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06th August 2022
NATIONAL NEWS
Jagdeep Dhankhar elected 14th Vice-President
of India
NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar has been elected as
the 14th Vice-President of India after defeating Opposition's candidate
Margaret Alva. Dhankhar, who has served as Governor of West Bengal in the past,
is a lawyer by training and belongs to Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu. The term of
office of M Venkaiah Naidu, Vice-President of India, is ending on August 10.
Supreme Court to look into changing abortion
law to include unmarried women
The Supreme Court said it will interpret the
Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act and the related rules to potentially
allow unmarried women to terminate pregnancies up to 24 weeks. Asking the
Centre to file a note by the next hearing on August 10, SC asked why unmarried
women should be barred from ending pregnancies if married women are allowed.
PM Modi meets Jagdeep Dhankhar, says 'proud
to have Kisan Putra VP'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to
Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday to congratulate him soon after the latter was
elected as India's Vice President. In a statement, PM Modi said, "We are
proud to be having a Kisan Putra Vice President who has excellent legal
knowledge and intellectual prowess." BJP President JP Nadda also met
Dhankhar following his victory.
Uttarakhand govt decides to develop one Sanskrit-speaking village in each
district
Uttarakhand government has decided to develop one Sanskrit-speaking village in each
of the 13 districts in the state. Citizens of these villages will be trained by
experts to use the ancient Indian language as a medium of daily communication,
Uttarakhand’s Minister for Sanskrit Education.
Sanskrit teachers will be sent to the selected villages to teach locals
how to communicate in the language. They will also be taught the Vedas and the
Puranas to help them acquire proficiency in Sanskrit. To be called ”Sanskrit
Gram”, each of these villages will be a centre of ancient Indian culture.
Haryana government developed the Cheerag programme for EWS Students
The "Chief Minister Equal Education Relief, Assistance and Grant
(Cheerag)" programme was recently introduced by the administration of
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
It was put in lieu of a comparable programme started by the Bhupinder
Singh Hooda administration in 2007 under Rule 134 A of the 2003 Haryana School
Education Rules. According to the plan,
government students from the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) who attend
private schools will receive a free education.
Under the Cheerag programme, government school children in grades 2
through 12 may enrol in private schools.
To qualify, parents' verifiable annual income must be less than Rs. 1.8
lakh. The state of Haryana will pay
back: -Rs 700 each student in grades two through five, Rs 900 per student in
grades six through eight and Rs 1,100 each student in grades nine through
twelve.
International News
Will defend Philippines if it's attacked in
the South China Sea: US
US State Secretary Antony Blinken on Saturday said
that the US would come to the defence of the Philippines if it faces
hostilities in the South China Sea. Referring to an "ironclad"
defence pact between the two countries, Blinken stated, "An armed attack
on Philippine armed forces, public vessels and aircraft will invoke US mutual
defence commitments under that treaty."
Chinese ship to dock in Hambantota for
refuelling: Sri Lanka
Chinese research vessel 'Yuan Wang 5' will dock at
Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka next week to seek "refuelling and
replenishment", Sri Lankan Minister Bandula Gunawardana has said. He
reiterated Colombo will not do "anything to harm the good
understanding" between India and Sri Lanka. Earlier, India's defence
establishment said it would closely follow the visit of the Chinese ship.
Roopali Desai becomes 1st Indian-American
judge on US' 9th Circuit
The US Senate has confirmed Arizona lawyer Roopali
Desai as the first Indian-American judge on the 9th US Circuit Court of
Appeals. Desai was confirmed by the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 67-29 on
Thursday. The 9th Circuit, which is the largest of the thirteen courts of
appeals, has jurisdiction over nine states and two territories.
Sweden and Finland approved to join NATO by US Senate
With 95 senators voting in favour of the measure, the US Senate decisively
approved the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland. Republican Senator Josh
Hawley of Missouri cast the lone dissenting vote, contending that the threat
posed by China should receive considerably more attention than European
security. Finland and Sweden's
membership in NATO has the strong support of US President Joe Biden, who in
July forwarded the issue to the Senate for consideration.
AGREEMENTS
K-DISC inks MoU with LinkedIn to Promote Employability
Kerala Development and Innovation Strategy Council (K-DISC) has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LinkedIn, the world's largest
professional network, along with the ICT Academy of Kerala (ICTAK) under the
Kerala Knowledge Economy Mission (KKEM) as a part of Connect Career to Campus
campaign (CCC). Kerala government aims
to boost employability skills with this partnership among the youth of Kerala
to get relevant jobs using LinkedIn. State
Government announces that various products and services will be made available
for the students on LinkedIn. The
products and services include LinkedIn Insights, curated LinkedIn learning
courses, and LinkedIn jobs.
BANKING, BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
RBI Hikes Repo Rate By 140 Base Points In 3 Months
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on August 5, 2022, raised the repo rate by
50 basis points (bps) to 5.4 per cent, taking it above the pre-pandemic levels
of 2020, as has been speculated in a while.
This is the third time that the RBI has raised the repo rate in a span
of few months, by a huge 140 bps in three months, to be precise. One bps equals
0.01 percentage point.
New B'luru-Chennai e-way will reduce travel
time to 2 hrs: Gadkari
The new expressway between Bengaluru and Chennai
will reduce the travel time between the two cities to two hours, Union Road
Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said. "India will have 26
new green expressways in the next three years and this will reduce the travel
time for people choosing roadways," Gadkari said.
India's forex reserves rise by $2.4 billion
after 4-week fall
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by nearly
$2.4 billion to $573.9 billion during the week ending July 29, according to the
Reserve Bank of India's weekly supplementary statistical data. The rise was led
by positive inflows by foreign investors in the Indian equity market. It had
been witnessing a fall for four consecutive weeks prior to that.
New Payment System For NRIs: The BBPS
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proposed to allow non-resident Indians (NRIs)
to make utility, education and other bill payments on behalf of their family
members living in India. The payments
will be processed through Bharat Bill Payment System’s (BBPS) cross-border
inward bill payments facility. BBPS is a
payments system conceptualized by RBI and run by National Payments
Corporation of India(NPCI) to help customers make bill payments both
digitally and physically, say, through bank branches and business
correspondents.
Science and Technology News
ISRO's launched tiniest rocket to display the Tricolor in Space
A tiny satellite launch vehicle will be sent from Sriharikota by the Indian
Space Research Organization on 7th August 2022. It is a three-stage vehicle,
and each step of propulsion uses solid fuel.
The goal of the project is to place an Earth observation satellite
called EOS-02 into low earth orbit along with a satellite called "Azaadi
SAT." The satellite will be launched from Sriharikota. 750 female students from government schools
in remote areas from Kashmir to Kanyakumari created the "Azaadi
Satellite." Srimathy Kesan, the
founder of Space Kidz India, said that the opportunity for the girls to
participate in the programme was fantastic.
Sports News
Commonwealth Games 2022: Bajrang Punia Wins Gold in Men's 65kg Category
Bajrang Punia has won his 3rd Commonwealth Games medal and his second
successive Gold medal in the men's 65kg category. The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist beat Lachlan
McNeil of Canada in the final (9-2). He had won silver in his maiden CWG in
2014 and then bettered the colour four years ago in Gold Cost by winning a
gold.
Commonwealth
Games 2022: Sakshi Malik Wins Gold in Women's Wrestling
Star Indian wrestler, Sakshi Malik has won the gold medal in the Women’s
Wrestling Freestyle 62Kg at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. She
defeated Ana Godinez Gonzalez of Canada in the final. The 29-year-old defeated England’s Kelsey
Barnes 10-0 via technical superiority in the quarter-final and then beat
Cameroon’s Berthe Emilienne Etane Ngolle 10-0 via technical superiority in the
semi-final.
Commonwealth Games 2022: India's Deepak Punia won a gold medal in
Wrestling
India's wrestler Deepak Punia has won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games
2022 by defeating Pakistan's Muhammad Inam by 3-0 in the men's 86 kg category
in the final. In the semifinal earlier,
Deepak saw out Canada's Alexander Moore 3-1 as he gained early points. This is
India's third gold medal in wrestling.
Important Days
Hiroshima Day is observed globally on 6th August
Hiroshima Day is observed on August 6 to commemorate the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, at the end of World War II. The horrific incident took place on August 6,
1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy”, on the
town of Hiroshima in Japan. 2022 marks the 77th anniversary of the world’s
first atomic bombing. The day, which is
observed at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan, highlights the effects of
nuclear wars, pays respect to those who got killed, discourages nuclear
proliferation and promotes world peace.
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