TITBITS:
1.ONE
NATION ONE ELECTION: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday accepted
the recommendations of the high-level committee,headed by former President Ram
Nath Kovind that had proposed simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and State
Assemblies as the first step, and municipal and panchayat polls within 100 days
of the general election in the next phase.
2.SWADESH
DARSHAN SCHEME: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a
package that will provide up to ₹5 lakh each to tribal households and villages
across the country, to turn their homes into tourist homestays or to build new
ones under the Tourism Ministry’s Swadesh Darshan scheme. This is meant to “tap
the tourist potential of tribal areas” and to “provide alternative livelihood”.
This is one of the 25 interventions planned under the Pradhan Mantri-Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan (PMJUGA)
3. Sixty-four years
after the two countries signed the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in Karachi on
September 19, 1960, India has served formal notice to Pakistan seeking
"review and modification" of the treaty, signaling serious political
intent in Delhi to end it.
4. For the first
time, air pollution has been found to be one of the top risk factors for
subarachnoid haemorrhage, a particular kind of brain stroke caused by the
rupture of blood vessels between the brain and the tissues covering it.
5. According to a new
study, the Earth's gravitational field will temporarily capture a small
asteroid, called 2024 PT5, in late September. The asteroid will stay for two
months before flying off into space.
6. The National
Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has told the Supreme Court
that education imparted in madrasas "is not comprehensive and is therefore
against the provisions of Right to Education Act", and that textbooks in
these institutions teach about the "supremacy of Islam".
7. Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said if the Union government did not want to file a response to petitions before the Supreme Court seeking the criminalization of marital rape, it would have to present oral arguments on the tenets of the law when the case comes up for hearing.