10 July 2024, The Indian EXPRESS
Russia, India agree to speed up delivery of military spare parts
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GS2-Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests
- India and Russia have agreed to expedite the delivery of spare parts of Russian-origin military platforms by setting up joint ventures in India among other ways, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said Tuesday, the Government’s first public acknowledgement of a delay in Russian supplies amid the war in Ukraine.
- Kwatra said Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue with Russian President Vladimir as the two leaders discussed bilateral defence ties at the 22nd India-Russia annual summit in Moscow.
IIT-Jodhpur to offer BTech programme in Hindi too
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GS2-Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Education
- Over three years after the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) first cautioned against the Centre’s decision to teach engineering in regional languages, IIT-Jodhpur has decided to implement the idea from its upcoming session.
- Its new batch of undergraduate students, who start this month, will be offered the option of being taught in either Hindi or English.
Jobs, still
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GS3- Indian Economy and issues relating to Planning, Mobilization of Resources, Growth, Development and Employment
- Amidst growing concerns over inadequate employment opportunities despite the economy growing at a fast clip, new estimates from the RBI suggest a pick up in job growth.
- As per the central bank’s KLEMS database, employment in the country grew by 4.67 crore in 2023-24.
- However, these are provisional estimates and they do not provide the disaggregated sector-wise job numbers for the latest year.
- In recent years for which the disaggregated data is available (2017-18 to 2022-23), however, much of the increase in employment has occurred in agriculture, followed by construction and trade — sectors marked by low levels of productivity.
Budgeting for science
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GS2-Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Education
- Amidst growing concerns over inadequate employment opportunities despite the economy growing at a fast clip, new estimates from the RBI suggest a pick up in job growth.
- As per the central bank’s KLEMS database, employment in the country grew by 4.67 crore in 2023-24.
- However, these are provisional estimates and they do not provide the disaggregated sector-wise job numbers for the latest year.
- In recent years for which the disaggregated data is available (2017-18 to 2022-23), however, much of the increase in employment has occurred in agriculture, followed by construction and trade — sectors marked by low levels of productivity.
Adoption agencies: SC warns non-complaint states of contempt
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GS2- Statutory, Regulatory and various Quasi-judicial Bodies
- The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the chief secretaries of states and Union Territories (UTs), which are yet to set up Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) in every district, to do so by August 30, failing which contempt of court proceedings will be considered against them.
- A three-judge bench presided by CJI D Y Chandrachud, which perused an affidavit filed by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, noted that only 370 out of 760 districts in the country have functional SAAs.
What is order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, conferred upon PM Modi?
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GS2- Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s interests
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday awarded Russia’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, during his visit to the country.
- The award for the PM was announced in 2019, for “exceptional services in promoting special & privileged strategic partnership between Russia and India and friendly relations between the Russian and Indian peoples.”
The High Seas treaty
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GS2- Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests
- The Indian government on Monday said it would soon sign and ratify the High Seas Treaty, a new international legal architecture for maintaining the ecological health of the oceans.
- The treaty, negotiated last year, is meant for reducing pollution, and for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and other marine resources in ocean waters.
Defamation case against Wikipedia and ‘Safe Harbour’ protection clause
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GS3- issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights
- News agency Asian News International (ANI) has moved Delhi High Court against Wikipedia for allowing allegedly defamatory content on ANI’s wiki page.
- A Bench of Justice Navin Chawla has sought a response from Wikipedia, and listed the matter for further hearing on August 20.
Why the latest RBI jobs data show a bump up in employment
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GS3- Indian Economy and issues relating to Planning, Mobilization of Resources, Growth, Development and Employment
- The employment growth in the country jumped by nearly 6 per cent in the fiscal 2023-24, as compared to an increase of 3.2 per cent recorded in FY2023, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) data. In FY2024, the workforce in the country increased by around 4.67 crore to 64.33 crore, compared to 59.67 crore in FY2023, the data, which measures productivity at the industry level, showed.
- The RBI’s data comes a few days after a research report by Citigroup India, which said that the country would struggle to create sufficient employment opportunities even with a 7 per cent growth rate – a claim refuted by the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
RBI cautions banks against account used for fraudulent transactions, evergreening
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GS3- Money-Laundering and its prevention
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday cautioned banks against having “lakhs of accounts” used for fraudulent transactions and evergreening of loan accounts.
- “We found certain banks having lakhs of such accounts with apparently no valid reason. Some of these accounts were also used as a conduit for certain fraudulent transactions and ever-greening of loan accounts.
- Internal accounts are high risk in nature on account of its potential for misuse,” RBI Deputy Governor Swaminathan J said at a Conference of statutory auditors and chief financial officers of commercial banks and financial institutions.
