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Current Affairs November 2019 VISION IAS www.visionias.in CURRENT AFFAIRS NOVEMBER 2019 Copyright © by Vision IAS All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Vision IAS. 1 www.visionias.in ©Vision IAS Table of Contents 1. POLITY & CONSTITUTION ______________ 4 5.10. National Landslide Risk Management 1.1. Nationwide NRC ______________________ 4 Strategy _______________________________ 63 1.2. CJI Under RTI ________________________ 6 5.11. Global Warming Alters Rainfall Pattern _ 64 1.3. Supreme Court Strikes Down Rules on 5.12. World Energy Outlook 2019___________ 64 Tribunal Postings _________________________ 8 5.13. Olive Ridley Turtles _________________ 65 1.4. Electoral Bonds _______________________ 9 6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________ 66 1.5. Karnataka MLA’s Disqualification _______ 11 6.1. Education as a Public Good ____________ 66 1.6. Women Participation in Politics ________ 11 6.2. Learning Poverty ____________________ 67 1.7. Sabarimala Temple Issue ______________ 13 6.3. Industry Guidelines on Digital Learning __ 68 1.8. Ayodhya Verdict _____________________ 15 6.4. The Transgender Persons (Protection of 1.9. Regulating OTT Media Content _________ 16 Rights) Act, 2019 ________________________ 70 1.10. Impeachment of US President _________ 18 6.5. Maternal Mortality Decline ____________ 72 2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 19 6.6. Swachh Survekshan Grameen Awards 2019 2.1. Indian Foreign Policy in A Changing World 19 ______________________________________ 73 2.2. RCEP and India’s Experience with Free Trade 7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ____________ 74 Agreements ____________________________ 20 7.1. Banning E-Cigarettes _________________ 74 2.3. India - German Relations ______________ 22 7.2. Traditional Medicine _________________ 75 2.4. India- Sri Lanka Relations ______________ 24 7.3. Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine ____________ 76 2.5. India and Japan 2+2 Ministerial Meeting _ 25 7.4. Cartosat-3 __________________________ 76 2.6. BRICS ______________________________ 26 7.5. Space-Based Internet _________________ 77 2.7. WTO Ruling Against Indian Subsidies ____ 27 7.6. Ultima-Thule Renamed as Arrokoth _____ 78 2.8. Russian Led Resolution on Cybercrime 7.7. Geochemical Baseline Atlas of India _____ 78 Treaty _________________________________ 29 8. CULTURE ___________________________ 79 2.9. Global Migration Report 2020 __________ 30 8.1. Guru Nanak _________________________ 79 3. ECONOMY _________________________ 31 8.2. Thiruvalluvar _______________________ 79 3.1. Digital Financial Inclusion _____________ 31 8.3. Travelogues in Decoding Indian History __ 80 3.2. Draft E-Commerce Rules 2019 __________ 32 8.4. UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network ______ 81 3.3. Strategic Sale of PSUs _________________ 34 9. ETHICS _____________________________ 82 3.4. Land Leasing ________________________ 35 9.1. Need of Scientific Temper _____________ 82 3.5. Edible Oil Deficiency__________________ 37 10. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________ 84 3.6. Contract Farming ____________________ 39 10.1. Meghalaya Brings Entry Law for Visitors ___ 84 3.7. Commercial Coal Mining ______________ 41 10.2. Pathalgadi Movement __________________ 84 3.8. Code on Industrial Relations Bill ________ 43 10.3. Special Protection Group (Amendment) Act 84 3.9. Steel Scrap Recycling Policy ____________ 44 10.4. Kulbhushan Jadhav Case ________________ 84 4. SECURITY __________________________ 46 10.5. H-1B Visa Denials ______________________ 85 10.6. Price Deficiency Payment _______________ 85 4.1. Anti-Terror Laws in the Country ________ 46 10.7. Patent Prosecution Highway Programme __ 85 4.2. The Bodoland Dispute: Ban on NDFB 10.8. Khadi Gets Separate HS Code ____________ 85 Extended ______________________________ 47 10.9. OECD Economic Outlook 2019 ___________ 85 5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 49 10.10. Credit-Linked Subsidy Services Awas Portal 86 5.1. Delhi Air Pollution ___________________ 49 10.11. Mandatory Packaging in Jute Materials ___ 86 5.2. Action Plan for Cleaner Industry ________ 51 10.12. ICEDASH and ATITHI __________________ 86 5.3. Roadmap for Access to Clean Cooking Energy 10.13. Kodavas Community of Coorg __________ 86 in India ________________________________ 53 10.14. Night Trial of Agni-II __________________ 86 5.4. The Emissions Gap Report _____________ 55 10.15. Military Exercises_____________________ 86 10.16. Global Terrorism Index (GTI), 2019 ______ 87 5.5. Report on the Quality of Piped Drinking 10.17. Migratory Birds Die in Sambhar Lake _____ 87 Water _________________________________ 55 10.18. Loktak Inland Waterways Project ________ 87 5.6. E-Flow Norms for River Ganga __________ 57 10.19. NRCA New Policy on ‘Man-Eater’ Tigers __ 87 5.7. Energy Storage System Roadmap _______ 58 10.20. Meghalaya Living Root Bridges __________ 87 5.8. Ecological Fiscal Transfers _____________ 59 10.21. Glyphosate-Based Herbicides ___________ 88 5.9. National Guidelines for Preparation of 10.22. NuGen Mobility Summit _______________ 88 Action Plan - Prevention and Management of 10.23. Governing Council Meeting of SACEP _____ 88 Heat Wave _____________________________ 61 10.24. Green Climate Fund __________________ 88 2 www.visionias.in ©Vision IAS 10.25. Red Atlas Map and CFLOWS App for Flood 10.35. New HIV Subtype Found by Genetic Mitigation in Chennai _______________________ 89 Sequencing _______________________________ 90 10.26. Asian Dendrochronology Conference ____ 89 10.36. Global Bio-India Summit, 2019 __________ 91 10.27. Sexual Transmission of Dengue Viruses ___ 89 10.37. QS World University Rankings for Asia ____ 91 10.28. 3S Project ___________________________ 89 10.38. Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh ___________ 91 10.29. Indian Brain Atlas (IBA 100) ____________ 89 11. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN NEWS _____ 92 10.30. FASTag _____________________________ 89 11.1. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana 10.31. Accelerator Lab ______________________ 90 (PMMVY) _________________________________ 92 10.32. Dwarf Planets in Solar System __________ 90 11.2. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana 10.33. SAANS Campaign _____________________ 90 (PMKSY)__________________________________ 92 10.34. Winter-Grade Diesel for High Altitude Regions 11.3. Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) ____ 93 ________________________________________ 90 3 www.visionias.in ©Vision IAS 1. POLITY & CONSTITUTION 1.1. NATIONWIDE NRC Why in news? Criteria for determining the citizenship Recently, the Government of India has signalled • The Citizenship Act, 1955 clearly states that anyone born in its intent of carrying out a nationwide National India on or after January 26, 1950 up till July 1, 1987 is an Register of Citizens (NRC). Indian citizen by birth. • Anyone born on or after July 1, 1987 but before the More on the news commencement of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003 and either of whose parents is an Indian citizen at the time • This signal was revealed by the statement of his birth is an Indian citizen. And anyone born after the issued by the Union Minister of Home Affairs. commencement of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003 • The National Register of Citizens is a list of all and both of whose parents are Indian citizens at the time the legal citizens of the country, with of his birth is an Indian citizen. necessary documents. • The only exception to this was Assam where as per the • Earlier, following the Supreme Court’s order, 1985 Assam Accord foreigners who came to the state up to the Government conducted the NRC updating March 24, 1971 were to be regularised as Indian citizens. exercise in Assam and as a result over 19 lakh • Seen in this context, only Assam was allowed to take in applicants failed to make it to the NRC list. foreigners up to March 24 1971. • For the rest of the country, those born outside the country Rationale behind the nationwide NRC after January 26, 1950 and residing in India without proper documents is a foreign, illegal immigrant. • Ascertaining the identity of citizens: NRC will provide a much-needed perspective on the extent of illegal migration. The fear that illegal immigrants will change the demography of the country and influence the politics of different states will also be done away with. • Demand from some stakeholders- such as the NGOs like the Assam Public Works (APW), which had petitioned the Supreme Court for upgrading the previous NRC. • Statutory obligation of the state- as the Section 14A in the Citizenship Act of 1955 provides in sub-section (1) that “The Central Government may compulsorily register every citizen of India and issue national identity card to him”. o The procedure to prepare and maintain National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) is specified in the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. • Move towards solving the immigration issue- as it is expected to deter future migrants from entering the country. o It can also aid the agencies in effective border management, especially with Nepal and Bangladesh. Issues with nationwide NRC • Existence of deportation provisions- as immigrants are subject to laws like the Foreigners Act, 1946 and Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 and tribunals are already empowered to detect, detain and deport them. • Legal infirmities- The last time the Central government tried to make an identity enrolment mandatory was the Aadhaar project and this was struck down as excessive
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