President honours Brigadier Saraswathi

  • In a virtual ceremony on Monday, President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Florence Nightingale Award 2020 on Deputy Director General of Military Nursing Service (MNS) Brig. S.V. Saraswathi for her contribution to the MNS as nurse administrator, a Defence Ministry statement said.

  • The award is the highest national distinction a nurse can achieve for selfless devotion and  exceptional  professionalism.

  • Brig. Saraswathi hails from Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh and was commissioned into the MNS on December 28, 1983.


SC not to interfere in reopening of schools

  • The judiciary had neither the data nor the expertise to pass “omnibus” directions to the States to open schools and resume physical classes, especially when the lives of children were at stake.

  • The court was dealing with a petition filed by a student who wanted governments to take  time bound decisions to open up schools for physical classes.

  • The issue of whether to send children to school for physical classes or not and when to  do that concerned the “complexities of governance which makes it eminently a case on which the court should not interfere”.


Bengal Riots: Final Arguments in SC

  • The appeal challenges a Calcutta High Court order transferring the investigation to the CBI.

  • The Supreme Court on Monday scheduled West Bengal’s appeal against the Calcutta High Court decision to handover the post poll violence cases to the CBI, for final disposal, on September 28 as the first case of the day.

  • The court decided to go ahead and hear the final arguments on September 28 as the respondent parties, some of them represented by senior advocates like Harish Salve and Mahesh Jethmalani, were already present in the hearing on caveat.

  • During the brief hearing, senior advocate Kapil Sibal began with a submission that the victim in one of the murder cases was alive.

  • Justice Saran said that it would be better to hear the case continuously without any interruption on another day as the first case of that day.


Bommai Govt Tables Bills To Protect Illegal Shrines

  • Caught between the compulsion to abide by a court order and the outrage from a section over the temple demolition in Nanjangud, the BJP government in Karnataka on Monday chose the legislation route to protect religious structures built illegally in public places.

  • Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai tabled the Karnataka Religious Structures  (Protection) Bill, 2021,  in the Legislative Assembly to protect religious structures from the ambit of the court’s directive to demolish structures “constructed on public places without the authority of law”.


KTR, Telangana Cong Chief Spar Over Drugs Scandal

  • The war of words between Municipal and Industries Minister K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) and Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A. Revanth Reddy on Twitter over the drug tests  intensified and culminated in the Minister filing a defamation suit in the City Civil Court.

  • Their fresh war is related to the drugs scandal in Telangana involving  some celebrities summoned  for an investigation by the Prohibition and Excise Department of the State government and also the Enforcement Directorate of the Central government.

  • KTR, in the defamation suit filed against Mr. Reddy in the Hyderabad City Civil Court on Monday, sought a grant of perpetual injunction against the PCC chief.

Warning to Government Staff in j&K

  • A fresh order by the J&K administration on Monday said employees’ attempts to approach the offices of the President, the Prime Minister, the Lieutenant Governor or the Chief Secretary on service matters were being viewed seriously.

  • It said the government had observed that some officers or officials working in various government departments of J&K were bypassing proper channels and approaching the higher offices.

  • “These acts, being in violation of the J&K Civil Services Conduct Rules, 1956, have been viewed seriously by the authorities,” said the order.


No Dowry Bond a must To study in Calicut varsity

  • More universities seem to be following Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s dictum to get a  ‘no-dowry’ bond before awarding degree certificates as the University of Calicut has now asked students and parents to sign such a declaration during the ongoing admissions to undergraduate courses.

  • As many as two lakh students seek admission to various undergraduate courses in Calicut University, which has a jurisdiction over six of the 14 districts in the State. 

  • It is learnt that Mahatma Gandhi University too has issued a circular, making anti-dowry declaration a must for awarding degree certificate.

HC seeks Centre’s stand on Batra plea

  • The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre to express its stand on a plea by Manika Batra, who was left out of the Indian contingent for the coming Asian Table Tennis Championships in Doha, challenging the Table Tennis Federation of India’s (TTFI) mandate of compulsory attendance at the National Coaching Camp to be selected.

  • Ms. Batra, in her plea, also alleged that on one occasion, national coach Soumyadeep Roy “pressured” her to “throw away a match”  to enable one of his personal trainees to qualify for the Olympics 2020.

  • The High Court said the allegations against the coach were serious and the Centre should be a little proactive. It posted the case for September 23.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Biden bilateral meet ahead of the quad meet

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden will meet on Friday for their first in person discussion, the White House announced on Monday. 

  • In a publicly released schedule, the bilateral was listed first, followed by a summit level meeting of Quad leaders.

  • Afghanistan and counterterrorism will be part of the agenda for the bilateral discussions.

  • The main areas of consultation and announcements for the Quad Leaders’ Summit on Friday will be around addressing the pandemic.

  • On Friday there will be announcements of moving forward the goal of supplying at least a billion vaccines in Asia by 2022.


Jaishankar warned against adopting the constitution: Oli

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emissary S. Jaishankar warned against passing the Constitution in 2015, former Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has said in documents submitted to his party.

  • The set of “political documents” was submitted to the standing committee of the Communist Party of Nepal UML, which met on September 19.

  • “The Indian diplomat who arrived as a special emissary of the Prime Minister of India threatened the leaders of the political parties not to promulgate the Constitution and that it would not be accepted if it was done against India’s suggestions,” said the papers from Mr. Oli’s collection. “He said the consequences would be negative,” said the documents written in Nepali.

  • The democratic Constitution was adopted on September 20, 2015, but India till date has not welcomed the development, saying it “noted” the Constitution.


Hotel Rwanda hero gets 25 years prison time

  • Paul Rusesabagina, the “Hotel Rwanda” hero who became a government critic, was sentenced on  Monday to 25 years in prison  on terror charges after what his supporters labelled a politically motivated show trial. He was convicted by a court in Kigali of forming a rebel group blamed for deadly gun, grenade and arson attacks in Rwanda in 2018 and 2019. “He founded a terrorist organisation that attacked Rwanda, he financially contributed to terrorist activities,” the court said.


Afghan women outraged by Taliban restrictions at work

  • Taliban tightened their grip on women’s rights, slashing access to work and denying girls the right to secondary school education.

  • The acting Mayor of the capital Kabul has said any municipal jobs currently held by women would be filled by men.

  • When pressed, Taliban officials say women have been told to stay at home for their own security but will be allowed to work once proper segregation can be implemented.

  • “The Taliban told us not to come to work and to wait for their second announcement. But it seems like they don’t want women to work again,” said a lawyer in the capital’s High Court.


Biden seeks early dialogue with Macron to ease tensions

  • The United States and Britain sought on Sunday to smooth tensions with Paris over a new security  pact with Australia, with U.S. President Joe Biden  requesting early talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

  • The announcement of the defence alliance, and Australia’s related decision to tear up a deal to buy French submarines in favour of American nuclear-powered vessels, sparked outrage in Paris.

  •  On Sunday British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to downplay France’s concerns about the deal, saying the pact was “not meant to be exclusionary... it’s not something that anybody needs to worry about and particularly not our French friends”.

  • Mr. Biden has requested a phone call with Mr. Macron, French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said, which would happen “in the coming days”. “We want explanations,”  Mr. Attal said, adding that the U.S. had to answer for “what looks a lot like a major breach of trust”.


Extracted & Compiled by- Ms. Ch. Anupama, Student of Osmania University

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