CONTENTS
- Guardianship of minors
- Motor Vehicles Agreement
- PARAM Ganga
Guardianship of Minors
Context:
In the recent past, there have been changes to the rules for passport and PAN card that allow an applicant to furnish their mother’s name if she is a single parent. But this continues to be a niggling issue when it comes to school certificates and umpteen other documents that insist on the father’s name as the guardian. Last year in September, a PIL in Madras High Court sought that all documents must also require the mother’s name to be mentioned along with the father’s.
Relevance:
GS II- Government Policies and Intervention
Dimensions of the Article:
- Rules for issuing of passport and PAN cards to those with single parents
- What do the guardianship laws in the country say?
- Way forward
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Motor Vehicles Agreement
Context:
With Bhutan continuing to sit out the Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) of the sub-regional Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) grouping, a meeting of the other three countries was held to discuss the next steps in operationalizing the agreement for the free flow of goods and people between them.
Relevance:
GS II- International Relations
Dimensions of the Article:
- What is Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA)?
- Key terms of the Agreement
- What next?
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PARAM Ganga
Context:
The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.
Relevance:
GS III- Science and Technology
Dimensions of the Article:
- About PARAM Ganga
- What are supercomputers?
- What is National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)?
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