Current Affairs 22 October 2022

CONTENTS

1. Forest Conservation Rules 2022
2. Take immediate action against hate speech: SC
3. United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) 1267
4. Great Indian Bustard
5. Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
6. National Green Tribunal (NGT)
7. Viral spillover risk

 Forest Conservation Rules 2022

Context:

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has asked the Centre to put the new Forest Conservation Rules, 2022, on hold.

Relevance:

GS III- Science and Technology

Dimensions of the Article:

1. What are the Forest Conservation Rules?
2. What do the updated rules say?
3. Other Provisions of Forest (Conservation) Rules,2022
4. About National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST)

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Take Immediate Action Against Hate Speech: SC

Context:

Recently, The Supreme Court said it is “tragic what we have reduced religion to” in the 21st century and a “climate of hate prevails in the country”, while directing the police and authorities to immediately and suo motu register cases against hate speech makers without waiting for a complaint to be filed.

• The court directed that first information reports (FIRs) should be registered and criminal proceedings initiated against the makers of hate speech “irrespective of their religion so that the secular character of the country is preserved”.

Relevance:

GS II- Polity and Governance

Dimensions of the Article:

1. What is “Hate Speech”?
2. Laws related to hate speech in India
3. Indian Penal Code on Hate Speech
4. Observations of different institutions related to hate speech
5. Rangila Rasool case
6. Later cases

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United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) 1267

Context:

Recently, China placed a “hold” on two joint India-US proposals, to designate Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) top leaders at the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) 1267 list of terrorists affiliated to Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Relevance:

GS II: International Relations

Dimensions of the Article:

1. History of the Resolution 1267 (1999)
2. About United Nations Security Council

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Great Indian Bustard

Context:

The recent sighting of three Great Indian Bustards (GIBs) deep in Pakistan’s Cholistan desert has given rise to speculation that the endangered birds might have flown across the international border from India’s Desert National Park (DNP)

Relevance:

Prelims, GS-III: Environment and Ecology (Species in News, Conservation of Biodiversity)

Dimensions of the Article:

1. About the Great Indian Bustard
2. About the Habitat of Great Indian Bustard
3. On the brink of extinction
4. SC’s recent hearing on Power Lines threatening the GIB

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Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Context:

Four years after it was placed on the ‘grey list’ and penalised with severe financial strictures by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Pakistan won a major reprieve, as the international watchdog on terror financing and money laundering agreed to remove Pakistan’s name from the list of countries under ‘increased monitoring’.

Relevance:

GS II- International Relations

Dimensions of the Article:

1. Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
2. FATF Greylists
3. FATF Blacklists
4. Effects of FATF Blacklisting

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National Green Tribunal (NGT)

Context:

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday told the forest officials of Uttarakhand that it would direct the Union government to form a committee to initiate an investigation into “illegal tree cutting” in Jim Corbett National Park.

Relevance:

GS-III: Environment and Ecology

Dimensions of the Article:

1. National Green Tribunal (NGT)
2. Structure of National Green Tribunal
3. Powers of NGT
4. Challenges related to the NGT
5. About Corbett National Park

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Viral Spillover risk

Context:

The effects of climate change range are being witnessed across a range of environments – from changes in crop yields due to unreliable weather conditions to the extinction of species. According to new research, yet another effect could be the increased risk of “viral spillover” in some regions that could cause new pandemics over the next few years.

Relevance:

GS III: Environment and Ecology

Dimensions of the article:

1. What is viral spillover?
2. The Study
3. Result

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