# Teesta setalvad

• A court on Saturday sent controversial activist Teesta setalvad and former DGP RB Sreekumar for fabrication of evidence in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, to 14 day judicial custody.
• Sreekumar was arrested last Saturday and Teesta setalvad on next day after being picked up by Gujarat ATS from Mumbai.
• Former IPS officer Sanjiv bhatt, who is serving life sentence in a custodial death case in a jail in Banaskantha district, is also an accused in the case.
• The crime branch registered the FIR against them a day after the Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the clean chit given by a special investigation team to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 post Godhra riots cases.

# Shendurney wildlife Sanctuary

• The Shendurney wildlife Sanctuary derives its name Chenkurinji (Gluta Travancorica), a species endemic to the Agasthyamala Biosphere reserve.
• Belonging to the Anacardiaceae family, the tree was once abundant in the hills on the Southern parts of the Aryankavu pass in Kerala’s Kollam district, but its presence has been fast receding from the area over the years.
• Gluta Travancorica is very susceptible to climate change and the present condition of the species is quite bad with low regeneration performance.

# Flora and Fauna

• India added 540 species to its faunal database in 2021 taking the total number of animal species to 103258.
• The country also added 315 taxa to the Indian flora during 2021, taking the number of floral taxa in the country to 55048.
• The new mammal species discovered is Crocidura narcondamica, a white toothed shrew from, Narcondam island of the Andaman and Nicobar group of Island.

# India-EU FTA

• India and the European Union concluded the first round of talks for the proposed Free trade agreement on Friday.
• The next round of talks is scheduled at Brussels in September, the ministry of commerce and industry said on Saturday.
• India and the 27 nation bloc resumed negotiations on June 17, after a gap of more than 8 years.