SEPT 19, 2023, TUESDAY,

# TODAY Current Affairs 👁‍🗨

• Proceedings of both Houses of Parliament to commence in New Parliament Building at New Delhi; Lok Sabha to Assemble in new building at 1.15 PM while Rajya Sabha to meet at 2.15 PM.

• Union Finance and Corporate Affairs, Minister  Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,Minister  Narendra Singh Tomar to launch Kisan Rin Portal and Ghar Ghar KCC Abhiyan at A.P. Shinde Hall, NASC Complex, Pusa, New Delhi at 2:30 PM

• Congress Party to launch 'Jan Aakrosh' Yatra  from seven places covering all 230 Assembly segments in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh

• A Vijayawada local Court to hear two bail petitions filed by TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu

• A Delhi Local  court to hear a defamation case filed by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat against Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot

• Aditya-L1  to begin journey to final destination

• Karnataka ,Six-day National Children’s Theatre fest to begin in Mysuru

• Ganesh Chaturthi festival to be celebrated across India

• Ten-day Ganeshotsav to begin in Maharashtra

• Aditya-L1 completes 4th Earth Op, to begin journey to final destination

• Britain’s opposition leader Keir Starmer to  meet French President Emmanuel Macron in paris

• Asian Games  2023 , India  vs  China  Group A  football Match at Huanglong Sports Center Stadium at 5 PM IST

• International Talk Like a Pirate Day

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(Reservation Bill for women) detailed analysis

Try to analysis pros and cons of this bill in your view

Climate Change Consider to be most worrying one in recent year's after the (Post Industrial Revolution leads to rapid change in climate as well in production of goods and service)But still has not been achieved the targeted goal in SDG even though there are many International Convention are been initiated by the developed countries we unable to combate climate change.why and what the reason for it.

In Exam Point of view the questions may frame like:-

1.why india Set the target for net zero 2070 ?

2.Write about the impact of Industrial Revolution?

3.Who will be Dominating in future A.I or Green Energy?

4.Developed countries role in mitigating the climate change ?

(In Exam they don't ask same as it's but you can practice it for enhancing critical thinking ability for writing the answer)

On Saturday morning hints for writing the answer will be shared in group before that practice by your own.

1. Your mouth produces about one litre of saliva each day!
2. Your brain is sometimes more active when you’re asleep than when you’re awake.
3. Bodies give off a tiny amount of light that’s too weak for the eye to see.
4. The total length of your circulatory system stretches an amazing 60,000 miles. That is more than twice the distance around the Earth.
5. You lose about 4kg of skin cells every year!
6. Babies don’t shed tears until they’re at least one month old.
7. The human heart beats more than three billion times in an average lifespan.
8. Your left lung is about 10 percent smaller than your right one.
9. Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.
10. Scientists estimate that the nose can recognise a trillion different scents!

Sep 25th Monday Current Affairs
Stapled Visa🇨🇳

A stapled visa is a peculiar form of travel document where the visa is not directly stamped on the passport, but instead, an unstamped piece of paper is attached using pins or staples. Unlike regular visas, which are affixed and stamped by the issuing authority, stapled visas can be easily detached. This practice has become a bone of contention between India and China, particularly concerning athletes from Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

🇮🇳National Education Policy 2020 (Multiple Entry and Exit System)

Advantages:
*Flexible Course Completion.
*Reduce the Drop-outs.
*Creates New Way for Life-long Learning.
*Student's Choice Of preference.

Limitations:-
*Reduce the Relation between Student's and Teacher
* The student can transfer his credit score from one college to another where he is joining but will it be effectively implemented.
*The relationship between the Higher Educational Institution (HEI) and student may not be coordinated.
*Need good amount of 'Digital Infrastructure' for saving the details of student's & credit score.

26th September Current Affairs
🚀International Day For Elimination of Nuclear weapons.🇺🇸
*Day to Remember 26 Sep Every year as the International Day For Elimination of Nuclear Weapon.

*In 1946 the General Assembly first came out with resolution that Atomic Energy Commission needs to monitor and elimination of atomic bomb and also other major destruction weapon.

🇮🇳Over 40% Of Electric Vehicles(EV)Sold in the country this year.🛵
*10 lakh electric bike sold in india and 4 lakh in Tamil Nadu itself.

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🎯Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation stone of an international cricket stadium in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
▪️Uttar Pradesh :-
Governor - Smt. Anandiben Patel
➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dudhwa National Park
➨National Chambal Sanctuary
➨Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake
➨Kashi Vishwanath Temple
➨Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Turtle Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Bakhira Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary
➨School Chalo Abhiyan
➨Sant Kabir Academy and Research Centre and Swadesh Darshan Yojana
➨Parivar Kalyan card scheme
➨Mathrubhumi Yojana

2) India has been ranked 52nd out of 121 countries in Digital Quality of Life Index survey.
➨The survey has been carried out by cybersecurity firm Surfshark.

3) India's antitrust body Competition Commission of India (CCI) has appointed three new members to oversee cases, including a former government official from the commerce ministry and a former interim compliance officer of WhatsApp.

🎯Payal Chhabra of Kalayat Nagar in Kaithal district of Haryana has achieved the distinction of becoming a commando by passing the trained para examination while being a doctor in the Armed Forces Medical Services.

🎯Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has announced an online allotment of safe deposit locker facility for its customers and non-customers.
➨ The new facility can be accessed online just by logging into the bank’s portal (www.iob.in).

🎯Apurva Chandra, Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, unveiled the "People's G20" eBook, shedding light on India's G20 Presidency.
➨The eBook is a comprehensive documentation of India's journey during its G20 Presidency, divided into three parts.

🎯Vanadium, a critical raw material for many industrial applications, has been found in sediment samples collected from Gulf of Khambhat, which opens into the Arabian Sea off Alang in Gujarat.
▪️Gujarat:-
➨CM -  Bhupendra Patel
➨Nageshwar Temple
➨Somnath Temple
➠ Marine( Gulf of Kachchh) WLS 
➠Nal Sarovar Bird Santuary
➠ Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant
➠ Narayan Sarovar wildlife sanctuary
➠ Sardar Sarovar Hydro Electric Power Plant
➠Porbandar Lake wildlife sanctuary

🎯Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for nine capital acquisition proposals of approx. Rs 45,000 crore. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh.

🎯 Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla  launched the 'Skills on Wheels' initiative in Delhi.
➨The initiative is aimed at generating awareness around the government's skill development mission, opportunities and support system available for youths.

🎯The old Parliament building will now be known as “Samvidhan Sadan”.
➨ Both Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha chairman accepted the proposal made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
➨The new Parliament building has also been named as "Parliament House of India".

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a series of initiatives aimed at revolutionizing the agricultural sector in India.
➨ These initiatives include the Kisan Rin portal, the Ghar Ghar KCC campaign, and the Weather Information Network Data Systems (WINDS) manual.

🎯Indian Naval Ships Ranvijay and Kavaratti and submarine INS Sindhukesari participated in the 30th edition of the Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX), an annual bilateral Naval exercise between the Indian Navy and Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), which is being conducted since 1994.

Editorial Part🎯

30 September Saturday
Jal Itihas💧

This module provides information about 75 selected Indian water heritage sites older than 100 years. Photographs and videos along with other salient features for these water heritage sites has also been provided. This data has been made available by National Water Mission.

Interesting Facts about Earth.🌏

I) The Presence of inner Nickel-Iron core, Earth has a strong magnetic field. This magnetic field is also responsible for preventing heavy✨ solar winds from blowing on the Earth and causing damage to various life forms💨

II) The thickest of all the four layers of the earth is the mantle, which is 2900 kilometers thick. This layer has a consistency of caramel and is composed of a hot mixture of molten rock.🌍

III) The thinnest of all the layers is the crust, which is on an average 30 kilometers deep on an average on the ground.

IV) Earth also has the largest natural satellite as compared to any other planet considering the size of Earth and the moon (the Moon is approximately 27% the size of the Earth.🌙

V) Airplanes fly at a maximum altitude of 60,000 feet which is almost 18.288 km✈️

VI) Light from the Sun reaches the Earth in approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds.🌞

VII) Wettest place :- Mawsynram in Meghalaya, India is the wettest place on land on Earth. It receives an average annual rainfall of 11,871 mm. This place is just 10 miles away from the town of Cherrapunji (another record holder for the wettest month and year ever.)🇮🇳

VIII) Driest place :- Dry Valleys in Antarctica is the driest place on Earth. This place has seen no rainfall for the past 2 million years. This is a 4800 square kilometer region with no ice, snow or water.🗻

IX) Flattest country: the Maldives is the flattest country in the world with an average highest above sea level of 2.4m🇲🇻

X) The deepest known place :- “Challenger deep” – near a trench called the “Mariana Trench” beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean to the southeast of Japan — is the deepest known place on Earth. This trench is nearly seven miles deep.🌊

🌳🌳Mangrove is a tropical tree, essentially adapted to thrive near the coastline, in brackish water and loose and wet soil. These trees cannot survive in colder temperatures.
● A characteristic feature of mangroves is their tangled prop roots. These roots allow the trees to survive the daily tides and also capture sediments while slowing waterflow.
● Mangroves serve a multitude of purposes in their ecosystem, including coastal protection, filtration of water, and disaster risk reduction.
● Mangrove forests stabilize coastlines, reduce erosion, encourage biodiversity growth, and shield coastal communities from sea-level rise, and natural disasters like hurricanes and cyclones.

Carbon sinks:
● Mangroves are one of the most carbon-rich forests of the tropics, storing carbon from the atmosphere at up to four times the rate of terrestrial forests. This makes mangrove forests an indispensable tool in achieving the goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
● Part of this carbon is stored in living biomass, while part of it is sequestered in the soil. Dead mangroves decompose very slowly due to waterlogging in the soil, making the accumulation of carbon in the soil last hundreds of years. The waterlogged soil is also a reason why mangroves hold more carbon than other forests, such as temperate or boreal ones.

Ecosystems:
● Mangroves usually do not exist in isolation but support interconnected terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats.
● The roots of mangrove trees capture sediments, resulting in the formation of new, fertile lands. This process also ensures that offshore water is clearer, allowing marine life to thrive.


Disaster risk reduction:
● Not only do mangroves stabilise coastlines by holding sediments together but they also act as safety nets against storms and surges.
● In tropical coastal areas, mangroves are the first line of defence against natural disasters
like cyclones and hurricanes that originate in seas and oceans and impact land.
● Mangrove trees act as a buffer zone and arrest winds, slowing them down and hence minimising impact on land.
● The 2022 State of World’s Mangroves Report, prepared by the Global Mangrove Alliance, finds that mangroves prevent more than $65 billion in property damages and reduce flood risk to some 15 million people every year.

Socio-economic importance of mangroves:
● They also support a rich food web, with molluscs and algae-filled substrate acting as a breeding ground for small fish, mud crabs and shrimps, thus providing a livelihood to local artisanal fishers.
● Mangroves are also important resources for timber and fuelwood, when collected sustainably.

Current state of the mangroves
● South Asia houses some of the most extensive areas of mangroves globally, while Indonesia
hosts one-fifth of the overall amount.
● India holds around 3 percent of South Asia’s mangrove population. West Bengal has the highest percentage of mangrove cover in India. It is followed by Gujarat and Andaman, and Nicobar islands. Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Goa and Kerala too have mangrove cover.

Threat to mangroves
● Agriculture, overfishing, and rapid urbanisation are some of the glaring threats to mangrove forests around the world.
● Indirect threats to mangroves include change in sedimentation rates and patterns, rising sea levels, and increase in pollutants, and these are often exacerbated by human actions.

Cyber ethics📠

1. Obeying the law: Users of the internet must abide by the law of the land and not use internet for illegal activities such as hacking, defrauding, stalking, harassing etc.

2. Intellectual property rights: Content created online is often protected by copyrights which must be respected by other users. This is essential for innovation and authenticity on the web.

3. Privacy: Despite availability of modern technology like mass surveillance, spyware etc. users must respect each other’s privacy and dignity. Informed consent must be taken from users before their private information is obtained by online platforms.

4. Free and open internet: Governments, service providers and other stakeholders must ensure that internet remains open for all and free from any barriers. The recent demands for net neutrality aim to uphold this ethic of cyberspace.

5. Respect: Users are expected to show basic respect and courtesy in their behaviour online so as to provide a healthy and stable environment to all. Recent problems of trolling, abusing, shaming etc. highlight the importance of this ethic.

6. Public decency: Since internet is a public platform, users must ensure that their content is decent and appropriate for all audience including children. Offensive content like pornography, brutality must be avoided.

7. Honesty: In the age of social media, users apart from platforms can also create content of their own. Both user as well as platforms must create and share only true, complete and accurate information. Violation of this norm leads to the menace of fake news, rumour mongering etc. which ultimately goes on to undermine people’s faith in internet.

Administrative ethics🏢

1. Transparency: Administration must not only adhere to transparency laws but must also voluntarily disclose all information to the public so that corruption and mala fide decisions are prevented and public knows the true picture of the government. Woodrow Wilson rightly said ‘corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places.’

2. Integrity: Integrity is often called the value of values. It demands that administrators must strongly and uncompromisingly uphold the values of civil service. It is said that if integrity is there, nothing else matters…if integrity is not there, nothing else matters.
Civil servants like Ashok Khemka, Sanjiv Chaturvedi are shining examples of integrity and inspire present and future civil servants.

3. Objectivity: Civil servants must take decisions in an objective manner based only on facts and logic without the undue influence of bias or prejudice. For example, a civil servant’s advice to politicians should not be based on personal beliefs but facts of the matter.

4. Compassion: In an underdeveloped country with widespread poverty and hunger, civil servants must show compassion towards the weaker sections in order to fulfil their needs. For instance, if a needy beneficiary under a scheme does not have valid documents, an officer should not simply reject the application but make efforts to get him necessary documents and provide him due benefits.

5. Dedication to public service: Governance in a democracy involves many challenges and pressures and hence, requires utmost dedication on the part of civil servants so that they can strive to serve the people despite the challenges. Such dedication ensures that civil servants remain motivated throughout their long careers. Recent UN Award for community policing to Bastar police shows the dedication of the police department of the district.

6. Impartiality: Civil servants should treat everyone equally regardless of their religion, class, caste etc. This is essential for rule of law and maintains people’s faith in democracy. Article 14 and 15 of the Indian Constitution establish the right to equality for all citizens of India.

1. His name wasn’t Mahatma
Gandhi’s first name was Mohandas. ‘Mahatma’ is a title denoting love and respect, which roughly translates as ‘great soul’. It’s thought that a friend of his, Pranjivan Mehta, was the first to refer to Gandhi as ‘Mahatma’ in writing, in a letter from 1909. That was decades before he became a figure of global renown.

2. He got married at thirteen
In 1883, thirteen-year-old Gandhi tied the knot with fourteen-year-old Kasturbai Kapadia in an arranged marriage. ‘As we didn't know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives,’ Gandhi later recalled. He fathered his first child aged just sixteen, but the baby only lived a few days. The couple went on to have four more children who survived to adulthood.

3. He was in London at the time of Jack the Ripper
Gandhi is so bound up with the titanic events of the 20th century that it might be peculiar to imagine him as a dapper gentleman of Victorian society. But that’s exactly what he became while studying law in London. Arriving in September 1888 – right in the midst of the Jack the Ripper killings – he was keen to mingle and make friends in the city. As well as taking dancing lessons, he joined the Vegetarian Society and served on the executive committee with a certain Arnold Hills – the man who went on to found the football club that became West Ham United.

4. He suffered from stage fright
Gandhi was incredibly meek and shy by nature. During one debate at the London Vegetarian Society, he felt such stage fright that somebody else had to read out his arguments on his behalf. It was a serious stumbling block for his burgeoning career as a barrister. The first time he tried to cross-examine a witness, he got so nervous that he flopped back into his chair and simply gave up the case, returning his fee to his (presumably disgruntled) client.

5. He first became a civil rights activist in South Africa
Gandhi is synonymous with the struggle for Indian independence, but he first became a civil rights crusader in South Africa. Arriving in 1893 to work as a law clerk at an Indian firm, he experienced such everyday racism – including being ejected from a first-class train carriage despite having a ticket – that he decided to fight what he called ‘the deep disease of colour prejudice’. He founded an organisation to tackle discrimination and was once attacked and nearly killed by a white mob in Durban.

6. He helped the British Empire
Despite his disaffection with racist colonialist attitudes, the young Gandhi also felt patriotic towards the British Empire. During the Boer War of 1899-1902, he took it upon himself to form the Natal Indian Ambulance Corps, gathering hundreds of volunteers to whisk wounded British troops from the front lines to field hospitals.

‘I felt that, if I demanded rights as a British citizen, it was also my duty, as such, to participate in the defence of the British Empire,’ Gandhi later said.

7. He carefully cultivated his image
Wearing his now-iconic white loin cloth and shawl wasn’t simply a matter of Indian tradition for Gandhi. It was a political move, which he very deliberately adopted on 22nd September 1921. It was part of his push to encourage Indians to boycott foreign-made clothes and embrace homegrown, hand-spun fabric known as khadi. The move utterly reinvented Gandhi’s image for all time.

8. He was pals with Tolstoy
Gandhi had an important friendship with the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace. Tolstoy’s writings about non-violent resistance were such a huge influence on Gandhi that, in 1909, he wrote to Tolstoy seeking guidance and advice. This led to the two men sending letters back and forth, philosophising about the principles of non-violence. It’s generally thought that Tolstoy’s final letter to Gandhi was the very last thing he ever wrote.

9. Gandhi came back to London (and stayed in the East End)
In 1931, Gandhi returned to London for three months of talks with UK politicians about constitutional reforms in India. Although the government invited him to stay in a plush West End hotel, Gandhi instead opted to bed down in a community centre in working-class Bromley-by-Bow. He enjoyed long walks in the East End, mingled with locals, hosted famous well-wishers including Charlie Chaplin, and according to one onlooker ‘always enjoyed the swift repartee of Cockney wit’.

10. He never won the Nobel Peace Prize
Gandhi was first shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, but the Nobel committee’s advisor was sceptical, saying that even though Gandhi was non-violent, his Indian nationalist beliefs spurred violence among followers. Gandhi was shortlisted a second time in 1947, but again he was rejected for his nationalism. He was killed in 1948, and – significantly – no Nobel Peace Prize was awarded that year.

11. Gandhi was shot by a fellow Hindu
Gandhi was assassinated as his country grappled with the bloody aftermath of Partition (when India and Pakistan formed separate nations). But it was a fellow Hindu, rather than a Muslim, who murdered the father of the nation. Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, was incensed that Gandhi was ‘too soft’ on Pakistan, and – following several failed attempts – fatally shot Gandhi on 30th January 1948.

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About Five Eyes Alliance:
Five Eyes Alliance: The Five Eyes Alliance refers to an intelligence-sharing partnership among five countries: the United States🇺🇸, the United Kingdom🇬🇧, Australia, Canada🇨🇦, and New Zealand🇳🇿.
These nations collaborate closely on intelligence matters, sharing information to protect their shared national interests.
Origins of the Alliance: The alliance traces its origins back to World War II when the UK and the US decided to share intelligence after successfully breaking German and Japanese codes.
It began as the Britain-USA (BRUSA) agreement, later evolving into the UK-USA (UKUSA) agreement, with Canada joining in 1949 and New Zealand and Australia in 1956.