13 Aug 2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

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Last Day Important Questions with Ans:- 
Que 1-Lok adalat has been given statutory status under..Legal Service Authority Act 1987

Que 2- Theme of International Youth Day 2020...Youth engagement for global action
Que 3- Theme of National Youth Day 2020...fit youth fit India
Que 4- British East India Company got Diwani rights after..Battle of Buxar of of 22 October 1764.

Que 5- Diwani rights are...rights to collect taxes on behalf of emperor


Que 6- student entrepreneurship program 2.0. launched in collaboration of Atal Innovation Mission and Dell technologies

Que 7- Tribal freedom fighters museum will be setting up by Ministry of  Tribal Affairs

Que 8- National portal for human elephant conflict Surakhsya.launched by Govt Of India.

Que 9- National portal for Human Elephant conflict launched by Ministry....Ministry of environment forest and climate change

Que 10 Project Elephant was started in ...1992
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13 Aug  2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

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Currert Affairs Today:- 
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1. East India company Act 1784 also known as Pitt's India Act commenced on 13 August 1784.

To address the shortcoming of the regulating act of 1773, act also known as act of settlement.

On the name of British PM William Pitt

1773 act- governor of Bangal   governor general of Bengal and executive council to support him.

First Governor general Lord Warren Hasting.

Bombay and Madras subordinate to Bangal.

Establishment of Supreme Court of Calcutta, private servant to private trade, ask company to report of revenue.

1784 act- distinguishing between commercial and political function

Court of directors to manage commercial affairs, Board of control to political affairs {established double government (Do not assume Dyarchy of 1919) and finally abolished by act of 1858}

Companies territories in India were called British possession in India.
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2. Prime Minister Modi to launch transparent Taxation and honouring the honest.  

This was earlier announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman as text charter in budget 2020-21.

The package has been designed based on inputs from global manufacturers.

Ease compliance and benefit taxpayers greatly.

Government of India introduce various tax reforms corporate tax reduced from 30 % to 20% and phone new manufacturing units the rate were to 15%.
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3. Skyroot aerospace first private company to test upper stage rocket.

Becoming first Indian private company to demonstrate the capacity to build a home grown rocket engine.

founded by Pawan Kumar chandan and Naga Bharat Daka former scientist of ISRO.

Union cabinet recently approved private player participation in space in June 2020 to transform the sector.

New Indian International space promotion and authorisation centre (IN SPACe) was created to provide level playing field for the private companies.
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4. Women have equal rights on parental property supreme Court

Daughters will have coparcenary rights on father's property even if he died before the Hindu succession amendment Act 2005 come to force

Bench was headed by justice Arun Mishra

daughter cannot be deprived of their rights to equality conferred by section 6 of act.
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5. Ministry of commerce lauds Merchandise export from India scheme (MEIS)

Remission of duties or taxes on export product scheme.

MEIS was introduced in 2015 under foreign trade policy of India 2015 to offset infrastructural inefficiencies and associated cost of exporting products produced in India.

Provided incentive in the form of direct credit scrip to the exporter to compassionate for his laws on payment of duties.

Focused on goods products having high export intensity and employment potential.

MEIS is to be scrapped by December 31 2020 because

WTO said it is distorted trade providing direct subsidies
Increase in public tax liability

Replacement- 
Production linked incentive scheme- select sectors of exports

RoDTEP- to support if you are identified sector deems India to have competitive strength.
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6. Government tightening norms for import of certain chemical which can affects environment.

Director general of foreign trade (DHFT) inserted a new policy condition for import various chemicals and plastics.

Including carbon tetrachloride, chloro difluoro methane and dichlorotetra fluoroethan.

Used in cleaning agents fire extinguisher and refrigerators.

DGFT mandate their importers to submitted the bill of entry within 30 days to ozone sale in MoEF&CC

Ozone cell engaged in phase out of production and consumption of chemical chlorofluorocarbons.

Monetreal protocol - International treaty to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substance that are responsible depletion of ozone.

Main exporter of this products is China.
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Most Important Questions:-

Que 1-  Indira Van Mitra yojana scheme launch by state....

Que 2- Mount Sinabug volcano located in which country.....

Que 3- Work on International thermonuclear experimental reactor started in ..........

Que 4- India's contributions to ITER given by .....

Que 5-  The designation of governor of Bangal changed to   governor general of Bengal after Act

Que 6- First governor general of Bengal.......

Que 7- A body Board of control estableshed after Act 1784 of British India mainly for.......

Que 8-  ...................becomes first Indian private company to demonstrate the capacity to build a home grown rocket engine.

Que 9- ........body created to provide level playing field for the private companies in space exploration. 

Que 10- Merchandise export from India scheme implemented by ministry of ......
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13 Aug  2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF



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