05 JULY 2022 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS | UPSC CDS CAPF AFCAT NDA SSB

1. SERVICE CHARGE

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) issued guidelines here asking hotels and restaurants not to collect service charge from customers.

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These establishments should not add service charge automatically or by default to the food bill, the guidelines say.
The guidelines adds that if any consumer finds that a hotel or restaurant is violating the guidelines, he or she may make a request to remove the service charge from the bill amount or lodge a complaint with the National Consumer Helpline.
Complaints can be filed with the Consumer Commission too or with the District Collector.
The guidelines added that component of service is inherent in the price of food and beverages offered by the restaurant or hotel.

Source : The Hindu

2. INDIA-RUSSIA DEFENCE COOPERATION

As the war in Ukraine stretches over four months with no end in sight, it has given rise to apprehensions on Russia’s ability to adhere to timely deliveries of spares and hardware.

Status of India-Russia defence cooperation

The defence trade between India and Russia has crossed $15 billion since 2018, in the backdrop of some big deals including the $5.43 billion S-400 long range air defence systems.
Other major contracts currently under implementation are construction of four additional stealth frigates in Russia and India, licensed production of the Mango Armor-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds for the T-90S tanks as also additional T-90S tanks, AK-203 assault rifles among others.
However, there is some delay. For instance, the delivery of the second regiment of the S-400 is delayed by a few months as also the operationalisation of the agreement for the manufacture of 6.1 lakh AK-203 rifles at Korwa, Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
There are also several big ticket deals currently under negotiation but several of them have been deferred by the Defence Ministry as part of the review of all direct import deals.

Source : The Hindu

3. INDIA-AUSTRALIA CRITICAL MINERALS INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP

Australia is all set to supply critical minerals required for India’s electric vehicles, solar power projects and other strategic areas, said Canberra’s Minister for Resources and Minister for Northern Australia Madeleine King.

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Australia will commit $5.8 million to the three-year India-Australia Critical Minerals Investment Partnership.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, soon after his May 23 election victory, had participated in the Quad Summit in Tokyo along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, where all sides pledged to focus on green and sustainable forms of energy.
An MoU was recently signed between Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL) and the Critical Minerals Facilitation Office (CMFO) of Australia that will try to source lithium and cobalt from Australia.

Source : The Hindu

4. ALLURI DHYANA MANDIR

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said an Alluri Dhyana Mandir would be constructed at Mogallu, the birthplace of freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju, in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.

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Modi, along with Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, kick-started the year-long 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Manyam Veerudu Alluri Sitarama Raju.
Addressing a meeting at Chinna Amaram village in Kalla Mandal, Mr. Modi recalled the services of Alluri and other tribal leaders who sacrificed their lives in the freedom struggle.
Jagan Mohan Reddy said in Andhra Pradesh one district was named after Alluri Sitarama Raju, ASR District, during the reorganisation of districts.

Source : The Hindu

5. EASTERN RAJASTHAN CANAL PROJECT (ERCP)

Centre has directed to stop the work on the proposed Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) in view of “lack of consent” by other States.

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The proposed Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) is set to benefit 13 districts of Rajasthan through interlinking of three rivers. The project stipulates transfer of excess water from the Chambal river basin to the regions facing water scarcity.
Rajasthan has been demanding the national project status for ERCP for quite some time.

Source : The Hindu

6. NATIONAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY (NIA)

The NIA has taken over the probe into the June 28 killing of tailor Kanhaiyya Lal in Rajasthan's Udaipur over a social media post supporting suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma. Now, the Union Home Ministry has handed over to the agency the investigation of a similarly executed murder of pharmacist Umesh Kolhe at Amravati in Maharashtra on June 21.

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NIA is a central agency mandated to investigate all the offences affecting the sovereignty, security and integrity of India, friendly relations with foreign states, and the offences under the statutory laws enacted to implement international treaties, agreements, conventions and resolutions of the United Nations, its agencies and other international organisations.
These include terror acts and their possible links with crimes like smuggling of arms, drugs and fake Indian currency and infiltration from across the borders. The agency has the power to search, seize, arrest and prosecute those involved in such offences.
Headquartered in Delhi, the NIA has its branches in Hyderabad, Guwahati, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Kolkata, Raipur, Jammu, Chandigarh, Ranchi, Chennai, Imphal, Bengaluru and Patna.
The agency came into existence on December 31, 2008, and started its functioning in 2009, in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in November 2008.

Source : The Hindu

7. CHAKMA PEOPLE

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Deputy Commissioner of Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district to submit an action-taken report (ATR) on a complaint alleging harassment and false prosecution of some Chakma villagers.

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The Chakma people are a tribal group from the eastern-most regions of the Indian subcontinent.
They are the largest ethnic group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of southeastern Bangladesh, and the second-largest in Mizoram, India (Chakma Autonomous District).
Other places in Northeast India also have significant Chakma populations. Around 60,000 Chakma people live in Arunachal Pradesh, India; a first generation migrated there in 1964 after the Kaptai Dam tragedy. Another 79,000 Chakmas live in Tripura, India, and 20,000-30,000 in Assam, India.

Source : The Hindu

8. CHENKURINJI

The Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary derives its name Chenkurinji (Gluta travancorica), a species endemic to the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve.

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Belonging to the Anacardiaceae family, the tree was once abundant in the hills on the southern parts of the Aryankavu Pass in Kerala’s Kollam district, but its presence has been fast receding from the area over the years.
Gluta travancorica is very susceptible to climate change and the present condition of the species is quite bad with low regeneration performance.
Though the flowering usually happens in January, of late, the species has reported a tendency to extend the process due to climate change. It’s an adaptation strategy to increase the chances of germination and maintain a minimum viable population.
Though the tree is also seen inside the shola forests near Ponmudi, effective pollination hardly takes place in the habitat.

Source : The Hindu

9. LANCANG-MEKONG COOPERATION GROUP

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived on his first visit to Myanmar since the military seized power last year to attend a regional meeting that the government said was a recognition of its legitimacy and opponents protested as a violation of peace efforts.

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He will join counterparts from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam in a meeting of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation group in the central city of Bagan, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The grouping is a Chinese-led initiative that includes the countries of the Mekong Delta, a potential source of regional tensions due to an increasing number of hydroelectric projects that are altering the flow and raising concerns of ecological damage.
China has built 10 dams along the upper stretch of the Mekong, the part it calls the Langcang.
The Foreign Minister of Myanmar’s shadow government, which opposes the ruling military council, protested the Bagan meeting, saying any such efforts in partnership with junta violate the will of the people and undermine community building.

Source : The Hindu

10. LUHANSK

Russia claimed control over the last Ukrainian stronghold in an eastern province that is key to achieving a major goal of its grinding war.

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Ukraine’s General Staff of the military reported that its forces had withdrawn from Lysychansk in Luhansk province, but the President said the fight for the city was ongoing.
If confirmed, Russia’s complete seizure of Luhansk would provide its forces a stronger base from which to press their advance in neighboring Donetsk province and bring them one step closer to achieving one of President Vladimir Putin’s major goals: capturing the entire Donbas.
Luhansk, also known as Lugansk, is a city in eastern Ukraine which is under the de facto administration of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).

Source : The Hindu

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