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Inter State council is a constitutional body set up on the basis of provisions in Article 263 of the Constitution of India by a Presidential Order dated 28th May, 1990 on recommendation of Sarkaria Commission. Article 263 of the Constitution envisages establishment of an institutional mechanism to facilitate coordination of policies and their implementation between the Union and the State Governments. Contents Article 263 Functions and Duties Composition of Inter-state Council Secretariat Competence of Interstate Council on Riparian Disputes Inter-state Council – An underutilised and ignored constitutional body Article 263 Article 263 says that “if at any time it appears to the President that the public interest would be served by the establishment of a Council charged with the duty of – inquiring into and advising upon disputes which may have arisen between States; investigating and discussing subjects in which some or all of the States, or the Union and one or more of the States, hav

Question 1: The main application of ISRO’s Geo-stationary satellites are - a) Communication b) Inter-planetary exploration c) Remote sensing d) Weather forecasting Question 2: Consider the following: Carbon dioxideOxides of NitrogenOxides of Sulphur Which of the following gases/pollutants are released by Coal/ Thermal power plants? a) 1 only b) 2 and 3 only c) 1 and 3 only d) 1, 2 and 3 Question 3: Which organization releases the Global Competitiveness index and report? a) World trade organization b) World economic forum c) World Bank d) International monetary fund Question 4: Which organization in India conducts National Employment-Unemployment Survey annually? a) National labor commission b) National labor bureau c) Central statistical office d) National sample survey office Question 5: Which is the biggest natural satellite/moon in the Solar system? a) Europa (Jupiter) b) Gannymede (Jupiter) c) Titan (Saturn) d) Miranda (Uranus)

Question 1: Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary is located in - a) Bihar b) Jharkhand c) West Bengal d) Uttarakhand Question 2: Consider the following statements is a National Human Rights Commission : It is neither a constitutional body nor a statutory bodyNHRC works for the implementation of the UN Human rights declaration – 1948. Which are correct? a) 1 only b) 2 only c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 nor 2 Question 3: Which of the following statements are correct regarding Employment provident fund organization (EPFO)? It works under the administrative control of the Union ministry of Labour and Employment.Recently, the government launched universal account number for Employees covered by EPFO to enable PF number portability. a) 1 only b) 2 only c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 nor 2 Question 4: Which of the following disease is caused by bacteria? a) Ebola fever b) Measles c) Zika fever d) Tuberculosis Question 5: Which international organization recently signed an

 GS2 Related India strikes across LoC Category: Bilateral Topic:  Indo-Pak Key Points:   The Indian Army said India has carried out surgical strikes targeting launch pads for terrorists across the  Line of Control (LoC).  The strike was carried out night, senior military and diplomatic sources confirmed. Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lt. Gen Ranbir Singh said  “Based on very specific and credible information which the army received some terrorist teams had positioned itself along the line of control, the  Army carried out surgical strikes  in night at these launch pads. The operations were focused to ensure that these terrorists do not succeed in endangering lives of citizens in our country. During the counter-terrorist operations, significant casualties have been caused to the terrorists and those who were trying to support them. The operations have since ceased” Pakistan has responded to the government statement saying there has been no such strike. India tri

The Indian space programme  launched ten satellites  in 2016, three times more than the preceding year and the most ever, according to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) data. The September 26 launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C35 set two records: it was the longest satellite-launch mission yet, two hours, having completed its previous mission  in just under 30 minutes on June 22 (another benchmark occasion with the launching of 20 satellites in one go); and the rocket  released eight satellites  – five foreign and three Indian – into two orbits, something the ISRO has not done before. No more than 38% of satellites launched over the last ten years have been Indian. Over ten years, ISRO has had  34 launches , successfully sending up 121 satellites,  75 of them foreign : 18 (24%) were from the US, 11 (15%) Canadian, eight (11%) each from Singapore and Germany and six (8%) from the UK  However, in terms of weight, the Indian satellites that ISRO has launched w

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पाकिस्तान की संसद ने कई दशकों से लंबित पड़े हिंदू मैरेज बिल को आखि‍रकार पारित कर दिया. इस बिल के पारित होने से अब पाकिस्तान में अल्पसंख्यक समुदाय हिंदुओं से जुड़े अहम मसलों को कानूनी जामा पहनाया जा सकेगा. इस बिल में हिंदुओं की शादी, परिवार, मां और बच्चे को सुरक्षा प्रदान करने की बात की गई है. नए बिल के कानून बनने के बादपाकिस्तान में हिंदुओं की शादियों का रजिस्ट्रेशन हो सकेगा. बीते 66 सालों से यहां हिंदुओं की शादी रजिस्टर्ड नहीं होती थी, इससे यह समुदाय बेहद असुरक्षित महसूस करता था. इनके अलावा तलाक और जबरन धर्मपरिवर्तन जैसे मसलों का आसानी से समाधान निकाला जा सकेगा. अब तक यहां हिंदू समुदाय के लोगों खासकर महिलाओं को अपनी शादी को साबित करने के लिए कोई दस्तावेज नहीं होता था. इनके अलावा यह समुदाय पुनर्विवाह, संतान गोद लेने और उत्तराधि‍कार जैसे कानूनी अधिकारों से वंचित था. नए कानून से अब पाकिस्तान में हिंदू महिलाओं के अपहरण की घटनाओं पर भी लगाम लगने की उम्मीद है. पाकिस्तान में हिंदुओं की आबादी वहां की जनसंख्या का महज 2 फीसदी है. 1998 की जनगणना के मुताबिक पाकिस्तान में हिंदुओं की आबादी करीब 2

India has picked three economists from the academic world for a new monetary policy committee (MPC) to set interest rates, as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gets ready for a landmark switch in the way it decides policy. They will join RBI Governor Urjit Patel and two senior officials from the bank's monetary policy department. Patel, who took over the helm at the RBI this month, will have the casting vote in the event of a tie. The non-RBI members named on Thursday are Chetan Ghate, a professor at Indian Statistical Institute; Pami Dua, a director at the Delhi School of Economics; and Ravindra Dholakia, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. All are low-profile and India-based, unlike Patel or his predecessor Raghuram Rajan, who had both worked at the International Monetary Fund at one point before joining the RBI. A former IMF chief economist, Rajan was feted on the global policy circuit, bu

Ken-Betwa project Category: Environment Topic: Inter-linking of Rivers Key Points: National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) chaired by Union Environment Minister cleared the Ken-Betwa project,  India’s first Inter-State river interlinking project.  This would be the first time that a river project will be located within a tiger reserve. The Rs. 10,000-crore Ken-Betwa project will  irrigate the  drought-prone Bundelkhand region but in the process will also submerge about 10% of the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, feted as a model tiger-conservation reserve.   The main feature of the project  is a 230-km long canal and a series of barrages and dams connecting the Ken and Betwa rivers that will irrigate 3.5 lakh hectares in Madhya Pradesh  and 14,000 hectares of Uttar Pradesh , in Bundelkhand. The key projects are the Makodia and Dhaudhan dams, the latter expected to be 77 m high and responsible for submerging 5,803 hectares of tiger habitat in the  Panna tiger reserve.   The pro

Question 1: Which of the following is India’s first Inter-State river interlinking project? a) Ganga-Yamuna b) Narmada-Tapi c) Ken-Betwa d) Godavari-Krishna Question 2: Recently the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved $631 million for building India’s first coastal industrial corridor between a) Nellore and Tuticorn b) Ennore and Kochi c) Kanyakumari and Kolkata d) Visakhapatnam and Chennai Question 3: Which of the following statements are correct regarding the National wildlife board? It is a statutory organizationIt is chaired by India’s Prime Minister and its vice chairman is Minister of EnvironmentNo alternation of boundaries in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries can be done without approval of the NBWL. a) (1) & (2) only b) (1) & (3) only c) (3) only d) All are correct Question 4: The Green Climate fund is managed by – a) UNFCCC b) Inter-national panel on climate change (IPCC) c) Global Environmental facility d) None of these Question 5: Which of

SDG (sustainable development goals) are adopted by the UNGA (UN General Assembly) to transform the world by 2030. It has in total 17 goals and 169 targets. This major criticism of these sustainable development goals are they are too vague and general. Many overlapping a exist between the goals and targets.Funds are not delineated for the purpose of the achievement of these goals.Lack of data and scientific evidence is a major hurdle in building the climate change resilience. Coherence in Neighbourhood. India has hosted recently the visits of Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kumar canal also known as Prachanda. India showed the maturity of interaction with Prime minister Prachanda  and understood his sensitivities. So, amendment of the constitution of Nepal is not mentioned in the joint statement. The focus is on reconstruction and infrastructure development. President AshrafGhani of Afghanistan also has visited India and there is a clear shift in his attitude in dealing with India. A

Arunachal Pradesh has taken a new turn in the context of the mass migration of 43 Congress MLAs, including the Chief Minister Pema Khandu, to the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA), part of a regional front led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress’s strength in the Assembly is now reduced to one as former Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has chosen to remain in the party. . The 60-member State Assembly has a strength now of 57 — the status of two MLAs, Wanglam Sawin and Gabriel D. Wangsu, is pending with the Speaker over contentions over the disqualification issue, and Kalikho Pul, the former Chief Minister, is no more — and the emergence of the PPA as the single largest party is a political victory for the BJP. Timeline of crises The course of events can be seen as a logical continuation of political developments taking place in the border State since December 2014, when Nabam Tuki dropped Kalikho Pul, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, in a cabinet reshuffle. Amid growing

Former IAS officer  Alka Sirohi  has been appointed as chairman of  Union Public Service Commission  (UPSC), in place of Deepak Gupta who demits office on Tuesday. President  Pranab Mukherjee  has appointed Sirohi to perform the duties of the post of the chairman, UPSC, with effect from September 21, an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training said.She is presently member in the Commission. The appointment is till further orders or till completion of her term as member on January 3, 2017, whichever is earlier, it said. The post of chairman, UPSC, will fall vacant on Tuesday, consequent upon demitting of office by Gupta on attaining 65 years of age of superannuation, the order said. Incidentally, the Centre had in November 2014 appointed Gupta as the UPSC chief, breaking away from the tradition of appointing the chief from the serving members of the commission. In 2014, the Centre had for the first time appointed somebody (Gupta) from outside as the UPSC chairman. At that ti

17 soldiers killed in militant attack in Uri....I saluted our soliders who were dedicated  important life for country. And I request government to rapid action on terrorist. And answer to Pakistan...Seventeen soldiers were killed in a militant attack in Uri area of Baramulla district on Sunday morning. Police sources said that fidayeen militants stormed an Army camp in Uri near the Line of Control (LoC) around 4 a.m. Four militants were killed in the encounter. “A group of heavily armed terrorists targeted the rear administrative base of a unit at Uri, Kashmir. In the counter action, four terrorists were eliminated and combing operations are in progress,” the Army said in a statement. “The administrative base had large strength of troops of units turning over after their tour of duty who were stationed in tents/temporary shelters which caught fire, and resulted in heavy casualties. We salute the sacrifice of 17 soldiers who were martyred in the operation." Defence Minister Mano

The GST council will be chaired by Union Finance Minister and have Minister in charge of Finance or Taxation or any other Minister nominated by each State Government as its member. Government has formally notified the GST Council, which will decide on the tax rate, exempted goods and the threshold under the new taxation regime. The council will be chaired by Union Finance Minister and have Minister in charge of Finance or Taxation or any other Minister nominated by each State Government as its member. Also Minister of State in charge of Revenue or Finance at the Centre would be a member. “In exercise of the powers conferred by article 279A of the Constitution, the President hereby constitutes the Goods and Services Tax Council…,” said a government notification. Earlier this week, the Union Cabinet had approved setting up of all powerful GST Council, which is expected to thrash out a decision on all major aspects of GST roll out by November 22. The first meeting of the GST Council

*Chikangunya*:- Chikungunya can circulate with the help of monkeys, birds and cattle, but dengue spreads only through mosquitoes Chikungunya was first reported in 1952, during an outbreak in southern Tanzania. It has now been identified in 60 countries including those in Asia, Africa, Europe, America and others. Listed in the World Health Organization’s R&D Blueprint (2016), the recently established Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations has it on their agenda to develop a vaccine for Chikungunya, along with other diseases such as MERS, Ebola and others. *What are the symptoms?* Abrupt onset of fever and severe joint pain. There can be other symptoms such as muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and rash – that is, small red spots all over the body. The joint pain can be severe and sometimes prolonged. The disease does not induce immunity by itself and can recur. The word Chikungunya, derived from the Kimakonde language which is spoken by the indigenous people of sou

Nepal has had six constitutions so far and the problem in Nepal has not been writing the constitution but the ownership of constitutions. All the previous constitutions have not been owned by all sections of the society and all political forces. These constitutions have not been sustainable. Of course, there is a qualitative difference between the old ones and the new one. Previous constitutions were written by monarchs, but this has been written by elected people in the constituent assembly (CA). That is a positive difference. The idea was that the CA would be a platform where people from the diverse social groups of Nepal would sit together and collectively participate in drafting a document and would  have the same common rules for all. The idea was that the CA would bridge and overcome the social and ethnic divisions existing in Nepal. The idea was that the CA would create a political structure where different ethnic groups and social groups, particularly excluded ones, would get

ब्राजील के रियो में जारी पैरालम्पिक खेलों में भारत के खाते में एक और गोल्ड मेडल आ गया है। भाला फेंक में देवेंद्र झाझरिया ने नया वर्ल्ड रिकॉर्ड बनाते हुए गोल्ड मेडल जीता। इन पैरालम्पिक खेलों में यह भारत का दूसरा गोल्ड मेडल भी है। देवेंद्र ने 12 साल पहले 2004 एथेंस पैरालम्पिक में भी गोल्ड मेडल जीता था। इस मेडल के साथ ही रियो पैरालम्पिक में भारत के कुल पदकों की संख्या 4 हो गई है, जिसमें 2 गोल्ड, एक सिल्वर और एक ब्रॉन्ज है। देवेंद्र ने अपना ही रिकॉर्ड तोड़ ये मेडल जीता। देवेंद्र ने 63.97 मीटर दूर भाला फेंक कर नया वर्ल्ड रिकॉर्ड बनाया। एथेंस पैरालम्पिक में उन्होंने 62.15 मीटर भाला फेंका था, जो कि एक वर्ल्ड रिकॉर्ड था। 35 वर्षीय देवेंद्र राजस्थान के चुरू के रहने वाले हैं। झाझरिया ने 2002 में साउथ कोरिया में हुए FESPIC गेम्स और 2013 में आईपीसी ऐथलेटिक्स वर्ल्ड चैंपियनशिप में गोल्ड मेडल जीता था. इसके अलावा उन्होंने इसी इवेंट में सिल्वर मेडल जीता था। झाझरिया 2014 के एशियन गेम्स में सिल्वर मेडल भी जीत चुके हैं। Visit the kavyesh gk world page

The Union Cabinet has approved the process, formation and functioning of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council as per the Article 279A of the Constitution. Decision in this regard was taken by the Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Cabinet also approved Creation of the GST Council Secretariat with its office at New Delhi. Appointment of the Secretary (Revenue) as the Ex-officio Secretary to the GST Council. Inclusion of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) Chairperson as a permanent invitee to all proceedings of the GST Council. He will have no voting rights in GST Council. Creation of one post of Additional Secretary and four posts of Commissioner to the GST Council in the GST Council Secretariat. Background The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-second Amendment) Bill, 2016, for introduction of GST in the country was accorded assent by the President after it was ratified by 18 states. After the assent to bill it became law and w

रियो पैरालंपिक खेलों का दूसरे दिन भारत के लिए बहुत ही खुशनुमा रहा। रियो डी जेनेरियो के ओलंपिक स्टेडियम में पुरुषों के हाई जंप टी42 फाइनल्स में मरियप्पन थंगवेलू ने देशवासियों की उम्मीदों पर खरा उतरते हुए स्वर्ण पदक जीता जबकि वरुण सिंह भाटी ने कांस्य पदक हासिल किया। हालांकि शरद कुमार अपना सर्वश्रेष्ठ प्रदर्शन नहीं कर सके और वह पदक हासिल करने में नाकाम रहे। स्पर्धा में भारत के त्रिमूर्ती के अलावा विश्व के अन्य 9 जंपरों ने हिस्सा लिया था। कुमार पहले भारतीय पैराएथलीट थे जिन्होंने सफल शुरुआत करते हुए 1.55 और 1.60 मीटर की ऊंचाई वाले तीसरे व चौथे प्रयास को क्लियर कर लिया था। स्पर्धा की शुरुआत में कुमार पहले स्थान पर चल रहे थे। वहीं विश्व नंबर एक मरियप्पन ने भी शानदार शुरुआत करते हुए 1.60 मीटर ऊंचाई वाला चौथा प्रयास सफलतापूर्वक क्लियर किया। हालांकि विश्व नंबर दो भाटी शुरुआत में काफी संघर्ष करते नजर आए, लेकिन उन्होंने सही समय पर अपनी लय हासिल करते हुए देशवासियों का दिल जीत लिया। मिस्त्र के हमदा हसन ने पहले प्रयास में 1.65 मीटर की ऊंचाई क्लियर करके शरद कुमार को शीर्ष स्थान से खिसकाया। मगर कुमार