🔆Global News Forum 2022
✅Global News Forum 2022 is the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)’s flagship three days annual NEWS event hosting around 80 foreign participants from the field of Media & Journalism from different broadcasting organizations.
✅The topic of the Global News Forum ‘Truth and Trust at times of Crisis’.
▪️Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
✅ABU was established in 1964 as a non-profit, non- governmental, non-political, professional association with mandate to assist the development of broadcasting organisations in the region currently Headquartered at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
✅ABU promotes the collective interests of television and radio broadcasters as well as key industry players and also facilitate regional & international media cooperation for members.
✅It has over 253 members in over 67 countries in Pacific region, Asia (South east, North, South, Central), Middle East, Europe, North Africa and North America, reaching a potential audience of about 2 billion people
✅Global News Forum 2022 is the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)’s flagship three days annual NEWS event hosting around 80 foreign participants from the field of Media & Journalism from different broadcasting organizations.
✅The topic of the Global News Forum ‘Truth and Trust at times of Crisis’.
▪️Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
✅ABU was established in 1964 as a non-profit, non- governmental, non-political, professional association with mandate to assist the development of broadcasting organisations in the region currently Headquartered at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
✅ABU promotes the collective interests of television and radio broadcasters as well as key industry players and also facilitate regional & international media cooperation for members.
✅It has over 253 members in over 67 countries in Pacific region, Asia (South east, North, South, Central), Middle East, Europe, North Africa and North America, reaching a potential audience of about 2 billion people
Lithium mining in India :--
=========================
In a major development, India has discovered its maiden lithium reserves discovery in the igneous rocks located in the Marlagalla-Allapatna region of Karnataka's Mandya district, reports Indian Express.
Though the discovery is very small in size in the present and stands at only 1,600 tonnes of lithium, it marks an initial success for the nation's attempts to domestically mine the metal in India, given the nation presently meets all its lithium demand and needs by means of imports.
The discovery has been made in the preliminary survey of Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), which is an arm of Centre's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The exploratory work is meanwhile also on to possibly extract lithium from the brine pools of Rajasthan and Gujarat and the mica belts of Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
However, it should be noted that Karnataka's Marlagalla-Allapatna area, along the Nagamangala Schist Belt, is being seen as among the most promising geological domains for potential exploration for lithium and other rare metals.
The development comes even as India had last year got into an agreement with an Argentinian firm to jointly prospect lithium in the South American nation which has 17 million tonnes of lithium metal reserves. The agreement was signed by India through a newly instituted state-owned company, Khanij Bidesh India Limited. The company has the specific mandate to acquire strategic mineral assets like lithium and cobalt abroad.
=========================
In a major development, India has discovered its maiden lithium reserves discovery in the igneous rocks located in the Marlagalla-Allapatna region of Karnataka's Mandya district, reports Indian Express.
Though the discovery is very small in size in the present and stands at only 1,600 tonnes of lithium, it marks an initial success for the nation's attempts to domestically mine the metal in India, given the nation presently meets all its lithium demand and needs by means of imports.
The discovery has been made in the preliminary survey of Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), which is an arm of Centre's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The exploratory work is meanwhile also on to possibly extract lithium from the brine pools of Rajasthan and Gujarat and the mica belts of Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
However, it should be noted that Karnataka's Marlagalla-Allapatna area, along the Nagamangala Schist Belt, is being seen as among the most promising geological domains for potential exploration for lithium and other rare metals.
The development comes even as India had last year got into an agreement with an Argentinian firm to jointly prospect lithium in the South American nation which has 17 million tonnes of lithium metal reserves. The agreement was signed by India through a newly instituted state-owned company, Khanij Bidesh India Limited. The company has the specific mandate to acquire strategic mineral assets like lithium and cobalt abroad.
🔆India’s First Lithium Cell Plant
✅The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)will inaugurate India’s first lithium cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
▪️Lithium
✅Discovered in 1817 by Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson in the mineral petalite, lithium is also found in brine deposits.
✅Lithium is also found in pegmatite ores, such as spodumene (LiAlSi2O6) and lepidolite (of varying structure), or in amblygonite (LiAlFPO4) ores.
#science_and_technology
Source PIB News Analysis
✅The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)will inaugurate India’s first lithium cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
▪️Lithium
✅Discovered in 1817 by Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson in the mineral petalite, lithium is also found in brine deposits.
✅Lithium is also found in pegmatite ores, such as spodumene (LiAlSi2O6) and lepidolite (of varying structure), or in amblygonite (LiAlFPO4) ores.
#science_and_technology
Source PIB News Analysis
🔆Conference on B20 Indonesia Global Dialogue
✅The aim is to align the perspectives of Indian industry with the policy recommendations of B20 Indonesia.
✅This conference would set tone for the deliberations to ensure that the Indian perspectives are well represented in the policy recommendation of B20 Indonesia.
▪️Business 20 (B20):
✅Business 20 (B20), formed in 2010, is the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community.
✅B20 aims to deliver concrete actionable policy recommendations on the priorities by each rotating presidency to spur economic growth and development.
# International Relations
✅The aim is to align the perspectives of Indian industry with the policy recommendations of B20 Indonesia.
✅This conference would set tone for the deliberations to ensure that the Indian perspectives are well represented in the policy recommendation of B20 Indonesia.
▪️Business 20 (B20):
✅Business 20 (B20), formed in 2010, is the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community.
✅B20 aims to deliver concrete actionable policy recommendations on the priorities by each rotating presidency to spur economic growth and development.
# International Relations
🔆National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC)
✅NICDC is a Special Purpose Vehicle aiming to develop new industrial cities as "Smart Cities" and converging next generation technologies across infrastructure sectors.
✅The programme is aimed at providing impetus to planned urbanization in India with manufacturing as the key driver.
#prelims
#economy
Source PIB News Analysis
✅NICDC is a Special Purpose Vehicle aiming to develop new industrial cities as "Smart Cities" and converging next generation technologies across infrastructure sectors.
✅The programme is aimed at providing impetus to planned urbanization in India with manufacturing as the key driver.
#prelims
#economy
Source PIB News Analysis
🔆Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan & Nanaji Deshmukh
✅The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh and Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on their birth anniversary.
▪️Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan:
✅He was born on October 11, 1902, in the remote village of Sitabdiara, Bihar.
✅He was marxist in his youth and founder general secretary of the Congress Socialist Party and the Socialist Party.
✅He was a hero of the 1942 Quit India movement
✅He declined to join Nehru’s cabinet and after 1955 quit active politics.
✅He became a Gandhian and was involved in the Bhoodan movement.
✅He was leader of the Bihar movement and he became the symbol of opposition to Emergency and was the moving force behind the formation of Janata Party.
✅Total Revolution: It was put forward by Jayaprakash Narayan in the wake of Bihar Movement in Patna on June 5, 1974.
✅It is a further extension of Gandhi’s thought on socio-economic problems and technique of change in the context of contemporary social, economic and political reality.
▪️Nanaji Deshmukh :
✅He was born on October 11, 1916.
✅He was social reformer and politician from India
✅He was a founder member of the Janata Party and one of the senior most members of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
✅He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance.
✅His stellar contribution towards rural development showed the way for a new paradigm of empowering those living in our villages.
✅He was an active participant of the Bhoodan Movement launched by Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
✅He also extended his support to Jayaprakash Narayan’s call for ‘Total Revolution’.
Source PIB News Analysis
✅The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh and Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on their birth anniversary.
▪️Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan:
✅He was born on October 11, 1902, in the remote village of Sitabdiara, Bihar.
✅He was marxist in his youth and founder general secretary of the Congress Socialist Party and the Socialist Party.
✅He was a hero of the 1942 Quit India movement
✅He declined to join Nehru’s cabinet and after 1955 quit active politics.
✅He became a Gandhian and was involved in the Bhoodan movement.
✅He was leader of the Bihar movement and he became the symbol of opposition to Emergency and was the moving force behind the formation of Janata Party.
✅Total Revolution: It was put forward by Jayaprakash Narayan in the wake of Bihar Movement in Patna on June 5, 1974.
✅It is a further extension of Gandhi’s thought on socio-economic problems and technique of change in the context of contemporary social, economic and political reality.
▪️Nanaji Deshmukh :
✅He was born on October 11, 1916.
✅He was social reformer and politician from India
✅He was a founder member of the Janata Party and one of the senior most members of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
✅He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance.
✅His stellar contribution towards rural development showed the way for a new paradigm of empowering those living in our villages.
✅He was an active participant of the Bhoodan Movement launched by Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
✅He also extended his support to Jayaprakash Narayan’s call for ‘Total Revolution’.
Source PIB News Analysis
India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime (IBSAMAR)
✅It is a joint Multinational Maritime Exercise between the Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies currently being held in South Africa.
✅The first trilateral naval drill of IBSA was initiated in 2006.
✅Strategic relationship: Such multinational drills exemplify the long term strategic relationship between three vibrant democracies, and strong economies.
▪️IBSA
✅IBSA is a unique Forum which brings together India, Brazil and South Africa, three large democracies and major economies from three different continents, facing similar challenges.
✅All three countries are developing, pluralistic, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious nations.
✅The grouping was formalized and named the IBSA Dialogue Forum when the Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Brasilia on 6 June 2003 and issued the Brasilia Declaration.
International Relations
Source PIB News Analysis
✅It is a joint Multinational Maritime Exercise between the Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies currently being held in South Africa.
✅The first trilateral naval drill of IBSA was initiated in 2006.
✅Strategic relationship: Such multinational drills exemplify the long term strategic relationship between three vibrant democracies, and strong economies.
▪️IBSA
✅IBSA is a unique Forum which brings together India, Brazil and South Africa, three large democracies and major economies from three different continents, facing similar challenges.
✅All three countries are developing, pluralistic, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious nations.
✅The grouping was formalized and named the IBSA Dialogue Forum when the Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Brasilia on 6 June 2003 and issued the Brasilia Declaration.
International Relations
Source PIB News Analysis
🔆Golden Jubilee of PIN Code
✅Commemorative Postage Stamp was released on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of PIN Code.
✅PIN code or a Postal Index Number in India is a six-digit numeric code in the Indian Postal system.
✅It was introduced on 15 August 1972 by the then Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, Shriram Bhikaji.
▪️Why was the PIN code introduced?
✅According to the Department of Posts, there were 23,344 post offices in India at the time of Independence.
✅But, the country was growing rapidly and the postal network had to keep pace.
✅The PIN code was meant to ease the process of mail sorting and delivery in a country where different places, often, have the same or similar names, and letters are written in a wide variety of languages.
Postal zones: There are nine postal zones in India, including eight regional zones and one functional zone (for the Indian Army).
#prelims
PIB News Analysis
✅Commemorative Postage Stamp was released on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of PIN Code.
✅PIN code or a Postal Index Number in India is a six-digit numeric code in the Indian Postal system.
✅It was introduced on 15 August 1972 by the then Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, Shriram Bhikaji.
▪️Why was the PIN code introduced?
✅According to the Department of Posts, there were 23,344 post offices in India at the time of Independence.
✅But, the country was growing rapidly and the postal network had to keep pace.
✅The PIN code was meant to ease the process of mail sorting and delivery in a country where different places, often, have the same or similar names, and letters are written in a wide variety of languages.
Postal zones: There are nine postal zones in India, including eight regional zones and one functional zone (for the Indian Army).
#prelims
PIB News Analysis