Draft Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2025
Government of India has initiated public consultation on draft Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to amend Advocates Act, 1961.
About the Draft Bill
- Amendments aim to align the legal profession and legal education with global best practices.
- Key amendments proposed
- Definitions Update: "Law graduates" now include 3 or 5-year degree holders; "legal practitioner" extends to corporate and foreign lawyers.
- Ban on lawyer strikes with exceptions for symbolic or one-day strikes that do not impede justice.
- Allows up to three government-nominated members to the Bar Council.
- Tags :
- Advocates Act, 1961
- Bar Council of India
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Sovereign Green Bonds (SGrBs)
Recently, Sovereign Green Bonds (SGrBs) are seeing limited investor interest due to lower yields.
About SGrBs
- Announced: In the Union Budget 2022-23 to significantly reduce the carbon intensity of the economy.
- About: These are debt instruments issued by the Union government to raise money for environmentally friendly green projects.
- Green Projects are those that encourage energy efficiency in resource utilization, reduces carbon emissions, promotes climate resilience, and values and improves natural ecosystems and biodiversity.
- Significance: Achieve India’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC); fulfil Constitutional mandate under Article 48-A, etc.
- Tags :
- Sovereign Green Bond
- Debt Instruments
- Green Projects
Extended Reality
Recently, XR Creator Hackathon, hosted by Wavelaps and Bharat XR, showcased the next generation of Extended Reality innovators.
About Extended Reality (XR)
- It is a broad term encompassing immersive technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR).
- Key XR Technologies:
- Virtual Reality: VR immerses users in a fully simulated environment, often using a headset that transports them into a virtual world.
- Augmented Reality: It enhances the real world by overlaying digital content, enriching a user's perception without replacing reality.
- Mixed Reality: It is a seamless integration of real world and rendered graphics, allowing users to directly interact with digital and physical worlds together.
- Tags :
- Augmented Reality
- Extended Reality
- Virtual Reality
- Mixed Reality
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Indirect Prompt Injection
Recently, Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) has become an emerging security threat for manipulating AI Chatbots.
About IPI
- It occurs when a Large Language Model (LLMs) accepts input from external sources controlled by an attacker like websites or files.
- LLMs are machine learning models that can comprehend and generate human language text by analysing massive data sets.
- The attack is done by embedding malicious instructions within benign documents or emails causing chatbots to perform unauthorised actions, like searching for sensitive information.
- Impact: Corrupt chatbot’s long term memory, compromise user data, etc.
- Tags :
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks
Einstein Ring
European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has recently discovered Einstein ring named NGC 6505.
About Einstein Ring
- It is a ring of light, first discovered in 1987, around a form of dark matter, galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
- It is an example of strong gravitational lensing.
- Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body creates a gravitational field, distorting and amplifying light from distant galaxies in the same line of sight.
- Gravitational effects associated with Einstein Ring can help in studying expansion of the Universe, detect the effects of invisible dark matter and dark energy, etc.
- Tags :
- Gravitational Lensing
- Einstein Ring
Sudan Virus
Recently, the Ugandan Government and the WHO confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease.
About Sudan Virus Disease (SVD)
- It is a viral hemorrhagic fever disease, belonging to the same family as Ebola virus disease.
- First identified in southern Sudan in June 1976.
- Fatality rates of SVD have varied from 41% to 70% in past outbreaks.
- Transmission: Person-to-person transmission occurs by direct contact with blood, other bodily fluids, organs, or contaminated surfaces and materials with risk beginning at the onset of clinical signs and increasing with disease severity.
- As of now, there is no licensed vaccine for SVD.
- Tags :
- Sudan Virus
- Ebola Virus
Dokra Artwork
Recently, Indian Prime Minister gifted Dokra art pieces to French President.
About Dokra Artwork
- Origin: It can be traced to the Dhokra Damar tribes (traditional metal smiths of Central India), in the regions of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Odisha.
- Technique: It uses the lost-wax technique, or cire perdue, for metal casting.
- Earliest Example: This art has been used in India for over 4,000 years, earliest known dokra pieces is the dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro.
- Themes: Artisans draw inspiration from nature, mythology, and everyday life.
- Tags :
- Dokra
- Lost-Wax Technique
