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4 . P R O F I L E PRASHANT MAVANI MSc. in Management, University of Surrey (UK) Senior Faculty: StudyIQ Do you know? Nalanda = Na+alam+Daa, meaning no stopping of the gift of knowledge Download PDF notes of this lecture from my FB Page So do gift share this lecture with your loved ones.

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6 Back on track e-way bill system System for tracking inter-state movement of goods Tracking the movement of goods under the Goods and Services Tax net from April 1 Required even before goods are loaded for transport Make it tougher to avoid tax dues

7 After an aborted attempt in February, the government has finally managed to successfully roll out. No major execution challenges so far Equally heartening is the revival in GST collections Hasmukh Adhia expects collections to pick up further as the authorities get a better sense of who is regularly filing returns and paying taxes.

8 Many businesses had already moved and stocked up goods by March 31 Unorganized Anti-evasion squads Goods movement already takes inordinately long due to infrastructure deficiencies.

9 Launch lessons ISRO s mission aimed to place the communication satellite, GSAT-6A, in space. Loss of communication between the ground station and the satellite GSAT-6 provides S-band services for two-way communications as in the case of mobile phones. High-thrust Vikas engine that gave it the capacity to carry a heavier payload.

10 Given this background, ISRO should be open about the specific learning points from this launch exercise. Space science is exciting not just for the experts, but to many outside the field. Therefore, it is important that the agency presents itself more openly to the world.

11 The pawns in international disputes Most ancient hazard faced by diplomats is expulsion, also known as declaration of a diplomat as persona non grata. It is the most effective bloodless punishment as the person concerned is removed lock, stock, and barrel from the scene, never to return. The Russia example expulsion of over 100 Russian diplomats by more than 20 countries

12 Generally, the countries involved do not go beyond these diplomatic gestures. Slowly and gradually, the vacant posts in the Russian embassies will be filled and diplomats will return to their posts in Moscow. Austria did not join some of the other EU members to expel Russian diplomats because it felt that communication channels should be kept open, particularly during crisis.

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14 Russia gloated over the fact that a majority of nations in the world, including China and India, wanted concrete evidence about Russian complicity. India takes recourse to expulsion of diplomats only in extreme circumstances when its has clear evidence of wrongdoing. India has expelled Soviet diplomats even during the heyday of India-Soviet friendship.

15 Expulsion of diplomats is very often like shooting the messenger for the message. In modern times, expelling diplomats has become the instrument of weak nations to show displeasure to stronger ones even at the risk of facing retribution. The expulsion of Russian diplomats should be seen as part of the emergence of a new Cold War, resulting from the assertive policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the aggressive posture of Mr. Trump and his love-hate relationship with Russia.

16 How the data sets stack up It is true that rising inequality has adverse economic and social consequences. Gini coefficient, which lies between 0 and 1, is used for measuring inequality. Inequality in consumption may be an under-estimate as National Sample Survey (NSS) data may not be capturing the consumption of the rich adequately. The difference between the consumption expenditure according to the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) and national income could be partly due to this factor. Rangarajan Committee: Do not match in any country, and India is no exception

17 Inequality in income and wealth is much higher than that of consumption. There has been lot of discussion in recent years on inequality. There is no doubt that inequality in itself has several undesirable consequences. Simon Kuznets: in the early period of economic growth distribution of income tends to worsen, and that only after reaching a certain level of economic development an improvement in the distribution of income occurs. Even if the Gini coefficient remains the same or picks up, the poverty ratio can be declining. This has been true of India.

18 Important News No affront to Dalit rights, says SC The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that its March 20 judgment, banning immediate arrest of a person accused of insulting or injuring a Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe member, was meant to protect innocents from arbitrary arrest and was not an affront to Dalit rights. An innocent should not be punished. There should not be terror in society... We do not want any member of the SC/ST to be deprived of his rights. We only want an innocent not to be punished, Justice Goel observed.

19 Class 10 maths re-exam plan dropped The Ministry of Human Resource Development and the CBSE have decided not to re-conduct the Class 10 mathematics examination anywhere in India. Ministry withdraws fake news order The Information and Broadcasting Ministry withdrew its order, issued on Monday, under which accreditation of any journalist found guilty of disseminating fake news could be cancelled. Press Council chief for curbs on fake news Justice Prasad told The Hindu, Is there fake news or not? If the answer is yes, why should anybody support spread of fake news? And if the government takes steps to remedy this wrong, what is incorrect about it.

20 Pointing out that the I&B order would only have affected accredited journalists, Justice Prasad said various news portals were not covered by the government s accreditation policy. He said the PCI had recommended a few months ago that news portals be regulated. India hails U.S. move against LeT arm India has welcomed the U.S. s decision to designate as a a terrorist organisation the Milli Muslim League (MML), the political arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan led by Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, calling it a vindication of its position that Pakistan s action against terror groups is ineffective.

21 China appreciates N. Korea s peace efforts China appreciates North Korea s important efforts to ease tension on the Korean peninsula, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the North s Foreign Minister on Tuesday, hours after he called on all sides to stay focussed on talks. Putin, Erdoğan launch N-plant construction Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched the construction of Turkey s first nuclear power plant in the Mediterranean Mersin region. Mr. Erdoğan ordered through a video link the launch of the $20-billion Akkuyu nuclear power plant project. OPCW to meet over Skripal episode Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

22 RBI didn t audit PNB properly: CVC Apportioning blame to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) over the PNB loan fraud, Central Vigilance Commissioner K.V. Chowdary on Tuesday there had been no apparent audit by the central bank during the period of the scam. All eyes on RBI s inflation forecast: analysts The six-member monetary policy committee (MPC) of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to maintain status quo on interest rates for the fourth straight policy review due on April 5, even though February retail inflation figures were the lowest in four months. Consumer price inflation in February slowed to 4.44% on the back of lower food prices, as compared with 5.1% in January. The central bank last reduced interest rates in August when the repo rate was lowered by 25 basis points to 6%.

23 Study sounds the alarm for Arctic ice 2 degrees Celsius cap on global warming won t save the ocean from going ice-free in some years Holding the line at 1.5 degrees Celsius, however, would make a huge difference, according to two separate studies published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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25 Answers- 1. A marble dome is first witnessed in which Mughal building? Humanyun s tomb Akbar s tomb Jahamgir s tomb Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah 2. Who among the following Mughal Emperors put a ban on consumption of tobacco? Akbar Jahangir Aurangzeb Both B and C

26 Questions- 1. Consider the following statements 1. Class wool has tensile strength greater than steel. 2. Glass wool is fire proof. 3. Glass wool has high electrical conductivity and absorbs moisture. 4. Glass wool is used to prepare fibre glass. Which of the statements given above are correct? A. 1,2,3 and 4 B. 1, 2 and 3 C. 1, 2 and 4 D. 3 and 4 2. Which of the following is good nuclear fuel? A. Uranium 238 B. Neptunium 239 C. Thorium 236 D. Plutonium 239

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