Thursday, August 29, 2013

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Dear all,
Welcome.
ISRO: GSAT-7 Satellite is equipped with high tech. communication equipment of frequency bands. Besides sea regions, it is capable of monitoring geographical land area as well. The ships are using communication facilities via INMARSAT Global Mobile Satellite Service Provider but this one would make India self-reliant. GSAT-7 would be operating on S, C & Q band besides Ultra high freq. It weighs 2625kgs and it's launch would cost around 470 crores INR. It would power through Lithium ion battery. Besides, solar panel arry would produce 2900 W energy. It would be launched from French Guyana's Kouru Space Station through Arian-5 VA 215 launch vehicle.

Election contesting: The govt. had brought amendment against Supreme Court's order regarding contesting of elections against those declared ineligible after being found guilty or sentenced for a period of two years. But legal persons state that whatever law is being made by govt., it is subject to judicial review and it had to be proved legally. 
The Public representative law amendment bill is passed in Rajya Sabha & is likely to be passed in Lok Sabha too. It is to note that Supreme Court had, on July 10, given two major decisions namely firsly, those found guilty would be ineligible to contest and secondly, contesting would be prohibited from prison or under Police custody. Earlier, Supreme Court had stated during May 2002 that voting is under freedom of expression & RTI also comes under it. A voter is free to note about candidates.
The Apex Court had also ordered during that time that every candidate would have to file an affidavit wherein education, assets and his criminal record would be detailed. The govt. had brought a law but Supreme Court had rejected the law on March 13, 2003. 
The Court had stated that executive could not reject the order without citing legal deficiency. The new law had to be in tandem with Constitution.  

IAS suspension: The suspended IAS official of UP cadre, who got clean chit from other official, he is also put in waiting list & is being considered to be having got his transfer as punishment. It is to note that upon his directions only, the suspended IAS official had taken action on Mining Mafia. It had got criticism to the UP govt. The State govt. had later cited demolition of a masjid wall as reason for suspension along with Show cause notice given to her. Also, the report in this regard didn't had her name and then the Urban development Minister of State had termed the report as wrong. It is learnt that his transfer had been considered then itself and when time was ripe, he got transferred. He is said to be very strict official who had been removed by Unnao District collector. 

Asaram Bapu: He had alleged that allegations are put upon him by Mother&Son i.e. UPA chairperson & Rahul behalf. The conspiracy is done as per them. Speaking at Bhopal airport, he stated that he does not need any one and got enraged over Rajasthan govt. support. Earlier Jodhpur Police had stated that he had to surrender latest by Aug.30 following which he had denied it. The dead line would not be extended and his arrest would be made. On the other hand, Asaram Bapu had gone to Surat where he had told that if he is proved guilty by any one, he would award five lakhs INR to him. 
Earlier, Gujarat CM, Modi, had stated that none should support him. Modi had told other leaders to be impartial. 

Economy: Due to increased imports and less value of rupee, Finance minister's hands are tied for providing incentive packages. Also, govt. expenditure is to be reduced. He had asked for 10-20% reduction in all ministries earlier. The interest rates were also lowered due to which fiscal deficit became about 4.9% of GDP during past year. This year, Current account deficit has to  be reduced from 4.2%. The govt. believes gold imports to be reason for it. The imports are to be reduced. Due to lesser exports, imports are increased this year. CAD had resulted in falling of rupee value. Therefore, entire exercise would to control it.
It is the second year in continuum for controlling govt. expenditures. The CAD is supposed to be limited to 7000 crore dollars from 8800 crore dollars. All products being imported are observed. Besides, gold and silver, food oil is also included along with metals. During Q1, the trade deficit had reaced 5018 crore dollars. 
The reduction policy had resulted in incoming of less dollars. Neither exports are increased nor foreign investment had increased. Due to improvements in US economy, FDI came. FII had also been disinterested. Due to it, foreign currency reserves had been under pressure. 

Cauvery basin gas: Reliance India Ltd. & it's associate co. BP Plc. had got their plan approved in R-series gas region for investment project worth 318 crore dollars. it would start production sooner. Director General (Hydrocarbons) Headed committee had approved RIL & it's associates BP Plc. & NECO resources for thirteen years gas exploration from D-34 block with 1.3-1.5 crore cu. m gas daily production. It's estimated production is almost equal to D1 & D3 joint production. D-34 has 220000 crore cu. ft of gas reserves.     RIL has 60% stake in KG-D6 block. It had handed over it's development plan during January 30. DG(H) had reduced the estimate by 1,19100 crore cu.ft. against 141300 crore cu.ft. RIL had estimated 149 lakh cu.m max. which is reduced to 129 lakh cu. m. D34 is Southward in KG-D6 block. It was notified during May 2007. During Nov.2011, it was declared as feasible by DG(H). 

Legal Course: Supreme Court had accepted that it is costly to take legal course as of now due to heavy costs. It had been beyond the reach of common man. Supreme Court had expressed concern about commercialisation of judiciary business. It had been commented by Justice Bench about the unsatisfactory & slow progress of legal course. The Apex Court had stated that people have opined that it is difficult to get justice during their lifetime. Earlier, it had been pure but now it is commercialised. The Advocates have duty to not exploit the trapped personnel. Law is not trade and it is not interpreting any commercial items. 

IMS: Indian Maritime services would be formed and linked with Civil services for maintaining sea ports and sea services. The National Shipping Board's member stated that under Ex-Secretary's head, a committee had been formed which would be handing over the report to Central Shipping ministry. Later amendment would be presented before the Parliament. The IMT could come into existence by next year. The examination for it would be under UPSC Civil services exam only.

Aakash-4: The cheaper tablet PC, Aakash-4 would be launched by next year January which would have regional languages reading and editing facilities. It would have Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Urdu, Manipuri, Sanskrit, Devanagari, etc It would also have audio-video chatting facility. The features would be 1 GB memory, 4 GB internal storage, 2G,3G, 4G data connectivity dongle facility. The seven inch touch screen would have Wifi, blue tooth etc. It's battery would have shelf life of two years. It would have .pdf file reader along with e-book reader. It would be linked with "Clicker" facility for student-teacher interface.

With regards,

M.K.Pachraiya

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