CNT NEWS : Dec. 22, 2023

CNT NEWS

This small page or blog is for all those students in India, struggling over current affairs and general knowledge, so essential for competitive exams. Every day get a brief capsule of news gleaned from different international and national newspapers, which are important in terms of competitive exams in India.

It will be convenient for the reader to copy paste in in a separate file on the mobile/ computer/ tablet. Create a single word file with daily news pages in brief. If required highlight the news items which one would like to read about, in detail.

Author is an officer of Indian Civil Services, 1998 batch.

December 22, 2023

News Capsule:

  1. Rudy Giuliani, former lawyer of Donald Trump ( former President of USA) has  filed for bankruptcy in federal court in New York on December 21, just days after a jury ordered him to pay nearly $150 million to two former Georgia election workers for defamation.
  2. A shooter killed at least 14 people and wounded 25 others at a university in Prague on Thursday in the deadliest mass shooting the Czech Republic has seen in decades. The shooter a 24 years old man was also shot down.
  3. The Lok Sabha and the Raya Sabha of India, passed three bills that seek to replace old criminal laws — the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and the Indian Evidence Act. The Rajya Sabha also cleared the Telecommunications Bill, 2023. The three new criminal law Bills set to replace the old ones are named Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill.
  4. The actor Vin Diesel, of the Fast and Furious franchise, has been accused of sexual battery by a former assistant in a lawsuit filed on December 21.

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