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The UNSC now consists of five permanent members and 10 non-permanent members chosen by the General Assembly of the United Nations for a two-year tenure. The government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday that four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) backed India’s bid for a permanent membership in the top international body. Answering a query, Minister of External Affairs V Muraleedharan said India has continuously brought up with China the matter of reforming the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). China is the only nation that has not yet backed India’s application to join the…

The Asian Development Bank lowered China’s GDP prediction owing to its zero-COVID strategy and rigorous lockdowns, which have hurt its struggling housing market. The world’s second-biggest economy’s GDP growth is forecast to reach 4% in 2022, ADB stated Thursday. The bank said China’s “adherence to a zero-covid approach in response to fresh breakouts early in 2022 has caused severe lockdowns.” The Asian Development Bank lowered its growth projection for China because of its zero-COVID stance and rigorous lockdowns, which hurt the real estate market. ADB predicts China’s GDP growth will be 4% in 2022, down from an earlier projection of…

In response to worries that other rights would be threatened by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion access, the US House authorised legislation to preserve same-sex marriages and interracial unions. The U.S. House passed a bill on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, to protect same-sex and interracial marriages. This was done because many conservatives were worried that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could hurt other rights. In a strong but one-sided debate, Democrats argued passionately and often personally in favour of making marriage equality a federal law, while Republicans avoided outright rejecting gay…

NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission, which was scheduled to examine the ice on the lunar surface and other possible resources by 2024, has been postponed. NASA has proposed that the delivery of the VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) to the Moon’s South Pole be pushed back from November 2024 to November 2024. VIPER is a rover that will return data that will assist in deciding how future human space exploration missions may harvest the Moon’s resources. These measurements will give insight into the genesis and distribution of water on the Moon. NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services…

Rani Agrawal of the AAP defeated Chandra Prakash Vishwakarma of the BJP to win the race for mayor. The newly formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) entered Madhya Pradesh politics after being elected mayor of Singrauli Municipal Corporation, a district known as the “energy capital of India” due to its abundance of coal mines. Rani Agrawal of the AAP defeated Chandra Prakash Vishwakarma of the BJP to win the race for mayor. https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/1548621733980438528?s=20&t=y3Xyfqhjq847F4gFJdXswg By a margin of 9,159 votes, Agrwal defeated the BJP and the Congress to claim victory, placing them in second and third, respectively. 34,038 votes were cast for…

Burhanpur, Satna, Khandwa, Sagar, Singrauli, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Chhindwara, Indore, Bhopal, and Ujjain all conducted mayoral elections in the first round. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 7 seats in the recent mayoral elections for Madhya Pradesh’s 11 local bodies, followed by the Congress with 3 seats, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which won one seat to establish itself in the state. https://twitter.com/BJP4MP/status/1548665768686272512?s=20&t=64StAfbdToa4mmAxfLkejA It should be emphasised that the BJP, which was in power at the time, controlled all 11 seats, but only seven were kept. The saffron party suffered defeats in the constituency of Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and…

A list of important bills that will be introduced during the monsoon session in 2022 On Monday, July 18, 2022, the beginning of the monsoon session of Parliament is scheduled to begin, and it is anticipated that it will continue until the 13th of August. Beginning on Monday, meetings of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will take place at eleven in the morning. According to the bulletin that was distributed by the secretariat of the Lok Sabha, a total of 29 laws are to be listed in Parliament, and of those, 24 are brand-new laws. The following…

According to the statute prohibiting abortion beyond 20 weeks for pregnancies resulting from consensual relationships, the court observed that her appeal could not be accepted. The court had stated at the hearing on Friday that it would not allow the petitioner to have a medical abortion at 23 weeks since doing so would essentially be murdering the foetus. The petitioner should think about giving the kid up for adoption. Observing that an unmarried woman whose pregnancy results from a consensual relationship is obviously not covered by any of the clauses under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003, the Delhi…

According to Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna, the United States must stand with India against China’s increasing aggressiveness. The CAATSA is a strict statute that allows the government to impose penalties on nations that buy significant amounts of Russian military gear. With the complicated geopolitics of the time in mind, the United States House of Representatives proposed letting India off the hook for the harsh United States penalties that could be put on New Delhi for buying Russian defence equipment. According to reports, the United States House of Representatives approved a legislative amendment by voice vote that exempts India from harsh…

A list of phrases declared unparliamentary by the Chair has been made public by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Included are adjectives such as “anarchist,” “dictatorial,” “taanashah,” “Jaichand,” “vinash purush,” “Khalistani,” and “khoon se kheti.” Certain English terminologies have been flagged by the Secretariat as being inappropriate for use in legislative proceedings. Any insults aimed against the chair in either English or Hindi are included in the list of forbidden words. According to a new booklet from the Lok Sabha Secretariat, use of terms like “jumlajeevi,” “baal buddhi,” “Covid spreader,” and “Snoopgate” as well as commonly used words like “ashamed,” “abused,”…