HARYANA

Haryana Civil Services Rules amended for entrance tests

Haryana Government has amended the Haryana Civil Services (Executive Branch) Rules, 2008 to bring changes in the entrance test.

According to the amendment, the main written examination would comprise of four papers, including Paper I: English (Including English Essay), Paper II: Hindi (including Hindi Essay in Devnagri Script), Paper III: General Studies and Paper IV: One subject to be selected from the list of 23 optional subjects. Paper I and II would be of 100 marks each, whereas Paper III and IV will be of 200 marks each.

The question papers for the examination would be of conventional (essay) type. Each paper would be of three hours’ duration. Candidates would have the option to answer all the questions papers, except the language or literature papers, in English of Hindi.

INTERNATIONAL

· Indian tourists exempted from visa fees by Sri Lankan govt

India is among 48 countries whose citizens have been exempted from visa fees for tourism purposes It is done by the Sri Lankan government.

The tourists can apply for electronic travel authorisations online or apply for visa The measure will be implemented for six months initially and a decision will be taken later for extension depending upon its impact on revenue.

Sri Lanka’s third-largest and fastest-growing source of foreign currency last year, accounting for almost 5 percent of the gross domestic product in 2018.

NATIONAL

MIB launches a competition for designing Postage Stamp

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has launched a competition for designing a Postage Stamp along with the First Day Cover to commemorate Golden Jubilee edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

The contest is open on MyGov platform from 1st August 2019 to 15th August 2019.

The winner will receive a Certificate of appreciation and travel and hospitality for 2 nights and 3 days to become a part of 50th IFFI which is organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in collaboration with Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), Government of Goa.

An interested person may log in to www.mygov.in to participate in the competition.

Postal dept decides to convert India Post Payments Bank to an SFB

The postal department said it has decided to convert the India Post Payments Bank into a small finance bank, enabling it to offer small loans to customers.

Besides, the department looks to open one crore accounts for IPPB in 100 days.

India Post will partner with Common Service Centre to provide a suite of citizen-centric services such as banking, remittance, insurance, DBT, bill and tax payments etc at post offices.

Lok Sabha passes bill seeking death for rape of minors

The Lok Sabha unanimously passed the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children.

The Bill, which has already been approved in the Rajya Sabha, also defines child pornography and makes it punishable.

To curb child pornography, the Bill provides that those who use a child for pornographic purposes should be punished with imprisonment up to five years and a fine, and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction, the punishment would be up to seven years and a fine.

According to the amendment bill, those committing penetrative sexual assaults on a child below 16 years of age would be punished with imprisonment up to 20 years, which might extend to life imprisonment as well as a fine.

Six lakh sexual offenders have been registered under the National Database on Sexual Offenders

· RS passed the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill

The amendment aims to improve road safety, enhance the penalty for traffic violations, facilitate citizens in dealing with transport departments and curb corruption. The Bill was passed in Lok Sabha on 23 July.

Provisions of the Amendment :

The amendment proposed to increase the minimum penalty for ageneral violation from Rs.100 to Rs.500.

Driving without a licence will lead to a a fine of Rs.5,000. Earlier, it was Rs.500

Driving despite disqualificationwill cause a penalty of Rs.10,000 from the current Rs.500.

For drunken driving, the monetary punishment has been increased to Rs.10,000 from Rs.2,000.

It also includes a provision for cashless treatment of road accident victims during the golden hour.

In case ofany defect in the vehicle that can cause damage to the environment, driver or other road users the Bill facilitates the Centre to order the recall of motor vehicles.

It provides acomputerised driving test to eliminate acquisition of fake driving licences.

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