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1. Sabarimala - Page No.3 , GS 1
2. PM KISAN - Page No.10 , GS 2
3. Search and seizure - Page No.6, GS 2
4. Text and Context - The economy of a world without work

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Sabarimala - Page No.3 , GS 1

• Marking the beginning of yet another pilgrimage season, doors of the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala will be opened for the annual Mandalam-Makaravilakku season on Thursday.
• Sabarimala temple is an ancient Ayyappan temple located in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala on top of the Sabarimala Hill.
• The temple is dedicated to a Brahmachari (Celibate) deity Ayyappan also known as Dharma Shasta.
• The temple is situated on a hilltop amidst eighteen hills at an altitude of 1260 m above sea level, and is surrounded by mountains and dense forests which is a part of Periyar Tiger Reserve.

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PM KISAN - Page No.10 , GS 2

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 15th instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme at a function in Jharkhand on Wednesday.
• The Opposition has alleged that the instalment was deliberately delayed to coincide with the ongoing Assembly elections in five States and it is a violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).
• The Union Agriculture Ministry said in a release on Tuesday that Mr. Modi would release the money during the Janjatiya Gaurav Divas to recognise the efforts of the tribes in the preservation of cultural heritage and promotion of Indian values of national pride, valour, and hospitality.
• Under the scheme, the Centre transfers an amount of Rs 6,000 per year, in three equal installments, directly into the bank accounts of all landholding farmers irrespective of the size of their land holdings.
• It was launched in February 2019.
Funding and Implementation:
• It is a Central Sector Scheme with 100% funding from the Government of India.
• It is being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
• Janjatiya Gaurav Divas (15th November 2022) paid tribute to the freedom fighter Bhagwan Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary.
• The Janjatiya Gaurav Divas is celebrated every year to recognize the efforts of the tribals in the preservation of cultural heritage and promotion of Indian values of national pride, valour, and hospitality.
• Tribals held several tribal movements across different regions of India against the British colonial rule. These tribal communities include Tamars, Santhals, Khasis, Bhils, Mizos, and Kols to name a few.

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Search and seizure - Page No.6, GS 2

• The Supreme Court's direction to the Union government to frame guidelines to protect the interests of media professionals with regard to the seizure of their digital devices is a timely first step.
• Recent actions against journalists, whose laptops and smartphones were seized and searched, have sent a chilling message not just to the wider media fraternity but also to whistle-blowers and others who speak to journalists on the condition their identity will not be revealed.
• If a Journalist's communication devices can be seized and their data examined on the flimsy grounds of allegations, it compromises sources and impedes news professionals' ability to do their job.
• The guidelines must ensure that law enforcement agencies are not permitted to seize or search devices without a prior judicial warrant
• Article 20(3) in Part III (Fundamental Rights) of the Indian Constitution says, "No person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself".
• The right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and the right to remain silent in an interrogation essentially flow from this constitutionally guaranteed right against self-incrimination.
• This right also ensures that police cannot coerce anyone to confess to a crime, and obtain a conviction based on that confession.
• The protection against self-incrimination extends to both oral evidence and documentary evidence.
• However, it does not extend to
• compulsory production of material objects,
• compulsion to give thumb impression, specimen signature, blood specimens, and
• compulsory exhibition of the body.
• Further, it extends only to criminal proceedings and not to civil proceedings or proceedings which are not of criminal nature.

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Text and Context - The economy of a world without work

• Billionaire Elon Musk highlighted the disruptive potential of Al, wherein he conceived of a future where Al would substitute all human labour.
• Under our current system of capitalism, the only way an individual can access material resources such as food and shelter is through income derived from work. In such a system, a world without work implies a world where individuals who cannot find work cannot access basic resources.
• Therefore, a world where Al is supreme would not be a capitalist world but a world with very different institutional arrangements regulating production and distribution.
• At the recently concluded Bletchley Park summit on Artificial Intelligence (Al), in an interview with the U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, billionaire Elon Musk hiahlighted the disruptive potential of Al.
• Billionaire Elon Musk highlighted the disruptive potential of Al, wherein he conceived of a future where Al would substitute all human labour.
• Under our current system of capitalism, the only way an individual can access material resources such as food and shelter is through income derived from work. In such a system, a world without work imnlies a world where individuals who cannot find work cannot access basic resources.
• Therefore, a world where Al is supreme would not be a capitalist world but a world with very different institutional arrangements regulating production and distribution.

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