IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR TODAY
BY SUMIT BHARDWAJ 7 JULY 2019
- 1.Jaipur gets UNESCO World Heritage tag……
The decision was taken bythe World Heritage Committeeat the UNESCO’s 43rdsession under way at Baku,Azerbaijan. The committee,comprising representativesof 21 State Parties to theWorld Heritage Convention,examined the Walled City’snomination.
- UNESCO….The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);(French: Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration in education, sciences, and culture in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter.It is the successor of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.[
UNESCO has 193 member states and 11 associate members.[Most of its field offices are "cluster" offices covering three or more countries; national and regional offices also exist Formation 4 November 1945; 73 years ago……
- 2.Government keeps options open for more fuel price hikes
- Special Additional Duty (SAD)….
Special Additional Duty is countervailing to Vat/sales tax, if the goods supposed to have manufacture in India.
Special Additional Duty (SAD)/additional custom duty leviable under sub-section (5) of Section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 which charged at the rate of 4% on the goods imported into India. It is charged on the total value of imports including CIF + Basic Customs duty + CVD.
3.Drugs and Cosmetic Rules, 1945
Drugs Consultative Committee (DCC) ….The Drugs Consultative Committee shall consist of two representatives of the Central Government to be nominated by that Government and one representative of each State Government to be nominated by the State Government concerned.
Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO)…………The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) under Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India is the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) of India.
Functions: Under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, CDSCO is responsible for approval of New Drugs, Conduct of Clinical Trials, laying down the standards for Drugs, control over the quality of imported Drugs in the country and coordination of the activities of State Drug Control Organizations by providing expert advice with a view to bring about the uniformity in the enforcement of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
- CDSCO along with state regulators, is jointly responsible for grant of licenses of certain specialized categories of critical Drugs such as blood and blood products, I. V. Fluids, Vaccine and Sera.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA)…….The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is a national voluntary organisation of Doctors of Modern Scientific System of Medicine in India, which looks after the interest of doctors as well as the well being of the community at large.It was established in 1928 [8] as the All India Medical Association, renamed "Indian Medical Association" in 1930. It is a society registered under The Societies Act of India.
- 4.Civil rights bodies urge Minister to defend forest dwellers’ rights in SC …..
- Forest Rights Act (FRA)….
The symbiotic relationship between forests and forest-dwelling communities found recognition in the National Forest Policy, 1988.
The policy called for the need to associate tribal people in the protection, regeneration and development of forests.
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, was enacted to protect the marginalised socio-economic class of citizens and balance the right to environment with their right to life and livelihood.
- 5.NGT
- What is National Green Tribunal (NGT)?
It is a specialised body set up under the National Green Tribunal Act (2010) for effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources.
With the establishment of the NGT, India became the third country in the world to set up a specialised environmental tribunal, only after Australia and New Zealand, and the first developing country to do so.
NGT is mandated to make disposal of applications or appeals finally within 6 months of filing of the same.
The NGT has five places of sittings, New Delhi is the Principal place of sitting and Bhopal, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai are the other four
- 6.ZERO budget’ farming
- ZBNF is set of natural farming methods where cost of growing and harvesting plants is zero. It is a farming practice that believes in natural growth of crops without adding any fertilizers and pesticides or any other foriegn elements. It is different from organic farming....
- 7.Toxic pesticide Endosulfan
Endosulfan: It is a widely-banned pesticide with hazardous effects on human genetic and endocrine systems. Endosulfan became a highly controversial agrichemical due to its acute toxicity, potential for bioaccumulation, and role as an endocrine disruptor. ... India will phase out all endosulfan use by 2017.
8.Industrial Disputes
Act, 1947.….pen down strike…
The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 extends to the whole of India and regulates Indian labour law so far as that concerns trade unions as well as Individual workman employed in any Industry within the territory of Indian mainland. It came into force 1 April 1947.
9.CRPF to plug Maoists’ escape routes
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is India's largest Central Armed Police Force and also considered to be World's largest Paramilitary Force. It functions under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India. The CRPF's primary role lies in assisting the State/Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and counter insurgency. It came into existence as the Crown Representative's Police on 27 July 1939. After Indian Independence, it became the Central Reserve Police Force on enactment of the CRPF Act on 28 December 1949.
- 10.Gandhian Young Technological Innovation
the Department of
Biotechnology
- 12.Bhopal gas tragedy…….
- Foreign Contribution (Regulation)Act (FCRA)The Foreign Contribution (regulation) Act, 2010 is an act of the Parliament of India, by the 42nd Act of 2010. It is a consolidating act whose scope is to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or companies and to prohibit acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality for any activities detrimental to the national interest and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.[1] It is designed to correct shortfalls in the predecessor act of 1976.
- 13..BangladeshChinaIndiaMyanmar Economic Corridor (BCIMEC)
The Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM EC) is an initiative conceptualised for significant gains through sub-regional economic cooperation within the BCIM. The multi-modal corridor will be the first expressway between India and China and will pass through Myanmar and Bangladesh
- 14.Is desalination realistically a help in harnessing potable water from the sea?
What is desalination technology?
To convert salt water into freshwater, the most prevalent technology in the world is reverse osmosis (RO). A plant pumps in salty or brackish water, filters separate the salt from the water, and the salty water is returned to the sea. Fresh water is sent to households.
RO desalination came about in the late 1950s. While the principle is simple, engineering such plants have to factor in various constraints, for instance, salt levels in the source water that is to be treated, the energy required for the treatment and disposing of the salt back into the sea.
Osmosis involves ‘a solvent (such as water) naturally moving from an area of low solute concentration, through a membrane, to an area of high solute concentration. A reverse osmosis system applies an external pressure to reverse the natural flow of solvent and so seawater or brackish water is pressurised against one surface of the membrane, causing salt-depleted water to move across the membrane, releasing clean water from the low-pressure side’. Seawater has Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) — a measure of salinity — close to 35,000 parts per million (ppm), or equivalent to 35 g of salt per one litre/kg of water. An effective network of RO plants reduce this down to about 200-500 ppm. There are about 18,000 desalination plants in the world across 150 countries and nearly half of Israel’s water is sourced through desalination.
- 15.A register in Nagaland
- What is RIIN? How will it be prepared?
Civil society groups in Nagaland have often conducted housetohouse surveys for listing nonNaga and IBIs
(Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants). The RIIN will be the first official master list of Nagaland’s indigenous
inhabitants. Its objective, as stated in the Nagaland government’s June 29 notification, is to prevent people
from acquiring fake indigenous inhabitants’ certificates.
The list will be based on an extensive survey besides digging into official records of indigenous residents from
villages and urban wards. The entire process under the supervision of the district administration would be
completed within 60 days from the start on July 10. The notification Also said designated teams of surveyors
would be formed within a week from the date of its
publication. These team comprising subdivisional officers, block development officers, school headmasters
and other nominated members, would visit every village
and ward to make the list. Apart from Nagaland’s Chief
Secretary and Home Commissioner, nodal officers of the
rank of a Secretary will monitor the implementation
without involvement in the adjudication process. The nodal officers are required to submit monthly updates to
a permanent committee set up under the Home Department.
- 16.Malariacausin parasite — Plasmodium falciparum…..
- 17.Soon, contraceptives for animals……..The project will begin in Uttarakhand and then be extended to other States.
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