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Current Affairs for the date of 29 August 2023

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Introduction

The hindu analysis for the day of 29 August 2023 for the UPSC CSE WBPCS preparation.

Polity

Article 370 and 35A

  • 35a was issued by presidential order in 1954 under the article 370 in the Indian constitution.
  • Article 370 of the constitution grants some special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

  • Article 35A provides special rights and privileges to the permanent residence of Jammu and Kashmir States.

  • The outsiders are not allowed to buy or own immovable property there within the state.
  • Permanent residents also enjoy some rights with regards to public employment acquisition of settlement and government scholarships.

Facts in Support of Article 35A

  • Article 35A indicates the uniqueness of Jammu and Kashmir even though some states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have some laws to protect the privileges of their residents

Facts Against of Article 35A

  • Some said that article 35a will hamper the unity oneness of India.

  • Forbidding citizens from other states from getting employment or buying property within Jammu and Kashmir is actually a violation of the fundamental rights of the citizens stated in the constitution under article 14, 19 and 21.

Latest Update on Article 35A

  • August 2019 the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under article 370 was revoked by parliament.

  • A separate wheel the Jammu and Kashmir recognition bill 2019 was introduced and created two separate union territories of Jammu and Kashmir with legislature and Ladakh without legislature.

Technology & Challenge

News Media vs Open AI ChatGPT

  • Media organizations around the World including the New York Times , CNN and the Australian broadcasting corporation recently controlled the access of open AI's ability to access their website.

  • The New York Times is planning on suing the artificial intelligence research company over the copyright violations of these media houses.

How does Open AI Companies Work?

  • Open AI best known for creating chat GPT which is an artificial intelligence conversational Chatbot. Address questions on the basis of being asked by people.

  • These particular AI Chatbots are trained by the data that are available on the sites.

  • Software products like chat GPT are based on what AI researchers call Large Language Models or LLMs.

  • Models require an amount of information to train their systems.

  • Companies definitely use the online content that is found across the internet such as social media posts and several sites that are available on the Internet today.

  • These artificial intelligence companies do not provide any benefit or share or profit to this news or media houses which is technically harming their business as people are not ready to pay to read news where as it is free in these AI softwares.

Sports - Governance

Why has the WFI suspended by United World Wrestling?

  • The Wrestling Federation(WFI) of India was provisionally suspended by the world governing body United World Wrestling(UWW) for Not conducting its election on time as it was scheduled before.
  • This is why the Indian wrestlers are not eligible to compete under the national flag in United World wrestling events.
  • Some prominent wrestlers around the country put alligations of sexual harassment, financial irregularity, harassments on administrative regards so the sports ministry has asked the federation chief to stay away from the situation and act unless the Oversight Committee completed its enquiry and submits its report.

Gold Winner- Neeraj Chopra is Leading the Javelin Revolution for India.

  • Neeraj Chopra became the festival Indian to secure a gold in world athletics championships in Budapest on Sunday.

  • It was his second and India's third medal after long jump Anju Bobby George won in 2003.

ECONOMY & POPULATION

At G20 Delhi Summit, Demonstrates Climate Leadership.

  • At international level the G20 countries should ensure to improve their governance process for just energy transition.

  • Amidst the rising situation of global warming the G20 countries should be highly concerned towards use of green energies and renewable energies in place of nonrenewable or high carbon emitting energy resources.
  • In deployment of green energy the role of international financial institutions is critical as their support, investments, risk taking to rapid deploy a vast amount of renewable energy and broad infrastructure will help these countries to achieve their goals.

  • The G20 countries should take a lead in streamlining international efforts to achieve just energy transition. This effort will be added by rapidly improved transparency and accountability among these countries which will ultimately lead to a strong mechanism.

Population Growth is NOT a Panacea.

  • India's continuous growing population depicts a very huge labor market for the country and outside the country.

  • But Moody's report says that only population growth is not going to improve the fiscal development of India.

  • As the quality of education among the Indian pool is not satisfactory.
  • There remains a considerable gap in the quality of education between India as compared to its peers China with almost the same population or less than India.

  • According to this report in order to turn the population into an asset we need to give special importance to skill development from the school level.
  • As in the current times, artificial intelligence and automation taking jobs of people and leading to unemployment, skill education is the only way out to add job opportunities.

SCIENCE

LK-99 Probably NOT a Superconductor

  • In 1950's and 1960 is when scientists developed a theory of superconductivity and with this theory they found that superconductors are not only material with zero resistance but they also have a remarkable new Quantum state in which the electrons in the material work together.

  • It is also discovered that many materials can become superconductors and all the current to flow with zero resistance if cooled down to a temperature around minus 2500 C.
  • LK99 which is a gray-black poly-crystalline-compound identified as a copper doped lead oxyapatite, a team from from Korean University led by Lee Sukbae and Kim Ji-Hoon found this material as a potential superconductor started in 1999 but several research stating that LK99 probably is not a superconductor.