NGOs come under RTI Act
Non-Government 0rganisations (NGOs) that are “substantially financed, directly or indirectly”, by government funds will fall within the ambit of “public authority” under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled.
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#NGOs #RTIAct #CIC #substantial #SCIC #DeepakGupta

A glimpse of its biodiversity
A team of researchers have reported the discovery of two new plant species belonging to the Asclepiadaceae or milkweed family from the shola forests of the Western Ghats, highlighting its rich biodiversity and the need for a conservation strategy for the fragile ecosystem.
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#glimpse #biodiversity #Gujarat #MSSRF #MSSwaminathan

NASA’s Juno spacecraft
NASA’s Juno mission recently went around Jupiter and released a set of raw images of the giant gaseous planet and its moon Io which cast an eclipse on it. The images showed a small but perfect dark shadow over Jupiter.
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#NASA #spacecraft #mission #planet #Jupiter

SC opens office of CJI to RTI
The Office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) is a public authority under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and is liable to provide information sought in public interest, a five-judge Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi declared on 13 November 2019.
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#SC #CJI #SanjeevKhanna #RanjanGogoi #RTI #DeepakGupta

SC scraps Finance Act rules on tribunals
The Supreme Court on 13 November 2019 struck down provisions of the amended Finance Act 2017, which had changed the structure and powers of various judicial tribunals, such as the National Green Tribunal and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.
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#SC #NGO #SAFE #ITAT #TDSAT #MoneyBill #NGT

Tiger Triumph
The first ever joint exercise involving the Army, Navy and Air Force of both India and the United States and commanded by each other, the tri-services joint exercise between the two countries, announced by US President Donald Trump during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s event in Texas in September, started in Visakhapatnam on 13 November 2019.
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#TigerTriumph #Navy #Army #NarendraModi #HADR #RAMT

11th summit of Brics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Brazil for the 11th Brics Summit which has the theme 'Economic Growth for an Innovative Future'.
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#Brics #NarendraModi #GDP #VladimirPutin #MEA

Mauritius PM takes oath
Mauritius's incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth was sworn in for a five-year term on 12 November 2019 after elections in which his coalition consolidated its grip on parliament.
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#Mauritius #PM #PravindJugnauth #Alliance #RenganadenPadayach

Ancient life in Jezero crater
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will hunt for microscopic fossils, which could provide signs of ancient life on the red planet. The 2020 rover is yet to be named, and is expected to land on the planet by February 18, 2021.
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#Ancient #Jezero #NASA #Mars2020 #JPL #microscopic