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30th June – Current Affairs


30th June –  Current Affairs

Parole :
Ø Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the Dera Sacha Sauda chief convicted of rape and murder, has applied to the Haryana government for parole.
Ø What is it? Parole is a system of releasing a prisoner with suspension of the sentence. The release is conditional, usually subject to behaviour, and requires periodic reporting to the authorities for a set period of time.
Ø Objective: Parole is considered a reformative process, and was introduced with a view to humanising the prison system.
Ø Comparison with Furlough:A broadly similar but subtly different concept is furlough, which is given in case of long-term imprisonment. 
Ø While furlough is seen as a matter of right, to be granted periodically irrespective of any reason and merely to enable the prisoner to retain family and social ties, parole is not a matter of right and may be denied to a prisoner even when he makes out a sufficient case.

PUNCH Mission :
Ø Dipankar Banerjee, an Indian solar physicist from Indian Institute of Astrophysics has been selected as a Co-Investigator of PUNCH mission by NASA.
Ø Full Name: PUNCH stands for “Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere,”
Ø Mission Objective:
o   It will image regions beyond the Sun’s outer corona.
o   It will image and track the solar wind and also the coronal mass ejections – which are huge masses of plasma that get thrown out of the Sun’s atmosphere. The coronal mass ejections can affect and drive space weather events near the Earth.
Ø Timeline: The mission is expected to be launched in 2022.
Ø Agencies involved: NASA has selected Texas-based Southwest Research Institute to lead its PUNCH mission which will image the Sun.

International Boxing Association :
Ø Name: The International Boxing Association or AIBA, originally the Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur.
Ø What is it? It is a sport organization that sanctions amateur (Olympic-style) boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.
Ø Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland.


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