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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Supreme Court on Criminalisation in Politics

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Why in News?
A Supreme Court judgment on criminalisation in politics will be implemented in the Bihar elections in October 2020.
What is the Court decision?
  • The Court has asked the political party and its leadership to publicly own up to criminalisation of politics.
  • It has asked the political parties to state the reasons for such selection.
  • It has also asked why other individuals without criminal antecedents could not be selected as candidates.
  • If a political party fails to comply, it would be in contempt of the Supreme Court’s orders/directions.
  • It is also not clear what penalty would be imposed if the recent orders are not followed.
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Monday, July 13, 2020

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Daily Current Affairs, 13th July 2020

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1) Malala Day celebrated on 12th July
•The United Nations has declared 12th July as World Malala Day to honour the young activist, Malala Yousafzai. Malala Day is commemorated, the birthday of Malala Yousafzai to honour women and children’s rights around the world.

 •On October 9, 2012, Malala was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen after she publicly advocated for the education of girls. Despite the attack, Malala soon returned to the public eye, fiercer in her views than earlier and continued her advocacy for gender rights. She founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation to help young girls go to school and also co-authored a book titled “I Am Malala”, an international bestseller.

2) NITI Aayog launches “ATL App Development Module”
•“ATL App Development Module” has been launched by the NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) for school students nationwide. These modules have been launched in collaboration with Indian startup Plezmo. ATL App Development Module seeks to sharpen the skills of school students and converting them from App users to App makers in the coming times. These modules will enable the young innovators to build mobile Apps in various Indian languages.

 •Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is also seeking to train school teachers in order to build capacities and acumen for App Development. This has been expected to become one of the largest App learning and development initiatives at a school level in any country.

3) Chhattisgarh Government organises India’s first e-Lok Adalat
•Chhattisgarh government has organised the first e-Lok Adalat of India amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual hearings were conducted through video conferencing under the e-Lok Adalat along with its live streaming. The “e-Lok Adalat” was organized by the High Court and Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority and was inaugurated by P R Ramchandra Menon, the Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court.

 •The “e-Lok Adalat” were organized in order to bring relief to people and to reduce the pendency of cases amid the COVID-19 pandemic. During the “e-Lok Adalat”, over 3,000 cases were heard in around 200 benches of 23 districts across the state.

4) IRDAI allows launch of ‘Corona Kavach’ insurance policies
•General and Health Insurance companies has received approval from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to launch short-term ‘Corona Kavach’ health insurance policies. The short-term “Corona Kavach” health insurance policy will cover medical expenses occurred due to coronavirus disease. The policy will also offer for any co-morbid condition caused due to COVID-19 during the period of hospitalization.

5) Lee Hsien Loong becomes Prime Minister of Singapore






•Lee Hsien Loong has become the Prime Minister of Singapore after the ruling People’s Action Party won the General Elections held in the country. PAP won 83 of the 93 seats contested in General Election. With this, Lee Hsien Loong has won a fourth term as the Prime Minister of Singapore.

 •Lee Hsien Loong is the 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore. The People’s Action Party is the ruling party in Singapore since independence in 1965. The General Elections held in Singapore are the only elections in South-East Asia, undertaken amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

6) India becomes second-largest foreign investor in UK
•India has become the second-largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United Kingdom. According to the new data released by the UK government in Department for International Trade (DIT) inward investment statistics for 2019-2020, India invested in 120 projects and created 5,429 new jobs in the UK. According to the data, United States delivered 462 projects and 20,131 jobs and hence remains the number one source of FDI for the UK.

 •Among the top source of FDI for the United Kingdom, India improved its ranking from previous best of third largest spot to second largest in fiscal year 2019-2020. In the standings, India was followed by Germany, France and China, and Hong Kong.

7) NTPC wins CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2019
•NTPC Ltd has been awarded with the prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019. The central PSU under Ministry of Power has been awarded under Outstanding Accomplishment in Corporate Excellence Category. It has also secured Commendation for Significant Achievement in Corporate social responsibility (CSR) category. NTPC has been rewarded for its sustainability practices such as Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM) to benefit school going girls from underprivileged background to support in their overall development; Contractors’ Labour Information Management System (CLIMS) through which payment to contract labourers are being paid on the last day of the month at project sites.

 •CII-ITC Sustainability Awards are being conferred to acknowledge and reward excellence in sustainability practices. It is regarded as the most credible platform for sustainability recognition in India.

8) Kezang D Thongdok bags Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2020
•Arunachal Pradesh filmmaker Kezang D Thongdok has bagged the Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2020 for a short documentary “Chi Lupo“. Chi Lupo, documented by Kezang D Thongdok is a short documentary on honey hunting.

 •Chi Lupo sketches the tradition of honey hunting practised in the Shertukpen community in which “Chi” means honey while “Lipo” means hunters. This age-old tradition of honey hunting is slowly slithering away with each passing day. To keep this tradition of indigenous practice of honey hunting alive, Kezang D Thongdok documented the age old tradition of honey hunting.

9) NITI Aayog presents Voluntary National Review 2020 report
•India’s second Voluntary National Review (VNR) report has been presented by the NITI Aayog at the United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, 2020. The report has been titled as “Decade of Action: Taking SDGs from Global to Local” and it accounts for the adoption and implementation of the 2030 Agenda in India. The VNR is a critical component which reviews the progress and implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.

 •NITI Aayog has been authorized to examine the adoption as well as monitoring of SDGs at the national and sub-national level. The High-level Political Forum (HLPF) is the foremost international platform to follow-up and review the progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). HLPF meet is being held annually under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the UN.

10) Mercedes’s Lewis Hamilton won Styrian Grand Prix 2020
•Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Britain) has won the Styrian Grand Prix 2020 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes-Finland) finished second while Max Verstappen ( Red Bull- Belgium) was third. It was the second race of the 2020 Formula One World Championship and the first running of the Styrian Grand Prix.
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The HINDU Notes – 13th July 2020

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📰 China, Iran close to reaching trade and military partnership

This undercuts U.S. efforts to isolate the Tehran government

 •Iran and China have quietly drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership that would clear the way for billions of dollars of Chinese investments in energy and other sectors, undercutting the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to isolate the Iranian government because of its nuclear and military ambitions.

 •The partnership, detailed in an 18-page proposed agreement obtained by The New York Times , would vastly expand Chinese presence in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways and dozens of other projects. In exchange, China would receive a regular — and, according to an Iranian official and an oil trader, heavily discounted — supply of Iranian oil over the next 25 years.

 Joint military training

 •The document also describes deepening military cooperation, potentially giving China a foothold in a region that has been a strategic preoccupation of the United States for decades. It calls for joint training and exercises, joint research and weapons development and intelligence sharing — all to fight “the lopsided battle with terrorism, drug and human trafficking and cross-border crimes.” The partnership — first proposed by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, during a visit to Iran in 2016 — was approved by President Hassan Rouhani’s Cabinet in June, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said last week. If put into effect as detailed, the partnership would create new and potentially dangerous flashpoints in the deteriorating relationship between China and the U.S.

 •It represents a major blow to the Trump administration’s aggressive policy toward Iran since abandoning the nuclear deal reached in 2015 by President Barack Obama and the leaders of six other nations after two years of gruelling negotiations.

 •Renewed U.S. sanctions, including the threat to cut off access to the international banking system for any company that does business in Iran, have succeeded in suffocating the Iranian economy by scaring away badly needed foreign trade and investment. But Tehran’s desperation has pushed it into the arms of China, which has the technology and appetite for oil that Iran needs. Iran has been one of the world’s largest oil producers, but its exports, Tehran’s largest source of revenue, have plunged since the Trump administration began imposing sanctions in 2018; China gets about 75% of its oil from abroad and is the world’s largest importer, at more than 10 million barrels a day last year.

📰 ‘We are still in a crisis and need a full reset of India-China relations’
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THE HINDU NEWSPAPER IMPORTANT ARTICLES 13.07.2020

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Origin of Carbon

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Why in news?
A study on ‘white dwarfs’ has provided new insights on the origins of the carbon in the Milky Way galaxy.
What are white dwarfs?
  • White dwarfs are the dense remnants of a star after its death, whose nuclear energy supplies have been used up.
  • They consist of degenerate matter with a very high density due to gravitational effects.
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