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Daily Current Affairs, 21st March 2019
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1) International Day of Forests: 21 March
•The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on 21 December 2012, which declared that 21 March of each year is to be observed as the International Day of Forests.
2) First Ever High-Level Dialogue On Indo-Pacific Cooperation (HLD-IPC) Held In Jakarta
•The objective behind this meet was to urge all participating governments to talk openly about their plans for increasing cooperation and for building trust in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean region.
3) CBSE Launches Shiksha Vani App
•The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) launched a new podcast app ‘Shiksha Vani’ that will disseminate crucial information to students and parents in a timely manner.
4) Physicist Marcelo Gleiser Wins Templeton Prize 2019
•Brazilian physicist and astronomer Marcelo Gleiser has been awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize, worth $1.4 million, for his work blending science and spirituality. Gleiser, 60, is the first Latin American to win the award. Previous winners of the award, started in 1972 by late global investor Sir John Templeton, include the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa.
5) SBI Signed MoU With Bank of China For Business Opportunities
•Through this pact, both SBI and BoC will gain direct access to their respective markets of operation. Both banks’ clients will be able to use the vast combined network to expand their businesses abroad. SBI has a branch in Shanghai and BOC is opening its branch in Mumbai.
6) Special Olympics Games 2019 Concludes: India Bag 368 Medals
•Roller Skating earned India 49 medals 13 gold, 20 silver and 16 bronze. In cycling, the Indians won 11 gold, 14 silver and 20 bronze to total 45 medals, while the country’s track and field athletes returned with 39 medals 5 gold, 24 silver and 10 bronze.
The HINDU Notes – 21st March 2019
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📰 Rights of children caught in parental conflict need focus: Supreme Court
Apex court calls for negotiated settlement between petitioners.
•A proactive step need to be taken to focus on child rights, specifically in cases of parental conflict, the Supreme Court has highlighted.
•The rights of children caught in the middle of an ugly divorce or a custody battle between parents need specific articulation.
A quagmire
•Divorce and custody battles are a quagmire and it is heart-wrenching to see an innocent child ultimately suffer for the legal and psychological war waged between the parents, the Supreme Court has observed.
•A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Ajay Rastogi expressed “deepest concerns” about the plight of children caught in the emotional roller-coaster of their parents’ divorce and custody battles.
•The case in question concerned two U.S.-based children whose mother brought them here and filed a custody case against the husband.
Psychological harm
•Justice Rastogi, who wrote the judgment, said the courts and judges could be able to resolve the legal problems of the parents, grant them divorce and send them on their separate ways. But what would become of the psychological harm caused to child who has witnessed the ugliness between the parents
•The child is unwittingly at the centre of the custody battle, but is yet not a true participant in the process, Justice Rastogi observed.
•Everybody is working for the “best interests” of the child, but they seldom understand what they are in fact. The judge paints the portrait of the child’s helplessness. “While the ‘best-interests’ principle requires that the primary focus be on the interests of the child, the child ordinarily does not define those interests himself or does he have representation in the ordinary sense,” Justice Rastogi wrote.
•“The child’s psychological balance is deeply affected through the marital disruption,” the court said.
•“The judicial resolution of a custody dispute may permanently affect or even end the parties’ legal relationship but the social and psychological relationship will usually continue. It seems appropriate that a negotiated resolution between the parents is preferable from the child’s perspective for several reasons,” Justice Rastogi observed.
•Hence, for the sake of a child’s future relationship with each of his parents, a negotiated settlement is much better than an order imposed by a court after adversarial proceedings.
📰 A short history of data
THE HINDU NEWSPAPER IMPORTANT ARTICLES 21.03.2019
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Daily Current Affairs, 20th March 2019
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1) International Day Of Happiness: 20 March
•Since 2013, the United Nations has celebrated the International Day of Happiness as a way to recognize the importance of happiness in the lives of people around the world.
2) Gauri Sawant Becomes India’s 1st Transgender Election Ambassador
•According to the Election Commission, Gauri Sawant’s appointment would help in more people from this category getting registered during the final phase of voters enrollment. It stated that in the next few days, Gauri Sawant would visit every transgender and inspire them about the need for voting.
3) Kazakhstan President Resigns After Nearly 30 Years In Power
•The Chairman of the Kazakh Senate would take over. The announcement came less than a month after the President sacked his government, citing a lack of economic development despite the country’s vast energy resources.
4) GST Council Approves Transition Plan For New GST Rates
•Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey informed that for housing projects launched on or after the first of April 2019, the developers will have to adhere to the new GST rates recommended by the council.
5) Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck becomes 1st Woman To Win Abel Prize
•Modelled after the Nobel Prize, the Abel Prize is presented by the King of Norway and carries a $700,000 cash award. The award was awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.
6) Mobile App ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ Developed By IIPHG
•Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, (IIPHG) in collaboration with National Mental Health Program, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat has developed a mobile application called as ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ for students to reduce the exam pressure. This application creates awareness as well as help students to analyze their weak points and overcome from the exam pressure by providing assistance.
