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Israel's security Cabinet recommended approval of a ceasefire deal after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15 month war with Hamas in Gaza and release dozens of hostages held by militants there. The deal now goes to the full Cabinet of Ministers for final sign-off.
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The First Advance Estimates (FAE) of National Accounts for 2024-25 show a real GDP growth of 6.4% and a nominal GDP growth of 9.7%. These numbers have fallen short of the Reserve Bank of India's revised growth estimate of 6.6% for real GDP, as in its December 2024 monetary policy statement and 10.5% for nominal GDP growth as in the 2024-25 Union Budget presented in July 2024. The Gross Fixed Capital Formation rate at constant prices has ranged between 33.3% and 33.5% during 2021-22 to 2024-25. In particular, the Government of India has to ensure that there is no relaxation in its investment expenditure. In fact, the slightly lower growth in 2024-25 is largely linked to the slowdown in the Government of India's investment growth which has remained negative at (-)12.3% even after eight months into the fiscal year.
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Just days before the swearing-in of United States President-elect Donald Trump, and a few hours before outgoing President Joe Biden gave his final address to the American people, Israel and Hamas announced that the long-elusive ceasefire agreement over Gaza had been struck. In a statement, Hamas has highlighted that the movement "dealt with all responsibility and positivity, based on its responsibility towards our patient and steadfast people in the honorable Gaza strip, by stopping the Zionist aggression against them and putting an end to the massacres and war of genocide to which they are being subjected". Hamas and also Hezbollah in Lebanon have had their capacities diminished over the past year after leadership decapitation operations conducted by Israel.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for the automobile industry to "make in India, make for the world" emphasising that the future belonged to "Asia and India" at the inauguration of the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025. The Prime Minister outlined several investments made by the government to position India as an at- tractive destination for the mobility sector. These included the 11 lakh crore allocation for infrastructure spending in last year's Budget announcement, the PM Gati Shakti programme for multi-modal connectivity, and the National Logistics Policy, which he said would make India the most competitive in logistics costs globally.
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Twelve years since the Lokpal Act was passed and five years after the Lokpal the country's first anti-corruption body started to function, it has ordered investigation in just 24 cases and granted prosecution sanction in six cases, data show. The Lokpal, which has the powers to investigate complaints against public functionaries, received three complaints against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October and December last year. The Lokpal has rejected a large number of complaints, nearly 90%, over the past five years as they were not in the correct format. At least 2,320 "defect- free" complaints were registered with the Lokpal in five years, with 226 com- plaints lodged from April 1 to December 2024. Of the total complaints, 3% were against the Prime Minister, Member of Parliament, or Union Minister; 21% complaints were against Group A, B, C, or D officials of the Union government; 35% complaints against chairperson or members in Central government bodies; and 41% were against those in the "Others" category, which includes State government officials.
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Social media companies are working smoothly with the Grievance Appellate Committees (GACS) that hear appeals against content complaints and take downs, offering little resistance to GAC rulings. The GACs were set up under the Information Technology Rules, 2021, with a mandate to hear ap- peals from Indian users against social media firms which have more than 5,00,000 active Indian users. The committees can rule on whether content has to be taken down or reinstated. Firms like Meta Plat- forms Inc, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) have largely been cooperative with the GACs and comply with their orders. The GACs have received 2,454 appeals since October 2023, and have disposed of 2,347.
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The Supreme Court held that the police must not deploy the criminal provision of "abetment of suicide" casually or to assuage the immediate feelings of the distraught family members of the deceased. A Bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and A.S. Oka said Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code or corresponding Section 108 read with Section 45 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 appeared to be "too readily resorted to by the police". In order to bring a case of abetment of suicide the police must carefully exa- mine whether the accused had played an active role in instigating or facilitating the death of a person.
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With a host of other factors, ranging from Vitamin B12 deficiency to air pollution, influencing anaemia, says a study involving researchers from multiple institutions that was published earlier this week. Moreover, the manner in which blood is drawn for testing anaemia under public health programmes can dramatically alter estimates of the condition. The study has appeared in the peer-reviewed Euro- pean Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The latest official assessment of anaemia in the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), in 2019-2021, suggests that despite decades of policy intervention, anaemia has only gotten worse. The latest study, funded by the Department of Bio- technology, measured venous blood haemoglobin concentrations from about 4,500 people in eight States. Overall, 34.9% of those tested were anaemic. However, only 9% of them had what could be medically characterised as iron- deficiency anaemia; 22% of them were characterised as having anaemia from "unknown" causes.
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The Union government has completed a survey of 67,000 sq km of rural land worth 132 lakh crore, the Panchayati Raj Department said, a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to distribute property cards to 65 lakh land owners across 10 States. The Panchayati Raj Department started the survey using drones, which have an accuracy up to five centimetres, as part of its SVAMITVA programme. So far, 92% of the drone mapping has been completed, covering around 3.17 lakh villages. The target, to cover more than 3.44 lakh villages, is likely to be achieved by 2026, it said. So far, 31 States and Un- ion Territories have onboarded the scheme.
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