Today’s top News – 20 June 2023

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1. The Jagannath Puri Rath Yatra 2023, celebrating Lord Krishna, Balbhadra, and Subhadra will take place on today, on 20 June 2023. The festival is mainly celebrated in Puri, Odisha, with devotees travelling from across the country. The nine-day long Rath Yatra beginning on Tuesday.

2. President Jagdeep Dhankhar will be the Chief Guest at the International Day of Yoga IDY 2023 celebrations in Jabalpur on Wednesday.

3. Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda chairs sensitization workshop on Sickle Cell Anaemia Disease in New Delhi.

4. Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said that Union Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will lay the foundation stones and inaugurate road development projects worth about 3,700 crores rupees in Haryana.

5. Residents of Manipur on Monday formed a 40-kilometre-long human chain along the National Highway-2, which passes through the Kangpokpi district. The gathering reportedly served as a tribute to the lives lost amidst the ongoing violence and a plea for justice and peace. The human chain was organised by the Kuki Nampi Taona, the apex body of the Kuki prayer cell.

6. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday inaugurated the first Infinity Centre in Dubai under the state’s startup mission.

7. Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) has announced it is going to withdraw its support for the Nitish Kumar-led government in the state.

8. Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed the state water resources department to expedite the completion of ‘priority’ irrigation projects like Polavaram, Veligonda and Vamsadhara in a time-bound manner.

9. Monsoon is set to hit Telangana by Thursday, with the ongoing heatwave set to continue till Wednesday.

10. West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday said a “peace room” has been introduced at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, for people to register complaints related to the pre-panchayat poll violence in the state.

11. Gorakhpur-based Gita Press, which is the world’s largest publisher of Hindu religious texts, has declined the Rs 1 crore cash award for the Gandhi Peace Prize amid a political row over its selection for the prestigious honour. It was founded in 1923 by Jaya Dayal Goyanka and Ghanshyam Das Jalan.

12. UNIFORM CIVIL CODE : Jamiat chief Arshad Madani said Uniform Civil Code is against democracy. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board said it considered Uniform Civil Code unnecessary.

What is UCC?
Uniform Civil Code, under Article 44, Part 5 is a common legal framework for all citizens, irrespective of their religious beliefs and practices which has motive of equal treatment amongst all Indian citizens regardless of their religious, ethnic, or caste backgrounds.

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) calls for the formulation of one law for India, which would be applicable to all religious communities in matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption.

Why UCC is not possible in India?

Article 25 gives every religious group the right to manage its own affairs.

CRIME REPORT
Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal

Three persons were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a retired Mandal Parishad Development Officer (MPDO) and RTI activist over a land dispute in Telangana’s Jangaon

FINANCE
Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
President of the World Bank :
Ajay Banga

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Inflation rate : 4.7%
Population : 141.81 cr (17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 7.8%

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Gross Direct Tax collections for Financial Year 2023-24 till now have registered a growth of 12.73 %. The figure stands at four lakh 19 thousand 338 crore rupees as compared to three lakh 71 thousand 982 crores in the corresponding period of the preceding financial year.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur

1. Mumbai Police has decided to provide security for Manoj Muntashir amid a threat to his life. The lyricist and writer received criticism for the latest release, Adipurush.

2. Saints in Ayodhya have demanded an “immediate ban” on Om Raut’s Adipurush. “The dialogues are shameful…It depicts our deities in completely different form against what we’ve read and known so far,” Acharya Satyendra Das, head priest of Ram Janmabhoomi (Ayodhya), said.

3. Renowned Tollywood choreographer S. Rama Rao, widely known as Rakesh Master, has sadly passed away. With an impressive portfolio of choreographing around 1,500 movies and creating numerous popular songs.

DEFENCE
Minister: Rajnath Singh
Union Home : Amit Shah

Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM

1. India gifted the indigenously-built in-service missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam to enhance that country’s naval capabilities. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced this on June 19 after bilateral talks with his visiting Vietnamese counterpart General Phan Van Gang.

2. The Indian Army completed its latest ‘Agneyastra-1’ military exercise in the eastern Ladakh sector.

The exercise witnessed the deployment of Idea Forge’s indigenous ‘Switch’ unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Indian Army had placed an order for these UAVs in early January 2021, at a cost of Rs 140 crore.

3. The Indian Army Contingent is participating in the multinational peacekeeping Joint Exercise Ex Khaan Quest 2023 in Mongolia.

4. 1988 batch Chhattisgarh cadre IPS officer Ravi Sinha will be the new chief of Research and Analysis Wing. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet approved the appointment Mr Sinha for a period of two years.

5. Indian Naval Ship, INS KILTAN arrived at Chattogram Monday for a three day goodwill visit as part of the ongoing close cooperation between the Navies of Bangladesh and India.

6. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on two-day visit to Kochi, Kerala. He is scheduled to visit the Hydro Ships at the Southern Naval Command.

7. Indian Navy’s state-of-the-art submarine, INS ‘Vagir’, is all set to embark on an operational visit to Colombo from June 19 to June 22.

8. Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, Northern Army Commander reviewed the ongoing preparations for the Amarnath Yatra 2023 that will commence on 01 July 2023 onwards for a duration of two months. The Amarnath Yatra takes place annually via two routes i.e. Southern route through Baltal in Ganderbal and the Northern Route through Pehalgam in Anantnag district.

9. DRDO and Indian Navy on Sunday announced that they’ve successfully demonstrated transferring of command and control capabilities of TAPAS UAV from a distant ground station to INS Subhadra. The indigenously developed unmanned aerial vehicle was controlled by the warship, situated 148 km away from Karwar naval base, for 40 minutes.

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