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NEW CHAMPION
OF CHESS:
ü Magnus
Carlsen (Norway) dethroned the defending
champion Vishwanathan Anand in world chess championship.
ü It
was held in Chennai, India.
CLINICAL
TRIALS:
ü The
Supreme Court pulled up the Ministry of Health for the lack of transparency in
the clinical trials.
ü The
health ministry already made it mandatory to obtain his/her written consent.
ü On
November 22, 2013 the ministry also made it mandatory audio-visual recording of
the informed consent each subject in a clinical trial.
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CONTEMPT OF
COURT:
ü Authorities
are punished for the contempt of court under the provisions of the contempt of
court Act, 1971.
ü The
Andhra Pradesh High Court directed Prabhakar Thomas special chief secretary to
the Government of AP to be present before the court.
ü This
is with reference to the charges contempt for not implementing the orders of
the court.
MINISTER IN
KARNATAKA RESIGNED:
ü Santosh
Lad, Minister of State for Information and Infrastructure Development resigned
from the Council of Ministers.
ü The
matter is related to the illegal mining.
ü The
Governor of Karnataka on two occasions conveyed his opinion to submit the
resignation.
NEW CHIEF OF
LAW COMMISSION:
ü This
is the 20th
law commission.
ü In
fact the chairman
D.K Jain submitted resignation in the first week of October.
ü Justice
Jain took over as the President National Consumer Disputes Redressal
Commission.
ü The
former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice Ajit Prakash Shah has taken
over as the Chairman of the 20th Law Commission.
GST (GOODS
AND SERVICES TAX):
ü The
empowered committee of state Finance Ministers headed by Jammu and Kashmir
Finance Minister A R Rather, rejected the proposal of the central government to
enter GST in the Union List of seventh schedule of the Indian
Constitution.
ü The
115th
Constitution amendment bill is pending in the Parliament.
ü This
is meant for amending the constitution to provide for the introduction of GST.
ü This
amendment proposed a clause 246A, empowering both the states and the
centre to levy the GST
BARC AND
ECIL:
ü BARC
– Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
ü ECIL
– Electronics Corporation of India Limited
ü The
BARC create a device called ‘Nirbhaya’.
ü This
device is manufactured by ECIL.
ü This
is expected to be a boon to the women in times of distress and fear.
ü This
gadget
fit in a handbag is paired with the user’s cellphone via blue tooth.
ü In
case of fear the person needs to push a button and pre formatted ‘Please Help’ message
will go to the preselected 5 numbers.
ü This
device continues to send the latest GPS location every minute to all the 5
numbers.
CASH FOR
VOTES CASE:
ü The
case is related to July 2008 incident that took place in the parliament before
the no-confidence motion against the UPA-I government.
ü During
this time 3 members of BJP in the Lok Sabha waved wads of currency notes during
the trust vote alleging that they were given money to vote in favour of the
government.
ü A
trial court of Delhi acquitted the former leader of SP (Samajwadi Party) and
five others in the scandal.
SHARP SWORD:
ü This
is the name of the drone that is successfully tested by the China.
ü This
is the unmanned
combat vehicle.
ü China
is the fourth
country in the world to develop drone.
ü America,
EU (European Union) and UK are the other countries capable of putting s stealth
drone into the sky.
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