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GS2: Polity
- Affront to right to life: SC junks Gujarat orders on wages,longer hours of work(IE) “The ‘right to life’ guaranteed to every person under Article 21, which includes a worker, would be devoid of an equal opportunity at social and economic freedom, in the absence of just and humane conditions of work.
- State can’t term slowdown a public emergency(TH) It quashes Gujarat notification exempting factories from paying overtime wages to workers during lockdown between April 20 and July 19.
GS2: Social issues
- Sedition cases up in 2019 but conviction at all-time low(IE) As per the Crime In India Report, this decline, however, was largely explained by the drop in cases registered under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act — from 7,127 in 2018 and 7,892 in 2017 to 6,079 in 2019.
GS2: International Relations
- Armenia vs Azerbaijan:old regional conflict,interested neighbours(IE) Straddling western Asia and Eastern Europe, Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but most of the region is controlled by Armenian separatists. Nagorno-Karabakh has been part of Azerbaijan territory since the Soviet era. When the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late 1980s, Armenia’s regional parliament voted for the region’s transfer to Armenia; the Soviet authorities turned down the demand.
- Belarus activist,Iranian rights lawyer among winners of‘ AlternativeNobel’(IE) A prominent Belarus opposition figure and an imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer on Thursday were awarded the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the “Alternative Nobel,” together with activists from Nicaragua and the United States.
GS3: Economy
- GST revenues cross ₹95,000 crore in September(TH) Revenue collections from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in September hit ₹95,480 crore, the highest in this financial year so far, indicating that economic activity is picking up steam in tandem with the gradual easing of lockdown restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
GS3: Environment
- Campaign to select country’s national butterfly(TH) Krishna Peacock (Papilio krishna), Indian Jezebel or Common Jezebel (Delias eucharis), Orange Oakleaf (Kallima inachus), Five-bar Swordtail (Graphium antiphates), Indian Nawab, Yellow Gorgon and Northern Junglequeen (Stichophthalma camadeva) are the contenders for the premier position.
- Farmers in stubble burning states to get new tech,says Javadekar(IE) All states were told that Covid affects our lungs, and air pollution also has a bad impact on them. Therefore, air pollution can make (Covid-19) situation more serious. Punjab was told it should educate farmers in high stubble burning areas that their families would be affected first.
GS4: Ethics
- The Mahatma as an intercultural Indian(TH) Gandhi’s idea of non-violence was not a dream; it was a realistic hope, armed with a dose of practical idealism; that of the global welcoming of the law of love.
- Moral is political(IE) For Gandhi, violence was a sign of the failure of a legitimate political power. At the core of Gandhi’s political theory is the view of politics as shaped by internal moral power, rather than from the standpoint of rational violence.
PIB Corner
- PM to inaugurate VAIBHAV Summit on 2nd October The VAIBHAV summit is a global virtual summit of overseas and resident Indian Researchers and Academicians
- Urgent need to accelerate action to conserve biodiversity: India at UN Biodiversity Summit Representing India at the United Nations(UN) Biodiversity Summit on the occasion of 75th anniversary of the UN General Assembly, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar, said that as we are approaching the end of the UN Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020 there is an urgent need to accelerate action to conserve biodiversity.
