CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The court asked the Director of Public Information to upload translated version of Vande Mataram in Tamil and English languages on government websites and social media.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mother, I bow to thee) is a poem written in sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress. The poem was first published in 1882 as part of Chatterjee’s Bengali novel Anandmath.

Detailed explanation-3: -The court complex has 12 court halls, furnished on the model of the court halls in the Supreme Court, the Delhi and the Madras High Court.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to official website India.gov.in, the National Song “Vande Mataram has an equal status with National Anthem. Government said there are no specific rules for circumstances in which the ‘National Song’ may be sung. The National Song, ‘Vande Mataram’has an equal status with National Anthem.