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Rajya Sabha passed the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020, to raise the upper limit for permitting abortions from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks.
This limit is applicable for special categories of women including rape survivors, victims of incest, minors and the differently-abled. The bill was passed by Lok Sabha about a year ago.

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Senior IPS officer M.A Ganapathy was appointed as the Director General of National Security Guard (NSG).
The 1986 batch officer is currently serving as the Director General, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). Another IPS officer Kuldiep Singh was appointed as the Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force.

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The Tenth Schedule, popularly known as the anti-defection law, was added to the Constitution in the year 1985.
As per the anti-defection law, Nominated MP Swapan Dasgupta resigned from Rajya Sabha, a year before completion of his term. He has been named as candidate in the West Bengal Assembly elections. After his nomination to Rajya Sabha in 2016, he did not join a political party within the mandatory period of six months.

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The Prime Minister’s Principal adviser, PK Sinha, recently stepped down from his position.
PK Sinha is a former 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre. In the first tenure of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, he served as the Cabinet secretary.

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India’s envoy in Sri Lanka has recently handed over training aids worth about Rs 81,00,000 to the country’s Navy for capacity building.
High Commissioner Gopal Baglay formally handed over the training aids, during a visit to the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. He also handed over Kindle e-book readers and books to the library of the Naval and Maritime Academy.