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broadband services. NOFN project
will take the technology to grass root
level and open new opportunity for
the benefit of masses.
Regulatory Body to
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Background of Backward
Region Grant Fund (BRGF)
The BRGF, aims towards
catalyzing the development
programs in the backward areas. It
was approved by the CCEA in
August 2006. In its present form, the
BRGF has two components, namely
district component covering 272
backward districts in 27 states
(including 22 additional districts
covered in 2012-13) and state
component, which includes the
special plan for Bihar, the special
plan for the KBK districts of Odisha
and the special plan for West Bengal
(covered in 2011-12) and
Bundelkhand Package (covered in
2009-10).
Ministry of I&B Reconstituted the
Central Press Accreditation
Committee
The Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting reconstituted the
Central Press Accreditation
Committee (CPAC) on 4 April 2013.
The function of CPAC is to approve
the applications for accreditation
from the media, which is India as
well as foreign.
Members of Central Press
Accreditation Committee
Members of Central Press
Accreditation Committee include:
Himanshu Chatterjee (Indian
Federation of Working
Journalists)
B.M.Sharma (All India Small
and Medium Newspapers
Federation)
Pramod Mathur (Working
News
Cameramens
Association)
Surinder Kapoor (News
Cameramens Association)
Coomi Kapoor (Editors Guild
of India)
Shazi
Zaman(Indian
Broadcasting Foundation)
Swaraj
Thapa
(Press
Association)
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Glivec is used for the treatment of
chronic myeloid leukaemia along
with certain other kinds of cancers.
The cost of this drug is around 2600
US dollar per month. The generic of
Glivec is equivalent to 175 US dollar
in India.
Background
Novartis had filed a patent
application for the new version of
this drug in 2006. Comptroller
General of Patent and Design denied
the patent on the grounds that only
certain changes were made to its
existing drugs under sections 3(d)
and 3(b) of the Indian Patent
Law. Novartis then challenged this
rejection of patent application for
Glivec. Subsequently, the patent
application was also rejected by
Intellectual Property Appellate
Board. In 2009, Novartis took its fight
to the Supreme Court of India.
Section 3 (d) and 3 (b) of Indian
Patent Law explained
Section 3 (d) of Indian Patent
Law restricts the patents for
already-known drugs unless
and until there is superiority in
invention in terms of efficacy.
Section 3 (b) of Indian Patent
Law restricts patents for those
products which are against
the public interest, and also
do not show advanced value
over the products which
already exist.
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Evergreening of
Patent Rights- An Issue
Evergreening of the patent
rights refers to the strategy adopted
by certain innovators for having
renewed their patent rights on the
products by incorporating only
minor changes. These minor
changes may include adding new
formulations
or
mixtures.
Evergreening is done by the
innovators when the patent is on the
verge of expiry. A victory in this
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2. Release of Public Version of
Long
Term
Integrated
Perspective Plan (LTIPP)
The DAC has approved the
release of a public version of
its 15-year perspective
document (LTIPP), outlining
the Technology Perspective
and Capability Roadmap
(TPCR) against LTIPP 20122027. The TPCR will provide
useful guidance to the Indian
Defence Industry for boosting
its infrastructural capabilities
and directing its R&D and
technology investments.
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department will deliver 1.75 crore
letters, 2.7 lakhs of parcels as well
as 1.9 crore money orders per day.
Earlier, India Post had established
two Automated Mail Processing
Centres in Kolkata and Delhi.
Government launched IBIN for
Effective Implementation of its
Core Programme
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al-Assal where it had reported the
possible use of chemical weapons.
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The
US
House
of
Representatives passed the Cyber
Information Sharing and Protection
Act, also called CISPA on 18 April
2013. The aim of CISPA is to fight
with the cyber threats, by enabling
the law enforcers to get access to
the web data. The CISPA was
passed by 288-127 vote out of which
92 were the Democrats. It will now
move to the Senate and then to
Obamas desk. The bill will enable
the private entities to share the
personal information of the
customers with any government
body, which also includes National
Security Agency. It is important to
note that this was the second time
that
the
US
House
of
Representatives passed the CISPA.
Senators had earlier rejected the
first draft of this bill on the grounds
that it wasnt providing enough for
protecting the privacy. The
American federal agencies had
warned that hackers motivated by
the money or acting as the part of
foreign governments were causing
a major threat to China. In the
meanwhile, CISPA is also supported
by the technology firms such as
TechNet computer industry lobby
group and CTIA wireless industry
group. The ones that oppose the bill
are Reddit and Facebook. The
CISPA could fail once again in the
Senate in case veto power of Obama
is used. The White House actually
wants certain amendments in the
bill so that just a little amount of data
is handed in the investigations.
Background of CISPA
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing
and Protection Act (CISPA) is
basically a proposed law in
US, according to which the
Internet traffic information can
be shared between certain
technology and manufacturing
companies as well as the US
government. The purpose of
this bill is to enable US
Government in investigating
the cyber threats as well as
making sure about the security
of networks against the cyber
stacks.
CISPA was first introduced in
the Senate on 30 November
2011
by
the
U.S.
Representative
Michael
Rogers along with 111 cosponsors. It was passed by the
US House of Representatives
on 26 April 2012 but the US
Senate did not pass this bill.
The advisers of Obama
advised him to use his veto
power against the bill on the
grounds that it lacked
confidentiality as well as civil
liberties safeguards.
CISPA was then re-introduced
in the House in February 2013.
It was passed again by the US
House of Representatives on
18 April 2013.
New Anti-Blasphemy Law
Demands of Islamists Rejected in
Bangladesh
The Prime Minister of
Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina rejected
the demands of Islamists for new
anti-blasphemy law, according to
which the people who defame Islam
or Prophet Muhammad would be
punished. Sheikh Hasina declared
that the laws which were existing
earlier were sufficient for punishing
people who insulted the religion. It
is important to note that a lot of
Islamists in Bangladesh rallied in
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Blasphemy is an act by
someone to insult or disrespect
religious deity or show irreverence
to holy persons or religion or
things.
Blasphemy law in Bangladesh
under Penal Code 1980
Bangladesh was a secular state
in 1971 and became the Islamist
state in 1988. However, the secular
penal code is used in Bangladesh
since 1980. Under Chapter
XV (Offences
Relating
to
Religion) of the Bangladesh Penal
Code 1980, Section 295 (Injuring
or defiling place of worship, with
intent to insult the religion of any
class), Section 295 A (Deliberate
and malicious acts intended to
outrage religious feelings of any
class by insulting its religion or
religious beliefs) and Section
298 (Uttering words, etc., with
deliberate intent to wound religious
feelings) are related to blasphemy
and describe punishments as well.
China, Russia and Pakistan held
talk on Afghanistan Situation
The Diplomats from Russia,
China and Pakistan on 3 April 2013
in Beijing held talks on the issue of
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UNHR Chief asked US to close
Guantanamo Prison Camp
The UN Human Rights Chief,
Navi Pillay on 5 April 2013 ordered
United States to shut down
its Guantanamo Prison Camp with
immediate effect. As per the
International Laws, the indefinite
imprisonment of the detainees by
US without any charge or trial was a
violation of International laws. The
Human Rights Chief of UN also
claimed that the hunger strike by the
inmates of the Guantanamo Bay US
Naval Base in southeastern Cuba
was a desperate act as well as an
element of Surprise. As per United
Nations Human Rights claim, the act
of US was just not a breach of its
own commitments but also of the
international laws and standards.
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traditions did not allow women to
exercise the right to franchise as of
now.
Amended Marriage Equality Bill
2013 Passed in Uruguay
Under CRD 4
Banks will have to provide
more data about their profits
and taxes, on a country-bycountry basis.
CRD4 will oblige banks to
increase the portion of bestquality core capital to 4.5
percent, from the present 2
percent.
They have to hold a minimum
total capital of 8% of riskweighted assets - that is,
capital held to back the loans
that they make.
The credit crunch was a
liquidity crisis, so in future,
banks will have to be able to
meet their liabilities for a
period of at least 30 days
during financial stress.
China Announced Sightseeing
Cruises to Disputed Paracel
Islands
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About Sansha City
Sansha is the newest Chinese
city which was established in
July 2012. Sansha was
established for administering
over 200 islands, reefs as well
as sandbanks in South China
Sea.
The territory within 800000
square miles of waters under
the control of Sansha is
disputed.
South China Sea also houses
crucial shipping lanes along
with substantial oil and gas
deposits.
The Government of Sansha is
situated on Yongxing (Woody)
Island in the Paracels.
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regarding promotion of
German as a foreign language
in India was signed between
M. Mangapati Pallam Raju,
Minister for Human Resource
Development from India and
Cornelia Pieper, Minister of
State in the German Foreign
Office.
Under the Joint Declaration,
India would cooperate in
introducing B.Ed programmes
for German language.
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common approach.
Strategic Partnership in
strengthening the relations in
energy sector, health, IT,
education as well as
establishing the small and
micro industries in the country
Agreements Reached
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Elimination of Consequences of
Natural Disasters and Sushil kumar
Shinde, the Union Minister of Home
Affairs.
Importance of the
Agreement Signed
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1083 Crore
Rupees Revival Plan for HMT
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Workshop on Green National
Accounting for India finished in
New Delhi on 6 April 2013. The
Government of India established the
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implementation ability aspects
based on the conceptual framework
of Green Accounting Framework.
Changes in FTP 2009-14 to
Enhance Trade and SEZs
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Widening of
Interest Subvention Scheme
Presently there exists
availability of 2% interest
subvention scheme to certain
specific
sectors
like
Handicrafts, Handlooms,
Carpets,
Readymade
Garments,
Processed
Agricultural Products, Sports
Goods and Toys. The scheme
had been further widened to
include 134 sub-sectors of
engineering
sector.
Government had also
announced that the benefit of
this scheme of 2% interest
subvention could be available
up to 31 March 2014
Items covered under the
Chapter 63 of ITC (HS) (other
made up textile articles, sets,
rags) and additional specified
tariff lines of engineering
sector items under the
scheme have also been
included in the scheme by
widening its provisions
Widening the Scope of Utilization
of Duty Credit Scrip
Duty Credit Scrips issued
under Focus Market Schemes,
Focus Product Scheme and
Vishesh Krishi Gramin Udyog
Yojana (VKGUY) can be used
for payment of service tax on
procurement of services
within the legal framework of
service tax exemption
notifications under the
Finance Act, 1994. Holder of
the scrip shall be entitled to
avail drawback or CENVAT
credit of the service tax
debited in the scrips as per
Department of Revenue rules.
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Changes Implemented in IT
Exports
For development of IT SEZs,
the Government has done
away the criterion on
minimum land area of 10
hectares, making it to no
minimum land requirement for
setting up an IT/ITES SEZ. The
SEZ developers will have to
meet up with the minimum
built in area requirement.
The criteria of requiring a
minimum build-up land area
has also been relaxed to a
greater
extent.
The
requirement of one lakh
square meters is applicable in
7 major cities namely Mumbai,
Delhi (NCR), Chennai,
Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune
and Kolkata. For the other
Category B cities 50000 square
meters and for remaining
cities only 25000 square
meters built up area norm will
be applicable.
The SEZ policy Framework in
existence at present doesnt include
a policy of exit but now the
Government permits, the transfer of
ownership of SEZ units, including
sale. The Government has also
introduced several schemes and
modified different policies as per
the requirements.
4065.81 Crore Rupees for Water
Pollution Control
The Union Government of
India on 5 April 2013 sanctioned
4065.81 crore rupees for pollution
abatement schemes of rivers and
lakes in different states. Of all the
states, Uttar Pradesh received
1385.95 crore rupees. The sanction
cost of projects and expenditure
includes the State Governments
share under the National River
Conservation Programme (NRCP)
and the National Lake Conservation
Programme (NLCP).
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National Lake Conservation Plan
(NLCP)
National Lake Conservation
Plan (NLCP) started in June 2001
with a funding scheme of 70:30 fund
sharing between centre and state.
The main objective of the scheme
is to restore and conserve the urban
and semi-urban lakes of the country
degraded due to waste water
discharge into the lake and other
unique freshwater eco systems,
through an integrated ecosystem
approach.
National River Conservation
Programme (NRCP)
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5. BEML Limited
6. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
7. Bridge & Roof Company
(India) Limited
8. Central
Warehousing
Corporation
9. Central Coalfields Limited
10. Chennai
Petroleum
Corporation Limited
11. Cochin Shipyard Limited
12. Container Corporation of India
Limited
13. Dredging Corporation of India
Limited
14. Engineers India Limited
15. Ennore Port Limited
16. Garden Reach Shipbuilders &
Engineers Limited
17. Goa Shipyard Limited
18. Hindustan Copper Limited
19. HLL Lifecare Limited
20. Hindustan Newsprint Limited
21. Hindustan Paper Corporation
Limited
22. Housing
&
Urban
Development Corporation
Limited
23. India Tourism Development
Corporation Limited
24. Indian Railway Catering &
Tourism Corporation Limited
25. IRCON International Limited
26. KIOCL Limited
27. Mazagaon Dock Limited
28. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited
29. Manganese Ore (India)
Limited
30. Mangalore Refinery &
Petrochemical Limited
31. Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited
32. MMTC Limited
33. MSTC Limited
34. National Fertilizers Limited
35. National Seeds Corporation
Limited
36. NHPC Limited
37. Northern Coalfields Limited
38. Numaligarh Refinery Limited
39. ONGC Videsh Limited
40. Pawan Hans Helicopters
Limited
41. Projects & Development India
Limited
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42. Railtel Corporation of India
Limited
43. Rashtriya Chemicals &
Fertilizers Limited
44. RITES Limited
45. SJVN Limited
46. Security Printing and Minting
Corporation of India Limited
47. South Eastern Coalfields
Limited
48. State Trading Corporation of
India Limited
49. T e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s
Consultants India Limited
50. THDC India Limited
51. Western Coalfields Limited
52. WAPCOS Limited
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Competition Commission of
India (CCI) penalised 19 business
entities for anti-competitive
practices collectively for around
8000 crore Rupees by the end of
financial year 2012-13. It was figured
out as on 31 March 2013 that CCCI
had received 347 cases regarding
violations of anti-competitive
practices. Out of the 347
registered cases , the Commission
had closed 262 cases, while in 28
cases cease and desist orders have
been passed, also in other 19 cases,
total penalties of 8013 crore rupees
was imposed along with cease and
desist orders. In view of the
Competition Act, the CCI has got the
authority to issue cease and
desist order to abstain the
company from pursuing any anticompetitive practices. Also in
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percent during same period in 201112 FY. Eight core industries include
electricity, cement, crude oil,
finished steel, petroleum refinery
products, fertiliser, coal and
electricity.
These industries have weight
of 37.9 percent in Index of Industrial
Production (IIP). During February
2013, fertiliser output decreased by
4 percent in comparison to 4.1
percent growth in February 2012.
Cement output increased by 3.9
percent in comparison to 9.8
percent in February 2012. Petroleum
refinery output increased by 4.3
percent in comparison to 6 percent
in February 2012. Steel production
increased by 0.5 percent in
comparison to 8.7 percent in
February 2012. In January 2013,
these core industries increased by
3.1 percent.
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The Union Cabinet of India on
18 April 2013 gave its approval to
the proposal of the Indian Railways
for permitting use of its land for
crossing metro networks under
ground, on the surface as well as
elevated/over ground. The Indian
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Scientists developed a
prototype of an advanced multibending cholangioscope to detect
and cure Gastro-Intestinal Cancers.
Earlier, most patients used to visit a
physician when the disease was in
an advanced stage. This new
equipment has a video camera and
can bend easily. It could detect
cancers of bile duct, liver and
pancreas. It will help in detecting
the disease in early stage. The multibending
peroral
direct
cholangioscope (PDCS) cannot be
inserted free-hand into the bile duct.
But a high success rate of direct
insertion will be achieved if the
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like
the
brain
of
a
chimpanzee. However, this study
indicated that the difference meant
it was possible for the Homo erectus
to have evolved from the brains like
these. The researchers indicated
towards the fact that Homo erectus
who lived on the mainland, moved
to the isolated islands of Flores. The
unique evolution of the Hobbits
suggested that once they got on the
island, they did not move out. The
researchers explained that
according to the theory, big
mammals decrease and small
mammals increase in their body
sizes on the isolated island due to
energetic demands. Dean Falk, the
team of whom estimated that
Hobbits brain were smaller,
explained
that
the
new
measurements were the most
precise ones available till date. This
is so because these measurements
were done with great care and
improved and advanced methods.
Heaviest Rocket
Launch in 2014: ISRO
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Researchers Successfully
Transplanted a Bio-Engineered
Kidney in Rat
The
researchers
from
Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston, United States on 14 April
2013 announced that they had bioengineered a kidney that can be
marked a step-ahead in the quest to
help patients suffering from Kidney
Failure. The researchers as an
experiment transplanted the bioengineered kidney into rats and
discovered that the experiment was
successful. The success of the
experiment has laid a way for
building replacement structures of
lungs, livers and hearts. The process
of kidney transplant into the rat
involved taking out a rat kidney and
stripping out its living cells by using
a solution made of detergent and
leave behind a shell made of
collagen. Further, the rats empty
structure with living cells was
repopulated that comprised human
endothelial cells that lined the walls
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An Australian-led group of
scientists has for the first time
tracked down and tagged Antarctic
blue whales by using acoustic
technology to follow their songs.
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2013. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has
overall four WTA titles of her
career. The doubles title of
Monterrey Open Tennis Tournament
was won by Kimiko Date-Krumm
and Timea Babos, who defeated
Tamarine Tanasugarn and Eva
Birnarova 6-1 6-4.
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The Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel
started the race from second
position but successfully grabbed
the first position in the 17th Lap to
beat the two Kimi Raikkonen by 9
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It is organised by Board of
Control for Cricket in India.
The inaugural season of Syed
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During the Beijing Olympics in
2008, he won 3 gold medals
by his name in the in the team
sprint, keirin and sprint
In 2008 he was voted as the
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Remarkably,
the
survey
differentiates between the various
categories of banks - public sector,
private sector: old and new and
foreign banks - in recognition of their
differing operating environments
and awards those institutions that
have maximized stakeholder
value. The methodology adopted
by the survey is rigorous and is
based on extensive crunching of
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data by
the Express Groups knowledge
partner, Ernst & Young.
It is important here to note that
the Bank has won the prestigious
award in 2011 also.
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The
Star
Tribune
in
Minneapolis won two
Pulitzers, one for local
reporting on the rise in infant
deaths at badly regulated day
care centers and another for
editorial cartooning by Steve
Sack.
The Wall Street Journal won
one Pulitzer Prize for Bret
Stephenss commentary on
politics and American foreign
policy.
The Washington Post won a
Pulitzer Prize for Philip
Kennicotts criticism of art and
the social forces that underlie
it.
The Denver Post won in the
award for breaking news for
its coverage of the theater
shootings last summer in
Aurora, Colo.
The Sun Sentinel in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., received its
first Pulitzer, winning in the
public service category for its
reporting on how off-duty
police officers were often
speeders who endangered the
lives of residents.
Ayad Akhtar won the drama
award for Disgraced, a play
about a corporate lawyer who
long disguises his Pakistani
Muslim heritage, and Sharon
Olds won the poetry award for
Stags Leap.
2nd National Photo Awards for
the Year 2011-2012
The
Awards
2nd
for
National
the year
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Chetty, the
Delhi-born Raj Chetty
professor in the Department of
Economy at the Harvard University
won John Bates Clark medal for
2013, also called Baby Nobel. Raj
Chettys work was also cited by the
US President Barack Obama in State
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Nicolas Maduro
Nicolas Maduro of the United
Socialist Party of Venezuela was
sworn in as the new President of
Venezuela on 19 April 2013 in a
ceremony by the National Assembly
Speaker Diosdado Cabello. Nicolas
Maduro, 50, succeeded late
President of Venezuela, Hugo
Chavez who died on 5 March 2013.
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Cognizant Group Chief Executive
(Technology & Operations) was
appointed as the Vice Chairman of
the Executive Council.
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NASSCOM
NASSCOM Foundation is a
non-profit organization that
represents the Indian IT BPO
industry and it played a
leading role in developing the
Indian IT-BPO industry to
reach mark of 100 billion
dollar industry.
M F Farooqui
M F Farooqui on 1 April 2013
took over charge as the secretary of
the
Department
of
Telecommunications (DoT). He
replaced R Chandrashekhar who
retired in the month of March 2013.
Prior to his appointment, Farooqui
was the secretary for the
Department of Heavy Industries. He
worked in ministry only once many
decades ago as a deputy secretary
in between 1990-91 as a private
secretary to the minister.
Giorgio Napolitano
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president. Giorgio Napolitano will
be the first Italian president to be
re-elected to serve a second term.
The party leaders convinced the 87year-old Giorgio Napolitano to serve
again in hopes of easing the hostility
that has let down the formation of a
new government. Napolitano
received 738 votes, out of 1007
votes which are far more than the
504 needed for victory easily
surpassing the simple majority
needed in the sixth round of an
election. As per the Article 84 o f
the Italian Constitution, any citizen
who is fifty or older on Day of
Election and enjoys civil and
political rights can be elected
President.
Uhuru Kenyatta
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2013-14. He is succeeding Adi
Godrej, Chairman of the Godrej
Group.
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About CSI
Computer Society of India
(CSI) was formed in 1965, and has
been instrumental in guiding the
Indian IT industry down the right
path since its formative years. At
present, the CSI has 70 chapters all
over India with 418 student
branches, and more than 90000
members including Indias most
famous IT industry leaders, brilliant
scientists
and
dedicated
academicians.
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Renowned violinist and
composer Lalgudi Jayaraman died
in Chennai on 22 April 2013 at 82
because of illness. He is said to be
equivalent to Pandit Ravi Shankar, in
the violin. He is survived by his son
and daughter, both of whom are the
renowned violinists as well.
RP Goenka
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Chairperson of the News
Broadcasters Standards
Authority
In 1955, he started his legal
career and became judge of
the Madhya Pradesh High
Court in June 1973. In 1986 he
became the Chief Justice of
Madhya Pradesh High Court
and was the Chief Justice of
Rajasthan high court from
September, 1986 to 1989.
In June 1989, he was
appointed as a Judge in the
Supreme Court of India.
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Professor Bratindra Nath
Mukherjee
Padma Shri Awardee Professor
Bratindra Nath Mukherjee, the
renowned historian and an
epigraphy expert died at his
residence in Kolkata on 4 April 2013.
The 79 year old who deciphered
several ancient scripts, is now
survived by his wife and son.
Shakuntala Devi
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of more than five decades
She lived in India for a period
of about two-decades
Her last story was published in
the New Yorker Magazine in its
March 2013 issue with the title The
Judges Will.
Mike Denness
Michael Henry Denness,
popularly known as Mike Denness,
the former England captain died on
19 April 2013 in London because of
cancer. He was 72 years of age.
About Mike Denness
Mike Denness was an only
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He
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12
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Leadership
Training Programme II
The Union Minister of Culture
Chandresh
Kumari
Katoch
inaugurated Leadership Training
Programme II for Indian museum
professionals on 10 April 2013. The
Leadership Training Programme II
for Indian museum professionals
was inaugurated in the presence of
Neil MacGregor, Director British
Museum, London as well as Sangita
Gairola, Secretary Culture. The
syllabus for the Leadership Training
Programme was developed by the
British Museum and the National
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Government of India inaugurated
the Tagore Centre for Global
Thought at India Institute, Kings
College, London on 2nd April, 2013.
Tagore Centre was set up as part of
the Tagore Commemoration
celebrating 150th Birth Anniversary
of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
The Tagore Centre will enhance
Tagore-related,
academic
intellectual and philosophic work
globally. The underlying concept is
to promote the study of liberal arts
and
support
programmes
connected with all aspects of
Tagores works and showcase how
the Indian thought and intellectual
capability was influenced by
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. The
Tagore Centre has been established
in partnership with the India
Institute of Kings College, London
by signing an agreement. The Centre
will take up five core activities
promoting global implications and
connections of Indian thought
besides promoting Tagores literary
and cultural legacy. The Centre is
also expected to promote research
in Tagores literature and artistic
works in all the areas of music, art
and films. Besides promoting
Tagores philosophy it is also
expected to promote and support
research students working on the
Global Intellectual history of Indian
Thought. The activities will include
Tagore distinguished lectures in
Global Thought, Lecture series on
Tagore, Doctoral Scholarships and
film series based on Tagore Stories
and writings. To facilitate the
Tagore Centre, Ministry of Culture
has designed a lean but strong
administrative
architecture
comprising the New Delhi - based
Steering Committee headed by the
Union Culture Secretary and the
London - based Implementation and
Monitoring Committee. The latter
has been empowered to take
decisions regarding the Centre and
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Abu Jundal is accused of making
recruitments for Pakistan for LeT, the
Pakistan based terror outfit.
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turned up to be the first Indian and
second Asian to complete such a
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Environmentalists
were
attacked because, with the
dismantling of state controls, only
they asked the hard questions. When
a new factory, highway, or mining
project was proposed, only they
asked where the water or land
would come from, or what the
consequences would be for the
quality of the air, the state of the
forests, and the livelihood of the
people. Was development under
liberalisation only going to further
intensify the disparities between
city and countryside? Before
approving the rash of mining leases
in central India, or the large hydel
projects being built in the high (and
seismically fragile) Himalayas, had
anyone systematically assessed their
social and environmental costs and
benefits? Was a system in which the
Environmental Impact Assessment
was written by the promoter himself
something a democracy should
tolerate? These, and other questions
like them, were brushed off even as
they were being asked.
Steady deterioration
Meanwhile, the environment
continued to deteriorate. The levels
of air pollution were now shockingly
high in all Indian cities. The rivers
along which these cities were sited
were effectively dead. Groundwater
aquifers dipped alarmingly in Indias
food bowl, the Punjab. Districts in
Karnataka were devastated by opencast mining. Across India, the
untreated waste of cities was
dumped on villages. Forests
continued to decline, and
sometimes disappear. Even the fate
of our national animal, the tiger, now
hung in the balance.
A major contributory factor to
this continuing process of
degradation has been the apathy
and corruption of our political class.
A birdwatcher herself, friendly with
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competitiveness, to everyones
benefit. APEC includes not just East
Asian economies but several transPacific ones, in tune with Indias
emerging interest in economic ties
with Latin America.
The next move is up to
Washington. The United States was
for years reluctant to bring in India.
APEC began a moratorium on new
members around the turn of the
century, but that has now ended.
India, whose application got caught
in
the
moratorium,
is
understandably not interested in
putting
forward
another
unsuccessful application. It is time
for the United States to change its
position. Like any expansion of
international economic integration,
membership would also involve
some important policy steps for
India. These would reinforce the
strategic and economic interests
that its Look East policy has long
recognised, interests that are also
foundation stones for the new
relationship with Washington.
This is a worthy objective
even if Indians and Americans
cannot agree on what game ought
properly to be played with a
wooden bat.
Courtesy-The Hindu
Starving to live, not die
Over the past 12 years, Irom
Sharmila Chanu has carried on an
inconceivable hunger strike, which
has seen her body wither and her
skin turn pale. During this period,
she has emerged as the face of the
civilian resistance to the immunity,
and impunity, granted by the Armed
Forces (Special Powers) Act to the
army in Manipur. The Indian state
has done its part to disfigure that
face, by exhibiting either an inability
or unwillingness to meet Sharmilas
demands. Today, it is impossible to
think of Sharmila without recalling
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Skill deficit
Both reports recognise a crisis
in higher education, but their
diagnosis of the nature of that crisis
is quite different. While NKC views
the narrow growth of higher
education in the context of skills, it
is not quite clear how it relates the
current parlance of skill deficit to
higher education. The idea comes
across as an obvious issue or as an
assumption: While higher
education enrolment has to increase
markedly, the skill requirement of
the growing economy means that a
large proportion of our labour force
needs to be provided vocational
education and be trained in skills.
This skill element has to be
integrated with the higher education
system to ensure maximum
mobility. Confusing as these words
are, they convey the shape of things
to come if NKCs vision becomes
reality. The report discusses the
paucity of skills in the vast
unorganised sector, but shows little
interest in the context in which this
paucity has grown. After all, the
economy must be in a position or
evolve towards one which provides
employment prospects attractive to
skilled personnel.
Knowledge and skills
The fact that Indian
manufacturing has provided slow
employment growth called
jobless growth during the 1990s
or that the IT-enabled sector
provides less than 0.5 per cent of
total employment, indicates that at
least two sectors commonly linked
with skills and the so-called
knowledge economy, respectively,
are not in a position to provide
massive additional employment, or
at least not immediately. No doubt
the economy might evolve, and
these or other sectors change in
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car sector.
Courtesy-The Hindu
Vivekanandas legacy of
universalism
A variety of activities is in the
offing to commemorate Swami
Vivekanandas
immense
contribution to the making of India
as a nation. The occasion: the 150th
birth anniversary of Swamiji.
Seminars, workshops, publications
and such other means to perpetuate
his memory and assess the
significance of his contribution form
part of the celebrations. Strangely,
at the forefront of this celebration
are the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh and its front organisations.
Strange because Vivekananda
hardly had anything in common with
the sangh parivar, except being
Hindu by birth.
Devoted Hindu, not communal
The ideology of the sangh
parivar is rooted in religious hatred
and Swamiji stood for social
harmony and inter-faith dialogue.
There can be no meeting point
between these two. Yet, the Hindu
fundamentalists trace their lineage
to the neo-Hindu movement of
which Vivekananda was the central
figure. None of his observations on
Hinduism, unless taken out of
context, seems to give credence to
the proposition that he had a
communal outlook. He was a
devoted Hindu, passionately
involved in bringing about cultural
and spiritual welfare of the people.
He indeed realised that changes
were necessary but he was unhappy
about the course the reform
movements had followed. He
decried the primacy ascribed to
caste in concepts and practices of
social reform movement. Any
attempt to find a solution, he
believed, was a difficult task,
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Pakistani-American upwardly
mobile son of a retired senior
Pakistan Air Force officer was
picked up for the bombing attempt
at New York Citys Times Square in
the summer of 2010, it was seen as
an aberration but it chipped at the
comforting
argument
that
youngsters take to terrorism out of
poverty and deprivation.
Subsequent studies have
driven home this disconcerting fact.
The radicalisation of Pakistani
society was pervasive enough for
analyst Ayesha Siddiqa to call it a
social pop culture in her study of
the socio-political attitudes among
students of elite educational
institutions in 2010. Another
concern that emerged in several
attempts to understand terrorism in
Pakistan was that it was not
peripheral geographically as in
not just confined to the tribal areas
adjoining Afghanistan but
flourishing right in the heart of the
country, especially Punjab. The
Pakistan Security Report of 2010,
brought out by the Pakistan Institute
of Peace Studies, dwelt on growing
urban terrorism.
And, more recently, a preelection survey conducted by the
Sustainable Development Policy
Institute had Central Punjab showing
the strongest support for
punishment for blasphemy laws,
maximum opposition to nonMuslims in public office, and antiAhmadi sentiments. The recent
analysis of 900 biographies of
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives
killed between 1989 and 2008, thus,
fits the pattern that has been
established though the powers that
be in Pakistan seemingly refuse to
read the writing on the wall. The LeT
cadres were found to be welleducated compared to Pakistani
men, and the bulk of the recruitment
was from Punjab.
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France was the first country to
establish de facto control in the
Falkland Islands, with the
foundation of Port Saint Louis in East
Falkland by French nobleman, Louis
Antoine de Bougainville, in 1764.
The French colony consisted of a
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British
colonial
administration was formed in 1842.
This was expanded in 1908, when
in addition to South Georgia
claimed in 1775, and the South
Shetland Islands claimed in 1820 the
UK unilaterally declared sovereignty
over more Antarctic territory south
of the Falklands, including the South
Sandwich Islands, the South Orkney
Islands, and Graham Land, grouping
them into the Falkland Islands
Dependencies. In 1850, the AranaSouthern Treaty otherwise known as
the Convention of Settlement was
signed between Britain and
Argentina. The Convention was
referred to as a peace treaty. The
Convention of Settlement ended
Argentinas protests over the
Falklands. After the Message to
Congress in December 1849, the
Falklands were not mentioned again
in the Messages to Congress for 91
years until 1941.
Following the introduction of
the Antarctic Treaty System in 1959
the Falkland Island Dependencies
were reduced to include South
Georgia and the South Sandwich
Islands. In 1976 the British
Government commissioned a study
on the future of the Falklands,
looking at the ability of the Islands
to sustain themselves, and the
potential
for
economic
development.
Argentine Settlements
Argentina declared its
independence from Spain in 1816,
although this was not then
recognised by any of the major
powers. Britain informally
recognized
Argentine
independence on 15 December
1823, as the province of Buenos
Aires, and formally recognised it on
2 February 1825, but like the US did
not recognise the full extent of the
territory claimed by the new state.
The new state, the United Provinces
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Essay Writing
http://www.upscportal.com/civilservices/study-kit/essay-mains
http://www.upscportal.com/civilservices/study-kit/ias-mains-english-compulsory
History
http://www.upscportal.com/civilservices/study-kit/ias-mains-history
Philosophy
http://upscportal.com/civilservices/study-kit/ias-mains-philosophy
Sociology
http://upscportal.com/civilservices/study-kit/ias-mains-sociology
General Studies
http://www.upscportal.com/civilservices/study-kit/gs-mains
http://upscportal.com/civilservices/study-kit/capf