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By EXAM JOB EXPERT Published: August 30, 2024
Day of the Year
International Whale Shark Day
- Started in 2012, International Whale Shark Day celebrates these gentle giants. Growing up to 14 metres long and 12 tons heavy, whale sharks have a face only a mother could love: no whale shark will ever win a beauty contest, so it’s right they’re made to feel special one day a year. However, there’s a serious purpose to the day, which aims to raise awareness of how this animal has been hunted to vulnerability for its highly prized fins and meat.
- In fact, in 2016, the whale shark was reclassified by the IUCN, moving from a vulnerable species to an endangered one, which is incredibly worrying.
Latest Updates
Pakistan invites PM Modi to SCO meet in Islamabad
- Pakistan on Thursday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of Government meeting to be held here in October.
- Pakistan holds the rotating chairmanship of the SCO Council of Heads of Government and in that capacity will be hosting the two-day in-person SCO Heads of Governments Meeting in October.
- Invitations have been sent to the heads of countries to participate in the meeting, which will take place on October 15-16. An invitation has also been sent to Mr. Modi,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told presspersons.
News Capsule
Bonda tribe student set to pursue MBBS programme in Odisha
- Mangala Muduli, a 19-year-old Bonda tribe student, has undertaken the 420-kilometre journey from Badbel village in Eastern Ghats in Odisha’s Malkangiri district to study medicine at MKCG Medical College in Berhampur. The journey represents not just a physical distance but a monumental generational leap.
- After cracking this year’s National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), Mangala is set to become the first member of Bonda, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group and one of the oldest tribes of India, which a couple of decades ago was living in isolation and had little interaction with the outside world.
Should lateral entry in the civil services be encouraged?
Last week, just days after issuing an advertisement for 45 lateral entry posts (10 Joint Secretary positions and 35 Director and Deputy Secretary positions), the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) withdrew it after receiving a massive backlash. The Opposition parties accused the government of attempting to bypass reservation policies and “snatching away” jobs from Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), and Scheduled Tribes (STs). Should lateral entry in civil services be encouraged? Ashok Vardhan Shetty and Harsh Shrivastava discuss the question in a conversation moderated by Priscilla Jebaraj. Edited excerpts:
Submarine Arighaat set to add ballast to nuclear triad
- India’s second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, INS Arighaat, was commissioned into service at Visakhapatnam in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday. It joins the first such submarine, INS Arihant, which was commissioned in 2016.
- “The Arighaat will further strengthen India’s nuclear triad, enhance nuclear deterrence, establish strategic balance and peace and play a decisive role in the country’s security,” Mr. Singh said at the induction ceremony.
- The technological advancements undertaken indigenously on this submarine make it significantly more advanced than its predecessor, Arihant, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
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LIC pays ₹3,662.17 crore dividend to Govt. of India
Life Insurance Corporation of India on Thursday paid a dividend of ₹3,662.17 crore to the Centre. CEO and MD Siddhartha Mohanty presented the cheque to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman towards the Government of India’s share of dividend approved by shareholders in the AGM on August 22, LIC said in a release. With the ₹2,441.45 crore interim dividend paid on March 1, the total dividend paid to the Centre for 2023-24 totalled ₹6,103.62 crore, LIC added.
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