Explanation:

What are Lok Adalats?

Lok Adalat (People’s Court) is an alternative dispute resolution mechanism.
The forum can settle cases pending on panchayat or at a pre-litigation stage in a court of law.
The decisions have statutory status under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
Under this Act, the award (decision) made by the Lok Adalats is deemed to be a case of a civil court, final and binding for all parties, and not subject to appeal.
It has broad powers to devise its procedures, compared to national courts.
If the parties do not recognise the Lok Adalat (though there is no provision for an appeal against such a prize), they may initiate litigation by approaching the court of appropriate jurisdiction.

Explanation:

English Channel
The English Channel is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France.
It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end.
It is the busiest shipping area in the world.
It is about 560 km long and varies in width from 240 km at its widest to 34 km in the Strait of Dover.
It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe.

Explanation:

What is the basis of MSP then?
It is only a government policy that is part of administrative decision-making.
The government declares MSPs for crops, but there’s no law mandating their implementation.
The Centre currently fixes MSPs for 23 farm commodities based on the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) recommendations:
7 cereals (paddy, wheat, maize, bajra, jowar, ragi and barley)
5 pulses (chana, arhar/tur, urad, moong and masur)
7 oilseeds (rapeseed-mustard, groundnut, soyabean, sunflower, sesamum, safflower and nigerseed) and
4 commercial crops (cotton, sugarcane, copra and raw jute) —
What about CACP?
The CACP come to existence in 1965 and MSPs are being announced since the time of the Green Revolution, starting with wheat in 1966-67.
The CACP is simply an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
It can recommend MSPs, but the decision on fixing (or even not fixing) and enforcement rest finally with the government.
The government can procure at the MSPs if it wants to. There is no legal compulsion. Nor can it force others (private traders, organised retailers, processors or exporters) to pay.

Explanation:

What is the project?
Users can now ‘listen’ to images of the Galactic Centre, the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia A, as well as the Pillars of Creation Nebula, which are all located in a region around 26,000 light-years away from Earth.
The data has been collected by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope — each of which is represented by a different musical ‘instrument’.
What is data sonification?
Data sonification refers to the use of sound values to represent real data. Simply put, it is the auditory version of data visualization.
In NASA’s recent Chandra project, for instance, data is represented using a number of musical notes.
With this data sonification project, users can now experience different phenomena captured in astronomical images as an aural experience.
The birth of a star, a cloud of dust or even a black hole can now be ‘heard’ as a high or low pitched sound.

Explanation: Chandipur, located in Balasore District in Odisha, in a unique beach because of this phenomenon. It is seen nowhere else in the world. It is also called Odisha’s Hide and Seek Beach. Chandipur is also the location of the Ministry of Defence’s Integrated Test Range where Akash, Shaurya, Agni, Prithvi, etc. were launched.