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Weekly Current Affairs Update for IAS Exam

VOL - 2 (9th December 2013 TO 15th December 2013)

Issue : VOL - 2 (9th December 2013 TO 15th December 2013)

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NATIONAL EVENTS

Lalu Prasad granted bail

• After spending two months behind bars following his conviction in a fodder scam case, RJD chief Lalu Prasad was granted bail by the Supreme Court, on the ground of parity with other convicts.
• A Bench of Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi allowed the bail plea after underlining that more than two dozens similarly-placed convicts had been released on bail by the Patna High Court.
• The court pointed out that the former Bihar CM had spent almost a year of his five-year sentence during the pendency of the trial. The Bench left it to the trial court to decide the bail bonds, sureties and other such conditions to be imposed on the former Member of Parliament.
• Lalu, who lost his membership of Parliament after being convicted, had submitted that out of the 44 persons convicted along with him in the case, 37 have been granted bail and no one's, except his bail plea has been rejected.

Impact of NOTA

• Political parties have chosen to remain indifferent to ‘None of the Above’ (NOTA), an option given to voters for the first time to reject all contestants, saying it is irrelevant because it did not impact the outcome of the recent Assembly elections.
• While in Chhattisgarh, 3.07 per cent of the valid votes went to NOTA — the highest among the four States for which results were declared — in Delhi, it was 0.63 per cent.
• Voters in Mizoram did not find the option interesting: very few exercised the choice, with figures ranging from 36 to less than 200 hits.
• In Chhattisgarh even a marginal difference, of less than 0.75 per cent between the winning Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress came at a high price.
• The NOTA’s figures in the Left Wing Extremists-dominated areas of Bastar may as well be an expression of disenchantment with electoral politics, as espoused by the Maoists, as it may be an individual voter’s dislike for the candidates in fray in places like Chitrakot, where more than 10,000 voters chose the option.

INTERNATIONAL

Bill of digital rights

• Over 500 leading authors across the world, including five Nobel laureates, signed an open letter challenging the global mass surveillance of Internet and telephone communications by the U.S. National Security Agency, describing the Agency’s snooping as a “theft” of data and a force undermining democratic principles most recently.
• Hailing from 81 different nations the authors, including Margaret Atwood, J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, and Günter Grass called on the U.N. to create an international “bill of digital rights” that would enshrine the protection of civil rights in the Internet age.
• They argued that the capacity of intelligence agencies to spy on millions of people’s digital communications is turning everyone into potential suspects, with worrying implications for the way societies work.
• The signatories comprised 22 Indian authors including Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad, Jeet Thayil, Mukul Kesavan, Ramchandra Guha, Tishani Doshi, Salil Tripathi and Suketu Mehta.
• Following revelations since June 2013 by former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden on the extent of surveillance across multiple nations, the authors’ letter comes a day after the chief executives of leading tech firms such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft urged for sweeping changes to surveillance programmes to stop the erosion of public trust.

INDIA AND THE WORLD

India-US row

• The arrest of an Indian diplomat amid claims she had lied on a visa form for her domestic worker has turned into a major row between Washington and Delhi with India’s national security adviser calling her treatment “despicable and barbaric”.
• India summoned the US ambassador and announced that it was withdrawing a series of diplomatic privileges to US officials. It also reopened a road that runs past the US embassy in Delhi but which for several years has been blocked off for security reasons. Several Indian officials declined to meet with members of a visiting US delegation.
• India has reacted with fury to the way its official has been treated, saying Indian diplomats living abroad have for years taken their domestic workers with them and that host governments have had few problems with the issue.
• Ms Richard’s Indian passport was subsequently revoked and she and her family were taken into custody. Subsequent to that, the US authorities have been investigating the circumstances in which she arrived in New York.
• A senior member of India’s main opposition party said India should arrest gay partners of US diplomats living in India.

ECONOMY

Heavy penalty for insider trading

• The International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), suggested heavy penalty besides ‘naming and shaming’ to deal with insider trading and other offences in the securities market.
• The IAB also suggested that the market regulator should publicize major insider trading cases in a separate section on the SEBI website for easier access and encourage an effective whistle blowing framework in the securities market by ensuring adequate legal protection of whistle blowers.
• The IAB, while deliberating on the formula-based determination of consent mechanism, suggested judgmental variations in consent amount on a case-to-case basis so as to make it effectively deterrent in nature.
• On real estate investment trusts (REITs), the IAB suggested for the gradual expansion of REITs to include retail investments and a separate framework for infrastructure investment trusts.

National Defence Academy & Naval Academy Examination (I), 2014

An Examination will be conducted by the union public service commission on 20th April, 2014 For the Admission to the Army, Navy and Air Force wings  of the NDA for The 133rd Course and for the 95th Indian Naval Academy Course (INAC) commencing from 02 January 2015.

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UPSCPORTAL Daily Dose in Hindi

दैनिक खुराक (दैनिक समसामयिकी, वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न, ऑडियो नोट्स) "24 दिसंबर, 2013"

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UPSC: IFS 'B' Branch (Under Secretary) SLDC Exam, 2013

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