Current affairs 21 May 2023

Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and K V Viswanathan sworn in as SC judges.

Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and senior advocate, K V Viswanathan was sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court, administered by Chief Justice of India, D Y Chandrachud.
With this enhancement, the working strength of Supreme Court has reached its sanctioned judge strength of 34.
KV Viswanathan is the tenth lawyer who has directly been appointed from the Bar to the Supreme Court bench.
Justice Mishra was serving as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

The decade of the 2080s of Bikram Samvat will be marked as the Visit Nepal decade and 2025 as the special year for tourism.
This was announced by the President of Nepal Ram Chandra Paudel while presenting the policies/ programmes.
As per the latest statistics maintained by Nepal Tourism Board, Nepal recorded the arrival of over 3.26 lakh foreign tourists in the first 4 months of 2023.
President has announced that timely revisions would be made to tourism-related law.

Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh has become the first city in India to adopt the localisation of the United Nations-mandated sustainable development goals (SDG).
Bhopal will now have voluntary local reviews (VLR) to demonstrate the local government’s capacity and commitment towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Voluntary local reviews is a subnational review of the progress and challenges in implementing the SDGs at the local level.
It aims to enhance accountability, transparency and learning among local actors, as well as to inform and influence national and global policies.

Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, Arun Kumar Mehta has launched open quiz and photo competitions about G20 in Kashmir on the MyGov portal in Srinagar www.jk.mygov.in.
The competition is aimed at promoting G20 awareness and its understanding among the citizen and can also foster critical thinking skills amongst students.
Regarding the G20 Photo Competition, the participants have to submit photographs capturing G20 landscapes in J&K

School students from all 25 districts across Sri Lanka have received the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Scholarships.
This scholarship provides Rs 2500 Lankan per student every month to the top six students from each district, based on merit cum means.
In 2023, two batches of scholarships were awarded simultaneously to compensate for the disruptions caused by COVID-19 during the 2021-2022 period.