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By EXAM JOB EXPERT Published: September 02, 2024
Day of the Year
Labor Day
- Labor Day’s story starts in the late 1800s, a time of hard work and few protections for workers. Back then, many people worked long days, often in unsafe conditions.
- They wanted change, so they stood together, asking for shorter hours and safer workplaces. Their efforts sparked the idea of a special day to honor workers’ contributions to society.
- The first Labor Day parade took place in New York City on September 5, 1882. Thousands of workers took a day off without pay to march for their rights.
Latest Updates
Flood situation remains grim in Telangana, A.P.
- Heavy rain lashed several parts of Telangana on Sunday, leaving at least nine dead and disrupting railway and bus services across the State.
- Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy directed the officials of Revenue, Irrigation and other departments to take up rescue and relief operations in view of the downpour. He also deputed Ministers to monitor the situation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah called Mr. Reddy and assured him of the Centre’s support.
- In Kusumanchi mandal of Khammam district, two workers of a pre-cast cement bricks factory were washed away. Their son managed to swim to safety, wearing a life jacket dropped from a drone deployed by the police for rescue work.
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‘IAS officers will be ambassadors for Rajasthan global investment drive’
- Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma has said a high-level delegation from the State government will travel across the country and visit over 25 nations around the globe to attract investment in the run-up to ‘Rising Rajasthan’ Global Investment Summit 2024, which is slated to be held from December 9 to 11 in Jaipur.
- IAS officers have been assigned different locations to ensure continuous communication with entrepreneurs, Mr. Sharma told The Hindu during his visit to Mumbai for a roadshow to invite industrialists to invest in Rajasthan as part of the preparations for the summit.
Are lie-detector tests legally valid?
On August 26, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted a second round of polygraph tests on seven people, in connection with the rape and murder of a resident doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
In a 2010 paper published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, psychiatric expert Suresh Bada Math observed that lie-detection techniques have “faced a number of criticisms,” and their effectiveness in revealing “concealed knowledge in applied real-world settings” remains uncertain.
The Supreme Court in 2010 in the case of Selvi vs. State of Karnataka ruled that no lie detector tests should be administered “except on the basis of consent of the accused” in accordance with the fundamental right against self-incrimination as enshrined under Article 20(3) of the Constitution.
Net GST receipts’ growth slips to 6.5% in Aug.
- Growth in India’s Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections slowed marginally to 10% in August from 10.3% in July, with revenues of nearly ₹1.75 lakh crore. However, the rise in net receipts slumped to 6.5%, the second weakest in this financial year, from 14.4% in the previous month.
- Sequentially, gross revenues were 3.9% lower in August vis-a-vis July, when they had hit their third-highest monthly tally a tad over ₹1.82 lakh crore. However, net revenues, after adjusting for refunds to taxpayers, were ₹1,50,501 crore in August, marking a sharper 9.2% drop from July’s kitty.
- The uptick in July’s gross GST revenues had marked a sharp recovery over June, when growth had hit a three-year low of 7.6%. Net receipts growth was 6.3% in June.
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Relations between India and Pakistan unlikely to become better, finds survey
- More than 60% of Indians and more than half of all Pakistanis surveyed believe the two countries cannot have friendly relations in this decade, says a new survey by the Centre for Policy Research (CPR)-C Voter that looks at the attitudes of Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis on a number of political, economic, and foreign policy issues.
- The downturn in ties between India and Pakistan since 2016, after which no high-level bilateral talks have been held, is clearly mirrored in the mood in the two countries, shows the survey, which reached out to about 1,00,000 respondents, 12,000 of whom completed the survey in total across the three countries.
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