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1. First Mobile Honey Processing Van launched in India

Tags: State News

Khadi and Village Industries Commission(KVIC )Chairman , Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena launched the country’s first Mobile Honey Processing Van at Village Sirora in Ghaziabad, UP on 7 January 2022.

•  KVIC has designed the innovative Mobile Honey Processing Van that will process beekeepers’ honey at their doorsteps and thus save them the hassle and the cost of taking the honey to processing plants.
• The van is also equipped with a testing laboratory that would instantly examine the quality of honey.

2. English is the Court Language : Gujarat High Court

Tags: State News

A Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court has asked a journalist facing contempt of court proceedings to speak only in English as that was the language in the higher judiciary.

• The Bench comprising Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and A.J. Shastri made the directive to  local journalist Vishal Vyas, who runs Samna Bhrashtachar Ka, against which contempt of court proceedings was initiated in 2014.
• Vishal Vyas insisted on speaking in Gujarati.
• In the High Court, there is a rule that even if any party who does not hire a lawyer appears in person, he has to speak and argue in English only.

Language to be used in Courts 

• The Bench also underlined that the Article 348 of the Constitution mandates that the language of the High Court would be English.
• However under clause 2 of the article provides that the governor can authorise the use of Hindi or any other language with the consent of the President for the proceedings of the High Court.
• In the Supreme Court it is English only.

3. Tamil Nadu to oppose the construction of Mekedatu dam

Tags: State News

Tamilnadu government has again reiterated its stand that it is opposed to the construction of Mekedatu dam  by Karnataka.

• In 2019 Karnataka Government  submitted a proposal to the Central government for construction of a reservoir at Mekedatu in Ramanagara district, 90 km from Bengaluru and 4 km from the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border.
• The project is proposed at the confluence of Cauvery with its tributary Arkavathi.
• The project aims to ensure adequate drinking water supply to Bengaluru and produce 400 MW of hydro electricity .

Tamilnadu is opposed to this project as it will reduce the flow of water to Tamilnadu. It has approached the Supreme Court on this issue. 

4. 27th Edition of Kolkata film festival temporarily postponed due to surge in covid cases

Tags: State News

27th Kolkata International Film Festival which was scheduled from January 7-14, 2022 got temporarily postponed amid Surge in Covid-19 Cases

• The inaugural film will be Satyajit Ray’s 1970 classic Aranyer Din Ratri. 

• The festival will offer a centenary tribute to filmmaker Satyajit Ray, film critic Chidananda Dasgupta and Hungarian filmmaker Miklós Jancsó.

• Finland is the theme country for the 27th edition of the festival.

The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is an annual film festival held in Kolkata, India. Founded in 1995, it is the third-oldest international film festival in India. The festival is organized by the West Bengal Film Centre under the West Bengal Government.

Award - Golden / Silver Royal Bengal Tiger

5. Increase in installed capacity of Harduaganj Thermal Power Station

Tags: State News

• Uttar Pradesh government is increasing the Installed capacity of the Harduaganj Thermal Power Station by 660 MW taking the total installed capacity to 1270 MW
• Harduaganj Thermal Power Station is located in the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh.
• The coal for this power plant is sourced from coal mines owned by Bharat Coking Coal Limited(BCCL) and Eastern Coalfields Limited(ECL).
• The power plant is owned and operated by Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam.

6. Odisha radio-tags rescued Indian pangolin

Tags: State News

• The Odisha Forest and Environment Department has completed its first ­ever radio­tagging of the Indian pangolin using a VHF [very high frequency] radio transmitter.
• It is the State’s first attempt to standardize rehabilitation protocol for the animal
• It was rescued by the Paralakhemundi Forest Division last month, and was radio­tagged and released in the Nandankanan Wildlife Sanctuary, in Bhubaneshwar Odisha.
• Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP), is the only conservation breeding center for Indian pangolins in the world.
• The center was established in 2009 to standardize the protocol for housing and husbandry of endangered species.
• After Madhya Pradesh, Odisha is the second State in the country to release a radio­tagged Indian pangolin into the wild
• The exercise is expected to reveal valuable information on the ecology, dispersal pattern, home range, and survival of the reclusive animal.
• Pangolin is a nocturnal (awake and active at night and asleep during the day) animal that lives in burrows and feeds on ants and termites.
• Indian pangolin is the largest among eight pangolin species. 
• Pangolins are the most illegally traded mammals in the world.

7. AFSPA extended by six months in Nagaland

Tags: State News

• The Union Home Ministry extended the AFSPA Act in Nagaland for a period of six months with effect from 30th December 2021.
• It is done in the exercise of the powers conferred under Section 3 of the AFSPA Act. Both the Central and State governments have concurrent powers in this regard.
• As per notification “the Central government is of the opinion that the area comprising the whole of the State of Nagaland is in such a disturbed and dangerous condition that the use of armed forces in aid of the civil power is necessary”
• The last extension was made on June 30
• Union Home Ministry has set up a panel to decide on withdrawing the Act in the State.

For more details on AFSPA kindly refer to the 06th December 2021 post. 

8. Construction of Pandu Ship Repair Facility to start from May 2022

Tags: State News

• The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and AYUSH,shri Sarbananda Sonowal  has announced that the construction of the Pandu ship repair facility at Guwahati will start from May 2022
• It is expected to be completed by 2024.
• The design and implementation of this project is being done jointly by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and Cochin Shipyard Limited. The technical support is being provided by IIT, Madras.
• North East which is one of the least developed areas of India has tremendous potential for development of inland waterways using its river resource .
• The work has already started on the National Waterway 2 - the Brahmaputra - as well as National Waterway 6 - the Barak which will help in facilitating cargo traffic, passenger traffic as well as tourist jetties for the economic growth of the region.
• Pandu Ship repair facility is basically designed to cater to the  maintenance and repair needs of the ships which will ply on these waterways. 

For detail about Waterways in india  click here 

9. Apple Puts Foxconn Unit on Probation

Tags: State News

• The Apple company of the United States has placed an Indian Plant of Taiwanese electronic contract manufacturer Foxconn on probation, following concerns over food safety and accommodation at the unit.
• It means that the IPhone maker will not provide new orders to the Foxconn facility in Sriperumbudur, Chennai in Tamilnadu. 
• Protests erupted in the unit after cases of food poisoning among 250 women who work and live there were reported and the unit had to be closed temporarily. 
• Foxconn Technology group of Taiwan is the world’s largest contract manufacturer in the world.
• Apple is the designer and marketer of the IPhone series of smartphones .It does not manufacture its phone but outsource it from other companies like Foxconn.

10. Sankalp Smarak’ dedicated to the nation by CINCAN

Tags: State News

• A Sankalp Smarak was dedicated to the nation by Lt Gen Ajai Singh, Commander-in-Chief Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN), exactly 78 years after Netaji’s arrival on 29 Dec 2021.
• It was on this day that the national tricolour  flag was hoisted for the first time on Indian soil, at the Gymkhana Ground (present Netaji Stadium) in Port Blair by  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.. 
• He also announced Andaman and Nicobar as the first Indian Territory free  from British rule.
• Subhash Chandra Bose, and renamed   Andaman and Nicobar island  as "Shaheed-dweep" (Martyr Island) and "Swaraj-dweep" (Self-rule Island).

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