- PALESTINE’S UN MEMBERSHIP
- Palestine’s renewed application for membership of the United Nations is a diplomatic development that has attracted a lot of interest.
- This is not the first time that Palestine has attempted to obtain the membership. In 2011 too, its request was opposed by the veto bearing United States.
- Since then, Palestine enjoys only non-member observer status.
- The United Nations requires membership seekers to be peace loving states and to be able and willing in its judgement to carry out the obligations of the charter.
- States are admitted to membership in the United Nations by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. Any recommendation for admission must receive the affirmative votes of 9 of the 15 members of the Council, provided that none of its five permanent members — China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America — have voted against the application.
2. Bonds signed for rural service by MBBS graduates prior to July 2022 illegal: HC
- Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government quota seats into 15 as the high court of Karnataka has said the law remained unenforced for 10 years.
- The mandatory rural service law was enacted in 2012.
- Most developed countries such as the US Canada and Australia have policies targeted at international medical graduates requiring them to sign a bond for a particular period to work in remote areas as a precondition to get licences to practise.
- Compulsory Bond binds doctors with conditions to serve in their respective states for a certain fixed period, in rural areas. The doctors’ original mark-sheets, certificates and other documents are also usually retained by the state authorities after the completion of speciality courses.
3. INDIAN RESERVES
- India will begin wheat imports after a 6-year gap to replenish depleted reserves and hold high prices that leaped following three years of disappointing crops.
- New Delhi is expected to abandon a 40% tax on wheat imports this year. This will pave the way for private traders and flour mills to buy from producers such as top exporter Russia.
- India is the world’s second-biggest wheat producer after China. But it accounts for less than 1% of the global wheat trade.
- Its top export markets are Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka – as well as the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
4. RudraM II air to surface missile
- The Defence Research and development organisation successfully flight tested the indigenously developed RudraM II air to surface missile of the Odisha coast.
- The flight test met all the trial objectives validating the proposition system and control and guidance algorithm.
- RudraM-II Missile is an indigenously-developed solid-propelled air-launched missile system.
- It is meant for Air-to-Surface role to neutralise many types of enemy assets. It is designed to have a strike range of almost 350-km, from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter of the IAF.
5. HAITI
- Haiti’s main international airport reopened following a three-month forced shutdown.
- One of the driving forces behind gang violence in the country was the continued control exercised by Prime Minister Henry and it was expected that his resignation would allow for a semblance of peace and stability.
- The prime minister had resigned on April 24.
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three- eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
ONE LINER
- Start-up Agnikul launches world’s first rocket Agnibaan SOrTeD with fully 3d printied engine
- The commissionerate of Rehabilitation and Welfare of Non Resident Tamils and school Education Department jointly launched Kalangarai – A carrer guidance program for Srilankan Tamil Students.
