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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Mar 13, 2021

Xcelerator Bengaluru Programme

Karnataka launched the "Xcelerator Bengaluru Programme" in the bid to provide support to the women-owned micro-businesses.
The state presented the Budget for 2021-2022 in which it has granted Rs. 37,188 crore for the women-centric programmes. Similarly, the government is also encouraging the small scale or micro entrepreneurs, employees, working women, rural self-help groups with the help of several initiatives like prominent Elevate Women programme.
The "Xcelerator Bengaluru" is a curated six-month accelerator programme. It seeks to provide its support to the women so as to help in scaling the women-owned micro-businesses. This initiative is jointly organised by the UBUNTU Consortium of Women Entrepreneurs' Associations, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI).

Govt. Employees Cannot be Election Commissioners, Rules SC

The Supreme Court ruled that any persons employed with the central or state governments could not be appointed as election commissioners in the country. The ruling aims at ensuring independence of the election commissions.
A bench of justices Rohinton F. Nariman and BR Gavai issued the direction exercising its powers under Articles 142 and 144 of the Constitution. Under Article 142, the apex court is empowered to issue directives to do "complete justice" whereas Article 144 obligates all authorities to act in aid of the Supreme Court.
The judgment came as the top court censured the Goa government for appointing its law secretary as the state election commissioner for conducting municipal council elections in the state. The law secretary was given the additional charge as the state election commissioner.

Meghalaya Opposition to Table Privilege Motion against CM Conrad Sangma

The opposition Congress in Meghalaya will table a privilege motion against Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma for allegedly misleading the House on the power purchase agreement signed with NTPC in 2007.
Leader of Opposition Mukul Sangma stating this regretted that the attempt to mislead and misinform the House has come from none other than the leader of the House.
He alleged that the chief minister had deliberately with a predetermined motive misinformed the House about the PPA signed by the then Congress-led government with the NTPC in 2007.
In order to prevent this precedent to carry on in the future, it requires the members of the House to come up with a complaint for breach of privilege. Therefore, a privilege motion against the Chief Minister was has been decided.

Mar 12, 2021

Gadkari Inaugurates Technology Centres in Andhra

Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Nitin Gadkari inaugurated two technology centres at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
He also inaugurated three extension centres of big technological centres and seven mobile Udyam Express.
The mobile Udyam Express, vans will go to the villages and make people aware about all aspects of entrepreneurship along with imparting training to them.

Mar 11, 2021

Khattar Government Wins Trust Vote Comfortably

The BJP-JJP government in Haryana survived the floor test, comfortably defeating the no-confidence motion moved against it by the main opposition Congress.
The motion was defeated following division of votes.
At the end of a marathon six-hour discussion on the motion, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta announced in the House that 55 members had voted against the motion while 32 legislators had backed it.
The 55 members who voted against the motion included 39 from the BJP, 10 of ally Jannayak Janta Party, 5 Independents and Gopal Kanda from Haryana Lokhit Party.

Mar 10, 2021

Trivendra Singh Rawat Resigns

Trivendra Singh Rawat, the eighth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, resigned from the top post on. He remained in office for about four years starting from March 2017.
Rawat, who was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member from 1979 to 2002, had played a key role in the formation of the state of Uttarakhand.
Rawat had a keen interest in social work from a very young age. Six years after joining RSS, he became the pracharak of the right-wing organisation for the Dehradun region. He, subsequently, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

No-confidence Motion in Haryana Assembly

Amid the ongoing farmers' stir against the three central agriculture laws, the BJP-JJP combine ruling in Haryana and the main opposition Congress have issued a whip for the no-confidence motion of the latter in the state Legislative Assembly against an 'anti-farmer' government on March 10.
Even protesting farm union leaders have urged the people and legislators, especially the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), to lobby their representatives in the assembly to support the motion.

Mar 09, 2021

S. Jaishankar Welcomes German Vision for Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific has emerged as a new area of cooperation in the Indo-German strategic partnership, said Foreign Ministers of both countries while exchanging messages on the 70th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar welcomed the German vision for the Indo-Pacific and called upon his counterpart Heiko Maas to enhance the quality of strategic engagement to face challenges to the global order.
Maas said that Germany's foreign policy guidelines on the Indo-Pacific represent a "commitment to even closer dialogue with India and the region in the future on issues ranging from urbanisation and green growth to rules-based international order". "The EU too needs to take such strategic approach to the Indo-Pacific," said the minister.

PM Modi Lists 5 Pillars for Celebrating India's 75 Years of Independence

Prime Minister Narendra Modi listed five pillars for marking the celebrations of India's 75 years of Independence and said it should be a festival to mark the spirit of the freedom struggle and talk about the sacrifices of those who made it possible.
PM Modi made the comments during the meeting of the national committee to commemorate 'Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav' - a central government programme to mark 75 years of India's Independence.
The Prime Minister will launch 'Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav', the day Mahatma Gandhi launched Dandi March from Gujarat's Sabarmati Ashram in 1930.

Inter-state Boundary Talks with Assam after Election: Meghalaya CM Sangma

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma said that there was no inter-state boundary talks with Assam due to Covid-19 pandemic but assured that his government will pursue the matter with the new government after the election in that state.
Sangma, who was speaking in the House, informed that several development projects undertaken by both governments at the disputed areas have been stopped.
He assured to look into the demand by Opposition members to stop the alleged illegal construction of a transit camp by the Assam government at Khanapara in the border district of Ri Bhoi in Meghalaya.

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