Current Affairs (CONSOLIDATION) JULY 2021 (PART – II) 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 Provisions of 97th Amendment Struck Down: SC .................................................................................................... 1 z Challenge to Restitution of Conjugal Rights ........................................................................................................... 3 z Plea Challenges Sedition Law ................................................................................................................................. 4 z No Parliamentary Immunity for Vandalism: SC ...................................................................................................... 6 z Right to be Forgotten ............................................................................................................................................. 7 z Secrecy of Vote ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 z Parliament Sessions ................................................................................................................................................ 9 z Adjournment Motion............................................................................................................................................ 10 z Judicial Appointments to High Courts ................................................................................................................. 11 z Surveillance Laws in India and Privacy ................................................................................................................. 12 z Creamy Layer: OBC ............................................................................................................................................... 13 z Director of Inquiry for Lokpal ............................................................................................................................... 14 z Menace of Manual Scavenging ............................................................................................................................. 15 z NEET’s All India Quota .......................................................................................................................................... 16 z Emigration Bill 2021.............................................................................................................................................. 17 z Geospatial Technologies for the Water Sector in India ........................................................................................ 18 z Women’s Reservation Bill ..................................................................................................................................... 20 z New Commission for Air Quality Management .................................................................................................... 21 z Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021 .................................................................................................................... 21 Economic Scenario ............................................................................................................24 z Reforms Based and Results Linked Scheme: DISCOMs ........................................................................................ 24 z Credit Growth for MSMEs .................................................................................................................................... 25 z Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2021 ..................................................................................................... 26 z AERA Amendment Bill, 2021 ................................................................................................................................ 27 z Non-Bank PSPs to Join Centralised Payment System ........................................................................................... 28 z DICGC Bill, 2021 .................................................................................................................................................... 29 z UN’s Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation 2021 .......................................................................... 31 z Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment Bill), 2021 .................................................................................. 32 z World Economic Outlook: IMF ............................................................................................................................. 33 z Marine Aids to Navigation Bill 2021 ..................................................................................................................... 34 z SLDE and GHG Calculator ..................................................................................................................................... 35 z Promoting Digital Banking .................................................................................................................................... 36 z New Facilities Under Strategic Petroleum Reserves ............................................................................................. 37 z Tackling the Menace of Black Money ................................................................................................................... 38 z Suspension of FCRA Certificate............................................................................................................................. 39 z Periodic Labour Force Survey 2019-20 ................................................................................................................. 41 z Investment Climate in India .................................................................................................................................. 42 z RBI to Introduce Digital Currency ......................................................................................................................... 44 z Special Economic Zones........................................................................................................................................ 45 z Subsidy Scheme to Boost Merchant Ships ........................................................................................................... 46 z Amendment in IBBI Regulations 2016 .................................................................................................................. 47 z Stand Up India Scheme ......................................................................................................................................... 48 z Indian Labour Conference ................................................................................................................................... 49 z External Benchmarks Lending Rate ...................................................................................................................... 50 z Foreign Card Payment Network Companies Barred: RBI ..................................................................................... 52 z India’s Textile Sector ............................................................................................................................................ 53 z 30 Years of Economic Liberalisation ..................................................................................................................... 54 International Relations ......................................................................................................56 z SCO Defence Ministers’ Meeting .......................................................................................................................... 56 z Joint Actions in Afghanistan: China-Pakistan ........................................................................................................ 57 z Nord Stream 2 Pipeline......................................................................................................................................... 58 z China-led South Asian Initiative ............................................................................................................................ 59 z Protests in Cuba .................................................................................................................................................... 60 z Violence in South Africa ....................................................................................................................................... 61 z G7’s Build Back Better World Initiative................................................................................................................. 63 Science and Technology .....................................................................................................65 z GRB 200826A: Gamma-Ray Burst ......................................................................................................................... 65 z Monkeypox ........................................................................................................................................................... 67 z Near-Surface Shear Layer of the Sun 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