July 2020

KARNATAKA Ordinance on Karnataka land reforms Governor Vajubhai Vala signed the Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 The Ordinance brings sweeping changes to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961, essentially easing restrictions on buying agricultural land, on who can buy it and the ceiling on extent of land one can hold. The amendment drops Sections … Read more

    International World Population Day- 11 July World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. Commemorating World Population Day is important as it emphasizes … Read more

  International   WHO experts to visit China as part of COVID-19 investigation World Health Organisation experts will lay the groundwork for a larger mission to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists believe the virus may have originated in bats, then was transmitted through another mammal such such as a civet cat or … Read more

  International 15th summit between India and the European Union The 15th summit between India and the European Union will be held via video conference on July 15 The leaders are expected to reiterate their determination to promote effective multilateralism and a rules-based multilateral order, with the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organisation … Read more

  International Indian and U.S. officials held their scheduled virtual Foreign Office Consultations The two countries had “discussed ways to further enhance mutually beneficial trade and people-to-people ties, including through visa facilitation for students and professionals,” The discussions included ongoing threats to the rules-based international order, bilateral and multilateral diplomatic cooperation, maritime security and the … Read more

KARNATAKA Karnataka HC stays ban, restrictions imposed on online classe High Court of Karnataka stayed the initial ban and the subsequent curbs imposed on schools against conducting online classes from pre-primary level to class 10. Prima facie the ban and the curbs imposed on conducting online classes violate Articles 21 and 21A of the Constitution, … Read more

KARNATAKA Water released from Sonna Barrag Since the Bhima catchment area in Karnataka and Maharashtra is receiving good rainfall resulting in increased inflow at the Sonna Barrage built across the Bhima in Afzalpur taluk of Kalaburagi district, 2,500 cusecs of water was released from the barrage into the river cours   International World Bank and … Read more

KARNATAKA Startup creates crowd-sourced digital platform to manage pandemic startup has developed a new crowd-sourced digital platform — Digital Health Outpost (DHO) — for health workers, the government, and the public. Fuelled by a data aggregation engine that collects information from multiple channels and driven by artificial intelligence, machine learning and data sciences, the geography-agnostic … Read more

  International Japan supports India on eastern Ladakh standoff with China Japan said it opposed “any unilateral” attempts to change the status quo in the region. Japanese Ambassador Satoshi Suzuki said Japan hoped for peaceful resolution of the row through dialogues. Navies of the two countries held a joint exercise in the Indian Ocean. Four … Read more

  International Indra Mani Pandey to be India’s next ambassador to UN Indra Mani Pandey, an IFS officer of 1990 batch and presently additional secretary in the MEA, will be the next ambassador/permanent representative of India to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva, including WHO and UN Human Rights Council Pandey will lead … Read more