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Current Affairs (CONSOLIDATION) JULY 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 Section 66A of the IT Act ........................................................................................................................................ 1 z SC Upheld Authority of Delhi’s Peace and Harmony Committee ........................................................................... 2 z SC on Central Information Commission (CIC) ......................................................................................................... 3 z ‘Union’ or ‘Central’ Government ........................................................................................................................... 4 z Council of Ministers ................................................................................................................................................ 5 z Cabinet Committees ............................................................................................................................................... 6 z Need for Changes in Anti-Defection Law ................................................................................................................ 7 z Election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker................................................................................................................ 8 z Chief Minister ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 z Assam-Mizoram Border Dispute .......................................................................................................................... 10 z Stringent Nature of UAPA ..................................................................................................................................... 11 z Punjab Suba Movement ....................................................................................................................................... 13 z Andhra Pradesh-Telangana Water Dispute .......................................................................................................... 14 z BharatNet Project ................................................................................................................................................. 15 z Infrastructure Facilities for Judiciary .................................................................................................................... 16 z New Portals on Ayush Sector ............................................................................................................................... 17 z India Industrial Land Bank .................................................................................................................................... 17 z National Ayush Mission ........................................................................................................................................ 18 z New Solar Projects: NTPC ..................................................................................................................................... 18 z Department of Public Enterprises ........................................................................................................................ 20 z NIPUN Bharat Mission .......................................................................................................................................... 20 z Global Cybersecurity Index: ITU ........................................................................................................................... 21 z Six Years of Digital India Programme .................................................................................................................... 22 z UDISE+ 2019-20 Report ........................................................................................................................................ 23 Economic Scenario ............................................................................................................25 z Inflation Data: June 2021 ...................................................................................................................................... 25 z India’s Covid-19 Emergency Response Package: Phase II ..................................................................................... 26 z Agriculture Infrastructure Fund ............................................................................................................................ 27 z Fertiliser Self-Sufficiency ...................................................................................................................................... 27 z Special Livestock Sector Package .......................................................................................................................... 29 z RBI’s Retail Direct Scheme .................................................................................................................................... 29 z Sankalp Se Siddhi: Mission Van Dhan ................................................................................................................... 31 z Matsya Setu .......................................................................................................................................................... 32 z GI Certified Bhalia Wheat: Gujarat ....................................................................................................................... 32 z Youth and Food System ........................................................................................................................................ 33 z Authorised Economic Operators Programme ...................................................................................................... 35 z Anti-Dumping Duty ............................................................................................................................................... 36 z Forex Reserves ...................................................................................................................................................... 36 z Contraction of India’s Manufacturing Sector: PMI .............................................................................................. 37 z Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme ................................................................................................................ 38 z Open Network for Digital Commerce ................................................................................................................... 39 z World Bank Support to India’s Informal Working Class ....................................................................................... 40 z Four Years of the GST ........................................................................................................................................... 41 z Financial Stability Report: RBI ............................................................................................................................... 43 z New Norms for Independent Directors ................................................................................................................ 45 z Ministry of Cooperation: A New Push to Co-operatives ....................................................................................... 46 z Output Pact: OPEC+ .............................................................................................................................................. 47 International Relations ......................................................................................................49 z India Rejects OIC’s Proposal ................................................................................................................................. 49 z India-EU Meet on Agriculture ............................................................................................................................... 50 z Vietnam’s First Honorary Consul General in India ................................................................................................ 51 z India’s Tibet Policy ................................................................................................................................................ 53 z BHIM - UPI Launched in Bhutan ........................................................................................................................... 54 z St. Queen Ketevan’s Relics: Georgia ..................................................................................................................... 55 z Assasination of Haiti’s President .......................................................................................................................... 55 z India-Nepal Rail Services Agreement (RSA) .......................................................................................................... 56 z Stand-Off on GERD ............................................................................................................................................... 57 z G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting ............................................................................................................................ 58 z India Joins