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19 MARCH 2022 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS | UPSC CDS CAPF AFCAT NDA SSB

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19 MARCH 2022 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS | UPSC CDS CAPF AFCAT NDA SSB
1. ARMED FORCES TRIBUNALS (AFT)
Members of the armed forces, including the Air Force, the Navy and the Army, can approach the High Courts to challenge the final decisions of the Armed Forces Tribunals (AFT) involving issues of pay, pension, promotion and discipline, the Delhi High Court has held.

About:

  • The Delhi HC’s ruling is likely to provide reprieve to a large section appellants whose only remedy until now was to petition the Supreme Court against the final order passed by an AFT.

  • Armed Forces Tribunal is a military tribunal in India established under the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007.

  • The Principal Bench is located at Delhi with ten other benches across the country.
Source : The Hindu

2. T.S. TIRUMURTI
Amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the government has decided to extend the tenure of India’s envoy to the United Nations T.S. Tirumurti for three months.

About:

  • S. Tirumurti (born 1962) is an Indian civil servant who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service cadre.

  • He is currently the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. On 19 May 2020, he took over as the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations succeeding Syed Akbaruddin.

  • While he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations, India was elected to the UN Security Council in July 2020. India entered the UN Security Council for a two-year term on 1 January 2021.

  • India was also elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for 2021-2025 and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) for the term 2021-2023.
Source : The Hindu

3. INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (ICJ)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN), directed Russia to immediately suspend all military operations in Ukraine.

About:

  • Article 36(1) of the Statute of the ICJ provides that the ICJ shall have jurisdiction in all matters relating to the UN Charter, or other treaties or conventions in force.

  • The Statute of the International Court of Justice, under Article 41 empowers the ICJ to indicate provisional measures in any case before it in order to preserve the rights of the parties involved.

  • When the ICJ indicates such provisional measures, the parties to the dispute and the UN Security Council have to be notified.
  • In the LaGrand (2001) case between Germany and the U.S., the ICJ made it clear that provisional measures are binding in character and create international legal obligations.

  • Further, provisional measures may be indicated by the ICJ either on the request of a state party or proprio motu i.e., on its own motion. 
Source : The Hindu

4. BARC INDIA
Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has resumed ratings for individual news channels, with the release of data for Week 10 of 2022.

About:

  • The BARC India had temporarily suspended the viewership ratings of news channels in October 2020, amid the allegations of a Television Rating Point (TRP) scam.

  • Following an industry-wide consultative process, the BARC Team, along with BARC TechComm, developed the Augmented Data Reporting Standards for News and Special Interest genres, aligned with the industry’s needs.

  • As per revised approved standards, audience estimates will only be released based on a four-week rolling average, every week.
Source : The Hindu
 
5. NIRMATRELVIR
Nineteen drugmakers in India have signed sub-licence agreements with the United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to manufacture the generic version of Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 antiviral nirmatrelvir, which is to be used in combination with ritonavir.

About:

  • The non-exclusive sublicenses allow the generic manufacturers to produce raw ingredients for nirmatrelvir and the finished drug itself co-packaged with ritonavir. The agreements follow the voluntary licensing agreement MPP and Pfizer signed in November 2021.

  • Nirmatrelvir is an antiviral medication developed by Pfizer which acts as an orally active 3C-like protease inhibitor.

  • It is part of the nirmatrelvir/ritonavir combination sold under the brand name Paxlovid.
Source : The Hindu
 
6. INDIA – SRI LANKA RELATIONS
India extended a $1 billion credit facility to Sri Lanka to assist the island nation through its worst foreign exchange crisis and enable it to procure food, medicines and essential items.

About:

  • An agreement to this effect was signed between the State Bank of India and the government of Sri Lanka, during a visit of the country’s Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa to New Delhi. “Neighbourhood first.

  • In 2022, so far India has extended $1.4 billion support to Sri Lanka, through a $400-million RBI currency swap, deferral of a $0.5 billion loan and another half a billion as a line of credit for the country to sustain its essential fuel imports.

Background

  • Sri Lanka is facing its worst financial crisis, and had declared an emergency in August last in the face of a crippling foreign exchange crunch. The nation is still facing significant fuel and gas shortages, and high inflation in essential goods as well as food items.

  • Sri Lanka is due to repay foreign debt totalling nearly $7 billion this year, amid a persisting shortage of dollars to import food, medicines and other essentials. It has already sought China’s help to restructure its loans that amount to 10% of its total foreign debt.

  • Much of Sri Lanka’s external borrowings are though sovereign bonds in the international money market.
Source : The Hindu
 
7. SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE (PREVENTION, PROHIBITION AND REDRESSAL) ACT OF 2013
Kerala High Court asked organisations associated with the film industry to take steps to constitute a joint committee to deal with cases of sexual harassment of women, in line with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013.

About:

  • The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act was passed in 2013.

  • It defined sexual harassment, lay down the procedures for a complaint and inquiry, and the action to be taken. It broadened the Vishaka guidelines, laid down by the Supreme Court in a judgment in 1997.

  • The 2013 Act mandated that every employer must constitute an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) at each office or branch with 10 or more employees.

  • It lay down procedures and defined various aspects of sexual harassment, including the aggrieved victim, who could be a woman “of any age whether employed or not”, who “alleges to have been subjected to any act of sexual harassment”.

  • This meant that the rights of all women working or visiting any workplace, in any capacity, were protected under the Act.
Source : Indian Express

8. DR. ASHISH JHA
US President Joe Biden appointed Indian-American public health expert Dr Ashish K Jha as the White House’s next Covid-19 Response Coordinator.

About:

  • Born in Pursaulia, Bihar in 1970, Jha migrated to Canada with his parents nine years later and to the United States in 1983. He graduated from Columbia University with a BA in economics and later received his MD from Harvard Medical School.

  • Jha, a practising physician, has been serving as the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health since 2020.

  • Jha recently advised the White House on the national Covid-19 preparedness plan. It outlines how people can eventually begin resuming normal activities as Covid restrictions are gradually lifted.
Source : Indian Express

9. KHATKAR KALAN
Aam aadmi party's Bhagwant Mann took over as chief minister of Punjab after taking the oath from Bhagat Singh’s ancestral village, Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr district.

About:

  • Khatkar Kalan is a village just outside Banga town in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district (recently named Nawanshahr earlier the part of Jalandhar district) in the Indian state of Punjab.
Source : Indian Express

10. DIÉBÉDO FRANCIS KÉRÉ
Diébédo Francis Kéré has won the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in Burkina Faso, he is the first architect from Africa to win the prestigious award,

About:

  • The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects who has contributed significantly to humanity through the art of architecture.”

  • Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation.

  • It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes, and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.

  • The Pritzker Architecture Prize is said to be awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology".

  • The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and, since 1987, a bronze medallion.
Source : Indian Express
 
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