- Election Commission of India conducted re-polling for the ongoing Lok Sabha General Elections in various polling stations of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
- Provisions related to Re-polling under the Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1951
- Circumstances under which re-polling is needed
- Section 57: On account of natural calamity, violence, etc.
- Section 58(2): Due to damage or destruction of voting machines.
- Section 58A: Countermanding of election on account of Booth capturing.
- Section 52: On account of death of candidate of recognised political party (National party/State party).
- Circumstances under which re-polling is needed
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- AstraZeneca for the first time admitted that its COVID-19 vaccine (Covishield) had rare side effects including TTS.
- About TTS
- Also referred to as Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT).
- It occurs when a person has blood clots (thrombosis) together with a low platelet count (thrombocytopenia).
- It is a rare condition in which blood clots form in unusual places in the body.
- It can affect a person's brain, abdomen, lungs, arteries, etc.
- Symptoms include difficulty in breathing, chest pain, abdominal pain, swelling in leg, etc.
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1 source- Apple faces allegations of using ‘blood minerals’ from war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
- Blood minerals, also known as conflict minerals, are minerals that are mined in areas where violence, human rights violations, and conflict are intertwined with their extraction.
- The extraction and trade of these minerals have been linked to funding armed groups and fueling conflicts in several countries in Central Africa.
- Tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold (3TG) are major examples of blood minerals.
- Physicists in the UK have spotted signatures of magnetic monopoles in haematite (a naturally occurring antiferromagnetic iron oxide material).
- Monopoles refer to hypopthetical elementary particles that act as isolated magnetic north and south poles and are the magnetic analogues of electric charges.
- An ordinary bar magnet consists of both north and south pole.
- It was first predicted in 1931 Paul Dirac
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1 source- SEBI has amended mutual fund norms, requiring Asset Management Companies to establish mechanisms to prevent front running.
- About Front Running:
- Front Running in the stock market occurs when a broker or trader acts on advance information about client orders to execute their own trades first.
- This anticipatory trading, based on non-public knowledge of upcoming transactions, aims to profit from the resulting price movement.
- It is an unethical activity disrupts market fairness and can be illegal.
- It undermines confidence in the financial markets and creates an uneven playing field for other investors.
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- Supreme Court has rejected the application of ‘eggshell skull’ rule in a case.
- About Eggshell skull principle:
- It is a common law principle applied in civil litigation.
- Principle: The defendant would be held responsible for injuries caused to a person when he hit him on the head, even if the victim had a particularly delicate skull or an ‘eggshell’ for a skull.
- The rule is applied for claiming an enhanced compensation
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1 source- Google’s Deepmind has developed TacticAI that can provide experts with tactical insights in Football.
- About TacticAI
- The AI predicts the outcome of Corner kicks, using “Geometric deep learning approach” to create more generalisable models on the field.
- It helps in Identifying key patterns of tactics implemented by teams, and developing effective responses with tactical insights.
- About Geometric Deep Learning
- A specialised area of machine learning.
- Focuses on developing algorithms and models to process and analyse data with a geometric structure like graphs, point clouds, and meshes etc.
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1 source- This Economic theory was popularised by British economist John Maynard Keynes.
- About PoT
- A rise in individuals’ savings, by reducing the amount of money spent on goods and services, can cause a fall in overall savings and investments.
- It believes that higher savings is bad for the wider economy and an economy can grow only by boosting consumer spending.
- Criticisms of PoT
- It ignores the potential for saved income to be lent out by banks.
- It also ignores the potential of inflation and deflation in an economy.
