic activity also will be identified for the policy purposes,” the ministry said in the vision document for the census. The Seventh Economic Census will be held this year after a gap of five years. The census, conducted by MoSPI, would give a complete count of all economic units in the country.
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Australia’s new prime minister sworn in
Scott Morrison was sworn in as Australia’s prime minister on 29 May 2019 along with a “hungry, committed and united” team of ministers after the ruling Conservative

Today's Headlines - 13 August 2023
Katchatheevu island a political issue
GS Paper - 2 (Polity)

Ahead of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremsinghe’s visit to New Delhi, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote to PM Modi requesting him to retrieve the island. The transfer of Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka, by the Union government, without the state government’s consent, has deprived Tamil Nadu fishermen’s rights and adversely impacted their livelihoods.

Where is the island of Katchatheevu?

Katchatheevu is a 285-acre uninhabited speck in the Palk Strait, between India and Sri Lanka.
It is no more than 1.6 km in length and slightly over 300 m wide at its broadest point.
It lies northeast of Rameswaram, about 33 km from the Indian coast. It is about 62 km southwest of Jaffna, at the northern tip of Sri Lanka, and 24 km away from the inhabited Delft Island, belonging to Sri Lanka.
The only structure on the island is an early 20th century Catholic shrine – St Anthony’s church. During an annual festival, Christian priests from both India and Sri Lanka conduct the service, with devotees from both India and Sri Lanka making the pilgrimage.
This year, 2,500 Indians made the journey to Katchatheevu from Rameswaram for the festival.
Katchatheevu is not suited for permanent settlement as there is no source of drinking water on the island.
What is the island’s history?

The island is relatively new in the geological timescale, being the product of a 14-century volcanic eruption.
In the early medieval period, it was controlled by the Jaffna kingdom of Sri Lanka. In the 17th century, control passed to the Ramnad zamindari based out of Ramanathapuram, about 55 km northwest of Rameswaram.
It became part of the Madras Presidency during the British Raj. But in 1921, both India and Sri Lanka, at the time British colonies, claimed Katchatheevu in order to determine fishing boundaries.
A survey marked Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka, but a British delegation from India challenged this, citing ownership of the island by the Ramnad kingdom.

What is the agreement now?

In 1974, Indira Gandhi made attempts to settle the maritime border between India and Sri Lanka, once and for all.
As a part of this settlement, known as the ‘Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime agreement’, Indira Gandhi ‘ceded’ Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka.
At the time, she thought the island had little strategic value and that ceasing India’s claim over the island would deepen its ties with its southern neighbour.
Moreover, as per the agreement, Indian fishermen were still allowed to access Katchatheevu “hitherto”. Unfortunately, the issue of fishing rights was not ironed out by the agreement.
Sri Lanka interpreted Indian fishermens’ right to access Katchatheevu to be limited to “rest, drying nets and for visit to the Catholic shrine without visa”.
Another agreement in 1976, during the period of Emergency in India, barred either country from fishing in the other’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
Again, Katchatheevu lay right at the edge of the EEZs of either country, retaining a degree of uncertainty with regards to fishing rights.

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