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5 September: International Day of Charity observed

suffering within and among nations. It also seeks to

raise awareness and provide common platform for

charity related activities for charitable,

philanthropic and volunteer organizations and

individuals all over the world for their own purposes on national, regional and international

level.It is observed on the %th of September as it is the death anniversary of Mother Teresa.

It was first celebrated for the first time in 2013. On this day, all Member States,

international and regional organizations, as well as civil society are invited by UN to

commemorate this day for encouraging charity, including through education and pblic

awareness-raising activities. The International Day of Charity was instituted by United

Nations General Assembly (UNGA) by adopting resolution A/RES/67/105PDF on 17

December 2012.

7th RCEP Ministerial Meeting commence in Bangkok from 8-

10 September

The 7th Regional Comprehensive Economic

Partnership (RCEP) ministerial meeting of 10

members of ASEAN countries and their six FTA (free

trade agreement) partners is being held in Bangkok,

Thailand from 8-10 September 2019. Along with the

meeting 7th East Asia Economic Ministers Summit

and 16th ASEAN India Economic Ministers (AEM)

meeting are also being held. The meeting will be attended by Economic Ministers and senior

leaders of 10 ASEAN member countries and 8 East Asia Summit (EAS) countries. EAS

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Indo-Pacific regions. Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways, Piyush Goyal is

representing India at the meet. He will also hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts

from Russia, Japan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand. The

ongoing global uncertainties Which have added to urgency to conclude mega free trade

agreement (FTA) between these nations were discussed at the meeting. the 16 negotiating

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partners agreed that they should not lose long-term vision of deepening and expanding

value chains in RCEP. Matters related to promotion of trade and investment among partner

countries will be discussed in India ASEAN AEM and EAS-EMM ’

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region (IOR) and as close partners. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or the

RCEP is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between 10 member states of Association of

Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN - countries are Cambodia, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos,

Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar), and its 6 FTA partners -

India,Japan, China, Australia,South Korea and Newzealand.

Nuakhai’, a harvest festival welcoming the new crop,

celebrated in Odisha

Nuakhai Juhar is one of the most ancient festivals

celebrated in Odisha to welcome the new crop of

the season. The agricultural festival is mainly

observed by the people of western Odisha. On the

auspicious occasion,"Nuakhai Juhar! One of the

most ancient festivals of Odisha, may this

auspicious occasion further the spirit of prosperity,

especially among our hardworking farmers. Nuakhai Juhar is also called Nuakhai Parab or

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Nuakahi Bhetghat and is a greeting exchanged on the special day. Nuakhai is a combination

of two words, 'nua' meaning new and 'khai' means eat, it thus signifies "eating of new rice".

People worship food grain on this auspicious day. Special meals are prepared and everyone

eats it together. The farmers offer the first produce from their lands to Goddess

Samaleswari, the famous mother goddess of Sambalpur district of the state.Nuakhai is

celebrated across districts like Kalahandi, Sambalpur, Balangir, Bargarh, Sundargarh,

Nuapada, Jharsuguda, Sonepur and Boudh and also across several areas of Jharkhand.

Several cultural programmes - folk songs and dances are organised on this day to display the

state's local culture and tradition.

5 new governors appointed, Kalraj Mishra goes to

Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu BJP chief is Telangana governor

President Ram Nath Kovind today appointed four

new Governors and shifted Kalraj Mishra from

Himachal Pradesh to Rajasthan. Mishra, 78, will

succeed former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan

Singh, who completed his five-year tenure as the

Governor of Rajasthan. Former Union Labour

Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, 72, has been

appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh, replacing Kalraj Mishra. Former Union Minister

Arif Mohammed Khan will be the Kerala Governor in place of former Chief Justice of India P

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Telangana, a post currently held by ESL Narasimhan. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister

Bhagat Singh Koshyari will be the new Governor of Maharashtra in place of Vidyasagar Rao.

The appointments will take place from the dates they assume charge.

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01 September 2019

The West Bengal State Assembly passed West

Bengal (Prevention of Lynching) Bill, 2019. The Bill

aims to prevent and punish mob assaults and

lynching. The state government mentioned that the

Bill was passed as the Centre has failed to take the

initiative. The Bill was passed by a voice vote. The

Bill aims to prevent the spreading of hatred or

incidents of mob lynching. The State describes lynching as social malice. The State also

urged the Centre and other State governments to bring similar legislation.

Provisions of the Bill

The bill was passed after several cases in which the

people were beaten to death over rumors of cattle

smuggling and child theft. This offense will carry

the punishment of a jail term for three years to life

imprisonment. In case of assault leading to injury,

the penalty includes a fine of a minimum of Rs.1

lakh to a maximum of Rs.3 lakh. The Bill defined

terms such as lynching and mob. The Bill said that the West Bengal Lynching Compensation

Scheme may be framed under this Act.

‘Jai Bheem Mukhyamantri Yojana’

Ahead of assembly elections, the Delhi government

on Tuesday extended the benefits under its 'Jai

Bhim Mukhyamantri Yojana', which provides

financial aid for coaching to students from

Scheduled Castes (SC), to Other Backward Classes

(OBC) and economically weaker sections It includes

other backward class and general category students

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₹1 lakh for coaching for various competitive exams. This scheme is only for the scheduled

caste category students under ₹40,000

provided.The move comes at a time when only a few months are left for the scheduled

Delhi Assembly elections to be held early next year.According to Mr. Kejriwal, a civil service

aspirant will be provid ₹1 k 12-month coaching.An

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Aayush Centres

The Central government has set a target of setting

up 12,500 Ayush centres across India. The

announcement was made by Prime Minister

Narendra Modi at the Yoga Award Ceremony held

in New Delhi. He also said that the Centre will open

1.5 lakh health, wellness centres. The prime

minister also pitched for linking technology with

tradition in the practise of Ayush medicine. In its first, 4000 Ayush centres will be set up in

2019. Government is also making efforts to bring in more professionals in the field of Ayush

and necessary steps are being taken to that effect. Centre also plans to create a

homogenous system by creating an Ayush grid on the lines of one nation, one tax, and one

nation, one mobility card.

International Relations

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami

signed three agreements for collaboration in the

healthcare sector on his first day of his UK tour. The

Chief Minister is on the first leg of his three-nation

tour which he set out for on Wednesday. According

to reports, of the three agreements, two were

Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) and one

was Statement of Intent. While one MoU was signed between the government of Tamil

Nadu and International Skills Development Corporation, to develop the skills of the

healthcare staff in the state, another MoU was between the government of Tamil Nadu and

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Vijayabaskar and Health Secretary Dr Beela Rajesh, also signed a Statement of Intent with

the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to improve the standards to control

the spread of communicable diseases like malaria and dengue. The delegation also visited

the Emergency Operations Centre of the London ambulance service, NHS and its call centres

to study the model of emergency response and dispatch of ambulances in London. The aim

is to replicate the model in Tamil Nadu.


Rajya Sabha passes National Institute of Design

(Amendment) Bill, 2019

Rajya Sabha has passed National Institute of Design

(Amendment) Bill, 2019. Now it has to be passed by

Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to amend National

Institute of Design Act, 2014, which declares

National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad as an

institution of national importance. It seeks to

declare four National Institutes of Design (NID) in Andhra Pradesh (Amaravati), Assam

(Jorhat), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal) and Haryana (Kurukshera) as institutions of national

importance as these institutes are registered as Societies under Societies Registration Act,

1860 and do not have power to grant degrees or diplomas. Once these four institutions are

declared of national importance, they will be granted the power to grant degrees and

diplomas. This step taken by the Government will not only help to produce highly skilled

manpower in design sector but also create job opportunities, both direct and indirect. It will

also provide sustainable design interventions for handloom, crafts, rural technology, small,

medium (SMEs) and large scale enterprises (LSEs) nd outreach programmes for capacity,

capability and institution building.

Lok Sabha passes Transgender Persons (Protection of

Rights) Bill, 2019

Lok Sabha passed Transgender Persons (Protection

of Rights) Bill, 2019 which seeks to prohibit

discrimination against transgender persons,

including in matters of employment. This bill that

lays emphasis on educating, skilling and making

transgenders employable was moved by Union

Minister for State for Social Justice and Empowerment Kishan Pal Gurjar. This bill prohibits

discrimination on the grounds of education, healthcare, employment, access to, or

enjoyment of goods, facilities opportunities available to public. A transgender person can

make an appliction to District Magistrate (DM) for a certificate of identity, indicating gender

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Minister for Social Justice, apart from redressing grievances of transgender person, will

advise central government as well as monitor impact of policies with respect to transgender

persons. A transgender, ss a person or individual whose gender does not match gender

assigned at birth. It includes trans-men and trans-women, persons with intersex variation

(means a person who at birth shows variation in his/her primary sexual characteristics,

external genitalia, chromosomes, or hormones from normative standard of male/female


body), gender-queers, and persons with socio-cultural identities, such as kinnar and hijra.

Though maximaum demands of the transgender community have been included in the Bill

but the prejudice of the people regarding transgender have to be changed then only the

Bills passed for them will be effective.

Indian Policy

The Sagarmala is a series of projects to leverage the

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industrial development. It was originally mooted by

the Vajpayee government in 2003 as the waterways

equivalent of the Golden Quadrilateral. Sagarmala,

integrated with the development of inland

waterways, is expected to reduce cost and time for

transporting goods, benefiting industries and export/import trade. The Sagarmala

Programme is an initiative by the government of India to enhance the performance of the

country's logistics sector. The programme envisages unlocking the potential of waterways

and the coastline to minimize infrastructural investments required to meet these targets. It

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Economic Zones (CEZs) and Coastal Employment Units, enhancing port connectivity via road,

rail, multi-modal logistics parks, pipelines & waterways and promoting coastal community

development, with the aim of boosting merchandise exports by US$110 billion and

generating around 10,000,000 direct and indirect jobs. The Sagarmala Programme is the

flagship programme of the Ministry of Shipping to promote port-led development in the

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waterways and its strategic location on key international maritime trade routes. Sagarmala

aims to modernize India's Ports so that port-led development can be augmented and

coastlines can be developed to contribute to India's growth. It also aims at "transforming

the existing Ports into modern world-class Ports and integrate the development of the

Ports, the Industrial clusters and hinterland and efficient evacuation systems through road,

rail, inland and coastal waterways resulting in Ports becoming the drivers of economic

activity in coastal areas. To implement this, State governments would set up State

Sagarmala committees, headed by the chief minister or the minister in charge of ports. At

the central level, a Sagarmala Development Company (SDC) will be set upto provide equity

support to assist various special purpose vehicles (SPVs) set up for various projects.


1st ever Mobile Science Exhibition flagged off in Leh

Leh, Sep 5 (IANS) Leh's first Mobile Science

Exhibition (MSE) van was flagged off on Thursday by

Union Tourism and Culture Minister Prahlad Singh

Patel from the iconic Leh Palace here. The vehicle

will hold lectures and sky observation sessions for

school students, among other programmes.

According to the officials in the Ministry of Culture,

the vehicle will travel across the Ladakh region to promote science and technology among

the youth. The Ministry will also flag-off 24 more such vans from different parts of the

country on Thursday. Originally launched in 1965 as Mobile Science Museum (MSM), these

vans have science exhibits and hold exhibitions throughout the year at schools in rural

areas, except during vacations. The programmes aim to popularise science and technology

among students as well as the people. Over next 5 years, 25 new vans will be added every

year. Twenty-five vans are being added in September 2019, which is also part of 100-day

achievement of this government.

Samudrayaan Project

India, after Chandrayaan project is planning to

explore the deep sea region with the 'Samudrayaan'

project to undertake deep ocean mining .The

'Samudrayaan' is a pilot project of the Ministry of

Earth Sciences for deep ocean mining for rare

minerals. The 'Samudrayaan' project proposes to

send men into the deep sea in a submersible vehicle for ocean studies. The project is

expected to become a reality by 2021-22. The project has been undertaken by the National

Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT). NIOT Director MA Atmanand said that NIOT has

similarly undertaken Samudrayaan as ISRO has envisioned carrying an astronaut to space

under its 2022 'Gaganyaan' mission. Under the proposed 'Samudrayaan' project, three men

will be sent into deep sea in a submersible vehicle to a depth of about 6000 metres to carry

out various deep underwater studies. The submersible vehicle, which will be indigenously

developed, would be capable of crawling on the sea bed at a depth of six-kilometer for 72

hours.The project will go deeper in phases with more trials and the ocean mining is

expected to commence in 2022.The submarines deployed currently go only about 200

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metres deep into the sea. The expenditure of the ambitious project is expected to be

around Rs 200 crore. The significance of Samudrayaan project that if it id successful then

India will join the league of developed nations in the exploration of minerals from oceans

Developed countries have already carried out such missions. India could be the first

developing country to undertake such a project. The 'Samudrayaan' will be a part of the Rs

6000 ' O ’ -principle approval but it is still

awaiting final approval from the Union Finance Ministry. The final approvals are expected to

come through in October 2019.

Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 is an Indian lunar mission to explore

the unchartered south pole of the celestial body by

landing a rover. It is developed by the Indian Space

Research Organisation (ISRO),after Chandrayaan-1.It

consists of a lunar orbiter, the Vikram lander, and

the Pragyan lunar rover, all of which were

developed in India.The main scientific objective is to map the location and abundance of

lunar water via Pragyan, and ongoing analysis from the orbiter circling at a lunar polar orbit

of 100 × 100 km. The mission was launched to the Moon from the second launch pad at

Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 22 July 2019 at 2.43 PM IST (09:13 UTC) by a

Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk III). The craft reached the

Moon's orbit on 20 August 2019 and began orbital positioning manoeuvres for the landing

of the Vikram lander. Vikram and the rover were scheduled to land on the near side of the

Moon, in the south polar region at a latitude of about 70° south at approximately 1:50 am

on 7 September 2019 and conduct scientific experiments for one lunar day, lasting two

Earth weeks. However, at about 1:52 am IST, the lander deviated from its intended

trajectory at around 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi) from landing, and lost communication. Initial

reports suggesting a crash have been confirmed by ISRO chairman K. Sivan, stating that the

lander location had been found, and "it must had been a hard landing". The orbiter, part of

the mission with eight scientific instruments, remains operational and will continue its

seven-year mission to study the Moon. The Moon is the closest cosmic body at which space

discovery can be attempted and documented. It is also a promising test bed to demonstrate

technologies required for deep-space missions. Chandrayaan 2 attempts to foster a new age

of discovery, increase our understanding of space, stimulate the advancement of

technology, promote global alliances, and inspire a future generation of explorers and

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historical record of the inner Solar system environment. Though there are a few mature

models, the origin of Moon still needs further explanations. Extensive mapping of lunar

surface to study variations in lunar surface composition is essential to trace back the origin

and evolution of the Moon. Evidence for water molecules discovered by Chandrayaan-1,


requires further studies on the extent of water molecule distribution on the surface, below

the surface and in the tenuous lunar exosphere to address the origin of water on Moon. The

lunar South Pole is especially interesting because of the lunar surface area here that remains

in shadow is much larger than that at the North Pole. There is a possibility of the presence

of water in permanently shadowed areas around it. In addition, South Pole region has

craters that are cold traps and contain a fossil record of the early Solar System.

Food Ministry puts blanket ban on single use plastic

products from 15 Sept

Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food and Public

Distribution has announced a blanket ban on all

types of single use plastic products in various

departments of Ministry and all its Public Sector

Units (PSUs) including Food Corporation of India

(FCI) starting from 15 September 2019. The decision

on this ban on use of single-use plastic products was

taken in a high level meeting held by Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Food and Public

Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan. Union Minister. The high level meeting was held with

Secretaries of both Departments i.e. Consumer Affairs and Food, CMD FCI, DG Bureau of

India Standards (BIS), MD of central warehousing corporation (CWC), Director Legal

Metrology along with other senior officials of Ministry. Steps taken by Ministry so far is that

during the Swachhata Pakhwada and Swachhata Hi Sewa campaign, department of

fertilizers has distributed clo W ’ G ( HG) L x

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Swasya Group of village Maragondanahalli Grama Panchayat Ramohalli district, Karnataka

to its employees to reduce consumption of single use plastics. As per the department, it is a

small step to reduce single-use plastic usage and, to make people aware of viable

alternative, while at the same time to improve income and livelihood of rural women of

India.

Environment Ministry releases Rs 47,436 crore for

afforestation to various states

The Union Ministry of Environment has released Rs

47,436 crore of CAMPA funds to various states for

afforestation projects. The transferred funds will not

affect the state budget for forests, it will be an

additional fund. The funds were handed over by

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar.The

Environment Ministry has released the additional

fund to the states to give a boost to forestry activities to achieve the objectives of the

Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDCs) of increasing forest and tree cover. The

increase in forest and tree cover will create an additional carbon sink equivalent to 2.5 to 3

billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by the year 2030. The Environment Minister said that the

funds will be used for compensatory afforestation, wildlife management, improvement of

wildlife habitat, assisted natural regeneration, soil and moisture conservation works in the

forest, catchment area treatment, forest fire prevention and control operations,

management of biological diversity and biological resources and research in forestry and

monitoring of CAMPA works. The CAMPA funds cannot be used for payment of salary,

travelling allowances and medical expenses. The Supreme Court ordered for the

establishment of Compensatory Afforestation Fund and Compensatory Afforestation Fund

Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) in 2001. This was after the top court

observed that the funds collected for afforestation were underutilized by the states. The

court ordered for central pooling of funds under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund. The

National Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (National

CAMPA) was set up to manage the fund. In 2009, states set up State CAMPAs, which receive

10 percent of the funds from National CAMPA for afforestation and forest conservation

activities. In the same year, the apex court also permitted the release of Rs 1000 crore every

year to States/UTs for compensatory afforestation and other activities. As per the CAG

report 2013 noted that the funds continued to be underutilized. The Compensatory

Afforestation Fund Bill 2015 was then introduced by the government in Lok Sabha in May

2015 to regulate the collected funds. The bill was then sent for examination under a

standing committee and it was passed by Rajya Sabha in July 2016. With the approval of the

Supreme Court in January 2019, after notification of CAF Rules, an amount worth Rs.54,685

crore from Ad-hoc CAMPA was brought under the control of the Union Government.


Overall, 27 States and UTs have created accounts for receiving the government funds and

those states will be the beneficiary of the additional funds announced by the government.

The fund shall be utilized as per the provisions of the CAF Act and CAF Rules.

Researchers discover five new fish species in Arunachal

Pradesh

Five new species of fish have been discovered from

different districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The

discovery was made by a fisheries and aquatic

ecology research team from the zoology

department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU). The

research team was headed by Professor DN Das.

The RGU research team published the details of the

discovery in various International journals. According to Prof DN Das, the head of the

research team, the majority of remote water bodies in the state are still not easily accessible

to researchers due to dense rainforests, steep terrains and communication problem. He,

however, said that the research team was confident that systematic exploration may result

in more discoveries of new Ichthyo species from the state in the future.

Following are the five newly discovered fish species:

Mystus Prabini: The fish species was discovered in Sinkin and the Dibang rivers in

Lower Dibang Valley district.

Exostoma Kottelati: The species was discovered in the Ranga River in Lower

Subansiri district.

Creteuchiloglanis Tawangensis: The species was discovered in the Tawangchu river

in Tawang district of the Arunachal Pradesh.

Garra Ranganensis: The species was discovered in the Ranga River.

Physoschistura Harkishorei: The species was discovered in the Dibang and the Lohit

rivers in Lower Dibang Valley district.

Amazon fires

Seven countries sign forest protection pactSeven

South American countries have agreed measures to

protect the Amazon river basin, amid global

concern over massive fires in the world's largest

tropical forest. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,

Guyana, Peru and Suriname signed a pact, setting

up a disaster response network and satellite monitoring.The countries were represented in

Leticia by presidents, vice-presidents and ministers. At a summit in Colombia, they also


agreed to work on reforestation. More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the Amazon

rainforest this year. The Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global

warming, and 60% of it is located in Brazil. The number of fires between January and August

2019 is double that of the same period last year, according to the country's National

Institute for Space Research (Inpe). President Bolsonaro has drawn intense domestic and

international criticism for failing to protect the region. Environmentalists say his policies

have led to an increase in fires this year and that he has encouraged cattle farmers to clear

vast swathes of the rainforest since his election last October .Meanwhile, Brazil's leading

meat export industry group and agricultural businesses have joined an environmental

campaign calling for an end to deforestation in public lands in the Amazon and demanding

government action. Bolivia has also seen fires rage across the forest near its borders with

Brazil and Paraguay. Several international retailers have said they are suspending purchases

of Brazilian leather because of the links between cattle ranching and the fires devastating

parts of the Amazon rainforest.

NGT asks centre to prepare plan for protection of Great

Indian Bustard

Noting the high mortality of Great Indian Bustard,

the National Green Tribunal has directed the

government to prepare within two months a time-

bound action plan for protection of these birds. A

bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh

Kumar Goel constituted a joint committee to

prepare the action plan for implementation of suggestions submitted by the Wildlife

Institute of India (WII) over the issue. The panel comprises director general and additional

director general, Forest (Wildlife) from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, nominees

of Ministry of Power, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and nominees of Energy

Departments of Gujarat and Rajasthan. The tribunal was hearing a plea filed by the Centre

for Wildlife and Environment Litigation. The plea said according to the 30th Forest Advisory

Committee meeting, power lines, especially high-voltage transmission lines with multiple

overhead wires, are the major threat to the critically endangered species as they have poor

frontal vision. It said 75 per cent of the birds have died due to collision with power lines in

the past 30 years. The Great Indian Bustard is an endangered species. Its scientific name is

Ardeotis nigriceps. Its largest populations are found in Indian state Rajasthan.It is listed in

the Schedule I of Indian Wlildlife (Protection)Act,1972 , Convention on Migratory Species

(CMS) or Bonn Convention,Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in

Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), IUCN Red List- as Critically Endangered and

National Wildlife Action Plan (2002-2016). It has also been identified as one of the species

for recovery programme under Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats of Union

Ministry of Environment and Forests, and Climate Change (MoEFCC).


Venkaiah Naidu

Vice President of India M.Venkaiah Naidu released

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at Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra in New Delhi. It is a

compilation of 95 speeches delivered by President

of India Ram Nath Kovind during his 2nd year in office starting July 2018 to July 2019

represents vision, aspirations and ethos of the country and also represents contours of New

India. The books are a collections of the Presidents's wisdom and visionary world view and

also a testament of faith in strength of India

Veteran Lawyer And Former Union Law Minister Ram

Jethmalani Passes Away At 95

Veteran Indian lawyer and former Union Law

Minister Ram Jethmalani passed away early

morning on Sunday at the age of 95. He breathed

his last at his New Delhi residence. Jethmalani was

keeping ill since long and in the last two weeks he

had been on constant medical assistance, reports

said. His last rites will be performed at 4pm at Lodhi

crematorium. Ram Boolchand Jethmalani (14 September 1923 – 8 September 2019) was

born in Shikarpur, Sindh in the Sindh division of the then Bombay Presidency, now part of

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Pakistan in the family of Boolchand Gurmukhdas Jethmalani and Parbati Boolchand. He got

a double promotion in school and completed matriculation at the age of 13. He secured an

LL.B. degree from Bombay University with a first class first at the young age of 17. He

received LL.M. from Bombay University, since Sindh did not have a university of its own at

that time. He was an Indian lawyer and politician. He had served as India's Union Law

Minister and as chairman of the Bar Council of India. He has represented a sweep of cases

from the high-profile to the controversial for which he has often faced severe criticism. He

was the highest paid lawyer in the supreme court of india. He was elected a member of

parliament in the 6th and 7th Lok Sabha on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket from

Mumbai. He has served as Law Minister of India and also as Minister of Urban Development

during the prime ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee against whom he later contested

election in the general elections of 2004 from Lucknow constituency. However, in 2010 he

came back to BJP and was elected to Rajya Sabha on its ticket from Rajasthan. He has been

criticised as being opportunistic because of this. Jethmalani was a well known face amongst

the legal community in India. Even though his forte was criminal law, he had appeared in

many high-profile civil cases. From 1993 to 1998, he was one of the lawyers who

represented Harshad Mehta during the Harshad Mehta scam and the Narasimha Rao

bribery case. On 7 May 2010, he was elected as the president of Supreme Court Bar

Association.

Sameer

The renowned Bollywood lyricist who has written

‘ j B N H ’

which was released recently to commemorate the

20th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas (26th July

2019). The song features Bollywood megastar

Amitabh Bachchan, Olympic bronze medallist boxer

Mary Kom, actors Salman Khan, Vicky Kaushal,

Anupam Kher, Kangana Ranaut, and Suniel Shetty. The Kargil War was between India and

Pakistan took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district and along the Line of

Control (LOC) after which India launched Operation Vijay to clear the Kargil sector occupied

by the Pakistani Army.


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