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Day of the Year
Individual Rights Day
- ndividual Rights Day was initiated by the founder and presidential candidate of the Objectivist Party, Dr. Tom Stevens. Stevens is an American politician from New York City, who supports John Locke’s philosophies regarding the rights of society’s smallest minority and most basic unit – the individual.
- In addition, the Objectivist political party seeks to promote the concepts by Alice O’Connor, better known by her pen name, Ayn Rand.
Latest Updates
Bail the norm, jail is exception even in PMLA cases, says SC
he Supreme Court on Wednesday held that bail is the rule and jail an exception even in money laundering cases.
“Liberty of the individual is always a rule and deprivation is the exception. Deprivation can only be by the procedure established by law, which has to be a valid and reasonable procedure,” a Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan observed in its judgment.
The judgment, authored by Justice Viswanathan, granted relief to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s aide, Prem Prakash, in an illegal mining-related case registered by the Enforcement Directorate
News Capsule
India signs repeat order for 73,000 SIG 716 rifles; deliveries by 2025-end
- The Ministry of Defence has signed a repeat order for 73,000 SIG 716 rifles from Sig Sauer of the U.S. and deliveries are expected to completed by end-2025.
- “The contract was signed in June 2024 and delivery is within 18 months of contract,” a defence official said. The Army has earlier procured and inducted 72,400 SIG 716 rifles through fast-track procurement under a ₹700-crore contract signed in February 2019.
- “We are proud to be a partner in the modernisation effort of the Indian Army, and prouder still that the SIG 716 rifle achieves the Ministry of Defence’s modernisation goals with the second largest Army in the world,” Ron Cohen, president and CEO, Sig Sauer, said in a statement issued on August 26.
PMJDY personifies dignity and empowerment: Modi
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed his government’s programme of financial inclusion, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), as it completed 10 years, by penning a long post on LinkedIn on Wednesday. The programme personified dignity, empowerment, and the opportunity to participate in the economic life of the country, especially for women and for those in rural and semi-urban parts of the country, he said.
- He added that for him, the PMJDY initiative was more than just a policy; rather, it was an endeavour to build an India where each and every citizen, irrespective of one’s economic background, has access to the formal banking apparatus.
Environment ignored in considering sites for Nicobar Islands project, says Jairam
- The Environment Ministry’s go-ahead to the ₹72,000-crore infrastructure project on the Nicobar Islands had not considered the “least environmentally destructive” site at Campbell Bay. This, despite an Expert Appraisal Committee pointing out that the project location had been chosen purely on technical and financial criteria, Congress spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh wrote in a letter to Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav.
- Mr. Ramesh wrote that the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management report saying that no part of the proposed project would come in the highly sensitive Coastal Regulation Zone-1A or CRZ 1A, “was at odds with the available evidence.”
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Sharpening India’s anti-tuberculosis fight
The omnipresence of tuberculosis (TB) in the pages of history and literature is testimony to how the disease has plagued generations across the world and continues to be a major problem even today. India bears over a quarter of the global TB burden. Political will in India has helped drive a great deal of progress in the fight against the disease. For example, in 2023, addressing the big challenge of ‘missed’ TB cases, 25.1 lakh patients were diagnosed in India as having TB, highlighting strengthened case finding efforts. However, as we work toward the goal of TB elimination — the Prime Minister has urged citizens to work towards TB elimination — we must look to innovate and deploy proven technologies and tools at our disposal.
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