1 Table of Contents NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ................................................................ ....................................................................... ...3 GOVERNANCE........... .............................................................................................................................................. .3 Supreme Court’s verdict on homosexua lity.................................................................................................................. 3 Highlights of SC verdict ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Delhi high court judgement ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Supreme Court restricting use of red light ..................................................................................................................... 3 INNER LINE PERMIT (ILP) in Meghalaya ............................................................................................ ............................... 4 What is Inner Line Permit? .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Manual Scaveng er and Their Rehab ilitation Act 201 3 .............................................................................................. 4 ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE .............................. ....................................................................................................... ...5 Central Statistics Office data for the second quarter (July-September) of 2013-14 ........................................ 5 Agriculture ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Industry ............................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Services sector .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 About CSO ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE................................................... ....................................................................... .......9 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ............................................................................................................................................. 9 South Korea .................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Singapore Violence ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Uruguay ......................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Russia ............................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Congo signs peace deal with rebels .................................................................................................................... 11 Rebels in Congo (see map on last page) .................................................................................................................................. 11 Jordan............................................................................................................................................................................ 12 SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................................... 1 3 SOLAR ENERGY IN INDIA ...................................................................................................................................... 13 HEALTH & MEDICINE.............................................................................................................................................. 14 New drug for Hepatitis-C .......................................................................................................................................... 14 About hepatitis-C ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 Transmission .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15