31 August 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. CURRENT AFFAIRS
31 August 2023
Dr. A. PRABAHARAN
Research Director, Public Action
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2.  Praveen Sood, Karnataka’s Director General of Police
is designated on the position of Director of CBI for the
coming 2 years.
 He will be replacing Subodh Kumar Jaiswal who will
complete his tenure on May 25
 Praveen Sood is a 1986-batch Indian Police Service
(IPS) officer who was made the Director General of
Police (DGP) of Karnataka.
 He acquired this prestigious position in January 2020
when he replaced Ashit Mohan Prasad, a 1985-batch
IPS officer.
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CBI Welcomes New Director Praveen Sood, Karnataka’s DGP
Selected After High-Level Committee Meeting

3.  The Supreme Court again detains the Same-Sex marriage
decision regarding its legal position.
 After a long-run battle of trials and clashes, the Collegium
retained the order on May 11, 2023 (Thursday).
 The petitioners demanded homo marriage be declared
legitimate and that the government accept their appeal.
 However, after intense hearings from both sides, the Supreme
Court seems to need more time and consideration to look into
the consequences of this matter.
 Moreover, the summer vacation is about to begin in a few days
from May 22 (Monday) and then the Court will resume its
session on July 03, 2023 (Monday).
 The highest law body in India is likely to make the settlement
after this break.
 While LGBTQ+ Community wants equality in their rights, many
of them marched along the roads with rainbow-coloured flags.
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Supreme Court of India Opts for Reserved Judgement in
Homo Marriage, Debating Over its Authorisation

4.  The Ministry of Finance upgrades the position of Rail Vikas
Nigam Limited (RVNL) to ‘Navratna CPSE’.
 This came into effect today i.e. April 27 2023. This adds up
to a total of 13 companies that have been granted Navratna
status.
 As per official reports, the company announced that the
Hon’ble Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman accepted the
status of Navratna CPSE given to RVNL.
 With this, RVNL will become the 13th Navratna among the
available list of CPSEs.
 This organisation comes under the Ministry of Railways
and undertakes several development projects.
 It has an annual turnover of Rs 19,381 crore and a net
profit of Rs 1,087 crore for the session 2021 to 2022.
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Nirmala Sitharaman Grants ‘Navratna’ CPSE Status to
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, Becomes 13th on the List

5.  Operation Kaveri has been effectively implemented and
is still going on by the armed forces.
 As per the estimates drawn by the officials, about 3,000
thousands of Indians got trapped due to a civil war and
bloodshed in the Northeast African country, Sudan.
 As the Sudan clashes flared up in the thick of a power
struggle, 1100 Indians have been transported from
Sudan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
 This emergency task was carried out collectively by the
teams of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Indian Navy.
 The reports claim that thousands of Indian citizens got
stuck up in Khartoum (the capital of Sudan) and the
Darfur district.
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Operation Kaveri: Special Forces Rescued Over
Thousands of Indians in War-Stricken Sudan

6.  Forbes' layoff tracker reveals that in 2023, over 194,000
employees in the US have been impacted by more than 150
job cuts.
 These layoffs have reverberated across various sectors,
such as technology, media, manufacturing, and banking.
 The wide-ranging effects of these workforce reductions
highlight the breadth of the economic challenges faced by
these industries.
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U.S. Layoffs: Nearly 194,000 Employees Laid Off in 2023 So Far

7. Machine Learning Startup ‘Inflection AI’ Built
a ‘Pi Chatbot’, Mustafa Suleyman Calls it
‘Personal Intelligence’
 Inflection AI, a human-computer interaction company has recently
added a talkative agent to its business projects.
 The Artificial Intelligence Machine named ‘Pi Chatbot’ has been
introduced as a personal interactive experience.
 Pi stands for “Personal Intelligence”
 while Mustafa Suleyman, the company’s CEO asserted that he
operates one of the world’s largest language models.
 According to the official reports, Pi Chatbot is considered the
company’s first widely released product and it is accessible to
global users only in the English language so far.
 This AI agent will not only act as an active listener but will also
help users with solutions to their real-life problems or questions.
 Moreover, this digital Pi Chatbot can provide factual and solid
answers and it is claimed to be more personal than other chatbots
like GPT-4 launched by OpenAI, Microsoft’s Bing or even Bard by
Google
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8. World Athletics Day 2023 Celebration
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 World Athletics Day is recognised on May 07 every year so that
people become more and more conscious about what and how
much they should consume and exercise to keep up the vigour.
 This year, on Sunday, here comes the reminder for everyone
around the world to participate in sports activities.
 Several educational institutions celebrate the day by organising
sports competitions and exciting the students with prizes by
making them involved in such healthy lifestyles.
 The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
saw the need to include exercise in educational systems and
promote it among societies located worldwide.

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