Police reached Ghaziabad on Tuesday morning to arrest television news anchor Rohit Ranjan

for the telecast of allegedly misleading video on a statement by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

EPA- Environment Protection Act

The Union Environment Ministry proposes to soften law by replacing a clause that provides for
imprisoning violators with one that only requires them to pay a fine.

Two Major Changes

Adjudication officers will decide how much penalty should taken who violets the law
The Penalty collected will be kept in Environmental Protection Fund.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, two of his senior Cabinet colleagues, including Chancellor
Rishi Sunak,resigned they expressed their loss of confidence in his leadership amidst a spate of
scandals.

U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid,resigned.

Downing Street’s handling of groping allegations against recently suspended MP Chris Pincher.
Meaning of Grope - Fondle (someone) for Sexual pleasure roughly or clumsily or without the
person’s consent.

Article 21 Right to life also include right t shelter and a roof over their heads.

ongoing Shahi Idgah Mos-que ­Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple civil dispute in Mathura,

Suit filed by Advocate Mahendra Pratap Singh which laid claim to the land where the mosque is
built as part of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple
.
Advocate Tanveer Ahmed, secretary of the mosque management committee and its lawyer, told
The Hindu, “We cited several Supreme Court and High Court judgments to argue that the court
should first decide on the maintainability of the suit before moving ahead.”

The status of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia

G­7 leaders in Germany, U.S. President Joe Biden and his allies unveiled their $600 billion plan
called the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Intelligence which is being seen as a counter
to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

What is China’s Belt and Road Initiative?

2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping, during his visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia, expressed
his vision to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, to break
the “bottleneck” in Asian connectivity.

The initiative envisioned a Chinese­led investment of over $1 trillion in partner countries by 2025.

With infrastructure projects under the initiative being planned or under construction in Asia,
Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

China offers huge loans at commercial interest rates that countries have to pay within a fixed
number of years.

China of debt­trapping by extending “predatory loans” that force countries to cede key assets to
China.

What have been the BRI’s investments in Pakistan?

2015 visit to Pakistan, Mr. Xi and then Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif unveiled the BRI’s
flagship project and its biggest one in a single country — the China Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC).

The CPEC envisioned multiple projects involving energy, transport and communication systems.

City of Gwadar into a smart port city that would become the “Singapore of Pakistan”.

Gwadar is strategically important as it is an hour’s drive from Iran and less than 320 km from
Oman. Gwadar’s development under BRI, approved in 2020,

In 2021, Colombo ejected India and Japan out of a deal to develop the East Container Terminal
at the Colombo port and got China to take up the project.

Some BRI projects in Sri Lanka have been described as white elephants — such as the
Hambantota port
The Sri Lankan government took $1.4 billion in Chinese loans for the port’s expansion. Unable
to service the huge loan and incurring $300 million in losses due to delays, the government
handed Hambantota port to a Chinese state­owned company on a 99­year lease in 2017.

How have projects from India and China progressed in Maldives?

One of the most prominent BRI projects undertaken in the Maldives is the two km long China
­Maldives Friendship Bridge — a $200 million four lane bridge.

Maldives President -Ibrahim Solih has its ‘India First’ policy.

FPI - Foriegn Portfolio Investments

The National TB Control Programme of 1962 was a district­based one with public­private
participation. However, upscaling the model proved unsuccessful and the programme failed to
control TB.

The Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP). WHO experts, without factoring in the
differences between the TB epidemiology of poor and rich countries, used a theoretical
construct of TB control to design RNTCP.

The Karnataka High Court passed a verdict on handcuffing, which is significant. In Suprit Ishwar
Divate vs The State of Karnataka.

Awarding two lakh rupees as compensation for handcuffing an accused, without recording the
reasons in the police case diary, it gave liberty to the state to recover the amount from the
delinquent police officer.

There can be three occasions when a person can be (legally) handcuffed, i.e., an accused on
his arrest and before he is produced before the magistrate; an undertrial prisoner during transit
from jail to the court and back; and a convict being transported from jail to the court and back.

In 1980 Supreme Court of India, in Prem Shankar Shukla vs Delhi Administration,

held that ‘the only circumstance which validates incapacitation by irons — an extreme
measure— is that otherwise there is no other reasonable way of preventing his escape’.

Meaning Of Condone is to accept what person have done.

Meaning of Bigot - A person who is obstinantely or unreasonable attached to a belief , opinion

ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution

Panel suggests increasing tenure of House committees

Committees, a panel headed by former General Secretary and adviser P.P.K. Ramacharyulu
has recommended.
The panel was instituted by Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu in January. The panel, in its extensive
report that studied the working of the Rajya Sabha secretariat and other procedural issues, has
made 130 recommendations.

The tenure of the Parliamentary committees should be increased from the present one year to
two years.
This is the first­ever comprehensive study of the Rajya Sabha secretariat.

Odisha secured the first rank for the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA).

Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh stood second and third, respectively, in the index prepared
by the Centre,

Among the special category States,Tripura secured the first rank. Himachal Pradesh and
Sikkim stood at the second and third positions.

The Centre would launch a similar ranking for procurement too.

External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar is expected to attend the G­20 Foreign Ministers’
meeting in Bali in Indonesia

The G­20 summit in November this year, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Heads of State Council in Uzbekistan

SCO Heads of State Council meeting due to be held in the historic city of Samarkand

The SCO Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Tashkent on July 28 and 29,

India will host the SCO meet and the G­20 Summit in 2023,

A high­level meeting on Afghanistan will also be held in Tashkent on July 27 and 28, where NSA
Ajit Doval or Mr. Jaishankar will attend, the first time India will speak at the forum after reopening
the Indian Mission in Kabul under the Taliban regime.

An Inter­Governmental Agreement (IGA) with either France or the U.S. to procure

new fighter jets to operate from its aircraft carriers, as the country’s first indigenous
aircraft carrier Vikrant
The Navy also has a Russian ­origin carrier, INS Vikram aditya, in service.

Vice Chief of the Naval Staff Vice ­Admiral S.N. Ghormade said the trials of Rafale and F­18
Super Hornet had been done to prove their capability to operate from aircraft carriers.

Vikrant, constructed by Cochin Shipyard Ltd,

Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma, a seasoned fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force
(IAF), and his daughter, Flying Officer Ananya Sharma 2016 first women pilot of IAF

created history in the annals of the Indian Air Force by flying in the same fighter formation.

they flew in the same formation of Hawk­132 Advanced Jet Trainers (AJT) at the Air Force
Station, Bidar.

NATO’s 30 allies signed an accession protocol for Finland and Sweden

to allow them to join the nuclear­armed alliance once allied Parliaments ratify the decision,

most signifi­cant expansion of the alliance since the mid­1990s.

no current plans to send troops to Sweden and Finland.

Brussels, NATO Secretary ­General Jens Stolter berg,

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska prestigious Fields Medal, which is often

described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

French mathematician Hugo Duminil­Copin of the University of Geneva

Geneva; Korean-American mathematician June Huh of Princeton

British mathematician James Maynard of the University of Oxford.

Fields Medal is awarded every four years to mathematicians under age 40.
The recipients are normally announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians, which
was originally due to be held in Russia this year but moved to Helsinki instead.
Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI). The index rose to 59.2 last month, from 58.9 in
May,

Alfiya — who stunned two home boxers, including 2016 World champion Lazzat
Kungeibayeva in the final, on her way to win the gold medal in the +81kg category on her
senior international debut at the Elorda Cup in Kazakhstan — is eager to make her mark.