1563 NEET scoreboards with Grace marks canceled , govt
informs SC
The Supreme Court recorded the Union
government’s submission on Thursday ,that the scoreboard of 1563 candidates
granted compensatory marks in the NEET UG 2024 will stand canceled .
These students will have to appear in a retest
conducted on June 23 . If they decide to skip the retest their original scores
without the Grace marks will be treated as final .
The Court was hearing a petition challenging
the award of Grace marks to 1563 candidates on the ground that they were not
allowed the full period of 3.2 hours to write the exam at their respective
center’s. .
Grace marks was recommended by a committee formed by NTA .
Kuwait offers help to return bodies of expats killed in
fire
Minister
of State of External Affairs theKirtivardhan Singh
expressed full support to their “ full support , including for medical care and
early repatriation of mortal remains , and investigation of the incident .
Mr Kirtivardhan met Foreign Ministers and Deputy
foreign Ministers of Kuwait .
In a conversation with EAM S . Jaishankar,
Kuwaiti foreign minister said that the incident would be investigated and “
responsibility would be fixed “ .
The cause of the incident seems to be a
possible gas leak but an investigation ha been launched in the case .
Jarange Patil ends fast gives a month to govt to accept
its demands
Maharashtra quota activist Jarange Patil on
Thursday decided to end his fast six days after he started it , granting Eknath
Shinde government a one month deadline to accept community demand .
On June 8 , he had started his fast demanding
to implement the notification to give all Maratha communities the status of
Kunbis .
Kunbi community in Maharashtra comes under OBC
category .
Earlier , Maharashtra Government had passed a
bill to give 10 % reservation to Maratha community .
Fact Finding team must probe Rajkot fire , days Gujarat
HC
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday slammed the
state government and directed it to set up a “ fact finding committee “ to
probe Rajkot game Zone fire incident. .
The court asked to prove the role of authority
to allow the structure to come up and remaining fictional without any license .
The court also mandated fire safety
inspections for schools across the state .
Prema Khandu sworn in as CM of Arunachal Pradesh for
third time
Arunachal Pradesh CM Prema Khandu was sworn in
as CM in Itanagar on Thursday .
He will be CM of the state for the third time
in a row .
BJP won
46 out of 60 assembly seats in the Assembly .
India rejects references to J&K in China ,Pak remarks
India on Thursday “
unwarranted “ references of Jammu and Kashmir in a recent joint
statement .EAM Spokesperson further
started J&K to be integral and inalienable part of India .
The Joint statement was issued in Beijing on
June 7 , following talks between Pakistan PM
Pakistani PM Shahbaz Sharif recently was on
China’s visit .
In a joint statement it was said that the
Pakistani side briefed the Chinese side about the latest development in Jammu.
and Kashmir .
The Chinese side reiterated that the “ Jammu
and Kashmir problem is left over from history , and should be peacefully resolved
……“
Manipur govt formed a panel to oversee rehabilitation of
internally displaced persons
Nearly 1000 people were recently displaced
after violence in Jiribam. Till now about 50,000 people has been internally
displaced since the conflict began .
World
US , Europe lock up Russian assets until it pays for
Ukraine war
As G7 leaders met in Puglia Italy on 13 th
June , some major decisions were taken over Russia Ukraine conflict .
●
The US and EU leaders agreed to
lock up sanctioned Russian assets , until Moscow pays reparations for its
invasion in Ukraine , a senior US official in Ukraine said .
Currently 260
billion dollars worth of frozen Russian
assets are there mostly in Europe .
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The group also announced a 50
billion dollar loan package to Ukraine.
●
Joe Biden signed a 10 year
security agreement with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky .
US NSA Jake
Sullivan said the deal to be a “ real marker “ of US commitment towards security of Ukraine .
Hezbollah attacks Israeli bases as Gaza war rages
Labnan based Hezbollah said that it had
targeted six barracks and military sites of Israel with drones and rockets .
This comes after an Israeli strike killed one
of its commanders.
Turkiye to buy F 16 warplanes from Russia
Turkiye and the United States have signed a
contract for the sake of F16 warplanes .
Under the deal Turkiye will get 40 new F16s
and upgrade 79 of the existing jets in its fleet .
Court rejects bill to restrict abortion pill
The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a
bid to restrict a pill widely used to terminate pregnancies.
Micepristone , a abortion pill, has been in
the middle of debate .
Abortion. Rights are among the key issues for
the upcoming elections . Many states have their own abortion laws .
In general
Democrats are in favor of abortion right while Republicans are against
it .
Eight EU members want to curb movement of Russian
diplomat
Foreign Ministers of Eight EU countries , have
sent a letter to bloc’s foreign policy chiefs , asking him to curb Russian
diplomats movement in the Schengen area .
The letter to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borell was signed
by the Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian,Lithuanian , Latavinan , Polish and
Romanian ministers and dates June 11 .
The proposed measure “ will significantly narrow operational space
for Russian agents . “.
The ministers have cited that intelligence
propaganda that is going to divide Europe is the main workload for a large
number of Russian ‘ Diplomats ‘ in the EU .
Editorial
Carry
it forward
The BJP
government should continue development schemes in Odisha
The editorial is about the new Odisha
government led by Mohan Charan. majhi.
He will replace Naveen Patnaik who was at the
post for 24 years .
Mr Majhi will have many challenges at its
front like Odisha’s poor position in the multidimensional Poverty Index . His
predecessor Naveen Patnaik had quite a good reach in delivering welfare schemes
to the poor .
Still poverty is a major problem of the state
.
The editorial says that the new CM should
carry the good work done by previous CM also , apart from making new schemes of
its own .
Singular
focus
Science
is now too vast to be admi layered by one minister
Jitendra Singh has been given independent
charges by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
His portfolio spans from Department of Space (
DoS ) , Atomic Energy ( DAE ) ,Ministry of Earth Science ( MoES ) , Ministry of Science and Technology
( MST ) .
These departments are facing many challenges .
It requires a
minimum of a cabinet
minister that will be helpful in
curbing the challenges .
Science
Rapid ,
Diagnostic test from India may help stem super big crisis
PA 100
AST system from Sysmex Astrego was awarded the Longitude prize this week .
The PA 100 AST has developed a technology of
testing on Urinary tract infection . It performs Antibiotic Susceptibility
Testing ( AST ) to determine the effective antibiotic for a specific partient
under 45 minutes .
The test has potential to revolutionize
infection management and global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance .
Longitude Prize – The Longitude prize is given
in the field to find solution of Antimicrobial Resistance ( AMR )
AMR means that microbes that cause disease
become immune to antibiotics . And it is hard to treat the patient in such
cases
