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INS Vikrant: India's 1st Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

India`s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), INS Vikrant, commissioned by PM Narendra Modi is the largest ship ever built in India's maritime history. This Aircraft Carrier was constructed with the aid of Cochin Shipyard Ltd., an India-owned and operated Aircraft Carrier sold from the UK. At present, India already has an operational Aircraft Carrier purchased from Russia. With the commissioning of INS Vikrant, the Indian Navy can have operational Aircraft Carriers. Given the unexpected transforming geopolitical scenario, the Indo-Pacific's growing significance, and the growing presence of China in the Indian Ocean, the Indian Navy has also asked for a 3rd Aircraft Carrier.

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SC to hear 25 Constitution bench cases from August 29th

The Supreme Court notified that 25 Constitution bench matters will be indexed from August 29, as Chief Justice of India (CJI) U.U. Lalit has a tenure of even less than 100 days. CJI N.V. Ramana demitted the office on August 26, and Justice Lalit had taken over as CJI however he started running most effectively on August 29. According to the attention issued through the apex court registry, 25 cases that have been pending for a while may be heard from September month through the 5- Judge bench of the apex court. Remember, that a constitution bench is a bench of 5 judges.

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List of Governors General of India

In 1600 Queen Elizabeth-I sent a troop to India named East India Company(EIC), and in 1765 they won the Battle of Buxar against the Shah Alam emperor, who gave them Diwani or permission to rule over. At this time, Britishers were trying hard to root themselves in India thus, for the same, they used their greatest artillery and armor, The Centralised British Body, which was made through a reporting head called ‘Governor General.’

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Animal Rights in India: Landmark Cases and laws

India is the seventh largest country in the world in its cultural, artistic, historical, and geographical diversity, containing four of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots, the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Indo-Burma region and the Sundaland, etc. It is home to various animals, ranging from the Bengal Tigers to the Great Indian Rhinoceros, and animal protection and welfare in the country have taken a prominent position over recent years.

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Is Delhi a Union Territory or State?

The capital of India, New Delhi, is frequently stated as “Dilwaalon ki Dilli '', an area where humans have contented hearts. Delhi has a massive range of historical and ancient artifacts. However, it's far domestic to all three branches of the Government of India. With its lengthy records of empire successions from the Delhi Sultanate to Mughals, after which the British, the town of gift stands as one of the quickest growing towns withinside the world. Delhi is cherished by the vacationers in addition to its population for it's far a town of the clever and the spice!

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Justice UU Lalit: Important Cases and Judgments

UU Lalit, or Uday Umesh Lalit, was born on 9th November 1957, in the family of U.R. Lalit, a former Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court and Nagpur bench. He had been a Senior advocate in the profession of law from a long time. He subsequently became the 6th most senior Advocate and was finally appointed as a Supreme Court Judge on 13th August 2014. In this article, we will discuss Justice UU Lalit's background, his career, important judgments & many more. So, let's get started.

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NV Ramana: Careers and Cases

NV Ramana, known as ‘People’s Judge’ the Hon’ble Chief Justice NV Ramana, was born on 27th August in Ponnavaram Village in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. Before entering the legal field, Ramana was a journalist for a Telugu Newspaper, ‘Eenadu,’ for one year. Subsequently, he enrolled as an advocate in 1983. He practiced in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh & Center Administrative Tribunals, and the Supreme Court of India, where he dealt with civil, criminal, labor, service, and election matters. Hon’ble Justice also served as the Additional Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh. He was appointed as Additional Standing Counsel for the Central Government.

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NASA James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was a huge science project plagued with several problems, and it seemed destined to fail badly, but despite such odds, it succeeded. Its sensors can potentially explore targets near and far, from a galactic arm of our own Milky Way, it reaches to never-before-seen galaxies. Interestingly, its spectrograph has also suspected the chemistry of another planet’s atmosphere from more than 1,000 light-years away, discovering a gas giant called WASP-96b over- clouded with gaseous water.

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What is India's Refugee Policy?

Refugees and the different forced migrants are the current challenges faced in India. Throughout the world, people are leaving their homes to keep themselves safe from Natural disasters, and cultural and political oppression. Unfortunately, even today the country struggles to offer them secure life, the reason is the effect of the current refugee policy for each receiving state and society, the identification of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people. The refugee phenomenon and the way refugees have become a crucial challenge of the world throughout the 20th and 21st centuries with the aid of the government are worrying problems. But who is a refugee? A refugee is a person or group who has been forced to leave his or her country due to political conflict, violence, or natural disaster. A refugee has a fear of contesting based on race, religion, nationality, political and specific social group. After this they cannot go back Home for a long period of time

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The Oscars: List of Winners and Categories

Across the world, various awards are given in the field of cinema, like Academy Awards, Filmfare Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and many more. But the Oscar is considered the biggest of all these in the world. The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the oldest, most renowned, most influential, and most prestigious of all the film awards. The gold-plated statuettes are presented annually by a non-profit professional organization, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), based in Beverly Hills, California, and founded in 1927.

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Why patent is delayed in India?

On April 27, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) released the 2022 Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement, where it expressed several issues with India's IPR protection and quoted ‘remained one of the world's most challenging major economies concerning protection and enforcement of IP,’ it has decided to retain India on its priority watch list along with other six countries Argentina, chile, china, Indonesia, Russia, and Venezuela.

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Indian Air Force Ranks and Insignia

Indian Air Force makes sure that India breathes the air of freedom. And literally, the sky is the limit for an Air Force officer. There are various criteria on the basis of which officers are categorised. Ever wondered how they are ranked? The Indian Airforce ranking system is based on the Royal Air Force. This blog discusses the various ranks and insignia of Air Force officers. Keep on reading the blog!

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What is the difference between States and Union Territories?

Indian states and Union territories having an extraordinary and rich history, never fails to charm their visitors. India is a land of 28 states and 8 Union territories, with each sharing a distinct story or interesting past like UTs of Daman and Diu were under the rule of the Portuguese while Puducherry was under the rule of the French having different cultures from their surrounding states. Also, after reorganizing, Jammu and Kashmir two UTs came into existence- J & K and Ladakh. Similarly, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu merged into one UT. Union Territories (UTs) are federal territories administered by the Centre. They have Lieutenant Governors (LGs) appointed by the President of India. In this article, we will discuss states & Union territories, the evolution, differences between states and Union territories, etc. Let’s get started.

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Indian Navy Ranks and Insignia

Looking back at the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, even though it has been more than a decade, the terror doesn’t seem to fade with time in the hearts of the survivors and their families. This was when our generation popularly learned about the active role of the Indian Navy, Army & Air Force. Undoubtedly, the timely intervention by the NSG, an elite counter-terrorism unit, and MARCOS, or Marine Commandos, the Special Operations Forces Unit of the Indian Navy, saved many lives of those trapped in the Taj Hotel.

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Indian Army Ranks and Insignia

Indian Army ranks may be broadly categorized into three classes: commissioned officers, junior commissioned officials, and other ranks. These ranks commonly correspond with the western Army and mirror those of the British and commonwealth armies. Traditional names for ranks are still used, in addition to western names.

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Ashoka Chakra Award: Everything you need to know about

The Ashoka Chakra is India's highest peacetime military decoration, awarded for bravery and courageous action or self-sacrifice on the battlefield. This peacetime carbon copy of the Param Vir Chakra (PVC) is awarded for "most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valor or self-sacrifice" apart from when confronted with the enemy. The decoration can be awarded either to military or personnel that are civilian.

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Fatwa : Meaning, Legality & Examples

When the writer Salman Rushdie was attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa calling on all Muslims to take his life, wherein the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s Supreme Leader at that time, accused Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” of insulting Islam & blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad.

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IAS Officer Salary: Structure & Facilities

Remember your school days when you were asked, “Badha hoke kya Banega?” aka “What you wanna become when you grow up”? Many of you might have replied, “Collector banunga.” However, when one grows up, they realize the difficulty level of this exam and the amount of hard work one has to put in. A career in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is one of the most desired professions in India. Every year, lakhs of people take the UPSC Civil Services exam but only a handful clear the exam, and an even lesser number cut IAS officers.

Posts Tagged: current affairs

INS Vikrant: India's 1st Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

SC to hear 25 Constitution bench cases from August 29th

List of Governors General of India

Animal Rights in India: Landmark Cases and laws

Is Delhi a Union Territory or State?

Justice UU Lalit: Important Cases and Judgments

NV Ramana: Careers and Cases

NASA James Webb Space Telescope

What is India's Refugee Policy?

The Oscars: List of Winners and Categories

Why patent is delayed in India?

Indian Air Force Ranks and Insignia

What is the difference between States and Union Territories?

Indian Navy Ranks and Insignia

Indian Army Ranks and Insignia

Ashoka Chakra Award: Everything you need to know about

Fatwa : Meaning, Legality & Examples

IAS Officer Salary: Structure & Facilities

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