#current #PT2021
AgriStack
- It is a collection of digital databases and technology-based interventions in agriculture.
- It is proposed by the Central Government focusing on India’s farmers and the agricultural sector.
Key features:
1. Under the programme, each farmer will have a unique digital identification (farmers’ ID) that contains personal details, information about the land they farm, as well as production and financial details.
2. Each ID will be linked to the individual's digital national ID Aadhaar.
3. database creation from particularly three schemes: PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi), Soil Health Card and PM Fasal Bima Yojna (crop insurance scheme).
4.This data will be compared with land records data
5. If there’s a mismatch, it will be shared with the local authorities for validation and field survey.
6.The field data received from local authorities will be updated with the compiled data to create clean, standardised, verified data for AgriStack.
AgriStack
- It is a collection of digital databases and technology-based interventions in agriculture.
- It is proposed by the Central Government focusing on India’s farmers and the agricultural sector.
Key features:
1. Under the programme, each farmer will have a unique digital identification (farmers’ ID) that contains personal details, information about the land they farm, as well as production and financial details.
2. Each ID will be linked to the individual's digital national ID Aadhaar.
3. database creation from particularly three schemes: PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi), Soil Health Card and PM Fasal Bima Yojna (crop insurance scheme).
4.This data will be compared with land records data
5. If there’s a mismatch, it will be shared with the local authorities for validation and field survey.
6.The field data received from local authorities will be updated with the compiled data to create clean, standardised, verified data for AgriStack.
#current #PT2021
World’s Fifth Ocean
News: The National Geographic magazine has recognised the ‘Southern Ocean’ as the world’s fifth ocean.
- The magazine has followed the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) on marine names.
Key points:
1 .The Southern Ocean is the only ocean to touch three other oceans and to completely embrace a continent rather than being embraced by them.
2. Its northern limit is a latitude of 60 degrees south.
3. It is also defined by its Antarctic Circumpolar 2Current that was formed 34 million years ago.
4. The current flows from west to east around Antarctica.
World’s Fifth Ocean
News: The National Geographic magazine has recognised the ‘Southern Ocean’ as the world’s fifth ocean.
- The magazine has followed the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) on marine names.
Key points:
1 .The Southern Ocean is the only ocean to touch three other oceans and to completely embrace a continent rather than being embraced by them.
2. Its northern limit is a latitude of 60 degrees south.
3. It is also defined by its Antarctic Circumpolar 2Current that was formed 34 million years ago.
4. The current flows from west to east around Antarctica.
#current #PT2021
Electoral Bearer Bond Scheme
News:The State Bank of India (SBI) has been authorised to issue and encash Electoral Bonds through its 29 Authorized Branches .
- Aross the country w.e.f. July 01, 2021 to July 10, 2021.
Key points:
Donor: Bonds may be purchased by a person, who is a citizen of India or incorporated or established in India.
The donor donates these bonds to th political party.
Receiver - Electoral Bonds shall be received only by the Political Parties registered under Section 29A of the Representation of People Act, 1951.
Encash - The Electoral Bonds shall be encashed by an eligible Political Party only through a Bank account with the Authorized Bank. E.g.: SBI.
Validity - Electoral Bond shall be valid for 15 calendar days from the date of issue and no payment shall be made to any payee Political Party if the Electoral Bond is deposited after expiry of the validity period.
Electoral Bearer Bond Scheme
News:The State Bank of India (SBI) has been authorised to issue and encash Electoral Bonds through its 29 Authorized Branches .
- Aross the country w.e.f. July 01, 2021 to July 10, 2021.
Key points:
Donor: Bonds may be purchased by a person, who is a citizen of India or incorporated or established in India.
The donor donates these bonds to th political party.
Receiver - Electoral Bonds shall be received only by the Political Parties registered under Section 29A of the Representation of People Act, 1951.
Encash - The Electoral Bonds shall be encashed by an eligible Political Party only through a Bank account with the Authorized Bank. E.g.: SBI.
Validity - Electoral Bond shall be valid for 15 calendar days from the date of issue and no payment shall be made to any payee Political Party if the Electoral Bond is deposited after expiry of the validity period.
#current #PT2021
Omega Block
News:A dangerous 'Omega block' is trapping scorching hot air over the US and Canada.
Heat Dome - Even though the average summer temperatures are steadily increasing every year due to global warming, a weather anomaly called ‘Heat dome’
- It is partly to blame for the Pacific Northwest heat.
Key features:
- As the ground warms, it loses moisture, which makes it easier to heat even more.
- As that trapped heat continues to warm, the system acts like a lid on a pot - earning the name “heat dome.”
- Conflating high- pressure and low-pressure systems have trapped the region in a heat dome locked in place by undulations in the jet stream.
- The the jet stream has trapped a ridge of high pressure (heat dome) over the Pacific Northwest, creating a block in the atmosphere that prevents the weather system from moving on.
- Instead, the hot air in the high-pressure system pushes down over the region, creating a suffocating blanket of heat.
- As the wind patterns swirl around the heat block in the shape of the Greek letter Omega, the systems like these got the name “Omega blocks”.
Omega Block
News:A dangerous 'Omega block' is trapping scorching hot air over the US and Canada.
Heat Dome - Even though the average summer temperatures are steadily increasing every year due to global warming, a weather anomaly called ‘Heat dome’
- It is partly to blame for the Pacific Northwest heat.
Key features:
- As the ground warms, it loses moisture, which makes it easier to heat even more.
- As that trapped heat continues to warm, the system acts like a lid on a pot - earning the name “heat dome.”
- Conflating high- pressure and low-pressure systems have trapped the region in a heat dome locked in place by undulations in the jet stream.
- The the jet stream has trapped a ridge of high pressure (heat dome) over the Pacific Northwest, creating a block in the atmosphere that prevents the weather system from moving on.
- Instead, the hot air in the high-pressure system pushes down over the region, creating a suffocating blanket of heat.
- As the wind patterns swirl around the heat block in the shape of the Greek letter Omega, the systems like these got the name “Omega blocks”.
#current #PT2021
Agni P
News: Tested by Defence Research and Development.
Location: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of Odisha, Balasore.
Key features:
1. It is the first of the new generation advanced variant of Agni class of missiles.
2. It has a range capability between 1,000-2,000 kms
3. It weighs 50% less than Agni 3 and has new guidance and a new generation of propulsion.
4. it is a canisterised missile
5. It can be launched from rail and road and stored for a longer period and transported all across the country as per operational requirements.
6. This missile can be used to target enemy armadas in the Indo-Pacific.
Agni P
News: Tested by Defence Research and Development.
Location: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of Odisha, Balasore.
Key features:
1. It is the first of the new generation advanced variant of Agni class of missiles.
2. It has a range capability between 1,000-2,000 kms
3. It weighs 50% less than Agni 3 and has new guidance and a new generation of propulsion.
4. it is a canisterised missile
5. It can be launched from rail and road and stored for a longer period and transported all across the country as per operational requirements.
6. This missile can be used to target enemy armadas in the Indo-Pacific.
#current #PT2021
Gaganyaan
- ISRO is planning to launch the first uncrewed mission in December, as part of the human spaceflight programme Gaganyaan.
Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address on August 15, 2018.
Objective: to demonstrate the capability to send humans to low earth orbit on board an Indian launch vehicle and bring them back to earth safely.
- Currently 4 Indian astronaut-candidates have already undergone generic space flight training in Russia as part of this programme
Gaganyaan
- ISRO is planning to launch the first uncrewed mission in December, as part of the human spaceflight programme Gaganyaan.
Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address on August 15, 2018.
Objective: to demonstrate the capability to send humans to low earth orbit on board an Indian launch vehicle and bring them back to earth safely.
- Currently 4 Indian astronaut-candidates have already undergone generic space flight training in Russia as part of this programme
#current #current
NATRAX
News: Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises inaugurated NATRAX- the High Speed Track in Pithampur, Indore (Madhya Pradesh).
Key features:
1. It is one of the state-of-the-art automotive testing and certification centre
2. Comes under National Automotive Testing and Research and development (R&D) Infrastructure Project (NATRIP)
3. It is a flagship project of the Ministry of Heavy Industries.
4. It aims to create a state of the art testing, validation and R&D infrastructure in the country.
5 . It is a world class 11.3 km High Speed Track. The track is the longest in Asia and the fifth-largest in the world.
6. It is developed in an area of 1000 acres of land.
7 . Ithas multiple test capabilities like measurements of maximum speed, acceleration.
Significance:
1. measuring the maximum speed capability of high-end cars like BMW, Mercedes etc.
2. Foreign OEMs will be looking at NATRAX High Speed Track for the development of prototype cars for Indian conditions
3. It can cater to the widest category of vehicles
NATRAX
News: Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises inaugurated NATRAX- the High Speed Track in Pithampur, Indore (Madhya Pradesh).
Key features:
1. It is one of the state-of-the-art automotive testing and certification centre
2. Comes under National Automotive Testing and Research and development (R&D) Infrastructure Project (NATRIP)
3. It is a flagship project of the Ministry of Heavy Industries.
4. It aims to create a state of the art testing, validation and R&D infrastructure in the country.
5 . It is a world class 11.3 km High Speed Track. The track is the longest in Asia and the fifth-largest in the world.
6. It is developed in an area of 1000 acres of land.
7 . Ithas multiple test capabilities like measurements of maximum speed, acceleration.
Significance:
1. measuring the maximum speed capability of high-end cars like BMW, Mercedes etc.
2. Foreign OEMs will be looking at NATRAX High Speed Track for the development of prototype cars for Indian conditions
3. It can cater to the widest category of vehicles
#current #PT2021
Pyrostria laljii
- News: Pyrostria laljii has been discovered from the Andaman Islands.
Key features:
1. It is a 15-meter-tall tree that belongs to the genus of the coffee family.
2. The new species is also the first record of the genus Pyrostria in India.
3.The tree is distinguished by a long stem with a whitish coating on the trunk, and oblong-obovate leaves with a cuneate base.
4. It was first reported from South Andaman’s Wandoor forest.
5. Theother places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where the tree is found are:
- Tirur forest near the Jarawa Rerserve Forest and
- Chidia Tapu (Munda Pahar) Forest- 6.pyrostria laljii has been listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.
Pyrostria laljii
- News: Pyrostria laljii has been discovered from the Andaman Islands.
Key features:
1. It is a 15-meter-tall tree that belongs to the genus of the coffee family.
2. The new species is also the first record of the genus Pyrostria in India.
3.The tree is distinguished by a long stem with a whitish coating on the trunk, and oblong-obovate leaves with a cuneate base.
4. It was first reported from South Andaman’s Wandoor forest.
5. Theother places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where the tree is found are:
- Tirur forest near the Jarawa Rerserve Forest and
- Chidia Tapu (Munda Pahar) Forest- 6.pyrostria laljii has been listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.
#current #PT2021
Dragon Man of China
News:Researchers from China have found an ancient human skull of new human species dubbed the “Dragaon Man” or Homo longi .
Location: in the Songhua River in China’s Harbin city that could belong to an altogether.
Key features:
1. The name “Dragon Man” has been derived from the Long Jiang or Dragon River in China’ Heilongjiang province.
2. The cranium could be over 146,000 years old.
3. Because of the distinctive shape of the skull, it be declared a part of a new species of the genus Homo.
4. The size of the skull, which has a considerable brain capacity, is comparable to that of modern humans and Neanderthals.
Dragon Man of China
News:Researchers from China have found an ancient human skull of new human species dubbed the “Dragaon Man” or Homo longi .
Location: in the Songhua River in China’s Harbin city that could belong to an altogether.
Key features:
1. The name “Dragon Man” has been derived from the Long Jiang or Dragon River in China’ Heilongjiang province.
2. The cranium could be over 146,000 years old.
3. Because of the distinctive shape of the skull, it be declared a part of a new species of the genus Homo.
4. The size of the skull, which has a considerable brain capacity, is comparable to that of modern humans and Neanderthals.
#current #PT2021
Digital India Abhiyan
- Launched in 2015
- It is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MietY).
- Purpose- a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
Key features:
1. It would ensure that Government services are available to citizens electronically.
2. This programme is centred on three key vision areas,
a) Digital Infrastructure as a Core Utility to Every Citizen
b) Governance & Services on Demand
c) Digital Empowerment of Citizens
Scope
1. To prepare India for a knowledge future.
2. On being transformative that is to realize IT (Indian Talent) + IT (Information Technology) = IT (India Tomorrow),
3. Making technology central to enabling change
Note: The programme weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision, so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.
Digital India Abhiyan
- Launched in 2015
- It is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MietY).
- Purpose- a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
Key features:
1. It would ensure that Government services are available to citizens electronically.
2. This programme is centred on three key vision areas,
a) Digital Infrastructure as a Core Utility to Every Citizen
b) Governance & Services on Demand
c) Digital Empowerment of Citizens
Scope
1. To prepare India for a knowledge future.
2. On being transformative that is to realize IT (Indian Talent) + IT (Information Technology) = IT (India Tomorrow),
3. Making technology central to enabling change
Note: The programme weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision, so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.
#current #PT2021
DigiGaon or Digital Village
- It conceptualized as the connected village where the citizen can avail various e-services.
Function: They are change agents that promote rural entrepreneurship, build rural capacities and livelihoods through community participation.
Aim of the program is to turn each village into a self-sustaining unit.
DigiGaon or Digital Village
- It conceptualized as the connected village where the citizen can avail various e-services.
Function: They are change agents that promote rural entrepreneurship, build rural capacities and livelihoods through community participation.
Aim of the program is to turn each village into a self-sustaining unit.
#current #PT2021
Project BOLD
- The project “Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought” (BOLD)
- It is an initiative of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) -
- Aim :It seeks to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones.
Key features:
1. It has been launched as part of KVIC’s “Khadi Bamboo Festival” to celebrate 75 years of independence “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”.
2. It was launched from the tribal village NichlaMandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
3. The saplings of special bamboo species – Bambusa Tulda and Bambusa Polymorpha specially brought from Assam – have been planted over 16 acres of vacant arid Gram Panchayat land.
4. KVIC is set to replicate the Project at Village Dholera in Ahmedabad district in Gujarat and Leh-Ladakh region by August 2021.
Significance -
1. It will reduce desertification
2. It provide livelihood and multi-disciplinary rural industry support.
3. It will be havens of sustainable development and food security.
Project BOLD
- The project “Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought” (BOLD)
- It is an initiative of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) -
- Aim :It seeks to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones.
Key features:
1. It has been launched as part of KVIC’s “Khadi Bamboo Festival” to celebrate 75 years of independence “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”.
2. It was launched from the tribal village NichlaMandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
3. The saplings of special bamboo species – Bambusa Tulda and Bambusa Polymorpha specially brought from Assam – have been planted over 16 acres of vacant arid Gram Panchayat land.
4. KVIC is set to replicate the Project at Village Dholera in Ahmedabad district in Gujarat and Leh-Ladakh region by August 2021.
Significance -
1. It will reduce desertification
2. It provide livelihood and multi-disciplinary rural industry support.
3. It will be havens of sustainable development and food security.
#current #PT2021
Harit Dhara
- It is an anti-methanogenic feed supplement
- Developed by an Indian Council of Agric0ultural Research (ICAR) institute & National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP), Bengaluru.
Key features:
1. When given to bovines and sheep, it cuts down their methane emissions by 17-20%,
2.Also results in higher milk production and body weight gain.
3. Concern: average lactating cow or buffalo in India emits around 200 litres of methane per day, while it is 85-95 litres for young growin heifers and 20-25 litres for adults.
4. Harit Dhara acts by decreasing the population of protozoa microbes in the rumen,
5. It is responsible for hydrogen production and making it available to the archaea for reduction of CO2 to methane.
6. It has been prepared using condensed and hydrolysable tannin-rich plant-based sources abundantly available in the country.
Harit Dhara
- It is an anti-methanogenic feed supplement
- Developed by an Indian Council of Agric0ultural Research (ICAR) institute & National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP), Bengaluru.
Key features:
1. When given to bovines and sheep, it cuts down their methane emissions by 17-20%,
2.Also results in higher milk production and body weight gain.
3. Concern: average lactating cow or buffalo in India emits around 200 litres of methane per day, while it is 85-95 litres for young growin heifers and 20-25 litres for adults.
4. Harit Dhara acts by decreasing the population of protozoa microbes in the rumen,
5. It is responsible for hydrogen production and making it available to the archaea for reduction of CO2 to methane.
6. It has been prepared using condensed and hydrolysable tannin-rich plant-based sources abundantly available in the country.
#current #PT2021
Red Flag Campaign
- red flag campaign or #benderamerah works in the same way as the white flag movement.
- It was started by the Malaysian Animal Association as many families were abandoning pets they couldn’t afford to feed.
Black Flag Movement
- There is the black flag movement in order to express dissatisfaction of the public with the Malaysian government against the government’s management of the pandemic.
- This movement is demanding that Prime Minister resign.
Red Flag Campaign
- red flag campaign or #benderamerah works in the same way as the white flag movement.
- It was started by the Malaysian Animal Association as many families were abandoning pets they couldn’t afford to feed.
Black Flag Movement
- There is the black flag movement in order to express dissatisfaction of the public with the Malaysian government against the government’s management of the pandemic.
- This movement is demanding that Prime Minister resign.
#current #PT2021
White Flag Campaign
News: In Malaysia, some residents of low-income families have started waving white flags as part of the “White Flag (benderaputi) Campaign”.
Key features:
- They are doing this to convey distress about the financial problems they have had to deal with amid the lockdowns due to Covid-19.
- As part of the movement, families that are facing hunger or need any other kind of assistance are encouraged to wave a white flag or put a piece of white cloth outside their homes to signal that they need help.
- The idea is that by spotting the white flag, neighbours and good samaritans can reach them.
White Flag Campaign
News: In Malaysia, some residents of low-income families have started waving white flags as part of the “White Flag (benderaputi) Campaign”.
Key features:
- They are doing this to convey distress about the financial problems they have had to deal with amid the lockdowns due to Covid-19.
- As part of the movement, families that are facing hunger or need any other kind of assistance are encouraged to wave a white flag or put a piece of white cloth outside their homes to signal that they need help.
- The idea is that by spotting the white flag, neighbours and good samaritans can reach them.
#PT2021 #SnT_Currents
GAVI
- Created in 2000,
- Gavi is an international organisation – a global Vaccine Alliance, bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries.
- GAVI has observer status at the World Health Assembly.
- Gavi brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.
GAVI
- Created in 2000,
- Gavi is an international organisation – a global Vaccine Alliance, bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries.
- GAVI has observer status at the World Health Assembly.
- Gavi brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.
#PT2021 #environment_current
The Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary
- It is a wildlife sanctuary located in the state of Odisha.
- The sanctuary is home to a herd of Blackbuck and Spotted Deer. Olive ridley sea turtles nest on the beaches.
The Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary
- It is a wildlife sanctuary located in the state of Odisha.
- The sanctuary is home to a herd of Blackbuck and Spotted Deer. Olive ridley sea turtles nest on the beaches.
#PT2021 #Polity_Current
Inland Vessels Bill, 2021
- Introduced recently in Lok Sabha.
Features of the Bill:
- It provides for a unified law for the entire country, instead of separate rules framed by the States.
- The certificate of registration granted under the proposed law will be deemed to be valid in all States and Union Territories, and there will be no need to seek separate permissions from the States.
- The Bill provides for a central data base for recording the details of vessel, vessel registration, crew on an electronic portal.
- It requires all mechanically propelled vessels to be mandatorily registered.
- All non-mechanically propelled vessels will also have to be enrolled at district, taluk or panchayat or village level.
Inland Vessels Bill, 2021
- Introduced recently in Lok Sabha.
Features of the Bill:
- It provides for a unified law for the entire country, instead of separate rules framed by the States.
- The certificate of registration granted under the proposed law will be deemed to be valid in all States and Union Territories, and there will be no need to seek separate permissions from the States.
- The Bill provides for a central data base for recording the details of vessel, vessel registration, crew on an electronic portal.
- It requires all mechanically propelled vessels to be mandatorily registered.
- All non-mechanically propelled vessels will also have to be enrolled at district, taluk or panchayat or village level.
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