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Postage Stamp on Rajkumar Shukla

The Department of Post has issued a Commemorative Postage Stamp on Rajkumar Shukla in New Delhi on 18th December 2018. The stamp was released as a tribute to the contribution made by Rajkumar Shukla in the launch of Champaran Satyagraha in the year 1917.

Rajkumar Shukla

Raj Kumar Shukla was born on 23rd August 1875 in Satwaria village of Champaran in Bihar.He a famous Indigo cultivator of Champaran and as he was a money lender as well. He rose to fame for his close association with Gandhiji during the Champaran Satyagraha. Raj Kumar Shukla convinced Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran, which was was a turning point in India’s struggle for independence.

Earlier also, the Department of Posts had released a postage stamp in the year 2000 to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Pandit Raj Kumar Shukla.

classical singer Pandit Arun Bhaduri passed away

Famous classical singer Pandit Arun Bhaduri passed away on 17th December 2018 at the age of 75, after a prolonged illness. Pandit Bhaduri had been suffering for quite some time from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other ailments.

Pandit Arun Bhaduri

Pandit Arun Bhaduri was born on 7th October 1943 in Murshidabad, West Bengal.

He was a Hindustani Classical Music and Semi-Classical Music Vocalist, initially tutored by Mohammed A. Daud Khan.

Pandit Arun Bhaduri was an exponent on Kirana and Rampur Gharana.

Madhavi Divan

The Union government has appointed advocate Madhavi Goradia Divan as the Additional Solicitor General (ASG) in the Government of India.

She will hold office of ASG till 30 June, 2020 and will appear in the Supreme Court on behalf of the government of India.

She is the third woman to hold the post of ASG. Senior advocate Indira Jaising was the first woman in India to become ASG.

Madhavi Divan

Madhavi Divan began her legal career from the Bombay High Court.

She has represented the states of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in judicial proceedings.

She played a great role in getting Triple Talaq getting criminalised by the Supreme Court of India.

Also, she advocated against giving the death penalty by the courts for the rape of minor victims.

The Additional Solicitor General of India, also known as the ASG, is the third-ranked law-officer in the Indian government.

Note :

THE POST OF ASG IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL AS THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT HAVE ANY PROVISIONS REGARDING THIS.

The seat of the Additional Solicitor-General of India may be at New Delhi or Mumbai or Chennai or Allahabad as the Government of India specifies.

SONAM KAPOOR

Sonam Kapoor, a vegan, has been named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s Person of the Year for 2018.

Sonam Kapoor has been known to be an advocate for animal rights. She is a vegan herself and keeps animal skin out of her handbag line for her fashion brand Rheson, apart from taking other action for the welfare of animals.

In 2016, the actress was named PETA India’s Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity and she earned a Compassionate Business Award from the group a year later for her cruelty-free handbag line.

Her past animal advocacy efforts include urging the Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change not to revoke the ban on classroom dissection for university life science and zoology students.

She had also been at the forefront to call for a Maharashtra-wide ban on the glass-coated manja, which harms and kills birds as they get entangled in it.

She had also donated “kind kites” to children to help prevent injuries from manja.

In addition, she frequently speaks out for animals on social media.

The past recipients of the PETA India’s Person of the Year Award include Anushka Sharma, Sunny Leone, Shashi Tharoor, former Supreme Court Justice KS Panicker Radhakrishnan, Kapil Sharma, Hema Malini, R. Madhavan and Jacqueline Fernandez.

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PM Modi third most followed world leader, Swaraj most followed female leader

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the third most followed leader on Twitter after US President Donald Trump and Pope Francis, as per a study by a global communications agency Burson Cohn & Wolfe. On the other hand, India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is the most followed female world leader.

Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel appointed NGT Chairperson

Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, who retired from the Supreme Court of India on July 6, 2018, has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

He has been appointed to the position for a term of five years, as per an order issued by the personnel ministry. The post of NGT chairperson had been lying vacant for more than 6 months after the retirement of Justice Swatanter Kumar on December 20, 2017.

The tribunal’s principal bench is located in New Delhi while its zonal benches are in Bhopal, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai and its circuit benches are in Shimla, Shillong, Jodhpur and Kochi.

Who is Justice AK Goel?

Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel was the first person from Haryana to become a Supreme Court judge. He was appointed to the position in July 2014.

During his 4-year tenure, he was a part of a bench of justices who heard various contentious social and religious issues such as triple talaq, Dalit Atrocities Law, abuse of the SC/ST Act and safeguards for women in matrimonial disputes.

The judge is known for taking a path-breaking step of referring the issue of divorce through instant triple talaq among Muslims to a five-judge constitution bench which held it as ‘illegal and arbitrary’.

He will be remembered as a courageous judge because the issue of triple talaq arose when Justice Goel along with Justice A R Dave (since retired) was hearing the issue of alimony and Hindu succession law.

.CATRIONA GRAY FROM PHILIPPINES WINS MISS UNIVERSE 2018 TITLE

Catriona Elisa Gray from the Philippines was crowned as the Miss Universe 2018, beating 93 contestants from other countries.She was crowned by Demi Leigh Nel-Peters from South Africa, the Miss Universe 2017 title winner.

India was represented by Nehal Chudasama in the beauty pageant. Nehal Chudasama failed to enter the final 20 of the Miss Universe 2018 competition.After Lara Dutta had won the crown in 2000, no Indian contestant has been able to win the Miss Universe title in all these 18 years.

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RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES : BY IAS NEXT TEAM

Right to privacy and social networking websites

The Internet has had a massive impact on many areas of personal and professional life. Defamation laws and libel lawsuits are one such area and many individuals, and website owners have fallen foul of the belief that they can write anything about anybody when they are online. With the proliferation of social networking websites (“SNW”) and their widespread use, especially amongst the youth, one observes certain legal loopholes in their operation and use. On the one hand, while such Social Networking Websites provide an easy to use, the convenient and cost-effective way of networking, however, the flip side presents the drawback of such Social Networking Websites. One such glaring drawback is the opportunity they provide for “cyber-defamation”.

What Is A Social Networking Websites (SNW)?

The most commonly accepted definition of Social Networking Websites, first proposed by Boyd and Ellison, defines social network sites to mean ‘web-based services that allow individuals to

Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system,

Articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and

And traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system’.

The popularity of Social Networking Site among school students gives rise to two distinct kinds of threats to privacy. The first set of concerns relates to the disclosure of personal information by the students themselves. The first set of concerns relates to the disclosure of personal information by the students themselves. The second set of concerns, on the other hand, relates to the posting of personal information about a student by other people, including the possibility of other people altering someone’s personal information. Franks agrees, “Public comment has been unleashed by the internet to prick pomposity and to undermine those who would keep the truth to anointed insiders. It should not be warped by defamation law,”

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