HAPPY DUSSEHARA VIEWERS

As we are celebrating the victory of Shri Ram over Ravan, victory of God over evil today, May God bless you with sense to understand the difference between good and bad, moral and immoral, sacred and profane, and may god also give us courage to fight evil….

HAPPY VIJAYADASHAMI 🙏

About Dussehra

• Vijayadashami, also known as Dussehra, Dasara or Dashain
• is a major Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navaratri every year in the Indian subcontinent.
• It is observed on the tenth day in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, the seventh month of the Hindu Luni-Solar Calendar, which typically falls in the Gregorian months of September and October.
• Vijayadashami is observed for different reasons and celebrated differently, majorly in the countries of India and Nepal.
• In the southern, eastern, northeastern, and some northern states of India, Vijayadashami marks the end of Durga Puja, remembering goddess Durga’s victory over the buffalo demon Mahishasura to restore and protect dharma.
• In the northern, central and western states, the festival is synonymously called Dasara (also spelled Dussehra, Dashahara).
• In these regions, it marks the end of Ramlila and remembers god Rama’s victory over Ravana. Alternatively, it marks a reverence for one of the aspects of goddess Devi, such as Durga or Saraswati.
• Vijayadashami celebrations include processions to a river or ocean front that involve carrying clay statues of Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesha and Kartikeya, accompanied by music and chants, after which the images are immersed in the water for dissolution and farewell.
• Elsewhere, on Dasara, towering effigies of Ravana, symbolising evil, are burnt with fireworks, marking evil’s destruction. The festival also starts the preparations for Diwali, the important festival of lights, which is celebrated twenty days after Vijayadashami

PM Modi talks with Zelensky and also offers help with peace

• As Putin Ups Nuclear Rhetoric, PM Modi Speaks With Ukraine’s Zelensky
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi told President Volodymyr Zelensky that there can be no military solution to the war in Ukraine, and India is ready to contribute to any peace efforts.
• Modi had also thanked Ukrainian authorities for their help in evacuating more than 20, 000 Indian citizens from Ukraine

About Ukraine

• Ukraine, country located in eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after Russia.
• The capital is Kyiv, located on the Dnieper River in north-central Ukraine.

Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for Pahari people residing in Jammu and Kashmir.

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for Pahari people residing in Jammu and Kashmir
• The decades-long demand of the Paharis for inclusion in the Schedule Tribe list has created social fissures with their Gujjar neighbours who were granted ST status in 1991.
• The divide between Gujjars and Paharis and the call for reservation has created fissures for years beginning in the early 1990s.
• Both communities have been living in the Pir Panjal valley but their co-existence has becoming increasingly strained with the simmering ST status demand for three decades.

Status of Scheduled Tribes in India

• As per Census-1931, Schedule tribes are termed as “backward tribes” living in the “Excluded” and “Partially Excluded” areas. The Government of India Act of 1935 called for the first time for representatives of “backward tribes” in provincial assemblies.
• The Constitution does not define the criteria for recognition of Scheduled Tribes and hence the definition contained in 1931 Census was used in the initial years after independence.
• However, Article 366(25) of the Constitution only provides process to define Scheduled Tribes: “Scheduled Tribes means such tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within such tribes or tribal communities as are deemed under Article 342 to be Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of this Constitution.”
  • 342(1):The President may with respect to any State or Union Territory, and where it is a State, after consultation with the Governor, by a public notification, specify the tribes or tribal communities or part of or groups within tribes or tribal communities as Scheduled Tribe in relation to that State or Union Territory.
• The Fifth Schedule of the Constitution lays out provision for Administrationand Control of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in states other than Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.
• The Sixth Schedule deals with the administrationof the tribal areas in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

Legal Provisions:

• Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 against Untouchability.
• Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
• Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996.
• Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

Adoptatin of animal at Delhi Zoo

• The National Zoological Park (Delhi Zoo) has launched an animal adoption scheme allowing people to sign up to pay for the care of animals at the facility
• You can now adopt an animal at Delhi Zoo. Here are the rates
• The animal’s enclosure at the zoo will feature the name of the person who adopted it.
• The adopter will be given an ‘adoption membership card’ and allowed to enter the zoo during visiting hours once every month.
• Other zoos in the country, like the Nandankanan zoo in Odisha, have similar adoption schemes.
• The Delhi zoo has around 1,100 animals – mammals, birds, reptiles – of around 92 species. Big cats, birds, snakes, bears, deer, elephants, star tortoises and striped hyena are among the animals that are likely to be up for adoption
• Rate for adoptation  range from Rs 700 per year for birds like budgerigar to Rs 6,00,000 for lions, tigers, rhinos and elephants.3Leopards are also likely to be up for adoption at a cost of around Rs 3,60,000 per year.

Pankaj Tripathi made ‘national icon’ by Election Commission of India

• Pankaj Tripathi was made national icon of Election Commission of India at a ceremony by the ECI in Delhi
• The actor was chosen for the honour for ‘his association with ECI in creating awareness amongst voters’.
• The announcement was made in Delhi by the Chief Election Commissioner in the presence of the actor

Tamil Nadu’s Mamallapuram most visited site in number of foreign visitors

• Mamallapuram beats Taj Mahal in number of foreign visitors
• Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra accounted for 65.41% of total domestic tourist visits in 2021-22.
• As per the report, 1,44,984 foreign visitors came to Mamallapuram, located about 60 km from Chennai, in 2021-22
• Taj Mahal, in Agra, occupied the second spot with 38,922 foreign visitors, accounting for 12.21 per cent of total such visitors.
• Six of the top 10 monuments on the central list are in Tamil Nadu. They are the tiger-headed, rock-cut temple and two other monuments in coastal hamlet Saluvankuppam in Chengalpattu district, the Gingee Fort near Gingee district, the Vattakottai Fort near Kanyakumari district, the Thirumayam Fort, the rock-cut Jain temple and Sittanavasal in Pudukkottai district.
• The Agra Fort (Uttar Pradesh) with 13,598 foreign visitors, the Qutb Minar (Dehli) with 8,456 visitors and the Red Fort (Delhi) with 5,579 visitors are some other monuments on the list.
• The report also said the top five states for domestic tourist visits in 2021 were Tamil Nadu (115.33 million), Uttar Pradesh (109.70 million), Andhra Pradesh (93.27 million), Karnataka (81.33 million) and Maharashtra (43.56 million).

India made Light combat Helicopter PRACHAND

• LCH Prachand   was inducted into the Indian Air Force at a ceremony in Jodhpur
• The helicopter possesses modern stealth characteristics, robust armour protection and formidable night attack capability, and it is fully capable of even operating in Siachen, the world’s highest battle-field.

Lalit Bhasin elected as new President of Indo-American Chambers of Commerce (AICC)

• Bhasin, before being elected to the post, was the executive vice president of IACC.
• Bhasin is the 54th national president of IACC, which was set up in October 1968 and is headquartered in Mumbai, having 14 offices all over India, with a large membership from large, medium and small business entities.

About Indo American Chamber of Commerce

• Established in 1968
• The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) is committed to promoting trade and commerce between India and the United Statesand is now the leading bilateral Chamber at the forefront of facilitating stronger business ties between two of the world’s largest economies.

Rohit Sharma become the first Indian to play 400 t20 matches

Career stat.

45 Test match – 8 Century – Highest 212

233 ODI – 29 Century – Highest 264

142 T20I – 4 Century – Highest 118