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India and the UK: Shackles and ties India and the U.K. must not allow concerns of the moment to dominate their relationship. Practice Question: Discuss the opportunities and the challenges in the India-UK relationships. What is the prospectus of India-UK relations after Brexit and Coronavirus pandemic? Secretary's Delhi visit British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab's Delhi visit came with a declaration of immediate and longer-term goals for the India-U.K. relationship. It prepares the way for PM Johnson's India visit, as the chief guest at Republic Day and to invite PM Modi to the U.K. to the G-7 and the Climate Change (COP26) summits next year. Johnson will be the first head of government to visit India after the spread of COVID-19; this will also be his first bilateral visit anywhere after Brexit signalling the importance of ties with India. A new page in ties Upgrading the ties - Both countries up for upgrading of the 2004 India-U.K. Strategic Partnership to a "Comprehensive" Strategic Partnership. This will help to envision closer military ties, cooperation in Indo-Pacific strategies, counter-terrorism and fighting climate change. Hoping for FTA - Britain is on a mission to secure free trade partners after Brexit. It has wrapped up nearly 20 trade deals, including most recently with the U.S., Japan, and Vietnam and is hoping for India to sign the same. Corona pandemic and cooperation for vaccine manufacturing - The highlight of India's relations will be closer cooperation on the coronavirus vaccine. India's Serum Institute set to produce and distribute the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in India, and then as part of the COVAX project to other developing countries. Challenges in India-UK relations Stagnancy in the relations - India-UK relations are stagnant for the past five years due to Britain's Brexit preoccupation. The relationship has failed to progress in this time, despite visits by Mr Modi and former British Prime Minister Theresa May. Other less important issues gained the narrative - Issues such as visas and the fate of fugitive Indian businessmen in the U.K. have been allowed to dominate the narrative. The MEA had responded sharply to protests at the Indian High Commission in London over the Article 370 move in Jammu and Kashmir, and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Britain's concerns about the farmers' protests that sparked responses in New Delhi about interference in India's internal matters. Sometimes, intense interest from the British Indian diaspora makes Indian politics a factor in British politics is a reminder of how closely linked the two countries remain. A new chapter in India-UK relationship would necessarily entail the K. to be more sensitive to India's concerns, and for India to be less sensitive when Britain expresses its concerns. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

Back in news: Right to Protest The Supreme Court has that said farmers have a constitutional right to continue with their "absolutely perfect" protest as long as their dissent against the three controversial agricultural laws did not slip into violence. Right to Protest The right to protest is the manifestation of the right to freedom of assembly, the right to freedom of association, and the right to freedom of speech. The Constitution of India provides the right of freedom, given in Article 19 with the view of guaranteeing individual rights that were considered vital by the framers of the constitution. The Right to protest peacefully is enshrined in Article 19(1) (a) guarantees the freedom of speech and expression; Article 19(1) (b) assures citizens the right to assemble peaceably and without arms. Article 19(2) imposes reasonable restrictions on the right to assemble peaceably and without arms. Reasonable restrictionsdo exist in practice Fundamental rights do not live in isolation. The right of the protester has to be balanced with the right of the commuter. They have to co-exist in mutual respect. The court held it was entirely the responsibility of the administration to prevent encroachments in public spaces. Democracy and dissent go hand in hand, but then the demonstrations expressing dissent have to be in designated places alone. The present case was not even one of the protests taking place in an undesignated area but was a blockage of a public way which caused grave inconvenience to commuters. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

CMS-01 Satellite launched by ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placed into a transfer orbit India's 42nd communications satellite, CMS-01, carried onboard the PSLV-C50. CMS-01 It is a communications satellite envisaged for providing services in extended C Band of the frequency spectrum and its coverage will include the Indian mainland and the Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands, the ISRO. The satellite is expected to have a life of over seven years. It was injected precisely into its pre-defined sub- geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). CMS-01 is considered to be a replacement of the aged satellite GSAT-12. It provides services like tele-education, tele-medicine, disaster management support and Satellite Internet access. What is GTO? A geosynchronous transfer orbit or geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is a type of geocentric orbit. Satellites which are destined for geosynchronous (GSO) or geostationary orbit (GEO) are (almost) always put into a GTO as an intermediate step for reaching their final orbit. A GTO is highly elliptic. Its perigee (closest point to Earth) is typically as high as low Earth orbit (LEO), while its apogee (furthest point from Earth) is as high as geostationary (or equally, a geosynchronous) orbit. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

A-68s: Largest floating Iceberg A research mission is held to find out the impact of a giant floating iceberg A-68s on the wildlife and marine life on a sub-Antarctic island. What are Icebergs? An iceberg is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open (salt) water. Small bits of disintegrating icebergs are called "growlers" or "bergy bits". Much of an iceberg is below the surface which led to the expression "tip of the iceberg" to illustrate a small part of a larger unseen issue. Icebergs are considered a serious maritime hazard, especially for shipping industries. A-68s The iceberg named A-68s is travelling at varying speeds depending on local conditions, but at its fastest was travelling about 20 kilometres a day. The huge iceberg the size of the U.S. state of Delaware has been floating north since it broke away from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in 2017. It is now about 75 kilometres from the island of South Georgia, and scientists are concerned over the risks it poses to the wildlife in the area if it grounds near the island. South Georgia is home to colonies of tens of thousands of penguins and 6 million fur seals, which could be threatened by the iceberg during their breeding season. The waters near the island are also one of the world's largest marine protected areas and house more marine species than the Galapagos. Destruction by the iceberg will release this stored carbon back into the water and, potentially, the atmosphere, which would be a further negative impact. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

[pib] Metal CO2 Battery India's planetary missions like Mars Mission may soon be able to reduce payload mass and launch costs with the help of an indigenously developed Metal- CO2 battery with CO2 as an Energy Carrier. Metal CO2 Battery An IIT professor recently demonstrated the technical feasibility of Lithium- CO2 battery in simulated Mars atmosphere for the first time. The development of Metal-CO2 batteries will provide highly specific energy density with the reduction in mass and volume, which will reduce payload mass and launch cost of planetary missions. Metal-CO2 batteries have a great potential to offer significantly high energy density than the currently used Li-ion batteries. They provide a useful solution to fix CO2 emissions, which is better than energy-intensive traditional CO2 fixation methods. It's working A primary Li-CO2 battery uses pure carbon dioxide as a cathode. According to chemical knowledge, Lithium metal can react with CO2 to form lithium oxalate at room temperature. While at high temperatures, lithium oxalate decomposes to form lithium carbonate and carbon monoxide gas. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

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Chang’e 5 returns to Earth carrying moon rocks A Chinese lunar capsule has returned to Earth with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Chang'e-5 Probe The Chang'e-5 probe, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, aims to shovel up lunar rocks and soil to help scientists learn about the moon's origins, formation and volcanic activity on its surface. The goal of the mission is to land in the Mons Rumker region of the moon, where it will operate for one lunar day, which is two weeks long. It will collect 2 kg of surface material from a previously unexplored area known as Oceanus Procellarum or "Ocean of Storms" which consist of vast lava plain. The original mission, planned for 2017, was delayed due to an engine failure in China's Long March 5 launch rocket. A big achievement The successful mission was the latest breakthrough for China's increasingly ambitious space programme that includes a robotic mission to Mars and plans for a permanent orbiting space station. This return marked China's third successful lunar landing but the only one to lift off again from the moon. It also marked the first time scientists have obtained fresh samples of lunar rocks since the former Soviet Union's Luna 24 robot probe in 1976. Significance of the mission Rocks found on the Moon are older than any that have been found on Earth and therefore they are valuable in providing information about the Earth and the Moon's shared history. Lunar samples can help to unravel some important questions in lunar science and astronomy, including the Moon's age, its formation, the similarities and differences between the Earth and the Moon's geologic features. For instance, the shape, size, arrangement and composition of individual grains and crystals in a rock can tell scientists about its history, while the radioactive clock can tell them the rock's age. Further, tiny cracks in rocks can tell them about the radiation history of the Sun in the last 100,000 years. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

Human Development Index (HDI) 2019 India dropped two ranks in the United Nations' Human Development Index this year, standing at 131 out of 189 countries. Human Development Index (HDI) HDI is a statistical tool used to measure a country's overall achievement in its social and economic dimensions. It is one of the best tools to keep track of the level of development of a country, as it combines all major social and economic indicators that are responsible for economic development. Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq created HDI in 1990 which was further used to measure the country's development by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Every year UNDP ranks countries based on the HDI report released in their annual report. Various indicators under HDI Calculation of the index combines four major indicators: life expectancy for health, expected years of schooling, mean of years of schooling for education and GNI per capita for the standard of living. For the first time: PHDI For the first time, the UNDP introduced a new metric to reflect the impact caused by each country's per-capita carbon emissions and its material footprint. This is Planetary Pressures-adjusted HDI or PHDI. It measured the amount of fossil fuels, metals and other resources used to make the goods and services it consumes. The report found that no country has yet been able to achieve a very high level of development without putting a huge strain on natural resources. Highlights of the 2019 Report Norway, which tops the HDI, falls 15 places if this metric is used, leaving Ireland at the top of the table. In fact, 50 countries would drop entirely out of the "very high human development group" category, using this new metric PHDI. Australia falls 72 places in the ranking, while the US and Canada would fall 45 and 40 places respectively, reflecting their disproportionate impact on natural resources. The oil and the gas-rich Gulf States also fell steeply. China would drop 16 places from its current ranking of 85. Indian scenario If the Index were adjusted to assess the planetary pressures caused by each nation's development, India would move up eight places in the rankings. China's net emissions (8 gigatonnes) are 34% below its territorial emissions (12.5 gigatonnes) compared with 19% in India and 15% in Sub-Saharan Africa. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

[pib] PM Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) The Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) instalment has been released to support J&K and Ladakh students. Tap to read more about: Reorganization of J&K About PMSSS The PMSSS aims to build the capacities of the youths of J&K and Ladakh by educating, enabling and empowering them to compete in the normal course. Under the Scheme, the youths of J&K and Ladakh are supported by way of scholarship in two parts namely the academic fee & maintenance allowance. The academic fee is paid to the institution where the student is provided admission after on-line counselling process conducted by the AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education). The academic fee covers tuition fee and other components as per the ceiling fixed for various professional, medical and other under-graduate courses. In order to meet the expenditure towards hostel accommodation, mess expenses, books & stationery etc., a fixed amount of Rs.1.00 Lakh is provided to the beneficiary and is paid in instalments of Rs. 10,000/- pm directly into students account. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

Good morning, have a nice day ! * Useful Alerts * ❇️ * COVID-19 Highlights: * ▪️* India has registered a steady decline in the number of daily Deaths; fatality rate is sustained at 1.45% * ▪️* Recovery rate improves to 95.31% * ❇️ * PM Modi to address farmers of Madhya Pradesh through video conferencing today afternoon * ▪️* An amount of approximately Rs 1,600 crore will be transferred to the farmers' accounts under Kisan welfare schemes * ❇️ * PM Modi to deliver keynote address at ASSOCHAM Foundation Week 2020 on 19th December * ❇️ * PM Modi holds virtual summit with his Bangladesh counterpart; says Bangladesh is a major pillar in India's neighbourhood first policy * ❇️ * Agriculture Minister in a letter addressed to farmers of the country, reiterates that Government is ready to give a written assurance regarding the #MSP * ❇️ * Ministry of Ayush & Sports announce the formal recognition of #Yogasana as a competitive sport * ❇️ * Over 38.4 lakh people repatriated under Vande Bharat Mission, so far * ❇️ * ISRO successfully launches country’s communication satellite CMS-01 * ❇️ * MSP Operations during Kharif Marketing Season 2020-21 * ▪️* Paddy Procurement shows increase of 22.88 % over last year * ❇️ * In J&K, 100% households of Srinagar and Ganderbal get tap water connections * ❇️ * Over 10 Lakh cases worth settlement value of nearly ₹3228.Cr disposed of in last National Lok Adalat of the year 2020 organised through both virtual and physical mode * Join >> @dailynewscom

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Edicts of Ashoka It is the collection of more than thirty inscriptions on the pillars, as well as boulders and cave walls, attributed to Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire who reigned from 268 BCE to 232 BCE. These inscriptions were dispersed throughout the areas of modern-day Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and provide the first tangible evidence of Buddhism. The edicts describe in detail Ashoka's view about dhamma (Dharma), an earnest attempt to solve some of the problems that a complex society faced. The Edicts are divided into four categories, according to their size (Minor or Major) and according to their medium (Rock or Pillar). 1. Minor Rock Edicts 2. Minor Pillar Edicts 3. Major Rock Edicts (14 Edicts) 4. Major Pillar Edicts (7 Edicts) In these inscriptions, Ashoka refers to himself as "Beloved of the Gods" (Devanampiya), with his titles: "Devanampiya Piyadasi Asokaraja". The inscriptions found in the central and eastern part of India were written in Magadhi Prakrit using the Brahmi script, while Prakrit using the Kharoshthi script, Greek and Aramaic were used in the northwest. Major Rock No.13 mentions the contemporary rulers of Ashoka, 1. Antiochus II Theos (Ruler of Syria or Seleucid Empire), direct neighbor of Ashoka 2. Ptolemy II Philadelphos of Egypt (Former general of Alexander the great, in Egypt) 3. Antigonus II Gonatas of Macedon 4. Magas of Cyrene 5. Alexander II of Epirus Likewise in the south Cholas, Pandyas and Kingdom of Tamrapani (First Sinhalese Kingdom). Source: Archeological Survey of India Join >> @dailynewscom

Mount Everest is now taller than before, Know Reasons. What's the new height of Mt Everest? Why height of Mt Everest changed? https://youtu.be/jhAgXHrnaik

India Israel Relations 2020 https://youtu.be/Ap5wdxRbY_4