15 December 2021 Current Affairs Quiz

Judges of the higher judiciary are appointed only through the collegium system and the government has a role only after names have been decided by the collegium.

Constitutional Provisions for Appointment of Judges
Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts are appointed by the President under Articles 124(2) and 217 of the Constitution.
Article 124(2) says: “Every Judge of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal after consultation with such Judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Courts in the States as he may deem necessary.
Article 217: “Every Judge of a High Court shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, the Governor of the State, and, in the case of appointment of a Judge other than the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice of the High Court.”

Justice (retired) K K Gupta Commission is related to Delimitation exercises in Jammu and Kashmir.

The last exercise was conducted by the Justice (retired) K K Gupta Commission when the state was under President’s Rule and was based on the 1981 census, which formed the basis of the state elections in 1996.

UNCLOS is accepted as a legal framework for all activities in the Oceans by UNSC which facilitates Cooperation between countries, international organisations and bodies, regional organisations and established international legal instruments.

The territorial sea extends to a limit of 12 nautical miles from the baseline of a coastal State. Within this zone, the coastal State exercises full sovereignty over the air space above the sea and over the seabed and subsoil.

Supersonic Missile Assisted Torpedo (SMART):
It is a missile assisted release of the lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations far beyond torpedo range. It is a canister based missile system.
The system is a next generation missile-based standoff torpedo delivery system.
It covers most of its flight in the air at lower altitudes with two-way data link from the warship or an airborne submarine target detection system and provides the exact location of the hostile submarine to correct its flight path midway.

Recently, Lokpal of India inaugurated’ a Digital Platform for the Management of Complaints called ‘LokpalOnline’.

LokpalOnline
It is an end-to-end digital solution for the management of complaints against public servants filed under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.
It is a web-based facility, which will quicken the disposal of complaints in an accountable, transparent and efficient manner with benefits to all stakeholders.
It provides a Dashboard for every Complainant, enabling him to view the status of his Complaints during its lifecycle.
The Portal, hosted on NIC Cloud, has been developed on an Open Source Technology.
Its security audit has been done by an agency empanelled by the CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
It facilitates handling of complaints during the complete lifecycle of the Complaint, right from its filing to the final disposal and this will bring more transparency and efficiency in the complaint handling mechanism.