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Rajya Sabha passes Major Port Authorities Bill 2020

Rajya Sabha passes Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 giving greater autonomy  to major ports in country

The Rajya Sabha on February 10, 2021 passed the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020, giving more prominent self-governance to significant ports in the country. The Bill was put to Division Voting where 84 individuals casted a ballot for the bill and 44 casted a ballot against it. The charge tries to accommodate guideline, activity and arranging of significant ports in the country and give more noteworthy self-governance to these ports. It additionally looks to supplant the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 and accommodates the formation of a Board of Major Port Authority for each significant port. These Boards will supplant the current Port Trusts. 


Bangladesh gets USD 200 mn from World Bank

Bangladesh receives USD 200 mn from World Bank for safe water and  sanitation services in Rural areas - Clipper28 Digital Media

Bangladesh has gotten USD 200 mn from World Bank for safe water and sterilization administrations and Hygiene (WASH) project for rustic territories. The arrangement was endorsed between the Bangladesh government and the World Bank on February 9, 2021. The project expects to give 3.6 million individuals admittance to sterile disinfection offices and around 6 lakh individuals admittance to clean water in country regions. The financing will give microcredits to the two family units and business visionaries for water and disinfection offices. More than 3 lakh least fortunate families will get completely financed latrines. The project additionally incorporates the development of 3000 local area channeled water plans and the establishment of 312 public latrines and 2,514 hand-washing stations at swarmed public places, for example, transport stations and markets. 


Odisha govt to move community for usage of Swaminathan Committee suggestions

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The Odisha Cabinet has set out to move the Union Government requesting usage of the proposals of the MS Swaminathan Committee with respect to least help value (MSP) everything being equal, for multiplying the ranchers' pay. The choice comes in the wake of the continuous ranchers' dissent against the recently passed ranch laws. The Odisha government has been running after strengthening of ranchers and is focused on multiplying of rancher's pay. 


Previous US President Donald Trump's second prosecution preliminary starts in US Senate

Trump impeachment trial: Senate acquits Donald Trump of all charges -  Chicago Sun-Times

Former US President Donald Trump's second reprimand preliminary officially started in the Senate on February 9, 2021. Trump is the lone President in US history to confront denunciation preliminary twice. This is the first-historically speaking arraignment preliminary of a previous President. It intends to answer whether one can impel an uprising without any potential repercussions. The House of Representatives had denounced the previous president a month ago for impelling brutality at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Overall, this is the fourth denunciation preliminary in US history. The prior preliminaries remember President Andrew Johnson's preliminary for 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Donald Trump in 2020. 


Twitter suspends more than 500 records for strategy penetrate after Indian government's solicitation

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Twitter on February 10, 2021 educated that it has made different implementation moves including perpetual suspension of more than 500 records for an away from of Twitter's arrangements. The move comes because of the ''legitimate solicitations'' from the Central government. Twitter said in an explanation that different to their implementation under its standards, throughout the most recent 10 days, it has been presented with a few separate hindering requests by India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. The online media monster said that it made a scope of implementation moves remembering lasting suspension for specific arguments against in excess of 500 records for away from of Twitter's Rules. Twitter educated that they found a way to decrease the perceivability of the hashtags containing hurtful substance, which included precluding them from moving on Twitter.