Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 27 July 2022

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Spending on ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign declared CSR activity under Companies Act.

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Corporate Affairs Ministry has said that companies can spend their Corporate Social Responsibility CSR funds for activities related to the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign.
The Ministry said spending of CSR funds for the activities related to this campaign such as mass scale production and supply of the national flag, outreach and amplification efforts and other related activities are eligible CSR activities under Schedule VII of the Companies Act pertaining to promotion of education relating to culture.

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Under the Companies Act, 2013, certain class of profitable companies are required to shell out at least two per cent of their three-year annual average net profit towards CSR activities.

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It validates the existence of the three family courts in Himachal Pradesh and Two in Nagaland with retrospective effect. The bill also seeks validation of the decisions taken by the two states and the family courts.
The family courts located at Shimla, Dharmashala, and Mandi in Himachal Pradesh will come into force, with a retrospective effect of February 15th 2019.
The Family Courts located at Dimapur and Kohima in Nagaland will come into force with retrospect effect from November 12th 2008 on enactment of the Bill.
The enactment was necessitated as it came to light in connection with a case that the central Government notifications were not existing with respect to these five family courts.

Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s new space chief Yuri Borisov said amid high tensions between Moscow and the West over the fighting in Ukraine.

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Borisov’s statement reaffirmed previous declarations by Russian space officials about Moscow’s intention to leave the space station after 2024 when the current international arrangements for its operation end.
NASA and other international partners hope to keep the space station running until 2030, while the Russians have been reluctant to make commitments beyond 2024.
The space station is jointly run by the space agencies of Russia, the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada. The first piece was put in orbit in 1998, and the outpost has been continuously inhabited for nearly 22 years.

Tunisian President Kais Saied is set to secure more power under a new constitution that is expected to pass in a referendum, in what critics fear is a march to one-man rule over a country that rose up against dictatorship in 2010.

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Arab Spring was a series of pro-democracy uprisings that enveloped several countries, including Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Bahrain.
Events in these nations generally began in spring of 2011, which led to the name.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released consultation paper on e-SIM for M2M (machine-to-machine) Communications.

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e-SIM is a form factor that is physically integrated into device, mostly by soldering to device printed circuit board (PCB).
It cannot be easily removed in the field.
It requires remote provisioning which is ability to remotely select SIM profile deployed on a SIM without physically changing SIM card.

For the third consecutive year an outbreak of LSD is reported in Gujarat, killing nearly 1,000 cows and buffaloes.

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Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) is an infectious viral disease mainly affecting cattles, causing fever, nodules on the skin and occasionally death.
Originally found in Africa, it has also spread to countries in the Middle East, Asia, and eastern Europe. It also causes reduced milk yield of animals.
It is transmitted by blood-feeding insects, such as certain species of flies and mosquitoes, or ticks.