👉🔺 United Nations Peacekeeping

- United Nations Peacekeeping is a joint effort between the Department of Peace Operations and the Department of Operational Support.

- Every peacekeeping mission is authorized by the Security Council.

- The financial resources of UN Peacekeeping operations are the collective responsibility of UN
Member States. According to UN Charter every Member State is legally obligated to pay their respective share for peacekeeping.

Composition:

- UN peacekeepers (often referred to as Blue Berets or Blue Helmets because of their light blue
berets or helmets) can include soldiers, police officers, and civilian personnel.

- Peacekeeping forces are contributed by member states on a voluntary basis. Civilian staff of peace operations are international civil servants, recruited and deployed by the UN Secretariat.

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👉🔺 Swamitva Yojana

- On Panchayati Raj Diwas, The Prime Minister of India launched ‘Swamitva Yojana’ or Ownership Scheme to map residential land ownership in the rural sector using
modern technology like the use of drones.

- The scheme aims to revolutionise property record maintenance in India.

- The residential land in villages will be measured using drones to create a non-disputable record.

- Property card for every property in the village will be prepared by states using accurate measurements delivered by drone-mapping. These cards will be given to property owners and will be recognised by the land revenue records department.

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👉🔺 Crops Covered under MSP

- Government announces minimum support prices (MSPs) for 22 mandated crops and fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane.

- In addition, the MSPs of toria and de-husked coconut are fixed on the basis of the MSPs of rapeseed/mustard and copra, respectively.

- The list of crops are as follows.

1) Cereals (7) - paddy, wheat, barley, jowar, bajra, maize and ragi

2) Pulses (5) - gram, arhar/tur, moong, urad and lentil

3) Oilseeds (8) - groundnut, rapeseed/mustard, toria, soya bean, sunflower seed, sesame, safflower seed and nigerseed

4) Raw cotton

5) Raw jute

6) Copra

7) De-husked coconut

8) Sugarcane (Fair and remunerative price)

9) Virginia flu cured (VFC) tobacco

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👉🔺 Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund 

- Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its nod to set up a Rs.15,000 crore Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund.

- The fund had been proposed as part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat.

- Eligible beneficiaries under the scheme include the following with a minimum 10% margin money contribution by them,

1) Farmer producer organisations,

2) MSMEs,

3) Section 8 companies,

4) Private companies and

5) Individual entrepreneurs.

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👉🔺 NSIL

- New Space India Limited (NSIL) is a Central Public Sector Enterprise of Government of India and established under the administrative control of Department of Space (DOS), India.

- It is Head Quartered in Bangalore.

- The main objective is to scale up industry participation in Indian space programs.

- NSIL will endeavor to re-orient space activities from a ‘supply driven’ model to a ‘demand driven’ model, thereby ensuring optimum utilization of our space assets.

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👉🔺 Rock of Hunza

- The Sacred Rock of Hunza is carved rock as well as a cultural heritage site in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

- History ➔ The carvings on the rock dates back to the 1st Millennium AD.

- The rock is on the top of a hill which lies east to the Hunza River.

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👉🔺 Inflation

- Inflation refers to the rise in the prices of most goods and services of daily or common useand it measures the average price change in a basket of commodities and services over time.

- Inflation is indicative of the decrease in the purchasing power of a unit of a country’s currency. This could ultimately lead to a deceleration in economic growth.

- However, a moderate level of inflation is required in the economy to ensure that production is promoted.

- In India, the NSO under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation measures inflation.

- In India, inflation is primarily measured by two main indices - WPI (Wholesale Price Index) and CPI (Consumer Price Index) which measure wholesale and retail-level price changes, respectively.

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👉🔺 Tangams

- An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh.

- It is a little-known community within the larger Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh which resides in the hamlet of Kugging in Upper Siang district’s Paindem circle.

- Tangam is an oral language that belongs to the Tani group, under the greater Tibeto-Burman language family.

- It has been marked 'critically endangered' by the UNESCO World Atlas of Endangered Languages (2009).

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👉🔺 Daporijo Bridge

- The Border Roads Organization (BRO) constructed the Daporijo bridge over Subansiri river in Arunachal Pradesh in a record span of just 27 days.

- Significance ➔ The bridge is of utmost importance in strategic connectivity as it links roads leading up to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China.

- Subansiri River (gold river), originates in the Tibet Plateau and enters India through Miri hills in Arunachal Pradesh.

- It is the largest tributary of Brahmaputra River.

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👉🔺 Sohrai Khovar

- The Sohrai Khovar painting is a traditional and ritualistic mural art being practised by local tribal women during local harvest and marriage seasons using local, naturally available soils of different colours in the area of Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand.

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👉🔺 Spike-LR

- 4th generation Anti-Tank Missiles developed and manufactured by the Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, Israel.

- It is a portable anti-armour weapon system with a range of up to 4 km, which can be operated in fire-and-forget mode and in the fire, observe and update mode using the fibre-optic data link.

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👉🔺 PRAGYATA

- Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has released guidelines on digital education titled 'PRAGYATA'.

- The guidelines have been prepared by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

- These are only advisory in nature and state government's can formulate their own rules, based on local needs.

- The guidelines include eight steps of online/digital learning i.e. Plan- Review- Arrange- Guide- Yak (talk)- Assign- Track- Appreciate.

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👉🔺 National Thermal Power Corporation Limited

- NTPC Ltd. is a central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Power.

- It is India’s largest energy conglomerate with roots planted way back in 1975 to accelerate power development in India.

- To provide reliable power and related solutions in an economical, efficient and environment-friendly manner, driven by innovation and agility.

- It became a Maharatna company in May 2010.

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👉🔺 Swanidhi Scheme

- The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched a micro-credit facility for street vendors under the Swanidhi Scheme.

- It is a special micro-credit facility scheme to enable more than 50 lakh urban/peri-urban & rural street vendors to restart their livelihoods affected due to the lockdown.

- The loans are meant to help kick-start activity for vendors who have been left without any income since the lockdown was implemented on March 25.

- Duration of the scheme will be applicable till March 2022.

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👉🔺 Pardoning Power of President and Governor

- Article 72 and Article 161 empowers the President and the Governors respectively, the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence.

- The pardoning power of the President extends to the:

1) Punishment or sentence for an offence against a Union Law,

2) Punishment or sentence is by a court-martial (military court), and

3) Punishment is a Death sentence.

- The pardoning power of the Governor extends to the sentence of any person convicted of any offence against any State law.

- The Governor cannot pardon against the death sentence and sentence of a Court Martial.

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