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Qatar, a major energy supplier to India, signed an agreement to elevate India-Qatar relationship to the level of a strategic partnership. The Ministry of External Affairs announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the visiting Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, discussed multiple issues, including the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict in the Gaza Strip. Both sides are also exploring the possibility of finalising a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). A total of 38 Qatari entities representing retail, finance, and energy sector participated in the deliberations where the two sides resolved to double bilateral trade to $28 billion.
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India’s Indian Plate pressing onto the Eurasian Plate sculpted the Himalya. The fault line involved runs right along the great Himalayan arc that stretches from Kashmir to the North East. It also implicates adjacent tracts in Pakistan, the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Nepal and Bhutan. Seismologists tell us that the two great tectonic plates, the Indian and the Eurasian, have now slept their really deep sleep long enough now and that the built-up pressure inside their folds cannot be expected to hold its tension much longer. Provide for state expense on, first, fore-closing and rolling back engineering enterprises that weaken the earth's crust, especially rocky terrain, in India's seismic risk zones in the ascending calibration of II, III and IV. Super-imposing on the existing seismic zonation maps which are really x-ray plates, new carefully drawn mapped-plans for the protection (which can include evacuations, demolitions and re-building) of highly vulnerable structures, and assessing the seismic status of high follow-on secondary risk structures such as like hydel projects and atomic reactors (Narora in Uttar Pradesh is located in Zone IV).
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By withholding Tamil Nadu's central share of Samagra Shiksha funds for rejecting the National Education Policy (NEP 2020), the Union Government is flexing its muscles to coerce States into submission. The scheme was designed to ensure equitable access to quality education for all schoolchildren. Since last year, Tamil Nadu has repeatedly flagged the non-disbursal of ₹2,152 crore, warning that the funding shortfall has severely strained its school education infrastructure, affecting nearly 40 lakh students and 32,000 staff members.
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Unified District Information System for Education Plus (U-DISE+) data for 2022-23 and 2023-24, which was released by the Ministry of Education on December 30, 2024, caused much consternation as it showed a 15.5 million drop (6%) in school enrolment since 2018-19. It is a matter of concern that school enrolment has plummeted by 24.51 million, or 9.45%, over the past decade, with elementary-level enrolment registering a rather pronounced fall of 18.7 million (13.45%). Up to this level, education has been free and compulsory under the Right to Education (RTE) Act since 2009. In comparison, secondary-level enrolment declined by 1.43 million (3.75%), whereas senior secondary-level enrolments have increased by 3.63 million (15.46%) over the decade. This means that the decline began only recently.
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Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's curt remark that Mr. Allahabadia has "a very dirty mind," the law separates moral repugnancy from criminality. In Apoorva Arora v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi (2024), the Court quashed criminal prosecutions for foul language in an OTT show called College Romance. The Court demanded an objective test for obscenity, focusing on whether sexual or lustful thoughts were aroused and not on whether words were "decent". The Court further explained that coarse language, however distasteful or improper, does not automatically become obscene. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting's push for a sweeping Broadcasting Bill gathered steam before the general elections and then returned in a form that placed online creators in the same bracket as traditional broadcasters. Earlier, there was a public outcry against provisions of the Bill. The Parliamentary Standing Committee of Information Technology, headed by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, has now urged the Ministry to propose new regulations and amendments. The recent controversy has different actors playing to a familiar script: a public uproar leads to new rules which arm the government with sweeping powers.
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Tariffs levied on imports into India are five times higher than what the United States levies on its imports. The average duty levied by India was 17% in 2023, compared to 3.3% levied by the U.S. Also, the average tariff levied by India was the highest among comparable economies, especially BRICS countries. India was followed by Brazil (11%), and South Africa and China (more than 7%). The average tariff levied by Russia was 6.6.% and that by the European Union was 5%. India's higher average was mostly due to high tariffs on agricultural products to protect domestic producers. "While tariffs on agricultural goods are really high, it is not so on manufactured pro-ducts," explains Biswajit Dhar, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development.
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Two separate murder convictions resulted in sharply contrasting verdicts, highlighting how the Indian courts apply the death penalty. While one case led to capital punishment, the other saw the accused sentenced to life imprisonment, reigniting questions about the judiciary's approach to the 'rarest of rare' doctrine, which till now does not have a statutory definition. The debate on the discretion given to judges to award the death sentence dates back to 1972, when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in Jagmohan Singh versus State of U.P. In 1980, the Supreme Court in Bachan Singh versus State of Punjab, established the 'rarest of rare' doctrine. A five-judge Bench heard the case, and held that the death penalty should be used only in exceptional cases. However, it did not embellish what the 'rarest of rare' meant, leading to further confusion.
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The unemployment rate in urban areas of the country was 6.4% for the period of October to December in 2024 for persons of age 15 and above, says the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the Statistics and Programme Implementation Ministry. For men, the unemployment rate was 5.8%, and for women, 8.1%. In 2023, during the corresponding quarter, the unemployment rate for the cohort was 6.5%, while in the July-to-September 2024 quarter, it was 6.4%. The female unemployment rate last year was 8.6%. Among the States, Himachal Pradesh had the highest unemployment rate of 10.4% and Gujarat the lowest 3%. The female unemployment rate too was the highest in Himachal Pradesh at 24%. The lowest was 1.3% in Delhi. The PLFS defines unemployment rate as the percentage of unemployed persons in the labour force in current weekly status (CWS) the number of persons either employed or unemployed on an average in a week.
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India is in the final stages of preparing its first ever Biannual Transparency Report (BTR), part of its commitment as a signatory to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. This report will be India's official position on its greenhouse gas emissions inventory, key sectors and sources, and steps taken to improve energy efficiency use, as well as the transition to renewable energy sources and the availability of required resources. While India has been periodically submitting such information in the form of 'national communications' and 'Biannual Update Reports' (BUR), the BTR is a document that will be subject to technical review by independent, non-Indian, UNFCCC-accredited experts. The UNFCCC, or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is the core agreement on which rest commitments by countries to take climate action.
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The Union government has begun revamping its official websites and is working on an artificial intelligence hub to distribute information on government initiatives. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) released a Digital Brand Identity Manual, seeking to create a standard design language for government websites. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry, meanwhile, is developing an AI hub to enable effective and efficient dissemination of information on various government initiatives. The hub has not yet been formally inaugurated.
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