Daily Current Affairs Quiz 3 March 2023

d) Trade rules

The Windsor Framework is a proposed post-Brexit legal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom which was announced on 27 February 2023. It is designed to address the problem of the movement of goods between the European Single Market and the United Kingdom in the current Northern Ireland Protocol. The framework has two crucial aspects – the introduction of a two lanes system and the ‘Stormont Brake’.

The ‘Windsor Framework’ will replace the Northern Ireland Protocol.

b) 42

India ranks 42nd among 55 leading global economies in the International Intellectual Property Index report released by the U.S. Chambers of Commerce.
India was at the 40th rank in the year 2021. The report covers patent and copyright laws, ability to monetise IP assets and the ratification of international agreements. Morocco and Thailand at 2.5% each and Vietnam at 2.02% had the largest improvements in their overall score.

a) Uzbekistan

Exercise Dustlink (DUSTLIK) 2023, a joint exercise between India and Uzbekistan is being organized in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand. It is running from 20 February 2023 at Foreign Training Node, Pithoragarh which will conclude on 5 March 2023. It is organized to focus on anti-terrorist operations in semi-urban areas. Uzbekistan is a Central Asian nation that was formerly part of the former Soviet Republic. Its capital is Tashkent.

b) Police Reforms

Appointments of DGPs are now made on the basis of the Supreme Court judgment on police reforms in Prakash Singh vs Union of India 17 years ago. According to the SC’s guidelines on the appointment of police chiefs, the DGP is to be selected by the state government from among the three senior most officers who have been empanelled for promotion to that rank by the UPSC “on the basis of their length of service, very good record and range of experience for heading the police force”.

The DGP should have a fixed tenure of two years in the post, irrespective of the date of retirement. A DGP can be removed only in exceptional circumstances.

c) Gujarat

The second edition of the two-day Bird Survey Dharoi 2023 was recently conducted at the Dharoi wetland in Gujarat.
The wetland spreads over 107 square kilometres in north Gujarat. Dharoi reservoir was created by damming Sabarmati and Harnoi rivers in 1978 as a major irrigation scheme. The maiden Dharoi Bird Survey, 2022, recorded 193 species out of the 616 found in Gujarat.