On August 15, 2023 India celebrated its 77th Independence Day. The Prime Minister (PM), Mr. Narendra Modi led the celebrations with a speech from the Red Fort, New Delhi.
Highlights of the Speech:
Recently, Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has called for transferring ‘education’ back to the State List of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution.
Indian Constitution and 7th Schedule:
Concurrent Status of Education:
According to the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976, about 5 subjects were transferred from the state to the concurrent list. they are:
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Status of Education:
About Concurrent List:
The concept of ‘Concurrent List’ in the Indian Constitution has been borrowed from the Constitution of Australia. |
State List and Powers:
Criteria for Centre to interfere in ‘State List’:
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Recently, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court with 27 additional courts and 51 judges’ chambers with other amenities for lawyers and litigants.
Currently, the Supreme Court has 17 courtrooms and two registrar courts. Its judicial strength as of now is 32. |
Significance:
Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA):
Bar Association and Bar Councils:
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According to a recent update, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has charted out a four-month-long trajectory for its solar spacecraft set for launch by September this year.
Evolution of ISRO’s Solar Mission:
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun’s corona.
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Significance of Aditya L1 mission in India’s journey:
Visible Line Emission Coronagraph (VERC):
Interesting Facts about Sun:
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President Droupadi Murmu in her speech on the eve of Independence Day hailed the contribution of women freedom fighters and remembered the contributions of Kanaklata Barua and Matangini Hazra.
About Kanaklata Barua:
Matangini Hazra:
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are among 14 States and Union Territories which are yet to sign a crucial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union Education Ministry, which mandates the implementation of the National Education Policy.
About the Scheme:
As per the scientific researches, Metagenomics is not only rapid method to detect diseases, but could also be deployed directly on patient samples, without any a priori knowledge of the infectious agent.
About:
What is Metagenome sequencing?
Context:
The Policy of tourism is governed by the perception that the tourism industry is the key to prosperity in a region. An important element of this perception is the underestimation of the cost of unbridled tourism for the fragile Himalayan ecology.
The Background: A Himalayan Case Study
The current situation of Himachal and Uttarakhand Himalayas
The Tourists personality and stereotypes
Context:
As per the data released by NITI Aayog for Multidimensional poverty index (MPI), shows that the poverty has declined to 15% in the year 2019-20. However, it is argued that relevance of National Sample Survey (NSS) consumption-based poverty estimates are still very important to consider than the Multi-dimensional poverty.
Facts supporting Consumption based Poverty estimation:
Changes in surveys for consumption estimates:
Suggestive Measures:
Context:
NSO data, showed retail inflation accelerating to a 15-month high, comes less than a week after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left interest rates unchanged even as it warned of “a substantial increase in headline inflation” in the near term.
Inflation dynamics-things to know
What does recent Data reflects?
Concerns and Way forward:
Verifying, please be patient.