CURRENT AFFAIRS SET-24 (FRAMED FROM TIMES OF INDIA & WIKIPEDIA)

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Odisha court’s order to return ₹332 crore marks a significant step in compensating Rose Valley chit fund scam victims

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Pakistan’s military said it had thwarted a daring suicide attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) camp in Jandola area of Tank district, in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing 10 suspected militants 

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A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and tidal rivers.

Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and Tidal rivers

They occur worldwide in the tropics and subtropics and even some temperate  coastal areas, mainly between latitudes 30° N and 30° S

Mangroves are salt-tolerant (halophytic) and are adapted to live in harsh coastal conditions. 

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One such act passed on 11 September 1958 was applicable to the Naga Hills, then part of Assam . In the following decades it spread, one by one, to the other Seven Sister States in India’s northeast (at present, it is in force in the States of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur {excluding Imphal Municipal Council Area), Changlang, Longding & Tirap districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and areas falling within the jurisdiction of the eight police stations of districts in Arunachal Pradesh bordering the State of Assam). Another one passed in 1983 and applicable to Punjab  and Chandigarh was withdrawn in 1997, roughly 14 years after it came to force. An act passed in 1990 was applied to Jammu & Kashmir and has been in force since

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Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum- PM OF UAE

Abiy Ahmed – PM OF Ethiopia

Moustafa Madbouly – PM OF EGYPT

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A country’s current account records the value of exports & Imports of both goods & services and international transfers of capital. It is one of the two components of the balance of payments, the other being the capital account (also known as the financial account). Current account measures the nation’s earnings and spendings abroad and it consists of the balance of trade, net primary income or factor income (earnings on foreign Investments minus payments made to foreign investors) and net unilateral transfers, that have taken place over a given period of time. The current account balance is one of two major measures of a country’s foreign trade (the other being the net capital outflow). A current account surplus indicates that the value of a country’s net foreign Assets (i.e. assets less liabilities) grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank. Both government and private payments are included in the calculation. It is called the current account because goods and services are generally consumed in the current period.

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The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 is a United Nations Multilateral Treaty that defines who a refugee is and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum. The convention also sets out which people do not qualify as refugees, such as war criminals. The convention also provides for some visa-free travel for holders of refugee travel documents issued under the convention.

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These funds are issued every year to MLAs for local development such as repairing roads, and streetlights, developing parks, and laying sewer lines in colonies

Under the scheme, each MLA has the choice to suggest to the Deputy Commissioner of his/her district, to the extent of allocations given from year to year, to be taken up by his/her constituency

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Ans. A