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Celebrating Gandhiji’s
life – 150th birth anniversary
1. A life of lessons : Mahatma Gandhi (born 02 October, 1869) gave India a vision of
non-violent resistance to injustice, and a constant striving for truth and
justice. His life and times motivated many.
2. New South Wales University
: It
includes the Gandhi Jayanti celebrations as an essential part of its annual calendar.
3. First statue : The
Gandhi bust was given to the university in 2010 and was the first statue to be
installed in the University.
4. Concerns in 2010 : In 2010 attacks on Indian students had
increased and concerns exist even now whether Australia
was a truly multicultural country and safe for international students.
5. 124 nations, 1 song : On
the 149th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, PM Modi launched a version of the song “Vaishnava Jan To” in which artists from over 124 countries having contributed
musically.
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Farmers’ rally to capital turns violent,
finally returns
1. The demands : On 2nd
Oct. , when both Gandhi and Shastri
were in focus, farmers in
large numbers marched to Delhi protesting
Government’s policies. Their demands were (a)
exempting farm
equipment from GST and (b)
acceptance of
M.S. Swaminathan
Commission’s recommendations.
2. Who were they, what
was done : The farmers
were affiliated to the Bhartiya Kisan
Union (Tikait
group). The
police blockade of roads led to violent skirmishes. To resolve the standoff,
first the govt. announced formation of a committee
of CMs to look into their demands. Later
in the night, they were allowed to enter Delhi.
3. No hike in MSP : The
Centre ruled out any hike in MSP and wanted discussion on
the issue of loan waivers. Agreement
was reached on 7 demands of the farmers.
However, BKU chief Narendra Tikait said that the assurances were not enough.
4. Legal review petition
: The Centre agreed to file a legal review petition against the
NGT’s ban on
diesel vehicles more than ten years old in NCR.
5. Implementation problems : A committee
would be formed to resolve
implementation problems on crop insurance and farmer credit schemes,
and review the possibility of including crop
damage by wild animals for insurance.
6. NITI Aayog : Farmer
representatives would be included in a NITI Aayog special committee focussing
on
linking agriculture with MGNREGA.
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Govt. puts Uday Kotak in
charge to stem IL&FS crisis
1. Government intervenes
: On 1st Oct., in a decisive move, the Govt inducted six directors in IL&FS and appointed Uday Kotak as
Chairman. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved this
action.
2. MCA’s report : A
report by
Ministry of
Corporate Affairs (MCA) concluded that the affairs of the IL&FS holding
company and its group companies were prejudicial
to public interest.
3. Probe : Following
complaints,
a probe by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) was ordered into IL&FS and its subsidiaries.
4. Management not
credible : Govt. noted that dividends
and huge managerial payouts were continued disregarding the liquidity crisis in
the company.
5. The liquidity crisis :
In
August and Sept. 2018, the IL&FS
committed loan defaults as the
company and its subsidiaries faced a liquidity crunch.
6. Statistics : The group
has
infrastructure and financial assets of over Rs.1,15,000 crore. But due
to mismanaged borrowings it is facing tremendous debt pressure and
struggling to service around Rs.91,000 crore.
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Change
in mindset fuelled Swachh success, says Modi
1. Key drivers : PM Modi said
that
people’s participation,
combined with public funding and partnerships, were key drivers in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’s success against open defecation.
2. Praise from UN : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that India has shown with political will and commitment, it’s
possible
to achieve ambitious targets quickly.
3. Reduction in open
defecation : More than 94% of rural households
across India have now
been declared open defecation free
(ODF) in
comparison to just 39% four yrs ago.
4. Cleanest state of 2018
: Haryana was
declared
the cleanest State in a 2018 survey of rural India, while Satara
district in Maharashtra was declared the cleanest district.
5. Mindset change : PM Modi
said that mindset
change
among the people was the first step. Once a jan andolan had
been started, it would have a domino effect.
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Create an equal, free society: Justice Gogoi
1. Cut and divide : Speaking at the farewell function of the outgoing CJI, Justice Gogoi said that “What we wear, eat, say, read and think have become issues that cut and divide us”!
2. The new CJI : On 3rd Oct. Justice Gogoi took over as the 46th Chief Justice of India. He said that we should always evaluate our beliefs keeping in mind our constitutional morality.
3. Deep divide : “We are more divided than we were before on the issues of class, caste, religion, gender and ideology. If we do not allow the vision of the constitution to prevail we will continue to hate, despise and kill each other”.
4. Quoting Ambedkar : He said that “if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.”
5. No ready-made answers : Constitutional questions cannot be separated from important political issues of the times.
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Gir sees 23 lion deaths
1 .23 lions
dead : Since 12th Sept. 21 lions have died in Gujarat’s Gir forest. Govt has attributed the deaths to infighting and viral infection.
2. Experts brought in : State Govt. brought in
experts from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, and Delhi zoo.
3. Forest department’s statement : The post-mortem report of 11 lions that died
between September 12 and 19 indicated territorial fighting, injuries due to infighting,
respiratory and hepatic failure as major causes for deaths.
4. Remaining lions shifted : All lions in the affected range were
shifted to Jasadhar rescue centre and were thoroughly
checked. The reports from NIV, Pune
admitted that the deaths were caused due to viral infection.
5. Action being taken : At the Jamwala rescue centre action is being taken to insulate the
remaining lions from the disease.
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Protest mounts against SC verdict
on Sabarimala
1. Marches and dharnas : Hindu
organisations held marches and dharnas in different parts of Kerala against
the
SC’s verdict allowing women of all ages to offer worship at the Sabarimala Ayyappa
temple.
2. Big turnout : Hundreds
of Ayyapa
devotees including a large number of women gathered at Pandalam and
held the ‘Nammajapa Yatra’. The banner being created is “Sabarimala
Protection Council”.
3. Ritualistic tradition
: Pandalam
Palace managing committee president said the ongoing protest was to protect the ‘Ayyappa Dharma’ and the ritualistic tradition at Sabarimala.
The Supreme Court had delivered the
verdict that women of age group 10-50 years cannot be banned from entering the Sabarimala
temple of Lord Ayyappa, as that is a violation of their right to religious freedom,
as well as their fundamental rights in terms of gender justice. The Sept.2018
verdict was disliked by right-wing groups.
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Support Dhaka on Rohingya crisis
: Guterres
1. UN Sec-Gen’s statement : On his first
official visit to India, UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres
said that India must support Bangladesh in dealing with
the Rohingya
crisis and put pressure on Myanmar for their return.
2. A bigger role : India
should
play a bigger role in resolving the crisis. It
must support Bangladesh with the huge humanitarian problem it faces now.
3. Pillar of
multilateralism : He described India
as a pillar of multilateralism and praised India’s efforts in the battle against climate change.
4. Bangladesh delays : Meanwhile
Bangladesh has delayed the planned relocation of a
part of the Rohingya
refugees from Myanmar to an islet in the Bay of Bengal.
The islet is of recent origin and falls in the way of powerful storms that
visit Bangladesh during the pre-monsoon season.
5. Rohingyas not convinced : Rohingya
community leaders are not convinced about the relocation plan
of the
government.
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Pakistan’s neo-Deobandis
distorting the original school
1. Wahaabism Vs. Deobandi : Pakistan
has adopted a form of Wahaabism which is contradictory to Deobandi. Wahhabism
represents a rigid, exclusivist, virulently anti-Sufi form of Islam
that allows its adherents to proclaim other Muslims as ‘unbelievers’.
This is in stark contrast to the original Deobandi perspective.
This is in stark contrast to the original Deobandi perspective.
2. Deoband beliefs : There is no contradiction between sharia
(Islamic jurisprudence) and tariqa (the
mystical path to God) and that the two need to be combined to reach haqiqa
(ultimate truth).
3. Afghan Jihad : The
neo-Deobandis of
Pakistan are a result of the Afghan
Jihad fuelled by Saudi money and American arms.
4. Bastion of
anti-colonialism : The Deoband
movement had advocated complete Independence from the British much before the
Congress. Deoband is a proponent of composite nationalism (Muttahida qawmiat).
5. Opposed to the idea of
Pakistan :
Given Deoband’s
uncompromising opposition to the idea of Pakistan,
the very term ‘Pakistani Deobandi’ is a contradiction in terms.
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Toilets-for-all : WHO
calls for more investment
1. Policy shifts and more
funds : Unless
countries make comprehensive policy shifts and
invest more funds the world will not reach the goal of universal sanitation
coverage by 2030, WHO said.
2. New guidelines : On 2nd Oct. the World
Health Organization (WHO) launched the first global guidelines on sanitation
and health. By adopting these, countries can reduce diarrhoeal
deaths due
to unsafe water and poor sanitation and hygiene.
3. The returns : The WHO estimated that for every dollar invested in sanitation the return would be
six dollars in the form of lower health costs, increased productivity and fewer
premature deaths.
4. Worldwide problem
: Worldwide, 2.3
billion
people lack basic sanitation (with half of them forced to defecate in the open). They
are a part of the 4.5
billion
people who don’t have access to safely managed sanitation services.
5. Need for the
guidelines : The new
guidelines were developed because current sanitation programmes are not
achieving anticipated health gains and there is a lack of authoritative
health-based guidance on sanitation.
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Indians to be hit by U.K. immigration
plan
1. Biggest shake-up : In the biggest
shake-up of UK immigration laws further restrictions will be imposed on the
ability of Indian workers and their families to come to the U.K. Any
family member must be sponsored by the employer.
2. End of freedom of movement : British
PM Theresa May said Britain
will end “freedom of movement once and for
all”
which is a fundamental principle of the EU.
3. Rules of the EU : The EU
rules allow its citizens to (a)
look for a job in other member countries, (b) work there
without a permit, (c)
reside there &
stay on even after employment has ended.
4. Most important issue? Immigration
is now
the most
important issue; not trade or investments.
5. Statements during Brexit polls : During
Brexit
polls 2016,
politicians promised that if Brexit happens, immigration laws for Non-EU nations would be
eased. The opposite is happening.
6. No such intention : The new changes prove that the government has
no intention of making life easier for Indians.
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Laser pioneers win Physics Nobel
1. The winners : Arthur Ashkin of
the U.S, Gerard Mourou of
France and Donna Strickland of
Canada have won the Nobel
Prize for Physics for 2018.
2. Optical tweezers : Ashkin was
awarded for his invention of “optical
tweezers” that grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells
with their laser beam fingers. At 96 years, he is
the oldest recipient of the award.
3. Ultra short optical
pulses : Mourou (74)
and Strickland
(59) won for helping develop a method to generate ultra-short optical
pulses.
This is the shortest and most intense laser pulses ever created by
mankind. It is now used in corrective
eye surgery.
4. Third woman : Ms Strickland is only the third woman to receive the Nobel
Prize for Physics.
5. The Prize money :
Arthur Ashkin
half of the nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million) prize, while
Gerard Mourou of
France and Donna Strickland of Canada shared the other half.
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U.S.-Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine
Prize
1. 2018 Nobel Prize for
medicine: James
Allison of the U.S. and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018
Nobel Medicine
Prize for research into how the body’s natural defences can fight cancer.
2. Not traditional: Dr.
Allison and Dr. Honjo figured out how to help the patient’s
own immune system tackle the cancer more quickly.
The traditional forms of treatment targeted cancer cells directly.
3. Revolutionary : The new therapy had revolutionised cancer treatment and
has made a fundamental change to how cancer can be managed.
4. Simultaneuous discoveries : In
1995, Dr. Allison was one of two scientists to identify
the CTLA-4 molecule as an inhibitory receptor on T-cells.
Around the same time, Dr. Honjo
discovered a protein on immune cells, the ligand PD-1, and eventually realised that it also worked as a
brake, but acted in a different way.
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U.S., Canada agree on free trade pact
1. The USMCA
: USA, Canada and Mexico have reached an
agreement on a new trade deal. This agreement updates and replaces the
nearly 25-year-old North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA).
2. Intense talks : The agreement was concluded after six weeks of
intense talks. The agreement covers a region of 500 million residents and
conducts about $1 trillion in trade a year.
3. The impact
: Canada will open its dairy market further to
the US producers. The deal also has
stronger protections for workers, tough new environmental rules, and updates
the trade relationship to cover the digital economy.
4. Freer markets : The new
agreement will result in freer markets, fairer trade and robust economic growth.
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Congress calls for new freedom struggle
against divisiveness and prejudice
Lonar Lake (Maha.) chosen by GSI for UNESCO Global Geopark Network status
10 Odisha
villages eradicate untouchability
India sends relief material to Indonesia
US commitment to NATO iron-clad
Modi asks the world to move towards a single grid to share
electricity
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EDITORIALS & OP-ED
1. PAWAR GAMES
The evolving politics for LS 2019 polls
The evolving politics for LS 2019 polls
2. THE NEW DEALS
The new format NAFTA needs to be observed carefully
The new format NAFTA needs to be observed carefully
3. IN THE COURT OF LAST RESORT
Supreme Court enters a new phase with CJI Ranjan Gogoi
Supreme Court enters a new phase with CJI Ranjan Gogoi
4. A FLIGHT PATH WITH OBSTACLES
India’s drone policy
5. SWACHH
BHARAT IS A MASS MOVEMENT NOW
Comprehensive review
Comprehensive review
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