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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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ऑयल इंडिया लिमिटेड के खाते में 12 ब्लॉक
डायरेक्टरेट जनरल ऑफ हाइड्रोकार्बन्स (डीजीएच) द्वारा 32 तेल व गैस ब्लॉक की नवीनतम नीलामी की गई है जिसमें सबसे ज्यादा 12 ब्लॉक सरकारी कंपनी ऑयल इंडिया लिमिटेड (ओआइएल) के खाते में आ रहे हैं। इस नीलामी के अनुसार सरकारी कंपनी ऑयल एंड नेचुरल गैस कॉरपोरेशन (ओएनजीसी) तथा निजी क्षेत्र की वेदांता लिमिटेड को नौ-नौ तेल व गैस ब्लॉक मिलना तय है। वहीं शेष एक ब्लॉक रिलायंस इंडस्ट्रीज लिमिटेड और उसकी ब्रिटिश सहयोगी बीपी पीएलसी के हिस्से में आ रहा है।
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#OilIndiaLimited #DGH #ONGC #OIL #AnilAgarwal #CCEA #OALP

दिग्गज साहित्यकार गिरीश कर्नाड का निधन
बॉलीवुड के जानेमाने अभिनेता, कन्नड़ साहित्यकार और निर्देशक गिरीश कर्नाड (Girish Karnad) का 81 साल की उम्र में निधन हो गया। कर्नाड लंबे समय से बिमार थे। उन्हें कई बार अस्पताल में भी भर्ती करवाया गया था। 10 जून 2019 को सुबह उन्होंने बेंगलुरु के अस्पताल में आखिरी सांस ली। गिरीश कर्नाड के निधन से बॉलिवुड जगत में शोक की लहर है। गिरीश कर्नाड को पद्मश्री, पद्मभूषण पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया जा चुका था।
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#GirishKarnad #Veteranliterary #PadmaBhushanAward #PMModi #Bangalore

Inter Creditor Agreement
The Sashakt Committee has recommended that the existing Inter-Creditor Agreement (ICA) to incorporate the revised voting threshold and other changes for decision making stipulated by the Reserve Bank of India. In a statement it said that this will enable expeditious implementation of the new framework on stressed assets.
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#ICA #IBA #RBI #NBFCs #RajnishKumar #BLRA #SashaktCommittee

China’s rare earths exports fall
Rare earth exports by China, the world's dominant producer, fell 16% in May from a month earlier amid an increased focus on the raw materials due to the Sino-U.S. trade war, although the drop was in line with usual trading.
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#China #REM #REE #tradewar #military #IUPAC

India as partner to counter trade headwinds
China on 10 June 2019 invited India to join a budding international effort to counter headwinds of “trade protectionism and unilateralism” and brainstorm ways to address “bullying practices of the United States”.
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#India #SCO #ZhangHanhui #XiJinping #NarendraModi

Tokayev elected Kazakhstan president
Kazakhstan's interim president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, chosen successor of veteran ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev who retains sweeping powers, has won a snap presidential election with nearly 71% of the vote. Nazarbayev, who ruled oil producer Kazakhstan for almost three decades, handpicked the 66-year-old career diplomat as his successor when he stepped down in March.
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#Kazakhstan #Tokayev #NursultanNazarbayev #Europe

अमेरिका-ईरान तनाव के बीच Air India का बड़ा फैसला
अमेरिका और ईरान के बीच तनाव लगातार बढ़ता जा रहा है। इसका असर अब दिखना भी शुरू हो गया है। ईरान ने अमेरिका का ड्रोन मार गिराया अब दोनों देशों के बीच तल्खी काफी बढ़ती जा रही है। इस बीच एयर इंडिया ने भी अपने विमानों को ईरान के एयरस्पेस में न भेजने का फैसला किया है। एयर इंडिया के सीएमडी अश्वनी लोहानी ने ईरान के एयरस्पेस से विमानों के न गुजरने पर कहा, 'एयर इंडिया की उड़ानों पर इसका कोई खास प्रभाव नहीं है। हालांकि आने वाले विमानों का रूट फिर से तय करने पर काम किया जा रहा है।'
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#AirIndia #Iran #CMD #AshwaniLohani #DGCA #NewYork

इस खास कदम से दोगुनी होगी किसानों की आय
अगले तीन साल की अवधि के भीतर किसानों के आय को दोगुना करने के क्रम में कृषि व किसान कल्‍याण मंत्रालय ने ग्रामीण भारत में डिजिटल टेक्‍नोलॉजी का इस्‍तेमाल करने का निर्णय लिया है। डिजिटल टेक्‍नोलॉजी के जरिए भारत के गांवों में कृषि संबंधित गतिविधियों का आधुनिकीकरण कर व्‍यवस्‍थित करने की योजना बनाई गई है।
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#Agriculture #India #NarendraSinghTomar #RajyaSabha #ICAR

Crackdown on cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency firms will be subjected to rules to prevent the abuse of digital coins such as bitcoin for money laundering, a global watchdog said, the first worldwide regulatory attempt to constrain the rapidly growing sector.
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#Crackdown #cryptocurrencies #FATF #FinTech #GlobalDigitalFinance

Pakistan must implement FATF action plan
India on 22 June 2019 emphasised that Pakistan needs to take all necessary steps to fully implement the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) action plan by the October deadline. Pakistan, however, claimed that India was politicising the process for its “narrow” objectives. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a statement that India expects Pakistan to take credible and verifiable steps against terrorism and terrorist finances.
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#FATF #Pakistan #ICRG #India #RaveeshKumar #narrow

New NASA missions to study Sun
NASA will launch two new missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its dynamic effects on space weather, the US space agency said. One of the selected missions will study how the Sun drives particles and energy into the solar system and a second will study Earth’s response, NASA said.
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#NASA #solar #GPS #TRACERS #Moon #missions #Sun

The Central Asian nodes in BRI
Ahead of the recently concluded summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Chinese state media provided extensive coverage of Beijing’s recent forays into Central Asia, including into Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. On its website, the state-run Xinhua news agency splashed pictures of the Irkeshtam pass, one of China’s gateways to Kyrgyzstan, a few days before planes ferrying leaders of the eight SCO member countries, apart from observers, flew into Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital.
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#BRI #Asian #SCO #CPEC #XUAR #EuropeanUnion #Irkeshtampass

ASEAN summit in Bangkok
Southeast Asian leaders opened a two-day summit in Bangkok on 22 June 2019, though it was unclear what progress their 10-country group could make on disputes in the South China Sea and the plight of ethnic Rohingya fleeing Myanmar.
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#ASEAN #Bangkok #COC #Myanmar #10countrygroup #Thailand

First-ever arrested landing of LCA
DRDO and ADA on 13 September 2019 successfully executed the first-ever arrested landing of Light Combat Aircraft (Navy) at a shore-based facility, INS Hansa in Goa, inching closer to the goal of operating from an aircraft carrier.
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#LCA #DRDO #ADA #Navy #INSHansa #CSIRLabs


Indian to lead UNMHA
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed a veteran Indian Army official as the head of the world body’s observer mission in Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah.
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#UNMHA #IndianArmyofficial #UNSecretary #RCC


SC/ST review plea sent to bench
The Supreme Court 13 September 2019 referred to a larger bench the Centre’s plea for review of its March 2018 verdict which had virtually diluted provisions of arrest under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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#PreventionofAtrocities #ScheduledCastes #reviewplea


Bio-terrorism in SCO conference
Underlining the threat posed by bio-terrorism, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said new technologies in the battlefield are throwing up new challenges for the armed forces,
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#SCO #bioterrorism #RajnathSingh #medicalservices


First time Gravitational waves detected from black hole
Researchers have, for the first time, detected the gravitational waves from a newly born black hole, and found that the ringing pattern of the waves predicts the cosmic body’s mass and spin, providing more evidence for Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
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#Gravitationalwaves #blackhole #mass #spin #electriccharge

Sea Guardians-2020
China and Pakistan on January 14 concluded a nine-day mega naval exercise during which they carried out advance-level joint drills and naval maneuvers in the North Arabian Sea.
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#SeaGuardians #China #CPEC #IndianNavy #Pakistan

India, Uzbekistan explore PTA
India and Uzbekistan agreed to work towards early conclusion of the Feasibility Study to be jointly conducted by the two sides to begin negotiations for a Preferential Trade Agreement.
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#India #PTA #SCO #WTO #GSP #Uzbekistan #Kamilov

Iran Nuclear-deal dispute action
Britain, France and Germany have launched action under the Iran nuclear agreement paving the way for possible sanctions in response to Tehran’s attempts to roll back parts of the deal, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
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#Iran #Nuclear #Germany #disputemechanism #JosepBorrell


First ever ethnic group in US census
Sikhs in the US will be counted as a separate ethnic group in the 2020 census, an organisation of the minority community said, describing it as a milestone. President of the Sikh Society of San Diego Baljeet Singh said that the Sikh community's efforts have come to fruition.
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#US #census #Sikhs #BaljeetSingh #SikhsOfAmerica

Oldest solid material on Earth discovered
Scientists have discovered the oldest solid material ever found on the Earth, in the form of stardust trapped inside a meteorite that crashed into Australia 50 years ago and predates the formation of our solar system.
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#Earth #Australia #PNAS #Chicago #galaxy #babyboom

India walked out of SCO meet
India on 15 September 2020 walked out of a meeting of the national security advisors of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member countries in protest after the Pakistani representative used a "fictitious" map showing Indian territories as part of Pakistan.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/25732-india-walked-out-of-sco-meet.html
#SCO #India #AjitDoval #NSAs #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses

First ever SCO Start-up Forum
Union minister for commerce and industry and railways Piyush Goyal on 27 October 2020 called for a strong India-Shanghai Cooperation Organisation partnership to “nurture innovation and move towards the establishment of a transparent, fair and rational new international political and economic order”.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/26803-first-ever-sco-start-up-forum.html
#SCO #StartupForum #PiyushGoyal #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses

Watch: Iran is expected to Join the SCO, formed by China and Russia, KSG India
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I7oDqxvT2v8

Today's Headlines - 26 August 2023
BRICS gets six new members
GS Paper - 2 (International Relations)

The five-member BRICS invited six more countries to join the alliance, in a move which can strengthen its claim of being a ‘voice of the Global South’ on one hand, while raising concerns about China’s increasing dominance on the other. BRICS consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. In its ongoing summit at Johannesburg, South Africa, it has invited Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Their membership will begin in January.

Why New Members

Adding new members strengthens the group’s heft as a spokesperson of the developing world. BRICS currently represents around 40% of the world’s population and more than a quarter of the world’s GDP.
With the additions, it will represent almost half the world’s population, and will include three of the world’s biggest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran.
The rush towards BRICS is driven by two basic impulses: “First, there is considerable anti-US sentiment in the world, and all these countries are looking for a grouping where they can use that sentiment to gather together.
Second, there is a lot of appetite for multipolarity, for a platform where countries of the Global South can express their solidarity.”
The formation of BRICS in 2009 was driven by the idea that the four emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China would be the future economic powerhouses of the world. South Africa was added a year later.
While the economic performance of BRICS has been mixed, the war in Ukraine — which has brought the West together on the one hand and strengthened the China-Russia partnership on the other — has turned it into an aspiring bloc that can challenge the western geopolitical view, and emerge as a counterweight to Western-led fora like the Group of 7 and the World Bank.
What this means for India

If India’s presence at the recent G7 summit in Hiroshima, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi also participated in an informal Quad summit, was seen as a sign of New Delhi’s US tilt, it continues to attach importance to the “anti-West” BRICS.
India is also part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and despite problems, it has relations with Russia, with China.
While China does want BRICS to be an anti-western group, the Indian view is that it is a “non-western” group and should stay that way.
Among the new members, while India looks at all of them as partnerships worth developing, concerns have been raised that the group could become more pro-China and sideline New Delhi’s voice and interests.

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