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CURRENT AFFAIRS – 23/06/2023

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Centre grants approval for Kalaignar pen monument in Bay of Bengal Screengrab of a video showing the proposed design of Kalaignar pen monument to be built in the Bay of Bengal, off Marina beach at Chennai. Special Arrangement K. LAKSHMI CHENNAI The Union Ministry of Environment has given Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for the Tamil Nadu government’s proposal to construct Muthamizh Arignar Dr. Kalaignar pen monument in Bay of Bengal, off the Marina beach in Chennai, but with 15 conditions. With this final approval, the State government may begin the process to implement the proposal. In a letter to…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 22/06/2023

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Overkill The Manipur government’s decision to extend net shutdowns lacks merit The Manipur High Court, on Tuesday, granted limited Internet access in designated places in the State after a petition seeking the restoration of net access. Shutdowns began following the violent conflagration on May 3 and there were extensions of restrictions since then, the last one being an extension order on Wednesday, till June 25. The request made is legitimate as shutdowns have a crippling effect on many an economic activity and livelihoods. Citizens have been unable to access vital services such as e-commerce-related activities, except for those who can…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 21/06/2023

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Semiconductor fab: the unfinished agenda Ajay Kumar, former Defence Secretary, is Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Kanpur To set up a semiconductor fabrication plant in India is not mere hubris. There is a growing market. There are also strategic reasons: India’s susceptibility to coercion increases due to its dependence on the import of semiconductors. Therefore, the government’s 2022 Semiconductor Mission is laudable. But today, there is still uncertainty about whether India will have a fab. In this context, it is important to understand why earlier attempts failed and examine alternate approaches. Earlier attempts The first serious attempt was made in 2007…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 20/06/2023

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Archaeologist finds Mesolithic-era rock painting in Andhra’s Guntur Painting of a man tilling land found at cave shelters at Orvakallu village in Guntur district. special ARRANGEMENT RAMESH SUSARLA ANANTAPUR/GUNTUR A Mesolithic period rock painting depicting a person tilling a piece of land has been found by D. Kanna Babu, former Superintending Archaeologist of the Temple Survey Project (Southern Region) of the Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai, in Orvakallu village in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Kanna Babu told The Hindu that while surveying the lower River Krishna Valley to ascertain the architectural features of shrines, he identified a new prehistoric rock painting…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 19/06/2023

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Gita Press, Gorakhpur, awarded Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 THE HINDU BUREAU NEW DELHI The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 will be conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur, one of the largest publishers of religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana and the Upanishads. The decision to confer the award on Gita Press was taken by a jury headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after due deliberations on Sunday in recognition of the publishing house’s “outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods”, the Culture Ministry said in a statement. While recalling the…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 17/06/2023

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Railway safety — listen to the voices from below K. Balakesari formerly of the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME), was Member Staff, Railway Board Nothing focuses the nation’s collective attention on the Indian Railways as a major accident. The triple train collision at Bahanaga Bazar railway station, near Balasore in Odisha on June 2, which led to the tragic loss of over 280 lives, has evoked all the expected responses from various quarters: calls for the resignation of the Minister in charge of the Railways; collective breast beating and despair over where the Railways are headed; the sudden…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 16/06/2023

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Reflections on Artificial Intelligence, as friend or foe P.J. Narayanan is a researcher in computer vision and Professor and (ex-officio) Director of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad. He was the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India, and currently serves on the global Technology Policy Council of the ACM Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been dominating the headlines for its triumphs, and also fears being expressed by many including some of the best minds in AI. The Association for Computing Machinery released a statement in October 2022 on ‘Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems’, a broader class…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 15/06/2023

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The next Finance Commission will have a tough task Duvvuri Subbarao is a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India The government will appoint a Finance Commission in the next few months to determine how much of the Centre’s tax revenue should be given away to States (the vertical share) and how to distribute that among States (the horizontal sharing formula). In the pre-reform period, the Finance Commission recommendations were not that critical because the Centre had other ways to compensate States, or indeed to play favourites, through plan financing and public sector undertaking (PSU) investments. Post-reforms, fresh PSU…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 14/06/2023

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Tax law in the shadow of the higher judiciary Suhrith Parthasarathy is an advocate practising in the Madras High Court India’s law of taxation is built on two central precepts. First, on the idea captured in Article 265 of the Constitution, that a tax may be imposed only with the authority of law. Second, on a principle of sureness, that any levy ought to be clear, consistent, and predictable. Both these precepts emanate out of a larger commitment to the rule of law, in particular to values of legality and certainty. A reversal of judgments Upholding these principles requires a…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 13/06/2023

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Wrestlers’ protest and the shrinking space for dissent Zoya Hasan   is Professor Emerita, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University Public protests have long served as a catalyst for social and policy change in India, allowing individuals, classes and communities to voice their grievances and advocate for their rights. Over the past few years, protests have risen with bewildering rapidity. Protests had opened up space for a new era of social activism in the decade that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was in power. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government too has faced considerable…
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