Sunday, January 17, 2021 8:30 PM

Sunday The Hindu Short Notes

1. Karnataka prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of cattle ordinance,2020 to ban slaughter

of cattle, with effective from Jan 18th.
2. AP and Telangana CMs to submit Detailed Project Reports (DPR) of all new projects of Krishna
and Godavari River Management Board (KRMB & GRMB) to Jal shakti Minister. AP has started
19 projects out of which 15 in the krishna Basin and 4 in the Godavari Basin, Whereas
Telengana has 7 in Krishna Basin and 8 in Godavari Basin.
3. Nepal wants to resolve boundary disputes over kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyudhara areas for
the benefit of Future Generations said by Pradeep kumar (nepal Minister) during his visit to
the 6th India Nepal Joint Commission Meeting.
4. Niti Aayog refused RTI on meeting reports for the Transformation of Indian Agriculture. NITI
aayog states that it has consulted the key states on the contentious new farm reform laws. It
also added that the reports will be placed before 6th Governing Council of NITI Aayog, for
appraisal of State Chief Ministers and Governors of UTs who are the constituent members of
the Governing Council.
5. India Exclusion Report 2019-2020 of the centre for Equity studies, stated that there was a
"Brazen class Bias" in the government's policies during lockdown. Public employment can be a
major way of improving the quality of life for all citizens.
6. Gujarat rivers remain highly polluted, due to unchecked flow of industrial effluent in to rivers
in Gujarat has led to increasing pollution in Sabarmati, Narmada, Mahisagar, Vishwamitri and
Bhadar. Sabarmati is one among the highly polluted rivers in the country. Gujarat ranks 4th
among the top five states with highly polluted rivers with as many as 20 in the critically
polluted list.
As per the official parameters, if the chemical oxygen demand (COD), which indicates organic
pollutant load is higher than 250mg per litre, then it should not be released into rivers. Most
of the gujarati rivers have COD in the range of 700 - 1000 mg per litre. Whereas Dissolved
Oxygen (which indicates healthiness of a river) should be around 6-8 mg per litre, but most of
the perineal rivers have less than 2.9 mg per litre DO. State government has proposed 2300
crore project to release the effluent in to the deep sea which caters around 4500 industries for
effluent treatment.
7. Can Courts Stays laws made by the legislature?
8. Stock market highs and economic lows

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