• India celebrates December 4 as Navy Day to acknowledge the role of the Indian Navy and commemorate its achievements in ‘Operation Trident’ during the 1971 Indo-Pak War.
  • Border Security Force (BSF) is celebrating its 58th Raising Day on (December 1, 1965). The force defends the international border along with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
  • SC stops construction of Pucca road in UTTARAKHAND’ RAJAJI TIGER RESERVE. Tiger reserve road not for commercial traffic. “conservation priority of the forest area far outweighs the commercial transport needs of the state government”, said SC.
  • Quote: There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.— CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
  • Patna HC’s criticism of bulldozer-happy police is a message for politicians who wilfully ignore due process
  • Supreme Court ruled that housing is an essential part of the Right to Life. It underlined that demolitions should be a last resort, only after the adversely affected people have been given a fair hearing. Both Patna HC, the Gauhati High Court have criticised the high-handed use by police in using bulldozer to destroy homes of the accused persons.
  • Gasht-e Ershad / morality police of Iran supervised by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after public protest after death of a woman Mahsa Amini who was allegedly beaten by the morality police who had detained her for “incorrectly” wearing the mandatory hijab.
  • EUROPEAN Union, G7, and Australia have decided to cap the price of Russia’s oil exports at $60 per barrel. Meaning they’ll not buy the oil for price higher than this. However, Russia will still make a profit because Russia’s cost of production of between $30 and $40 per barrel.
  • Books in news: LADY CHATTERLEY’S Lover, based on D H Lawrence’s (in)famous novel, is now streaming on Netflix. It is about the extramarital affair of an aristocratic lady with her gamekeeper.
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  • book to be obscene. The SC upheld the 1868 Hicklin Test of obscenity — which the court did away with only in 2014.
  • prosecuted under Section 292 of the IPC (which deals with obscenity)
  • Victorian-era Hicklin Test (1868) obscenity can be punished irrespective of the artistic merit of the work, that “obscene” portions can be judged independently of the work’s larger context, and if one portion is found obscene, the work can be banned. Earlier, SC used this test but later on the SC did away with the Hicklin Test.
  • Mount Semeru, tallest mountain on Java – volcano erupts.
  • First Loss Default Guarantee (FLDG): a lending model between a fintech (e.g. LoanTap app) and a regulated entity (a Bank/NBFC) in which a fintech guarantees to compensate up to a certain percentage of default in a Bank/NBFC.
  • International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), India is now at the 48th position (2022) from the 102nd (2018) with best aviation safety according to the latest @icao rankings.
  • ESIC to invest surplus funds in stock market through ETFs (Exchange Traded Fund). Earlier they parked only in Debt instruments/FD/G-Sec only. The investment will start with 5 per cent of surplus funds and will increase up to 15 per cent.
  • ‘Nirman Se Shakti’ initiative to modernise the infrastructure of ESIC hospitals.