# UCC

• In what could buoy BJP governed states attempts towards uniform civil laws for marriage, divorce, adoption, succession and partition, the Supreme Court on Monday said the Uttarakhand government was well within its constitutional rights to set up a committee to examine implementation of the Uniform civil code in the State.
• The supreme Court rejected the PIL which was filed against the committee set up by the Uttarakhand government to study implementation of Uniform civil code.
• The chief justice of India said under article 182 of the Constitution, “the executive power of a state shall extend to the matters with respect to which the legislature of the state has power to make laws.

# Jammu and Kashmir

• As part of a plan to re-energise the village defense committees often the first responders to terrorist attacks in the interior areas, the J&K administration has started holding camps in the district ‘s villages.
• Administration is assessing the condition of weapons given to VDC members and replace or upgrade them where required.
• Meanwhile, the 1800 additional CRPF personnel sent to Rajouri in the wake of two attacks at the start of this year.

# Pravasi Bhartiya divas

• Urging NRI’s to be the brand ambassadors of India’s millets” at the pravasi Bhartiya divas convention, PM Narendra Modi said 2023 has been declared the International year of millets and appealed to them to take some millet products back home.
• PM Modi said more than 200 meetings will happen in cities across India as part of the G20 summit, offering a great opportunity to establish meaningful connections with the delegates of many countries.

# I phone

• Apple exported more than $2.5 billion of iphones from India from April to December, nearly twice the previous fiscal year’s total, underscoring how the US tech giant is accelerating a shift from China with tensions on the rise.
• Foxconn and Wistron have each shipped more than $1 billion of Apple’s marquee devices abroad in the first nine months of the fiscal year ending march.