Right to Privacy
- Important cases cited when the above matter comes up before judiciary: ‘M.P. Sharma v. Satish Chandra’ (8 judges bench; 1954) and ‘Kharak Singh v. the State of U.P.’ (6 judges bench; 1962)
- Both judgments had categorically rejected the existence of privacy as a guaranteed right under Article 21 of the Constitution.
- The above issue was in news recently due to WhatsApp-Facebook contract, whereby the former could share the contact details of its users with the latter.
Rail Development Authority
The regulator will perform four
primary functions—
- Tariff determination (it will not set the tariffs; it will only recommend tariffs “commensurate with costs”);
- Ensuring fair play and level playing field for stakeholder investment;
- Setting efficiency and performance standards;
- Dissemination of information
McMahon Line
- Frontier between Tibet and Assam in British India, negotiated between Tibet and Great Britain at the end of the Shimla Conference (October 1913–July 1914) and named for the chief British negotiator, Sir Henry McMahon.
- It runs from the eastern border of Bhutan along the crest of the Himalayas until it reaches the great bend in the Brahmaputra River where that river emerges from its Tibetan course into the Assam Valley.
- Thus it demarcates the boundary line between Tibet and present-day state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Air Service Agreement
- ASA is the basic legal framework for any air operation between the two countries.
- “An air transport agreement (also sometimes called an air service agreement or ATA or ASA) is an agreement which two nations sign to allow international commercial air transport services between their territories.
- The bilateral system has its basis under the Chicago convention and associated multilateral treaties.
- Why in News? Recently the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the signing of the Air Services Agreement (ASA) between India and Georgia.
What’s a Planet?
- In simple words, a ‘planet’ is a celestial body that “must orbit the sun, must be round, and along with its satellites, must “orbit in a clear path around the sun”.
- The exact definition, according to the IAU, of “a planet in the Solar System would be as follows: A celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.”
Geotagging
- ‘Geotagging’ is the process of adding geographical identification like latitude and longitude to various media such as a photo or video. Geotagging can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information from a device. It provides users the location of the content of a given picture.
- ‘Geomapping’ is a visual representation of the geographical location of geotagged assets layered on top of map or satellite imagery.
- Who does Geotagging? The National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), ISRO (Hyderabad) has a software platform, Bhuvan that allows users to explore a 2D/3D representation of the surface of the Earth. It also acts as a platform for hosting government data.
- Geotagging for monitoring of assets is already started in Ministry of Rural Development for MGNREGA and Department of Land Resources for monitoring of watershed activities in the states. Postal department has also geotagged the post offices using NRSC Bhuvan Platform.
- Several assets are created in the states under various schemes of various Ministries. Monitoring of such wide spread activities is of paramount importance to states and Government of India to understand flow of funds, inventorising the assets, bringing in transparency, planning of assets for future, and finally informing the farmers about the facilities available. Geotagging helps with such monitoring.
- A recent proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Family Welfare seeks to prepare an inventory of the assets created in the last one decade under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana through Geotagging technique.
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