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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Jun 29, 2021

Umesh Sinha Gets Extension as Dy. Election Commissioner

  • The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension for Umesh Sinha, lAS (UP:86) (Retd.) as Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India on contract basis for another year up to July, 2022.
  • Mr. Sinha is a former U.P. cadre IAS officer who has been with the Election Commission of India for several years. The government re-employed him after he superannuated from the service.

BSP Pulls Out of UP Panchayat Election

  • BSP president Mayawati said that her party will not contest the zila panchayat chairpersons' elections so that it can focus on next year's assembly polls, drawing accusations from the Congress that she is pulling out to help the ruling BJP. She said that people wanted the Bahujan Samaj Party to form the government next year --- and it will go to the polls with the slogan that Uttar Pradesh must be 'saved'.

Justice Malimath is Acting Chief Justice of HP High Court

  • Justice Ravi Vijaykumar Malimath was appointed as the acting Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
  • As per a notification issued by the Department of Justice, Justice Malimath, the senior-most judge of Himachal Pradesh High Court, will perform the duties of the office of the chief justice of that high court with effect from July 1 consequent upon the retirement of Justice Lingappa Narayana Swamy, Chief Justice, Himachal Pradesh High Court.

Modi Govt. Decides to Extend Tenure of Venugopal as A-G

  • The central government has decided to extend the tenure of K. K. Venugopal as the Attorney General by one year.
  • Though the attorney general usually has a tenure of three years, when his first term as A-G was to end last year, Venugopal had requested the government to give him a one-year tenure keeping in mind his advanced age.
  • Keeping in mind the high profile cases he is handling in the Supreme Court and his experience at the Bar, the government has decided to extend his tenure for one more year.
  • Venugopal took over as the Attorney General in July 2017. He succeeded Mukul Rohatgi as the top law officer of the Union government.

Jun 28, 2021

BSP to Contest UP and Uttarakhand Assembly Elections Alone

  • According to party chief Mayawati, the BSP will not enter into any alliance for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls.
  • The party wants to clarify that barring Punjab, the BSP will be contesting the Assembly elections to be held in UP and Uttarakhand alone, and will not be entering into any alliance with anyone.
  • The BSP has recently joined hands with the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.

BSP to Contest UP and Uttarakhand Assembly Elections Alone

  • According to party chief Mayawati, the BSP will not enter into any alliance for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls.
  • The party wants to clarify that barring Punjab, the BSP will be contesting the Assembly elections to be held in UP and Uttarakhand alone, and will not be entering into any alliance with anyone.
  • The BSP has recently joined hands with the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.

Puducherry Cabinet, Includes First Woman Minister in Decades

  • More than a month after the Puducherry election results were announced, five legislators of the N. Rangasamy-led coalition cabinet were sworn in as ministers by Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan. The swearing-in ceremony for the ministers, including three AINRC members and two BJP leaders, was held at Lt Governor's residence, Raj Nivas.
  • Puducherry got its first woman minister in over four decades with Priyanga taking the oath of office. Late Congress leader Renuka Appadurai was the last woman minister in Puducherry during 1980-83 and handled the education portfolio in the MDR Ramachandran-led coalition.

UP Zila Panchayat Chairman Elections: BJP to Win 17 Seats Unopposed

  • The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going to win 17 seats unopposed in the elections of the Uttar Pradesh Zila Panchayat chairpersons. The BJP candidates for the Zila Panchayat chairman post are all set to be declared winners unopposed as no other candidate filed nomination papers.
  • The Samajwadi Party (SP), in a reaction, has sacked presidents of 11 districts, mostly the ones where the BJP candidate has been elected unopposed.
  • The SP state President Naresh Uttam Patel, announced that district presidents of the party units in Gorakhpur, Moradabad, Jhansi, Agra, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Mau, Balrampur, Shravasti, Bhadohi, Gonda and Lalitpur have been removed from their post on the directions of the national president Akhilesh Yadav.

Jun 27, 2021

India, Greece Call for Respecting Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity

  • India and Greece called for following fundamental international principles of rule of law and respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity, and denounced radicalisation, violent extremism and terrorism, in a clear signal of their growing convergence on key geopolitical challenges.
  • The issues figured prominently during talks between External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Athens.
  • Jaishankar is on a three-day visit to Greece, the first tour by an Indian Foreign Minister to Athens in the last 18 years.
  • The two sides also noted with satisfaction the convergence of each other's vision for a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific ensuring connectivity and growth for all in the region, the Ministry of External Affairs said after the talks that covered key bilateral, regional and global issue.

Indore, Surat Joint Winners of Smart Cities 2020; UP Wins 'State Award'

  • Indore and Surat were on Friday adjudged joint winners of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry's Smart Cities Award 2020, while Uttar Pradesh secured the first position in the state awards category, tailed by Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
  • The awards were given based on a range of themes like social aspects, governance, culture, urban environment, sanitation, economy, built environment, water and urban mobility.
  • In 2019, Surat was the only winner among smart cities.
  • This is the first time that states have also been awarded for the overall performance of smart cities.

BJP Appoints Chiefs of Its Assam, Manipur New Units

  • The BJP named Bhabesh Kalita and Sharda Devi as presidents of its Assam and Manipur units respectively.
  • The appointments were made by BJP national president JP Nadda and come into immediate effect.
  • Kalita, who is a sitting MLA in the Assam assembly, will replace Ranjeet Kumar Dass, who became a minister in the newly-formed government in the state led by Himanta Biswa Sarma.
  • The BJP had won the recently held assembly polls in Assam.

Jun 26, 2021

Jaishankar to Travel to Greece and Italy

  • External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will embark on a two-day bilateral visit to Greece to hold talks with his Greek counterpart. Following Greece, Jaishankar will travel to Italy to attend the G20 Ministerial meeting.
  • This is the first EAM-level visit to Greece in about 18 years, the one being in 2003.

Ladakh Administration Renovating Rezang La Memorial on Sino-Indian Border

  • The administration of the union territory of Ladakh and the Army is renovating the Rezang La war memorial on the Sino-Indian border where Indian troops fought the Chinese army during the 1962 war.
  • The UT administration along with the Indian Army is renovating the Rezang La memorial, situated in Chushul in Ladakh, and we hope for its timely completion this year, Lieutenant Governor R. K. Mathur said.
  • Mathur said that the 11 war monuments spread across Ladakh are reminders of the courage of Indian soldiers during their battles against enemy forces.

Jun 25, 2021

Prasar Bharati goes 100% Paperless

  • India's public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has gone 100% paperless, with all its centres functioning as e-offices.
  • This comes in less than two years since e-office was introduced in August 2019. Out of 577 Prasar Bharati centres across the country, 10% adopted e-office in 2019. By 2020, it was 74% of Prasar Bharati centres and the remaining 16% joined by June 18, 2021.

India Asks SCO to Frame Action Plan against Pak-based Terror Groups

  • India has proposed an action plan against the LeT and the JeM as part of the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which also includes as its members Pakistan where these two banned terrorist organisations are located as well as China, which had for years blocked the international listing of the chief of one of them.
  • India's proposal was suggested by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval at the 16th meeting of NSAs at Dushanbe in Tajikistan. India also pressed for the full implementation of UN resolutions and targeted sanctions against UN designated terrorist individuals and entitie.

Odisha Govt. Joins Hands with UN WFP

  • The government of Odisha and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have joined hands to improve household food and nutritional security by strengthening livelihood initiatives, reaching thousands of state-supported Women's Self-Help Groups (WSHGs).
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