CURRENT AFFAIRS 09 AUGUST 2024

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While the day’s origins may be shrouded in mystery and rumor, the books themselves are not. Starting from carving on stone tablets thousands of years ago, the book was designed to make the writings and drawings portable for those that could not be carried around on stone tablets. Originally these written documents were made on parchment or vellum (calf skin, in case there’s some question) that was then bound tightly with a wooden cover.
Often the wooden cover was tightly wrapped in leather to prevent the wood from getting wet and had clasps or straps to hold it shut. In Eastern cultures, carved wooden blocks were used with ink to print out texts on cloth, as early as 220 AD.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged Muhammad Yunus, who took charge as head of Bangladesh’s interim government on Thursday, to ensure the “safety and protection of Hindus and all other minority communities” in the country.
Mr. Modi’s message, conveying his good wishes, was sent soon after Dr. Yunus took his oath of office in Dhaka, which has faced a governance vacuum since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country in a dramatic turn of events.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is in touch with the post-Hasina administration to ensure safety for the remaining officials in Indian missions as well as Indian citizens who are scattered across Bangladesh, a Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday.

Bangladesh unfolding at a rapid pace, this writer recalls the events of February 2009 when (now former) Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina faced a major crisis within two months of her taking over. The mutiny of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), a paramilitary force, where the rebels took over the BDR’s headquarters in Dhaka, left 74 dead, out of whom 57 were army officers.
The unrest spread to 12 other towns and cities and posed a direct threat to the fledgling democratically elected government of Sheikh Hasina.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon was called back from Colombo by the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, where this writer was also present, being the Head of Division for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and the Maldives. We took the only available flight, late at night, to Mumbai and then to Delhi to reach early the next morning.

The standing deposit facility rate remains at 6.25%, while the marginal standing facility rate and the bank rate stand at 6.75%.
The MPC also decided by a 4-2 majority to remain focused on the withdrawal of accommodation to ensure that inflation progressively aligns to the target, while supporting growth.
Explaining the rationale behind these decisions, Mr. Das said that headline inflation, after remaining steady at 4.8% during April and May, had increased to 5.1% in June, primarily driven by food inflation, which remains stubborn.

heikh Hasina, who quit as Prime Minister and left Bangladesh, will be back in the country as soon as democracy is restored, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy said on Thursday and blamed Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, for fuelling the ongoing unrest in the country.
In an interview, Mr. Joy said that although 76-year-old Ms. Hasina would definitely return to Bangladesh, it is not yet decided whether she will be back as a “retired or active” politician. He also asserted that the members of Sheikh Mujib’s family will neither abandon its people nor leave the beleaguered Awami League in the lurch.
He expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government for protecting his mother and appealed to India to help build international opinion and exert pressure for the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh.

Young Indian grappler Aman Sehrawat lost to Japanese top-seed Rei Higuchi in the 57kg freestyle semifinal bout as the country’s hopes of winning a gold from wrestling evaporated here on Thursday. The 21-year-old Aman will now play for the bronze medal.
Aman, who had raised hopes of securing a place in the final following two big victories against celebrated opponents in the earlier rounds, was no match for the 28-year-old Higuchi as the Japanese toyed with the Indian to stamp his technical superiority with a 10-0 win in just over two minutes.
Earlier, Aman demolished former World champion Zelimkhan Abakarov of Albania by technical superiority to seal a place in the last four.