November 5th

· Gromov Flight Research Institute in Moscow

o Ilyushin-76 cargo aircraft used as the bed aircraft for testing Kaveri Engine.

o The engine is being developed at the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), a DRDO laboratory in Bangalore

· Use of Endosulfan.

o Stockholm Convention

o Reasons for not banning

o Reason for the demand for banning it

o How it is hazardous?

· Multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project on the Godavari

· Issues relating to the tribal regions’ administration

o Schedule 5

o Powers of Governer

· Crowdsourcing

· Future main battle tank (FMBT)- Ajeya

o CVRDE [Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment]

o T-72

o Arjun-Mark-II

· India's largest public offering - Coal India Limited.

o market capitalisation (m-cap)

o The only company till date in the world to earn a place for itself in the list of top-five companies as per their m-cap.

· Human Development Report

o The new Inequality-adjusted HDI

o The new Gender Inequality Index

o The new Multidimensional Poverty Index

o The Global Instability Index

· Ecology:

o Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has evolved a novel scheme in Pudukottai district for productive disposal of non-reusable plastic wastes. Buying back non-reusable plastic waste from the public, service organisations, commercial entities, hostels, educational institutions, marriage halls, hospitals and industries and sent to cement industries for use as fuel, eliminating the scope for the clogging drainage channels caused by careless disposal of plastic wastes, and preventing its re-use.

· The Union Cabinet approved the Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010, that ensures a safe environment for women at work place, both in the public and private sectors, in the organised and unorganised sectors.

o Domestic help have, however, been kept out of the purview of the proposed law.

o The Bill proposes a definition of sexual harassment, as laid down by the Supreme Court in Vishaka vs State of Rajasthan (1997).

o it may not be feasible to set up an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), it provides for setting up of Local Complaints Committee (LCC) to be constituted by the designated District Officer at the district or sub-district levels, as the need be. This twin mechanism would ensure that women in any workplace, irrespective of its size or nature, have access to a redressal mechanism.

o Implementation of the Bill will be the responsibility of the Central government in case of its own undertakings/establishments and of the State governments in respect of every workplace established, owned, controlled or wholly or substantially financed by it as well as of private sector establishments falling within their territory.

· Stringent pictorial warnings may have to wait longer contradicting National Rural Health Mission and the National Tobacco Control Programme

· Privileges of MPs: Madhu Koda Issue

· Issue with America:

o New nuclear liability law

o Defence agreements

§ Logistics Support Agreement (LSA)

§ Communication and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA)

· The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1980

· The Tea Party movement- US

o Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

o American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

· The Brass Project

o key liquefied natural gas projects, Brass and Train 7 projects, which are expected to increase Nigeria’s LNG exports to 40 million tonnes per annum and place the nation among the league of the world’s biggest LNG exporters

o French energy major Total, Eni of Italy and ConocoPhillips hold 17 per cent stake each.

o Nigeria is the largest crude oil producer in Africa. Nigerian crude oil is light and sweet and commands a premium in the international market due to its quality.

· The US India Business Council (USIBC)

· Shale gas – Future Mantra for Hydrocarbon Industry; MoU with US.

· Sorona—a fibre that is resistant to ultraviolet rays