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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Daily Current Affairs, 11th June 2020
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1) MHA reconstituted a new committee for the welfare of freedom fighters
•The ministry features a separate division to serve freedom fighters who are alive and their families. It disburses pension to about 30,000 freedom fighters and their families. Besides Reddy, former Congress MLA from Gujarat Dinakar Bhai Desai, who took part within the 1942 Quit India movement, is among those a part of the panel. The new panel may verify if one person has given affidavits to 2 or more applicants and can examine the stress to create memorials and museums for freedom fighters.
2) GoI increases customs duty on bamboo from 10% to 25%
•Government of India expects that the uniform rate will help in avoiding the misuse and rate-related disputes, and will also benefit the farmers as well as the MSME agarbatti manufacturers.
3) GoI allocates Rs 4000 cr to State Governments under ‘PMKSY-PDMC’
•The PMKSY-PDMC envisages to enhance water use efficiency at farm level with the application of Micro Irrigation technologies such as Drip and Sprinkler irrigation systems. Apart from water saving, the Drip micro irrigation technique also helps in reducing fertilizer usage, labour expenses and other input costs.
•To expand the coverage of Micro Irrigation in the states, a Micro Irrigation Fund corpus of Rs 5000 crore has been created with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). It will also incentivise micro irrigation beyond the facilities available under PMKSY-PDMC to encourage farmers to install micro irrigation systems.
4) India records 29% increase in Asiatic Lion population
•The period from 2015 to 2020 also saw a 36% increase in the distribution area of the lions. The distribution area of the lions in 2015 was 22000 sq km which increased to 30000 sq km in 2020.
5) S&P keeps India’s sovereign rating at “BBB-“
•While maintaining India’s stable outlook, the rating agency expects that India’s economy will revive following the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic, and will also maintain its sound net external position.
6) GRSE delivered ICGS Kanaklata Barua to ICG
•GRSE had before made conveyances of FPVs ICGS Priyadarshini, ICGS Annie Besant and ICGS Amrit Kaur in this arrangement to the Indian Coast Guard. The fourth boat Yard 2116 in the series of FPVs is reserved for sending out a conveyance to the Seychelles Coast Guard and is probably going to be conveyed soon after finishing the related conventions. The quick watch vessels, which have been altogether structured by GRSEs Central Design Office, can accomplish speeds surpassing 34 knots with the perseverance of in excess of endurance.
The HINDU Notes – 11th June 2020
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📰 China reaches accord with India on LAC spat
Beijing says positive consensus reached in talks last week
•China said on Wednesday it had “reached agreement” with India on the ongoing tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a day after India announced troops from both sides had begun a “partial disengagement” from some of the stand-off points.
•The Chinese Foreign Ministry said both sides had agreed to handle the situation “properly” and “in line with the agreement” to ease the situation, but did not provide specific details on some of the stand-off points, such as Pangong Lake, where Chinese troops are still present on India’s side of the LAC.
•Also on Wednesday, India and China held Major General-level talks to discuss further de-escalation at several stand-off points in Eastern Ladakh including Patrolling Point (PP) 14, following a broad accord reached on Saturday in talks held at the Corps Commander-level. As per the agreement, a series of ground-level talks would be held over the next 10 days, with four other points of conflict identified at PP15, PP17, Chushul and the north bank of Pangong Lake.
•The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not provide specifics on the sites of conflict. It only referred to the western section, which was the focus of Saturday’s talks, although a stand-off is also continuing at Naku La in Sikkim in the eastern section.
‘Taking action’
•“Through diplomatic and military channels, China and India have recently had effective communication and reached agreement on properly handling the situation in the west section of the China-India boundary,” spokesperson Hua Chunying said. “At present, the two sides are taking actions in line with the agreement to ameliorate the border situation.”
•Government officials said a partial disengagement had happened at some points in the Galwan area and at Hot Springs, but there was no change at Pangong Lake.
•The Global Times , a Communist Party-run newspaper, reported on Tuesday that the ongoing dispute “will not escalate into a conflict” but added “due to the complexity of the situation, the military stand-off could continue for a little longer”.
•The military-level talks showed “both sides do not want to escalate,” Qian Feng, director of the research department of the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, was quoted as having said.
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