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29 May 2019
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Today's Editorial (Hindi)
29 May 2019
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Today's Editorial
29 May 2019
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Today's Headlines (Hindi)
29 May 2019
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Today's Headlines
29 May 2019
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जीएसटी परिषद ने ई-बिल के लिए गठित किया दो उप-समूह
जीएसटी परिषद ने कंपनियों के बीच होने वाले कारोबार के लिए ई-बिल निकालने में कारोबारी सीमा और तकनीकी पहलुओं पर गौर करने के लिए दो उप-समूह का गठन किया है। जहां एक उप-समूह ई-इनवॉयस के लिए व्यापार प्रक्रिया, नीति एवं कानूनी पहलुओं का परीक्षण करेगा। वहीं दूसरा इसके क्रियान्वयन को लेकर तकनीकी पहलुओं के बारे में अपनी सिफारिशें देगा।
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#GST #eBill #B2B #GoodsServicesTax #telecommunications

भारत और बांग्लादेश के बीच शुरू हुई बस सर्विस
भारत और बांग्लादेश के संबंधों को हाल ही में एक नया आयाम मिला है। दरअसल, दोनों देशों के बीच एक बस सर्विस शुरू की गई है। ढाका से सिलीगुड़ी के रास्ते बंगलाबन्धा और फुलबाड़ी के बीच एक बस सेवा 26 मई की शाम को शुरू की गई थी और पहली बस 13 बांग्लादेशी यात्रियों के साथ 27 मई 2019 सुबह लगभग 10 बजे फुलबाड़ी पहुंची।
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#India #busservice #Bangladesh #Railservice #Nepal #NarendraModi #greenflag

New version of Akash air defence missile
DRDO successfully test fired the new version of the Akash surface to air defence missile system with a new indigenously-developed seeker. The missile was test-fired in Balasore off the Odisha coast. This is the second successful test of the missile in last two days as a successful test was done also.
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#Akashair #missile #DRDO #IGMDP #CAG #MRSAM #Prithvimissiles

World’s rivers are contaminated with antibiotics
Rivers around the world are contaminated with dangerous levels of antibiotics, according to a major new study. Concentrations of antibiotics in some waterways exceed safe levels by 300 times, a global team of scientists led by the University of York found. The Thames was contaminated with five antibiotics, including levels of ciprofloxacin — used to treat skin and urinary tract infections — that were three times what is considered safe.
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#Worldsrivers #Concentrationsofantibiotics #72countries #dangerous #Nigeria

GST Council sets up 2 sub-groups
The GST Council has set up two sub-groups to look into the policy and technical aspects, such as turnover threshold and mode of generation, for e-invoice generation by businesses. While one sub-group will examine the business process, policy and legal aspects for generation of e-invoice, the other will recommend technical aspects for its roll-out.
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#GST #eBill #B2B #GoodsServicesTax #telecommunications

Sri Lanka, Japan, India sign deal
Sri Lanka, Japan and India on 28 May 2019 signed an agreement to jointly develop the East Container Terminal at the Colombo Port. The signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) is significant, given that India and Sri Lanka were negotiating a potential partnership on the project, although with little success.
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#SriLanka #MoC #Japan #ColomboPort #flashpoint #Ranil

Today's Headlines - 29 July 2023
India urges Sri Lanka to implement 13th Amendment
GS Paper - 2 (International Relations)

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe held an all-party meeting to discuss the issue of Tamil reconciliation and welfare. This comes days after his visit to India, during which Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed to him the need to “ensure a life of dignity” for the Tamil community in the island nation. The PM also expressed the hope that Wickremesinghe would be committed to implementing the 13th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s constitution — which flows from the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987 — and holding provincial council elections.

The Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987

The 13th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s constitution was made after the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord between Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President J R Jayewardene, on 29 July 1987, in Colombo.
Under the 1978 constitution, Sri Lanka had a unitary government, with all powers in the hands of the Centre.
The Tamil minority in Sri Lanka was concentrated in the Northern and Eastern provinces and the struggle for rights and greater autonomy here had flared up into the long and bloody civil war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government, with some other groups also involved.
The 1987 Accord aimed at amending the constitution to transfer some powers to the governments of the country’s nine provinces, thereby finding a constitutional solution to the civil war.
After the Accord, the constitution underwent the 13th Amendment to allow devolution of power to provinces.
Apart from the devolution of power, the Accord had other clauses, such as Tamil and English being adopted as official languages along with Sinhala, lifting of emergency on the “Eastern and Northern Provinces by 15 August 1987”, surrender of arms by militant groups, and “general amnesty to political and other prisoners now held in custody under The Prevention of Terrorism Act and other emergency laws”.
The Accord also says that “The Government of India will underwrite and guarantee the resolutions, and co-operate in the implementation of these proposals”.

What about the 13th Amendment’s implementation?

The separation of powers was never done fully, and while some are unhappy over too little devolution, the hardline nationalists raise alarms over the “weakening” of the Central government’s authority.
The Sinhala nationalists also oppose the 13th Amendment as they see it as imposed by India. Moreover, the regions that the devolution was primarily meant for never benefitted much from it.
Under the Accord, the North and Eastern provinces were to be merged into one, temporarily, and later, a referendum was to be held to decide if they should stay together or have two separate provincial councils.
Thus, elections to the merged North Eastern Province were held on 19 November 1988. However, little over three months later, Chief Minister Annamalai Varadaraja Perumal moved a motion in the Council to declare an independent ‘Eelam’.
This prompted the President, Ranasinghe Premadasa, to dissolve the council, and impose President’s rule, which lasted till December 2006.
The referendum on the two provinces was never held, and in 2006, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled that the merger had been illegal. Thus, the Northern and Eastern provinces were separated again, on 1 January 2007.
Since 2014, provincial elections are pending across Sri Lanka. This is because Parliament is yet to amend a 2017 Act in Parliament, for reforming the election process by introducing a hybrid system of first past the post and proportional representation from the current system of proportional representation.

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