🔆Exercise AIKYA

✅Recently, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), in collaboration with the Southern Command of the Indian Army organised a two-day national symposium, ‘Exercise AIKYA’, on disaster management in Chennai.
✅Aikya, meaning "Oneness" in Tamil, reflects the exercise's aim to integrate India's Disaster Management community.
✅It brought together key stakeholders from across Peninsular India to enhance disaster preparedness and response capabilities.
✅The exercise witnessed participation from six southern states/UTs: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Puducherry

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Government Approach Towards Naxalism In The Country :

✅Operation Green Hunt and usage of Specialized Forces like Black Panther and Bastariya Battalions with local tribal personnel counter Naxalite tactics.
✅ Infrastructure Development: Improved road connectivity through RRP-I & II projects.
✅ LWE Mobile Tower Project: Enhanced mobile connectivity in affected areas.
✅ Skill Development Initiatives: ROSHNI and Skill India Mission programs provide training and jobs for youth.
✅ SAMADHAN Policy: A comprehensive strategy combining short and long-term solutions.
✅ Aspirational District Program: Focuses on development in 35 LWE-affected districts.
✅ Security Related Expenditure (SRE): Provides financial support to states for fighting LWE.
✅ Special Central Assistance (SCA): Funds critical public infrastructure and services in LWE areas.
✅ National Technical Research Organization provides unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for anti-Naxal operations and Improved Intelligence Gathering
✅ Forest Rights Act (FRA): Ensures benefits reach those covered under the Act, addressing land rights grievances

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🔆 Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) Summit 2024 :

✅ 6th Quad Leaders’ Summit in Wilmington, Delaware (USA).
✅ Hosted by - US
✅ Members - Four Democracies : India, Australia, US and Japan
✅ Leaders - Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida 
✅ History - Quad as a formal group was first mooted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2007. 
✅ Involves - Launch of a New Coast Guard Exercise, A Logistics Network, Expansion of Maritime Surveillance & A Project to Combat Cervical Cancer.
✅ The ‘Quad Cancer Moonshot’ will involve contributions from all four countries to combat Cervical Cancer
✅ The countries announced the Quad-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission in 2025 to improve interoperability and maritime safety. 
✅ A Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific (MAITRI) to train Quad partners “to monitor and secure their waters, enforce their laws, and deter unlawful behaviour” was also announced. India will host the first MAITRI workshop in 2025.

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🔆BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA (BCI) :

✅ The Bar Council India is a statutory body created by an act of Parliament to regulate and represent Indian legal professionals.
✅ The council was established in 1961 under Section 4 of the Advocates Act.
✅ It regulates the bar by establishing norms of professional conduct and etiquette and exercising disciplinary authority over the members.
✅ The Ministry of Law and Justice is responsible for the Bar Council of India.
✅ Every Bar Council so constituted shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, and to contract, and shall by the name of the Bar Council of the High Court for which it has been constituted sue and be sued.
✅ Meetings are held regularly to ensure the smooth functioning of BCI.

Functions:

✅ To establish guidelines for advocates' professional conduct and decorum.
✅ To establish a mechanism for its disciplinary committee and the disciplinary committees of each state bar council to follow.
✅ To protect advocates' rights, privileges, and interests.
✅ To encourage and assist the reform of the legal system.
✅ To deal with and resolve any problem that a State Bar Council may refer to it.
✅ To promote legal education and establish legal education standards. This is done in collaboration with Indian universities that offer legal education as well as state bar councils.
✅ To recognize universities that offer a law degree as a prerequisite for becoming an advocate. The Bar Council of India inspects and visits universities, or directs the State Bar Councils to do so.
✅ Seminars and discussions on legal themes by famous jurists will be held, and journals and papers of legal relevance will be published.
✅ To organize poor people's legal aid.
✅ Recognize foreign legal qualifications gained outside of India for the purpose of admission as an advocate in India on a reciprocal basis.
✅ To manage and invest the Bar Council's funds.
✅ To make provisions for the election of persons who will lead the Bar Councils.
✅The Bar Council of India can also set up funds for the following purposes: providing financial support for welfare initiatives for the destitute, disabled, and other advocates, providing legal aid, and establishing law libraries.

Que.With reference to India, consider the following statements: (UPSC 2022)

1. Government law officers and legal firms are recognised as advocates, but corporate lawyers and patent
attorneys are excluded from recognition as advocates.
2. Bar Councils have the power to lay down the rules relating to legal education and recognition of law colleges.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

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Golakhnath vs State of Punjab, 1967.

Indus script deciphered and it is opined that it has evolved into Brahmi script

Link for the research paper of August 2024 : https://www.academia.edu/78867798/Deciphering_Indus_script_as_a_cryptogram
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