Are you preparing for legal competitive exams?
Most legal competitive exams require awareness of current affairs in the legal field and beyond.
To help your preparation journey, Team YLCC has prepared an overview of all the important developments that have taken place in April 2023. Happy Reading!
INTERNATIONAL
- India, Malaysia move beyond dollars to settle trade in rupee.
- Finland becomes the 31st country to join NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).
- UK agrees to join Comprehensive And Progressive Agreement For Trans- Pacific Partnership.
- India has been elected to the United Nations Statistical Commission for a four-year term beginning January 1, 2024.
- BRICS nations working on creating new currency.
- India defends its Minimum Support Price (MSP) AT World Trade Organization (WTO) for procuring domestic foodgrain.
- Dakar Declaration has been adopted in principle by 21 African countries after the first African sub-regional conference on implementing the Global Plan for Road Safety.
- International Prize in Statistics- Indian American C R Rao won the Nobel Prize equivalent in statistics at the age of 102.
- China ends military drills after simulating strikes on Taiwan.
- India signed a MoU with WFP for sending wheat to Afghanistan.
- Ghana became the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine – R21/Matrix-M vaccine – developed at Oxford University.
- Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) Mission launched by the European Space Agency.
- NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR) satellites to map Himalayas seismic zones.
- 1st meeting of India- Central Asia Joint Working Group on Chabahar port took place in Mumbai.
- Sudan Army and Paramilitary agreed to open a humanitarian corridor after the death of over 50 civilians.
- Steering panel on Indus Water Treaty (IWT) meets to assess modification process.
- Radical Islamists in Pakistan demolished an over 100-year-old worship place of the minority Ahmadi community.
- Scientific expedition found previously unknown thousands of years old coral reef off Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.
- SpaceX’s new rocket system, Starship, exploded mid-air during its first test flight.
- Global Buddhist Summit 2023 concluded with the New Delhi Declaration.
- India has launched ‘Operation Kaveri’ to bring back its citizens stranded in war-torn Sudan.
- Stolen Hanuman sculpture belonging to the Later Chola period (14th-15th C.E), was retrieved from Australia.
- SCO Defence Ministers’ meeting held in New Delhi.
- 19 nations including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, and Iran have expressed interest in joining the emerging-markets bloc of BRICS.
NATIONAL
- India’s defence export reaches an all-time high of approx. R 16,000 crore in the financial year 2022-23.
- India celebrates 50 successful years of “Project Tiger”.
- ISRO successfully conducts the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX).
- Parliamentary Panel On Water Resources flags concerns over dams safety.
- Several tourists were killed after an avalanche struck the Gangtok-Nathu La road in Sikkim.
- Stand-Up India scheme completes 7 years.
- According to CPCB, Ground-level ozone (O3) has started to emerge as Delhi’s lead pollutant.
- The President inaugurated Gaj Utsav at Kaziranga National Park in Assam to mark the 30th anniversary of Project Elephant.
- Government approved army’s proposal to induct woman officers in the regiment of artillery
- Himachal Pradesh assembly constituted a committee of legislators to legalize cultivation of cannabis for its medicinal properties.
- Election Commission Of India (ECI) grants national party status to AAP.
- RBI issued a framework for acceptance of ‘Green Deposits’.
- The Ministry Of Jal Shakti released an all India report of the first census of water bodies.
- Assam and Arunachal Pradesh signed a MoU to end inter-state border dispute.
- The UP government has launched an agroforestry project to link farming with the global carbon credit market and generate additional rural income.
- Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh is all set to become the country’s first solar city.
- Sun halo, a rare celestial event was seen around the Sun in the skies in Northern part of India
LEGAL
- Parliamentary Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice has asked CAT to decide cases pending for more than 10 years on a priority basis.
- The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution proposed by Vanuatu to seek an opinion from ICJ on what legal obligations nations are under to protect climate systems and people affected by climate change.
- In Madhyamam Broadcasting Ltd vs Union of India and others, SC ruled against Union Government’s telecast ban on Malayalam news channel MediaOne, emphasizing the significance of press freedom.
- SC directed the central government to frame a National Policy on menstrual hygiene for school-going girls in the country
- SC observed that Preventive Detention laws colonial legacy, must be used only in rarest of rare cases.
- SC stated that the government may need to re-check its stance on Ranganath Mishra report.
- WTO panel has observed that India had violated global trading rules in an ongoing dispute with EU, Japan and Taiwan over import duties on IT products such as mobile phones and components, as well as integrated circuits.
- SC ruled that “arm’s length price” determined by income tax appellate tribunal cannot be treated as final in disputes related to alleged income suppression by multinational companies
- Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru And Others V State Of Kerala completed 50 years.
- SC modifies order on Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZ) around protected forests- Modifying its June 2022 order that mandated a minimum 1-km ESZ around national parks or wildlife sanctuaries, SC stated that ESZ cannot be uniform across the country and has to be “protected area-specific”.
- SC ordered digitisation of all records of trial, civil courts.
- SC held that the fundamental right (Article 21) of an accused to get default bail cannot be scuttled by filing supplementary charge sheets in cases where a probe is yet to be completed.
- Karnataka High Court has evolved “triple tests” to help a couple facing legal hurdles to have a surrogate child under provisions of Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021.
- SC ordered for registration of FIRs against hate speech even in absence of complaints.
YLCC would like to thank Udita Miyan for her valuable insights in this article.
