Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019
Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019.
The Bill would ensure gender equality and gender justice to Muslim women.
The Bill would also help in protecting the rights of married Muslim women and prevent divorce by the practice of ‘talaq-e-biddat’ by their husbands.
Salient features of the bill:
The Bill propose to declare the practice of triple talaq as void and illegal.
It also makes an offence punishable with imprisonment up to three years and fine.
It also provides for payment of subsistence allowance to married Muslim women and dependent children.
The Bill also has provision to make the offence cognizable, if information relating to the commission of an offence is given to an officer in charge of a police station by the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced or by any person related to her by blood or marriage.
The offence is made compoundable with the permission of the Magistrate at the instance of the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced.
The Bill further provides for hearing the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced before the accused is released on bail by the Magistrate.
Topic- GS Paper 2 –Governance
Source- PIB
2. National Creche Scheme
National Crèche Scheme is being implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme through States/UTs.
The scheme provides daycare facilities to children (age group of 6 months to 6 years) of working mothers in the community.
The scheme also aims to provide supplementary nutrition, health care inputs like immunization, polio drops, basic health monitoring, sleeping facilities, pre-school education for children aged between 3-6 yrs.
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Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme (RGNCS)
It a Central Sector Scheme, being implemented through the Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) and Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW).
Creche facilities are also provided under the Beedi& Cigar Worker (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966.
Topic- GS Paper 2 –Governance
Source- PIB
3. Nigeria becomes the fourth African nation to join a global coalition to protect pollinators
Nigeria became the fourth African country to join the Global Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators.
Ethiopia was the first African nation to be part of this global coalition in 2017. Burundi was the second African country to join this global group.
Other non-African nations such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Dominican Republic, Ireland and Mexico had joined the global group last year.
About pollinator
A pollinator is an animal that causes plants to make fruit or seeds.
They do this by moving pollen from one part of the flower of a plant to another part.
They are biotic (Bees, hummingbirds, flies etc.) as well as an abiotic like water, air etc.
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Global coalition to protect pollinators
The coalition now has 28 signatories including 17 European countries, five from Latin America and the Caribbean and four from Africa.
They follow up on the findings of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Assessment on Pollinators.
The protecting pollinators will be important for addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) too.
The goals relevant to pollinators are SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 15 (life on land), SDG 3 (good health and well-being) through access to sufficient nutritious food (highly dependent on pollinators) and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) too as 1.4 billion people work in agriculture.
Topic- GS Paper 3 –Environment and Biodiversity
Source- Down to Earth
4. Three exoplanets discovered around neighbouring star
Three new planets, which orbit a star situated 73 light-years away from the Earth, have been discovered using NASA’s newest planet-hunting satellite.
Of the three new exoplanets, one is rocky and slightly larger than Earth, while the two others are gaseous and roughly twice the size of our planet.
The new star system, called TESS Object of Interest, or TOI-270, is exactly what the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, was designed to find.
Follow-up observations on the system have been planned for 2021 when the James Webb Space Telescope launches. It will be able to measure the composition of the TOI-270 planets’ atmospheres for oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide.
Topic- GS Paper 3- Science & Technology
Source- Indian Express
5. What is the Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR)?
Dholera Special Investment Region is one of the several greenfield cities that have been planned on the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC).
It is located about 100 kilometres south-west of Ahmedabad.
It is expected to be the world's first green city.
It covers an estimated 920 square kilometres.
Dholera SIR is slated to be bigger than Singapore.
The International Airport of Dholera Greenfield is a component of DSIR.
Topic- GS Paper 3- Science & Technology
Source- Indian Express
Maharashtra becomes the first state in the country to adopt automated multimodal biometric identification system (AMBIS)
Maharashtra chief minister inaugurated an AMBIS that aims to create a criminal database by addition of iris and face biometrics.
AMBIS is part of the state government’s plans to modernise the state police department and improve crime detection.
Under this system, a digital database of fingerprints and photographs of criminals will be prepared, that will lead to a subsequent hike in conviction rate.
Mumbai Police get Automated Multimodal Biometric Identification System first-of-its-kind biometric criminal tracking system on a pilot basis.
This kind of biometric identification to be used first time by a police force in India.
Topic- GS Paper 3 –Science and Technology
Source- Indian Express
7. Atal Community Innovation Centre
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched Atal Community Innovation Centre in New Delhi to encourage the spirit of innovation at the community level.
This initiative aims to encourage the spirit of innovation through solution-driven design thinking to serve society.
Atal Innovation Mission has a key role to perform in order to achieve the target of five trillion dollar economy by 2025.
Topic- GS Paper 2 –Government Policies
Source- AIR
8. Minorities panel draws its remit
The National Commission of Minorities (NCM) has refused to entertain a plea to declare Hindus a “minority community” in those States where they do not form a majority of the population.
The NCM formed a sub-committee of George Kurian, Manjit Singh Rai and Atif Rasheed.
The report said that only the Centre has the power to declare new groups, not the minorities commission.
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National Commission for Minorities (NCM)
The Union Government set up the NCM under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
Five religious communities, viz; Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) have been notified as minority communities by the Union Government
The functions of these Commissions, inter-alia, are to safeguard and protect the interests of minorities provided in the Constitution and laws enacted by Parliament and the State Legislatures.
Topic- GS Paper 2 –Governance
Source- The Hindu
9. I&B Minister launches e-projects of publication division
The website will provide information about the publication division's books and journals.
All books are available on the website for sale.
The Minister also commissioned a mobile app of the division namely Digital DPD to keep a check on possible piracy of e-books.
He also launched e-version of Rozgar Samachar and e-book Satyagraha Geeta.
Topic- GS Paper 2 –Governance
Source- AIR
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