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INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY

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WHY IN NEWS The President of India, Smt.Droupadi Murmu presided over the ceremonial session of annual general meeting of Indian Red Cross Society. About Indian Red Cross Society The Indian Red Cross is a voluntary humanitarian organization and has a network of over 1100 branches throughout the country. It is a leading member of thelargest independent humanitarian organization in the world,the International Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement. The organisation works by providing relief in times of disasters/emergencies and promotes health & care of the vulnerable people and communities. Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) was established in 1920 under the…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 19/07/2023

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A push for GM mustard disregarding science, the law Aniket Aga is an anthropologist and author of ‘Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic crops in contemporary India’ A determined battle by environmentalists in the Supreme Court of India against Delhi University’s genetically modified (GM) herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard is all that stands between GM food and Indian farmers and consumers. GM crops are quite different from conventional varieties and hybrids, such as those developed by farmers, agricultural research institutions and companies. Biotechnologists insert select genes at a random location in the DNA of a plant to develop a GM crop. The insertion makes…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 18/07/2023

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A common civil code spelling equality for every Indian Pulapre Balakrishnan is an economist The 22nd Law Commission has called for responses to a proposal for a Uniform Civil Code in India. This has set off a debate, which has often been acrimonious. But the debate itself is much needed as Indians have never been consulted on the personal laws they are governed by. These laws were instituted by the British colonial government by giving a cursory hearing to the clergy, or religious scholars in the case of religions without one. The result was a religion-based set of personal laws…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 17/07/2023

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Govt. sets up new panel to review all NSO data It replaces a committee which examined economic datasets only; move follows sharp critiques f India’s statistical machinery; new panel to advise govt. on surveys, identify and plug data gaps VIKAS DHOOT  NEW DELHI The Union government has constituted a new internal oversight mechanism for official data, revamping a Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES) set up in late 2019, soon after the findings from the last round of household surveys on consumption expenditure and employment were junked over “data quality issues”. In an order issued last Thursday, the Statistics Ministry…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 15/07/2023

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India’s third lunar odyssey commences with perfect launch Ambitious mission: The rocket carrying Chandrayaan-3 lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Friday. PTI Spacecraft enters elliptic parking orbit; soft landing likely on August 23; Chandrayaan-3 testament to our scientists’ relentless dedication: Modi HEMANTH C.S.  SRIHARIKOTA India’s third moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, was successfully launched onboard a Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3) rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 2.35 p.m. on Friday. This is India’s second attempt at soft-landing robotic instruments on the lunar surface after the previous attempt, Chandrayaan-2, failed in 2019. Thus far, only three…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 14/07/2023

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  An unacceptable verdict in the constitutional sense Kaleeswaram Raj is a lawyer at the Supreme Court of India A judgment by the Allahabad High Court recently, declining the prayer by an inter-faith couple in a live-in relationship for protection from police harassment has caught national attention. The judgment in Kiran Rawat vs State of UP negates the very idea of constitutional morality in personal relations, which the Supreme Court of India has repeatedly affirmed. The High Court in its judgment implied that the live-in relationship is a “social problem”. The case of the petitioners, a Muslim man and a Hindu woman,…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 13/07/2023

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Weakening autonomy Piecemeal extensions to ED, CBI heads are a setback to their independence The Supreme Court’s verdict upholding statutory amendments made in 2021 to allow multiple extensions of service to heads of investigative agencies is a setback to the cause of protecting their institutional independence. While the part of the judgment quashing the two one-year extensions given to the Director of Enforcement, S.K. Mishra, may be welcomed, the rest of it is a free pass to the government to undermine the autonomy of these agencies. The Court has asked Mr. Mishra to step down on July 31. In 2021,…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 12/07/2023

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North India’s monsoon mayhem Climate woes: A man walks through a flooded alley in New Delhi on July 11. REUTERS Why was rainfall this pre-monsoon season above normal? Is global warming the only factor influencing the unpredictable monsoon? How did the warming of the Atlantic Ocean and the Himalayas affect the patchy distribution of rainfall this monsoon? RAGHU MURTUGUDDE EXPLAINER The story so far: Every year, the entire country awaits the onset and evolution of monsoon with baited breath. Each year tends to be different, and this year has managed to produce a rather unique onset and evolution thus far. The…

Dronacharya Award

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The Dronacharya Award gets its name from the epic of Mahabharata. Dronacharya was the guru of the Kauravas and the Pandavas. The Dronacharya Award came into existence in 1985 and was included by the Government of India. These sports awards are presented to the ‘gurus’ or coaches in the sports fraternity who have coached in various big sporting events like the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, etc. The first ones on the list of coaches to receive this award in 1985 were Om Prakash Bhardwaj (Boxing), O. M. Nambiar (Athletics), and Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat (Wrestling). Weightlifting coach Hansa Sharma is…

Cyclone Biparjoy

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It was stationed about 850 km west of Goa and 900 km southwest of Mumbai. Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Biparjoy is a powerful tropical cyclone that formed over the east-central Arabian Sea and is expected to make landfall along Gujarat’s Kutch coast. The cyclone is predicted to gain in strength over the next three days and develop into a very severe cyclonic storm by June 13. It would result in squally weather with wind speeds reaching 35-45 kmph along the coastline of Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra The IMD has not yet predicted any major impact on countries adjoining the Arabian…