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National Social Security Day
- In the United States, the Social Security system dates back to 1935 when it was signed into law by then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This system was brought by the federal administration as a response to the financial crisis and subsequent Great Depression of the economy that took place in the US and all over the world in the 1920s.
- The US Social Security Act sought to provide care for needy persons, including the elderly, those who are disabled, children who are orphaned or other types of people in need. In 1937, the system began collecting taxes and paying out benefits to those in need.
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CBI takes over probe into Kolkata doctor’s murder
- Calcutta HC transfers investigation observing that police have not made any significant progress; it accepts the fear of petitioners over delay in probe, urges protesting doctors to call off their strike.
- The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday transferred the investigation into the rape and murder of a doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital here to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
- A Division Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya said that prima facie, no significant progress had been made in the investigation. Following the High Court order, the CBI took over the case and a team of officers accompanied by forensic and medical experts will arrive in Kolkata on Wednesday and visit the scene of the crime.
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The shock-effects of South Asian tumult
- The start of this decade, India has received one shock after another in its neighbourhood.
- If in 2021, it was the coup in Myanmar and the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, in 2022 there was the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan from office in Pakistan and riots that pushed Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of the country in Sri Lanka.
- Since then there have been some other events — the dramatic electoral change in the Maldives, that pushed the more India-friendly Solih government out, while a similar effect in Nepal wrought by coalitions collapsing, has brought the less India-friendly Oli government in. With Bangladesh, the shock of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s dramatic departure and her arrival in India is all the more palpable, because of how heavily New Delhi invested in the Hasina government.
Hints of the corporatisation of science research in India
- During the inaugural address of the 107th Science Congress in Bengaluru in January 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflected on the government’s take on how science should be conducted in India. It was conveyed to young researchers in his usual aphoristic manner of speaking: “innovate, patent, produce, prosper”. By expressing it in a maxim, the Prime Minister was hinting at the birthing of a new policy on knowledge production under his leadership.
- Over several years, the current ruling regime has been directing laboratories and other research centres to earn their revenue from external sources by marketing their expertise and investing the surplus to develop technologies for national missions.
DRDO carries out flight test of long-range glide bomb
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday successfully carried out the maiden flight test of the long- range glide bomb (LRGB) Gaurav from a Su-30 MK-I fighter jet of the Indian Air Force. The test was conducted off the coast of Odisha. “Gaurav is an air launched 1,000 kg class glide bomb capable of hitting targets at long distance. After being launched, the glide bomb steer towards the target using highly accurate hybrid navigation scheme,” the DRDO said in a statement. The LRGB has been designed and developed indigenously by the Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad. During the flight test, the glide bomb hit the target erected at Long Wheeler’s island with pinpoint accuracy, the DRDO said.
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