TODAY’S RK READS OF THE HINDU FOR PRELIMS

DATE 10.4.2023.

RAMA KRISHNA- NIZAMABAD

1. Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000 elucidates the procedure to issue

takedown orders, which these notified amendments could bypass. They
also run afoul of Shreya Singhal vs Union of India (2015), a verdict with
clear guidelines for blocking content.

2. India’s Priyanshu Rajawat clinched the Orleans Masters Super 300

badminton tournament with a 21-15, 19-21, 21-16 win over Denmark’s
Magnus Johannesen in France on Sunday.

3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appreciated President Droupadi

Murmu who took a historic sortie in a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft at
the Tezpur Air Force Station in Assam.

4. Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah will be

on a two-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh beginning tomorrow. On the
first day of his visit, he will launch the ‘Vibrant Villages Programme’ in
Kibithoo, a border village in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh.

5. Union Home Minister will also inaugurate nine Micro Hydel Projects
of the Arunachal Pradesh government constructed under the “Golden
Jubilee Border Illumination Programme” in Kibithoo.

6. Arunachal Pradesh government constructed under the “Golden

Jubilee Border Illumination Programme” in Kibithoo.

7. Under ‘Vibrant Villages Programme 2967 villages in 46 blocks of 19

districts abutting the northern border in the states of Arunachal
Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and the Union
Territories of Ladakh have been identified for comprehensive
development. In the first phase, 662 villages have been identified for
priority coverage, which includes 455 villages in Arunachal Pradesh.

8. T he External Affairs Minister will also inaugurate the transit campus

of the National Forensic Science University (NFSU) in Jinja of UGANDA.
A bilateral MoU between the Government of India and the Government
of Uganda, on setting up the first-ever campus of NFSU outside India, is
likely to be signed during the visit

9. The Theppakadu camp welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as

he arrived at the Theppakadu Breeding Elephant Camp at Mudumalai in
the Nilgiris district.

10. The 54th Mid Term Symposium on 'Industry 5.0: The New
Revolution started on at the National Institute of Electronics &
Information Technology (NIELIT) Imphal. Chief Minister Biren Singh
encouraged scientists of the country to explore ideas for the
development of the country. The symposium is being organised by the
Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE).

11. In the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code)

Amendment Rules, 2023, the Union government has added a provision
of a fact-check unit to identify fake or false or misleading online content
related to the government

12.Section 79 of the IT Act, which allows intermediaries to avoid

liabilities for what third parties post on their websites.

13.Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000 elucidates the procedure to issue

takedown orders, which these notified amendments could bypass. They
also run afoul of Shreya Singhal vs Union of India (2015), a verdict with
clear guidelines for blocking content.

14. The Space Age began in 1957 with the launch of satellite Sputnik 1,
and in 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the world’s first person in
space. Neil Armstrong made history by walking on the moon in 1969

15. The first sounding rocket, a U.S. supplied Nike-Apache, was

launched at Thumba (Kerala) in 1963 and in 1969, the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) was set up.

16. GAGAN, a joint project between ISRO and the Airports Authority of
India, to augment Global Positioning System (GPS) coverage of the
region, to improve air traffic management over Indian airspace. This
has now been expanded to a regional navigation satellite system called
Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC).

17. In 2017, the government introduced the first draft Space Activities
Bill in Parliament but it lapsed in 2019.

18. The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-
SPACe) was set up in 2020 as a single-window-clearance for the private
sector.

19. Sunderlal Committee Report investigated the aftermath of the

merger of Hyderabad into India .

20. The PMMY ( PM MUDRA YOJANA) was launched in 2015 to

facilitate easy collateral-free micro-credit of up to ₹10 lakh to non-
corporate, non-farm small and micro-entrepreneurs, for income-
generating activities. and the load under scheme given is Rs 50000/-