• Art culture: 1) Gujarat’s Vadnagar town, 2) the iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, and 3) rock cut sculptures of Unakoti in Tripura have been added to the tentative list of UNCESO World Heritage Sites.
  • EcoPill2D: Deficit/Disinvestment: Fiscal marksmanship – 2022-Dec: finance ministry is demanding extra money from the Parliament because expenditure has over crossed the original estimate presented in 1 February 2022. Government now wants additional spending of Rs 3.25lakh crore from the Consolidated Fund of India for the current financial year (2022–23). Opposition parties criticised the lack of fiscal marksmanship. This indicates a gross miscalculation of expenditure.
  • EcoPill3A-BoP/Intl-Trade: MODI government is planning to raise import duties on all “non-essential items”. Non-essential luxury goods — the likes of Giorgio Armani perfumes, Johnnie Walker single malts or Bentley limousines, to reduce the current account deficit.
  • EcoPill6: HRD: NPAs in education sector rising. However Default rate lower in loans to students of premier institutes like IITs, IIMs. Indicating that the students from the lower colleges are finding it tough to find jobs and businesses to repay the loan.
  • Ethics : ARCHAEOLOGICAL Survey of India (ASI) has been served notices by the Agra Municipal Corporation over dues in property, service, and water taxes for three city-based monuments, including the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and the Itmad-ud-Daula Tomb. ASI defends these are national heritage sites, and therefore no tax liability should be imposed. Medical Corporation says monuments are earning, decent income from tourism and therefore they should pay tax to help the municipal Corporation to develop better infrastructure across the city. Suppose now Chief minister seeks your opinion and your finance secretary (IAS) of Uttar Pradesh government. Then what will you do?
  • Ethics : Government Medical College, Kozhikode banned women students from leaving hostel after 9.30 pm. Female students while petition in High Court, but University has justified that seeking “absolute freedom on attaining the age of 18 may not be appropriate and good for the society. Because maturation is accomplished at the age of 25”. The age of 18 does not necessarily bring in brain maturation. The brain remains in an active state of maturation during adolescence. If we provided to much freedom at the age of 18, it will result in risky behaviour such as drug addiction, impaired driving and unprotected sex. As Kerala HC judge, what will you rule in this matter?
  • Ethics : leadership qualities, lavish lifestyle: LATE J Jayalalithaa was known for her expensive watch collection. Even Chief Minister M K Stalin was criticised social media for wearing an expensive watch. Now BJP’s state president K Annamalai facing controversy for special edition watch worth lakhs he was wearing Annamalai said the special edition wrist watch was made of the same material as Rafale fighter jet and so he chose the watch model out of patriotism. But social media is not buying this excuse of patriotism.
  • Ethics: An ambulance driver stopped his vehicle on the way to a hospital and offered his injured passenger a peg, while pouring himself another peg. Videos became viral. Driver justifies that he was only showing compassion to the victim and help him ease the pain through liquor. As the hospital superintendent what will you do?
  • Ethics: police administration- Gujarat Police’s Integrated Health Management Scheme (IHMS), police personnel were categorised in Red, Yellow and Green categories based on their Body Mass Index. If a fat policeman is able to do significant weight loss, then he is given transferred to his preferred city. Two cops from Vadodara managed to win this.
  • GPSC: Gujarat Regularisation of Unauthorised Development Bill, to regularise illegal real-estate constructions built before October 1, 2022. This is the third time government is doing it. Critiques allege this is helping the real estate mafia, who will continue doing the illegal constructions open that eventually it will be regularised by the government.
  • GPSC: Shankar Chaudhary elected Speaker; Jetha Ahir is deputy Speaker.
  • IR/Defense: Arnala: Indian Navy’s first Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASWSWC), built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd, has been launched.
  • IR: AHMEDABAD TO HOST 20 mayoral summit in 2023-July.
  • Quote: For language lies at the root of human identity, and to tamper with that is either poetry or treason.— TERRY EAGLETON
  • separation of powers: LG of Delhi sent notice to AAP Government for Rs 97 cr spent on ads. Alleging it is violation of the Supreme Court guidelines.
  • ⚾️📻⚾️🎙✋Share buybacks via stock to be phased -says SEBI. Technical stuff until it gathers, more limelight.