News Flashcards
Ropax
roll-on-roll-off-cum-passenger ferry service, Ropax, between Ferry Wharf in Mumbai and Mandwa, near Alibaug,
Dasvandh
10 hissa jo upjao ka hotha tha woh langar main daan karthe the. - Isliye use dasvandh kehthe hai
Dasva hissa rab da
Langar waali daal .
Riyaz Naikoo
Hizbul mujahideen commander after Burhan Wani (killed in 2016)
Killed in encounter in Pulwama district (May 2020)
Balakot
26 Feb 2019 - Response to Pulwama
16 Mirage 2000s equipped with Spice 2000 and Crystal Maze missiles
Left at 0115 and reached at 0345 hours
Crossed LOC 30k feet
Let Camps bombing - 21 mins
IAF was engaged for the attack outside Indian territory - First time after 1971 war
Air Chief Marshal - Hari Kumar
Pulwama
14 Feb 2019
Suicide bomber - Explosive laden SUV - CRPF convoy - J&K - Pulwama
Rahul Gandhi - 2019
June 2019 General Elections (Lok Sabha)- contetses from Wayanad instead of Amethi - he Won
Article 370
June 2019
Article 370 of the constitution is a ‘temporary provision’ which grants special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Article 370 scrapped - special status in Kashmir
bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
House arrest of former CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti
Amarnath Yatra pilgrims asked to leave
Article 370 specifies that except for defence, foreign affairs, communications and ancillary matters, parliament needed the Jammu and Kashmir government’s concurrence for all other laws.*
Rajasthan 2018 - general Elections
-Deputy CM and PCC chief Sachin pilot paved the way for the win
Ashok Ghelot - CM
MP- Scindia Coupe - 2020
March 10 2020
22 MLAs crossed over to BJP - Kamal Nath stepped down as CM. Shivraj Singh Chouhan was elected
Digvijaya Singh and Kamal NAth teamed up.
Scindia - - Rajya Sabha Seat from MP
MP - 2018
2018 Assembly Elections - Congress came into power after 15 years. 26/34 MLA seats the congress won the Gwalior Chambal Area
Kamal Nath became CM
Yes Bank
Fell in March 2020
India Foreign Policy
India has already decreed that foreign companies will store data on Indian servers
The greater China invests in India the greater leverage we will have with respect to the foreign policy that we can enact.
India has come over a lot of criticism because of letting investors in and then changing rules - basically bashing them. This is called bad economic policy but definitely works against the investors
Walmart - 16 billion in Flipkart - Then limited activities by foreign firms while allowing the same for Reliance Jio
In 1950 - Shell, Exxon and Caltex were wooed to setup refineries and retail outlets in India. 1070 we established price controls - Which made operations uneconomic
1977 - IBM and Coke exited India
The move favouring Reliance was brazen, unapologetic nationalism. At a stroke, Walmart’s $16 billion was turned into a huge overpayment, and Indian strategic control of e-commerce was affirmed.
1950-51 - First Amendment to the Constitution
Supreme court made some judgments in 1950 which the government decided to take up an amendment
Rajasthan -Aug 2020
Deputy CM Sachin Pilot tried to dissove the government - Ashok Ghelot- He and 12 MLAs
Pilot lost the president of the congress Unit
BJP denies any role
Ghelot anticipated a revolt post pilot who wanted to become CM when he led the party to victory in Assembly elections in 2018
He was prepared and Sachin Pilot was unable to prove his majority in the floor test
2019 - Lok Sabha Elections
BJP won
Congress seats
2nd Tenure for Narendra Modi
303 seats
52 seats
