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Abhyaas Newsboard... for the Quintessential Test Prep Student June 5, 2020 Abhyaas Newsboard... For the quintessential test prep student 1. Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore National Gallery of Modern Art will organise the Virtual Tour titled “Gurudev – Journey of the Maestro through his visual vocabulary” from 7th May 2020 to commemorate the 159th birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. More On This: Popularly known as ‘Gurudev’, he was born in an affluent Family. Tagore was primarily known as a writer, poet, playwright, philosopher and aesthetician, music composer and choreographer, founder of a unique educational institution - Visva- Bharati and a painter. • Tagore began writing poetry at the tender age of eight years old and at 16 years of age, Tagore released his first collection of poems under the pen name ‘Bhanusimha’. • He had spoken at the World Parliament for Religions in the years 1929 and 1937. • He wrote the National Anthems of India and Bangladesh. • He left his imprint on art and played a role in transforming its practices and ushering into modernism. • Between 1928 and 1940, Rabindranath painted more than 2000 images. He never gave any title to his paintings. • Expressionism in European art and the primitive art of ancient cultures inspired him. In 1913, he became the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel ‘Geetanjali’. He denounced British imperialism, yet he did not fully support or agree with Gandhi and his Non-cooperation Movement. 2. Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra and border area connectivity Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on May 8 inaugurated 80km long road that will curtail the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage time. The road link is from Dharchulawww.lawprep.in (Uttarakhand) to Lipulek (China Border). More On This: With this connectivity, there will be a new era for Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra and border area connectivity. The event took place through video conferencing in which he also flagged off a convoy of vehicles from Pithoragarh to Gunj. • Shri Rajnath Singh on the occasion said that the Central Government and PM Narendra Modi have a special vision regarding the development of the rural areas. • Shri Rajnath Singh stated that with the completion of the road link, the dreams of local people and pilgrims have been fulfilled. He also said the local trade and economic growth in the region will see a boost with this roadway. • Since the pilgrimage to Kailash-Mansarovar has been sacred, with the completion of this road, the yatra can be completed in just one week which earlier took 2-3 weeks. The event of road inauguration has been attended by Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, Defence Secretary Dr. Ajay Kumar, Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane, Lok Sabha MP from Almora (Uttarakhand) Shri Ajay Tamta, BRO and Senior officials of Defence Ministry. Abhyaas Newsboard ... www.lawprep.in Page 1 June 5, 2020 3. Pulitzer Prize On May 4, 2020, The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced in 15 Journalism categories and 7 Book, Drama and Music categories by its administrator, Dana Canedy,via video-conference instead of a ceremony at Columbia University in New York, United States (US) due to the coronavirus pandemic for their “striking images of life” in the valley. More On This: 3 Indian photojournalists won 2020 Pulitzer Prizein feature photography • The three Indian photojournalists namely Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand from Jammu and Kashmir who work for Associated Press (AP) have won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography. The award recognized their exceptional coverage of Jammu and Kashmir during the lockdown that was imposed on Jammu and Kashmir by the Central Government after the revocation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. • The winning photographers captured images of protests, the police, paramilitary action and daily life in Jammu and Kashmir after phone and internet services were shut down in August 2019, making it difficult for the world to gain access to the region. • Somehow, they managed to reach the airport and convinced Kashmiri passengers to carry photos stored in drives and disks to Delhi and hand them over to the Associated Press staff. 4. Parliamentary standing committees Vice President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu recently held a meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla and discussed the issue of feasibility of various Committees of Parliament holding their meetings at the earliest in the prevailing situation and in the context of restrictions on travel across the country. More On This: www.lawprep.in They also discussed pros and cons of Parliamentary Committees holding meetings by video conferencing. • ‘Standing’ committees: Their existence is uninterrupted and usually reconstituted on an annual basis. Some standing committees are departmentally related. • ‘Select’ committees formed for a specific purpose, for instance, to deliberate on a particular bill. Once the Bill is disposed of, that select committee ceases to exist. • Finance committees are considered to be particularly powerful. The three financial committees are the Public Accounts Committee, the Estimates Committee and the Committee on Public Undertakings. Abhyaas Newsboard ... www.lawprep.in Page 2 June 5, 2020 5. Delimitation Panel The Lok Sabha Speaker has nominated 15 MPs as associate members of the delimitation panel on Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern state. More On This: The nominated MPs belong to Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland. They will assist the panel in redrawing parliamentary and assembly constituencies of J&K and the northeastern states. • The 15 MPs include two Union ministers Kiren Rijiju and Jitendra Singh and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah. • The delimitation commission had recently written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and presiding officers of the assemblies of the four concerned northeastern states to nominate associate members of the panel. The union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has no legislative assembly at present. It was bifurcated into a UT with a provision of a legislature. • Delimitation Panel Responsibilities The delimitation panel will delimit the constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act and that of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh in accordance with the provisions of the Delimitation Act, 2002. The commission had convened on May 28. 2020 to review the progress of the work done so far. 6. Sample Registration System (SRS) Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin has been released by the Registrar General of India. It is based on data collected for 2018. More On This: National birth rate in 2018 stood at 20. It was 36.9 in 1971. • Best and worst: Bihar (26.2) continues to remain at the top of list in birth rate while Andaman and Nicobar (11.2) is at the bottom. The rural-urban differential has also narrowed. However, the birth rate has continued to be higher in rural areas compared to urban areas in the last four decades. • Death rate stood at 6.2 in 2018 from 14.9 in 1971. • Best and worst: Chhattisgarhwww.lawprep.in has the highest death rate, while Delhi has the lowest. • Infant mortality rate is at 32. It is about one-fourth as compared to 1971 (129). Worst and best: Madhya Pradesh (48) has the worst infant mortality rate in the country while Nagaland (4) has the best. Abhyaas Newsboard ... www.lawprep.in Page 3 June 5, 2020 7. What is the Darbar Move in J&K all about? The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked the Centre and the Union Territory (UT) administration to take a final call on the continuation of Darbar move- the 148-year-old practice of shifting capitals annually between Srinagar and Jammu. More On This: Darbar Move is a century-old practice in which the government functions for six months each in the two capitals of the State, Srinagar and Jammu. • The practice was reportedly started in the late 19th century by Ranbir Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, who used to shift his capital between Srinagar in the summer and Jammu in the winter to escape extreme weather conditions in these places. • The government will function in Srinagar, the summer capital of the State, till late October and then move to Jammu, the winter capital, in the first week of November. • Hundreds of trucks are usually plied to carry furniture, office files, computers, and other records to the capital. • Regional parties in Jammu and Kashmir advocated the continuation of the practice “to help in the emotional integration between two diverse linguistic and cultural regions of Jammu and Kashmir.” 8. One Nation, One Ration card Consumer Affairs Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan announced that 5 more states and UT’s have been integrated with the ‘one nation, one ration card’ scheme. The announcement was made on May 1 through his official twitter handle. More On This: On January 1, 2019, 12 states have been integrated into this scheme among each other. With the recent addition of 5, beneficiaries will be able to get food grains from the Fair Price Shops anywhere in these 17 states and UT’s. • As per the official statement,www.lawprep.in with this scheme, 60 crore beneficiaries will be able to purchase subsidized food grains using their existing ration card. • The five more states namely Bihar, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Daman & Diu have been integrated with ‘one nation, one ration card’ scheme. • The ration card by the states will be issued in bi-lingual format, besides the local language, the other language can be either Hindi or English. • The card will have a 10-digit standard ration card number. The first two digits will be the state code while the next two digits will be the running ration card numbers.
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