Assam & NE Current Affairs & GK – June 01-02 2022
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June 01-02, 2022
Loving Borgohain Elected Chair of IBA Athletes Committee
Lovlina Borgohain has been elected as chairman and voting member on the Board of Directors for the IBA’s Athletes Committee.
Indian boxer and Tokyo Olympics Bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain had received the highest number of votes during the election held at the 2022 Women’s World Championship and thus has been elected as chair of the board.
Indian boxer Shiva Thapa has also been elected as a member of the IBA Athletes Committee following the election held during the 2021 IBA Men’s World Championships.
Appeal in Supreme Court against Assam Repealing Act converting state-funded madrassas to govt schools
A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging a Gauhati High Court’s order of upholding Assam Repealing Act 2020 which converted state-funded madrassas into regular schools.
The Assam Repealing Act, 2020 repealed Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 and the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of Services of Teachers and Reorganisation of Educational Institutions) Act, 2018. The Governor of Assam granted his assent on January 27, 2021.
The plea contended that the Act takes away property coupled with statutory recognition of madrassa education and the impugned order dated February 2, 2021 issued by the Governor disbands the ‘Assam State Madrasa Board’ created in 1954. It amounts to an arbitrary exercise of both legislative and executive powers and amounts to a denial of the petitioner madrassas’ ability to continue as madrassas providing religious instruction coupled with religious education,” the plea added.
The plea contended that Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 (repealed by the Act of 2020) is only limited to the state undertaking to pay the salaries and provide consequential benefits to the teaching and non-teaching staff employed in madrassas as also the administration, management and control of these madrassa.
Tripura gets first virtual court for traffic e-challan cases
The Chief Justice of Tripura High Court unveiled the first virtual court for traffic e-challan cases.
Justice S Talapatra, Justice T Amarnath Goud, Justice Arindam Lodh, Justice SG Chottapadhyay and senior state government officials also attended the inaugural ceremony.
Justice Mohanty proclaimed the day as ‘another red letter day’, which eliminates the necessity for litigants to appear in court for paying fines. The e-court was introduced in the state so that litigants don’t need to come to the court for justice.
Asserting that litigants are the focus of the judiciary, the chief justice said, Whatever may be we are or working in whatever category – judges, registry and police officers – we all come under the umbrella of the Constitution. Everything we do or don’t do is aimed at serving the people of our country.
Justice Mohanty also lauded the role of the state government for extending fullest support to the High Court. Justice Talapatra while speaking at the programme exhorted the state government to make all out efforts to popularize the virtual court for e-challan cases.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi releases PM CARES for Children Scheme
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi released benefits under PM CARES for Children Scheme via video conference. The scheme was launched by the Prime Minister on 29 May 2021.
The scheme aims to support children who have lost both the parents or legal guardian or adoptive parents or surviving parent to Covid-19 pandemic, during the period from 11 March 2020 to 28 February 2022.
The objective of the Scheme is to ensure comprehensive care and protection of children in a sustained manner by providing them boarding and lodging, empowering them through education and scholarships, equipping them for self-sufficient existence with financial support and ensuring their wellbeing through health insurance.
PM Modi has promised Rs 4,000 a month for basic needs, financial support for schooling, scholarship for higher education, and free treatment upto Rs 5 lakh.
A portal named pmcaresforchildren.in was launched to register the children. The portal is a single window system which facilitates approval process and all other assistance for children.
NTPC releases ‘Biodiversity Policy’ for conservation, restoration of biodiversity.
NTPC Ltd has issued a renewed Biodiversity Policy 2022 to establish a comprehensive vision and guiding principle for conservation, restoration, and enhancement of biodiversity. This Biodiversity Policy is an integral part of NTPC’s Environmental Policy.
The power major aims to mainstream the concept of biodiversity across NTPC’s value chain and adopt a precautionary approach for sustainable management of biodiversity in all the decision-making processes to ensure the Earth’s variety of life in and around the business units of NTPC.
The policy also aims to adopt systematic consideration of local threats to biodiversity beyond the company’s business activities.
NTPC is raising awareness among local communities, employees, and its associates across the supply chain about biodiversity through project-specific and national level trainings in collaboration with experts and also with local communities, organizations, regulatory agencies and research institutes of national/international repute in the field of biodiversity.
NTPC was the first PSU to issue a Biodiversity Policy in 2018. In the same year, NTPC became a member of the India Business & Biodiversity Initiative (IBBI).
Justice PK Mohanty gets additional charge of Lokpal chairperson
Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty has been given the additional charge of Lokpal chairperson after justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose completed his term as the Lokpal chief.
At present, there are six members in the Lokpal. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to justice Ghose as the Lokpal chairperson.
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act envisages the appointment of a Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in states to look into cases of corruption against certain categories of public servants, was passed in 2013.
A Lokpal chief and members are appointed for a term of five years or until attaining the age of 70 years. They are appointed by the President after obtaining the recommendations of a selection committee headed by the Prime Minister and comprising the speaker of the Lok Sabha, the Leader of Opposition in the lower house, the Chief Justice of India or a judge of the Supreme Court nominated by him, and an eminent jurist as recommended by the chairperson and members of the selection panel.
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June 02, 2022
Maharashtra sets the highest sugar production in the 2021-22
Maharashtra has recorded an all-time high sugar production of 132 lakh tonnes in the 2021-2022 season, state sugar commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad has claimed.
Maharashtra had a record of all-time high sugar production of 107 lakh tonnes in 2019-20. This year, it has reached nearly 132 lakh tonnes, which is again an all-time high record for the state, while Uttar Pradesh has so far produced 80 lakh tonnes of sugar so far this year,” Gaikwad said.
‘Tomb of Sand’ by Geetanjali Shree becomes first Hindi Novel to win International Booker Prize 2022
Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ has become the first Hindi novel to win the International Booker Prize. ‘Tomb of Sand’ which was originally published in Hindi as Ret Samadhi is translated into English by Daisy Rockwell.
The translated Hindi novel has become the first book written in an Indian language to win the prestigious 2022 International Booker Prize.
The novel ‘Tomb of Sand’, in Hindi titled ‘Ret Samadhi’, was published in Hindi in 2018. The novel narrates the story of an 80-years old woman who experiences a deep depression after the death of her husband.
Eventually, she overcomes the depression and decides to visit Pakistan to finally confront the past that she had left behind during partition.
PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer commissioned at IIT, Gandhinagar
PARAM ANANTA, a state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), which was commissioned. This indigenous software stack is developed by C-DAC and is a Make in India initiative.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Gandhinagar and Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to establish this 838 TeraFlops Supercomputing Facility under NSM.
The system is equipped with a mix of CPU nodes, GPU nodes, High Memory nodes, High throughput storage and high performance Infiniband interconnect to cater the computing needs of various scientific and engineering applications.
About the PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer
PARAM ANANTA system is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology to obtain a high power usage effectiveness and thereby reducing the operational cost.
It will benefit to IIT Gandhinagar to pursue the Research and Development (R&D) activities in multidisciplinary domains of science and technology at the Institute, including, but not limited to, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Science; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Bio-engineering for Genome Sequencing and DNA studies
Energy studies which will help in carrying out design simulation and optimization of energy conversion devices at various scales; Fire Dynamics Simulation; Nanotechnology; Robotics; Applied mathematics; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Material Sciences; Quantum Mechanics; Studies on Civil Engineering and structural mechanics to understand the dynamic behaviour of buildings, bridges; and complex structure.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics used in prediction and detection of gene networks; Atomic & Molecular Sciences that helps in understanding how a drug binds to a particular protein; Climate Change and Environment studies for extreme weather predictions and simulation of models which can predict the onset of a cyclone;
India win bronze at the Men’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022
India won bronze after defeating Japan 1-0 in the third-Place match at the Men’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
India were down to 10 men in the last minute of the match but they managed to hold on and win their second bronze medal at the Asia Cup. India’s Rajkumar Pal gave the team an early lead in the first quarter of the match itself, which they held on to till the end.
South Korea has lifted the prestigious trophy for the fifth time. They have won the title in 1994, 1999, 2009 and 2013.
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