Polity Notes

CURRENT EVENTS 03-09-2022

1. “60 – DAY LEAVE IF CHILD DIES SOON AFTER BIRTH “

• All females Central Government employees will now be entitle for 60 day’s special Maternity believe in case of death of a child soon after the birth, or with in 28 days of birth .

• The decision has been taken keeping in view the emotional from a cost due to the stillbirth or death of a child soon afterward which has a Farm reaching impact on the Mother's life .

• “The matter has been considered in consultation with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare keeping in view the potential emotional drama cause due to till Bond or death of a child soon after birth it has now been decided to grant a special maternity leave of 60 days to a female Central government servant in case of death of a child soon after birth / stillbirth or within 28 days of birth.

2. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV ( 1931 – 2022 ), SOVIET STATESMAN WHOSE PUSH FOR RADICAL CHANGES ENDED THE COLD WAR , DIE AT 91

• Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of a Soviet Union whose attempts to shake up his country's political and economic system led to the collapse of the communist superpower and the end of the Cold War, has died. He was 91.

• Gorbachev pushed for radical changes to the Soviet economy after he become Communist Party leader 1985, at the age 54. His over- houl, known as Perestroika, and policy of openness, or Glasnost, unleashed a political avalanche that brought down the Berlin Wall in 1989 and ended soviet rule two years later.

• Gorbachev ‘s career disintegrated in the process, leaving him a bystander to Russia ‘ s political and economic evolution . In a farewell address delivered on national television on dec. 25, 1991, the day the Soviet Union and his presidency were officially dissolved, Gorbachev said he had no regrets.

• “ I understood that initiating reforms on such a large scale in a society like ours was a most difficult and risky undertaking ,” he said. Mr. Gorbachev was a close friend of India . His policies were opposed in Soviet Union and Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) was integrated in 1991 in 15 separate independent states . His policies of Perestroika and Glasnost contributed a lot to end cold war.