# India-China disengagement

• The disengagement on the south bank of pangong lake will see Indian troops moving to their post in Chushul and chinese troops in the Moldo.

• In the next phase, additional Indian troops will move further down, around 40 km, to Tara-rhongo post and chinese troops to dorjo post.

• These agreements have been reached in several rounds of talks between Indian and chinese commanders.

# NHRC

• The Delhi high court on friday sought response of the manipur government and NHRC on a plea alleging that the commision has failed to enforce its direction to the state to pay compensation to the kin of the victims of extra-judicial killings.

• The NHRC had directed the victims to approach the competant court court after the compensation was not paid by the manipur government.

• The petitioner of the kin of victims claims that NHRC has ample power to ensure its directions are implemented.

# ADR Report

• As many as 93% of ministers in the CM Nitish kumar’s cabinet are millionaires.

• Criminal cases are pending against 64% of them.

• This data has been released by Association of democratic reforms (ADR) report.

# Railways to connect mizoram

• By march 2023, Aizwal will be linked to India’s railway grid.

• Mizoram will become the fourth of the eighth north eastern state to get railway connectivity.

• A statement issued by the north east frontier railway (NFR) said 1000 crore has been allocated for the 2021-22 fiscal to be spent on the Bairabi-sarang railway project.

• Aizwal is 18 km uphill of Sairang.

• Assam, arunachal and Tripura state capitals are already connected by railways.

# Phd entries in IITs

• Scheduled caste and scheduled tribe applicants are half way as likely to get selected for a phd programme at leading IITs in the country as compared to aspirants from general category.

• This data has been collected from a series of RTIs applicantions on the number of those admitted to phd programmes in five older IITs.