Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
The Rajya Sabha passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act. The bill is a cornerstone of the government's zero tolerance policy against terrorism. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on July 24.
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#Prevention #UAPA #RajyaSabha #AmendmentAct #NIA #MasoodAzhar

India slips to 7th largest economy
India has been pushed to the seventh place in the global GDP rankings in 2018 with the UK and France forging ahead to the fifth and sixth spots, data compiled by the World Bank showed. In 2017, India had emerged as the sixth largest economy, while France was pushed to the seventh place in the global GDP league table.
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#India #GDP #WorldBank #rankings #economy #France

E Car launched to Combat Pollution
The Indian Army in step with government policies on environmental protection has launched an ecological initiative with employing E Cars for use of its officials in New Delhi in partnership with Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), a joint Venture of Central PSUs under Ministry of Power.
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#ECar #EESL #IndianArmy #ERCs #TataMotors #ECO #GenGopalR

Changes in IBC approved
Parliament approved changes in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), providing greater clarity over the distribution of proceeds of the auction of loan defaulting companies, with the Lok Sabha passing the Bill with voice vote.
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#IBC #RajyaSabha #Amendment #Bankruptcy #CIRP #NCLAT #CoC

POCSO amendments passed
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which provides the death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children, was passed in Lok Sabha.
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#POCSO #Children #Sexual #RajyaSabha #amendments #sexualassault

Mediation panel fails to find solution
The Supreme Court-appointed mediation panel on 1 August 2019 said it was unable to arrive at a solution to the 2.77-acre Babri Masjid-Ram Janmoabhoomi land dispute issue in Ayodhya.
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#Mediation #Ayodhya #SupremeCourt #NirmohiAkhara #SCWB

Plans to amend IBC 2016
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India chairman M S Sahoo on 30 November 2019 said work is on to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 that will address cross-border insolvency.
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#IBC #MSSahoo #CII #DewanHousingFinance #GreenChannel


'Point of no return' on climate change
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said 1 December 2019 that the world's efforts to stop climate change have been "utterly inadequate" so far and there is a danger global warming could pass the "point of no return."
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#COP25 #UNchief #UNSecretary #UNFCCC

Satellite mechanism to monitor forestation
A satellite-based mechanism to monitor areas under green cover and the growth of saplings planted there is being developed by the government, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
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#Satellitemechanism #monitorforestation #PrakashJavadekar

Concrete action against terror infrastructure
In their inaugural foreign and defence ministerial dialogue, India and Japan deliberated on the threat posed to regional peace by terror networks operating from Pakistan and asked it to take "resolute and irreversible" against them.
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#FATF #RajnathSingh #TaroKono #NarendraModi

ASER report 2019
The number of girls getting enrolled in government schools is higher than boys in the age group of 4-8 years, according to the 14th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) launched on 14 January 2020.
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#ASER #BeyondBasics #Pakista #Education

Rare diseases listed
Rare diseases listed out by Union Health Ministry. Updating its 2017 policy on rare diseases, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 13 January 2020 published the National Policy for Rare Diseases 2020.
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#Rare #NationalPolicy #UnionHealth #stakeholders


Notice to govt on IBC amendments
The Supreme Court sought response from the government on a couple of petitions challenging the validity of a recent amendment to the IBC introducing a threshold of at least 10% of homebuyers in a project or 100 of the total allottees for initiating insolvency proceedings against the real estate developer.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22628-notice-to-govt-on-ibc-amendments.html
#IBC #amendments #NCLT #RFNariman #Articles14

US reverses China 'currency manipulator' label
The United States has removed the currency manipulator label it imposed on China last summer, in a sign of easing tensions between the two economic powers after nearly two years of conflict.
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#US #China #currency #manipulator #DonaldTrump #RMB

Lifetime Achievement honour for Kapil Dev
P.V. Sindhu was adjudged the Sportstar of the Year and Kapil Dev honoured for Lifetime Achievement at the Sportstar Aces Awards in mumbai.
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#KapilDev #Cricket #PVSindhu #Achievement #WorldChampionship

Parliament passes amendments to IBC
Parliament on 12 March 2020 passed amendments to the insolvency law that will help ring-fence successful bidders of insolvent companies from risk of criminal proceedings for offences committed by previous promoters.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23087-parliament-passes-amendments-to-ibc.html
#IBC #Amendment #NCLT #LokSabha #NirmalaSitharaman

Best bet to beat corona
NEW DELHI: With countries looking at lockdown mode to curb the spread of coronavirus that has reached almost every continent, here’s the lowdown on how viruses self-assemble into a functional active menace, and how they can be tackled with something as simple as soap.
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#corona #NEWDELHI #RNA #Covid19 #coronavirus

Influential women in sports
Nita Ambani, the owner of Mumbai Indians cricket team franchise, has been named in the list of the 10 most influential women in sports for 2020 alongside the likes of tennis superstar Serena Williams and gymnast Simone Biles.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23085-influential-women-in-sports.html
#Influential #women #ICC #SreeVarma #NitaAmbani

Unspent under MPLAD scheme
A cumulative amount of Rs 5,275.24 crore remained unspent under Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme as on March 4, 2020, Parliament was informed on 11 March 2020.
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#MPLAD #LokSabha #RaoInderjitSingh #MPs

Leh to host International Yoga Day
Leh, the capital of the Union territory of Ladakh will be the venue for the main event for International Yoga Day on June 21 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend it, AYUSH Ministry officials said.
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#InternationalYogaDay #FICCI #NDMC #CII #NarendraModi

Ordinance to suspend IBC approved
President Ram Nath Kovind approved the ordinance to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) exempting companies from facing insolvency proceedings
https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23892-ordinance-to-suspend-ibc-approved.html
#ibc #president #ordinance

Today's Headlines - 24 July 2023
National Broadcasting Day 2023
GS Paper - 2 (Infrastructure)

National Broadcasting Day in India is marked on 23 July as symbolic of the Radio Club of Bombay (established by some businessmen) making the first-ever broadcast in the country in June 1923. The broadcast was followed by the setting up of the Calcutta Radio Club five months later.

About IBC

The Indian Broadcasting Company (IBC) came into being on 23 July 1927, although it was soon facing liquidation in less than three years.
But it would eventually lead to the birth of a name recognisable to Indians for generations in the form of the All India Radio (AIR). Here is how it happened.

Beginnings of All India Radio

The Indian Broadcasting Service had commenced its operations on an experimental basis but soon saw a financial downturn.
To revive the radio, BBC producer Lionel Fielden was appointed the first Controller of Broadcasting in August 1935.
By January 1936, he gave Delhi its radio station, at Kingsway Camp, ruffling many feathers as he went about in his brusque “must do” style.
In the same year Akashvani Mysore, a private radio station, was set up. On 8 June 1936, the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) became All India Radio.

How film songs were allowed on the radio

The Vividh Bharati Service was then launched in 1957 with popular film music as its main component. But this was not easy to do and had some critics.
In 1952, AIR had imposed a ban on film music and it was in these years that Radio Ceylon and their popular show Binaca Geetmala, hosted by Ameen Sayani, became the saviour for Hindi film music lovers.
With a network of around 260 radio stations, AIR today is accessible to almost the entire population of the country and serves nearly 92% of the total area. A broadcasting giant, it broadcasts in 23 languages and 146 dialects.

#upsc #news #todayheadline #national #broadcasting #infrastructure #symbolic #bombay #IBC #calcutta #radio #club #liquidation #AIR #india #ISBS #binacageetmala #radioceylon #akashvanimysore #vividhbharti #service #dialects