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Monthly Current Affairs Consolidation (August 2021) – Part I Current Affairs (CONSOLIDATION) AUGUST 2021 (PART – I) Drishti, 641, First Floor, Dr. Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi-110009 Phone: 87501 87501, WhatsApp: 92058 85200, IVR: 8010-440-440 Email: [email protected] Contents Polity and Governance ........................................................................................................1 z Custodial Violence is Biggest Threat to Human Rights: CJI ..................................................................................... 1 z SC Judgement on Preventive Detention ................................................................................................................. 2 z Supreme Court on Criminalisation of Politics ......................................................................................................... 4 z Major Administrative Reforms ............................................................................................................................... 6 z Supreme Court Rules on Future Retail Vs Amazon ................................................................................................ 7 z Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution ............................................................................................................ 8 z Governor’s Power to Pardon Overrides Section 433A: SC ...................................................................................... 9 z Government e-Marketplace ................................................................................................................................ 11 z 100 Years of Madras Legislative Council .............................................................................................................. 12 z Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2021 .......................................................................... 13 z Sorry State of Tribunals ........................................................................................................................................ 14 z Constitutional (127th) Amendment Bill, 2021 ...................................................................................................... 15 z Second Anniversary of Special Status Revocation: J&K ........................................................................................ 15 z Funds Lapsed in MPLADS ...................................................................................................................................... 16 z Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act,1996 .................................................................................. 18 z 112th Annual Day of National Centre for Disease Control .................................................................................... 19 z E-Prisons Project ................................................................................................................................................... 21 Economic Scenario ............................................................................................................22 z Monetary Policy Report: RBI ................................................................................................................................ 22 z Faceless Assessment Scheme: Income Tax ........................................................................................................... 24 z Delays in Corporate Insolvency ............................................................................................................................ 24 z Doing Away With Retrospective Taxation ........................................................................................................... 26 z e-RUPI: Voucher Based Digital Payment System .................................................................................................. 27 z Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana .............................................................................................................. 28 z National Mission on Edible Oil-Oil Palm ............................................................................................................... 29 z Atmanirbhar Narishakti Se Samvad ...................................................................................................................... 30 z Vacancies in Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions ................................................................................... 32 z Annual Public Enterprises Survey ......................................................................................................................... 32 z Core Sectors Output ............................................................................................................................................. 34 z Open Acreage Licensing Programme .................................................................................................................... 35 z Sovereign Right to Taxation .................................................................................................................................. 36 z PM-KISAN ............................................................................................................................................................. 36 z PSUs Exempted from Minimum Public Shareholding .......................................................................................... 37 z New Framework for Payment Systems Operators ............................................................................................... 39 z Social Security Measures for Informal Workers ................................................................................................... 40 International Relations ......................................................................................................42 z Indo-US Nuclear-Deal ........................................................................................................................................... 42 z India Assumes UNSC Presidency .......................................................................................................................... 44 z India’s Case of Permanent Seat in UNSC .............................................................................................................. 45 z Indian Base in Mauritius’ Agalega Islands ............................................................................................................ 46 z A Secure Indian Ocean .......................................................................................................................................... 48 z UNSC Meet on Maritime Security ........................................................................................................................ 49 z Sanctions Imposed Against Belarus ...................................................................................................................... 51 z Collaboration of India, Sri Lanka and Maldives on Security ................................................................................. 52 z External Affairs Minister’s Visit to Iran ................................................................................................................. 53 z China-India Agreed to Disengage ......................................................................................................................... 54 z India-Bangladesh Commercial Railway Link Restored .......................................................................................... 55 z Provincial Status to Gilgit-Baltistan: Pakistan ....................................................................................................... 57 z Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA) ................................................................ 58 Science and Technology .....................................................................................................59 z GSLV-F10 Failure: ISRO’s EOS-03 Satellite Mission ............................................................................................... 59 z World Biofuel Day................................................................................................................................................. 60 z Snakebite Envenoming ......................................................................................................................................... 61 z NASA’s Boeing Starliner Spacecraft ...................................................................................................................... 63 z ‘Ashwagandha’ in Covid-19 Recovery................................................................................................................... 64 Environment and Ecology ..................................................................................................65 z Oil Spills ................................................................................................................................................................ 65 z Kaziranga National Park: Assam ........................................................................................................................... 66 z Four New Ramsar Sites: India’s Wetlands ............................................................................................................ 67 z Ban on Single-Use Plastic ..................................................................................................................................... 69 z Olympian Bat .......................................................................................................................................................
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