Re-polling
- 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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Thrombosis Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS)
- 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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Blood Minerals
- 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.
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Magnetic Monopoles
- 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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Front Running
- 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.