Short News 6th Oct 2023

• India-UAE trade rose to $85 billion in 2022. Furthermore, the UAE was India’s third-largest trading partner and second-largest export destination in FY2022-23. Conversely, India was the UAE’s second-largest trading partner.
• UAE is the fourth largest investor in India. Its cumulative FDI inflows between April 2000 and September 2022 stood at around $15.2 billion.
• Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) are agreements between states establishing minimum guarantees regarding the treatment of foreign investments.

• He was awarded the Nobel laureate award “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”  
• His major works include “Boathouse” (1989), and “Melancholy” I and II (1995-1996).
• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 was awarded to French feminist icon Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

• The university would be named after Sammakka-Sarakka – a mother-daughter duo revered among the local tribal community.
• The Sammakka Sarakka Jathara is a famous tribal festival; It is often referred to as the Kumbh Mela of the tribals.
• The event commemorates the battle of the 13th-century mother-daughter duo against the local rulers in protest against imposing taxes on the Koya people.
• The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ramappa Temple is located about 15 km from Mulugu.

About:

• Arutprakasa Vallalar Chidambaram Ramalingam (5 October 1823 – 30 January 1874), whose pre-monastic name was Ramalingam, is one of the most famous Tamil Saints. 
• He is also known as Vallalar, Ramalinga Swamigal, or Ramalinga Adigal.
• He belonged to a line of Tamil saints known as ‘gnana siddhars’ (gnana meaning higher wisdom).
• Vallalar endeavored to eliminate the caste system through the notion of Suddha Sanmarga Sangam (pure path of absolute truth). 
  • According to Suddha Sanmarga, the prime aspects of human life should be love, connected with charity and divine practice, leading to pure knowledge.
• Ramalinga advocated worshiping the flame of a lighted lamp as a symbol of the Eternal Power.

What is the Wagh-Nakh?

• Literally ‘tiger claws’, the wagh nakh is a medieval claw-like dagger used across the Indian subcontinent. 
• It was used for personal defense or stealth attack, and could easily slice through skin and flesh.
• The most famous use of the Wagh-Nakh in history comes from the story of Afzal Khan’s killing by Shivaji. Khan was a general of Bijapur’s Adil Shahi Sultanate.

• Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) historically belonged to the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir which is integral part of India due to signing of Instrument of Accession but it is unlawfully occupied by Pakistan since 1947.
• The region has been split into two distinct regions, namely  Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan
• Gilgit-Baltistan is located strategically as it borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and China.

• Recently, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has notified the new Drone (Amendment) Rules 2023 for drone pilots.
• Aim:  To further liberalize, promote and facilitate drone operations across the country and make India a global drone hub by 2030.
• The Directorate General of Civil Aviation will issue the remote pilot certificate through the digital sky platform.