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r. Virendra Kumar, Union Minister of Social and Empowerment, has launched the National Helpline against atrocities on SCs, STs.

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The target of the Helpline, reportedly, is to create awareness about the Act’s provisions are aimed toward ending discrimination and providing

The Helpline will be open 24-7 on toll-free number 14566.

This Service will be functional in Hindi, English, and Regional languages of the States.

The target of this Helpline is to spread awareness about the supply of the Scheduled Castes and, therefore, the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

DEFENCE Minister Rajnath Singh has Launched Swarnim Vijay Parv.

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Swarnim Vijay Parv commemorated the 50 years of Indias victory within the 1971 war.

He inaugurated Wall of Fame -1971 Indo-Pak War at the inaugural ceremony.

Swarnim Vijay Parv is an occasion commemorating the valor & professionalism of the soldiers and their contribution to the liberation of Bangladesh within the Indo-Pak 1971 war, at India Gate Lawns in New Delhi on December 12,

The event marks the completion of year-long festivities of fifty years of Indias victory in 1971.

Dubai has evolved to be the world’s first government to turn 100 percent paperless.

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Dubai became the world’s first government to show

The United Arab Emirate (UAE) prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced.

It’ll save around 3 billion Dirham (USD 350 million) and 14-million-man hours.

The digitization will provide all the government Services to customers & reduce paper consumption by quite 336 million papers.

TheUnion Home Ministryhas said resolute implementation of the national policy and action plan led to a 55 per cent reduction in violent incidents perpetrated by theNaxalsand 63 per cent indeathsover a period of eight years.

According to the annual report 2021-22 of theMinistry of Home Affairs, there has been an overall 55 per cent reduction in violent incidents (from 1,136 to 509) and 63 per cent reduction (397 to 147) inLeft Wing Extremism(LWE) related deaths in 2021 as compared to 2013.

In comparison to 2020, the year 2021 saw a decline of 24 per cent (665 to 509) in

Owing to the improved LWE scenario, the list of LWE affected districts has been revised twice in the last three years. The number of LWE affected districts was reduced to 90 in April 2018 and then to 70 in July 2021.

In 2021, Chhattisgarh (255 incidents and 101 deaths) remains the worst affected state followed by Jharkhand (130 incidents and 26 deaths), Odisha (32 incidents and three deaths), Maharashtra (31 incidents and six deaths) and Bihar (26 incidents and seven deaths).

Supreme Court order upholding theEWSquota clears the way for more attempts by governments to provide above 50% quota in government jobs and educational institutions on grounds of social and educational backwardness as well as economic deprivation.

All the three judges in favour of the amendment wrote separate but concurrent verdicts while the minority verdict was written by Bhat on behalf of himself and the CJI. The majority held that keeping SCs/STs/OBCs out of EWS quota is not violative of the Equality code and does not in any

Higher exposure to airpollutantscan cause narrowing of blood vessels in those already having an underlying heart condition, thus exposing them to serious Health risks, including aheart attack, according to astudypublished in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

The study says prolonged exposure to PM2.5 or fine particulate matter can lead to a sudden, temporary squeezing