🔆NAMO Drone Didi Initiative
✅Namo Drone Didi' aims to provide drones to 15,000 women Self Help Groups (SHGs) during the period 2024-25 to 2025-2026 for providing rental services to farmers for agriculture purposes.
✅To Modernise Agriculture Practices
✅The initiative aims to supply drones to 15,000 women Self Help Groups (SHGs) to rent to farmers for agriculture purposes.
✅It is an excellent example of harnessing technological innovation to empower rural women.
✅The NAMO Drone Didi initiative positions rural women at the forefront of the rural economy by integrating cutting-edge drone technology into agriculture.
✅Also, it addresses the need to modernise agricultural practices and boost productivity.
✅To Make Women as Pioneers of Agricultural Revolution
By placing drone technology in the hands of women pilots from SHGs, the initiative seeks to make them pivotal in spearheading a new agricultural revolution, effectively utilising technology for rural empowerment.
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✅Namo Drone Didi' aims to provide drones to 15,000 women Self Help Groups (SHGs) during the period 2024-25 to 2025-2026 for providing rental services to farmers for agriculture purposes.
✅To Modernise Agriculture Practices
✅The initiative aims to supply drones to 15,000 women Self Help Groups (SHGs) to rent to farmers for agriculture purposes.
✅It is an excellent example of harnessing technological innovation to empower rural women.
✅The NAMO Drone Didi initiative positions rural women at the forefront of the rural economy by integrating cutting-edge drone technology into agriculture.
✅Also, it addresses the need to modernise agricultural practices and boost productivity.
✅To Make Women as Pioneers of Agricultural Revolution
By placing drone technology in the hands of women pilots from SHGs, the initiative seeks to make them pivotal in spearheading a new agricultural revolution, effectively utilising technology for rural empowerment.
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🔆World Leprosy Day
✅World Leprosy Day, traditionally celebrated on the last Sunday of January globally, holds a special significance in India as it coincides with Mahatma Gandhi’s Punyatithi on January 30 every year.
✅The theme for World Leprosy Day 2024 is “Beat Leprosy”. This theme encapsulates the dual objectives of the day: to eradicate the stigma associated with leprosy and to promote the dignity of people affected by the disease
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✅Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by a type of bacteria called “Mycobacterium leprae”.
✅The disease affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract and the eyes.
✅Leprosy is known to occur at all ages ranging from early childhood to old age.
✅Leprosy is not inherited, but it is transmitted via droplets, from the nose and mouth, during close and frequent contact with untreated cases.
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✅World Leprosy Day, traditionally celebrated on the last Sunday of January globally, holds a special significance in India as it coincides with Mahatma Gandhi’s Punyatithi on January 30 every year.
✅The theme for World Leprosy Day 2024 is “Beat Leprosy”. This theme encapsulates the dual objectives of the day: to eradicate the stigma associated with leprosy and to promote the dignity of people affected by the disease
📍Back to basic
✅Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by a type of bacteria called “Mycobacterium leprae”.
✅The disease affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract and the eyes.
✅Leprosy is known to occur at all ages ranging from early childhood to old age.
✅Leprosy is not inherited, but it is transmitted via droplets, from the nose and mouth, during close and frequent contact with untreated cases.
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🔆The 7th edition of India-France Joint Military Exercise SHAKTI commenced at the Joint Training Node in Umroi, Meghalaya recently.
📍 Exercise Shakti:
✅It is a biennial training event conducted alternatively in India and France.
✅Aim: To enhance the joint military capability of both sides to undertake multi-domain operations in a Sub-Conventional scenario under Chapter VII of the United Nations Mandate.
✅The joint exercise will focus on operations in the semi-urban and mountainous terrain.
✅Objectives to be achieved from the joint training are a high degree of physical fitness, rehearsing and refining drills for operations at the tactical level, and sharing of best practices.
✅It will enable the two sides to share their best practices in Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for conducting joint operations
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📍 Exercise Shakti:
✅It is a biennial training event conducted alternatively in India and France.
✅Aim: To enhance the joint military capability of both sides to undertake multi-domain operations in a Sub-Conventional scenario under Chapter VII of the United Nations Mandate.
✅The joint exercise will focus on operations in the semi-urban and mountainous terrain.
✅Objectives to be achieved from the joint training are a high degree of physical fitness, rehearsing and refining drills for operations at the tactical level, and sharing of best practices.
✅It will enable the two sides to share their best practices in Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for conducting joint operations
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🔆Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) - Quarterly Bulletin (January-March 2024)
✅Unemployment Rate (UR) in urban areas decreased to 6.7% during January-March 2024 for persons of age 15 years and above
✅Female UR decreased to 8.5% in January-March 2024
✅Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) in urban areas shows an increasing trend from 48.5% to 50.2% during January-March 2023 to January-March 2024 respectively for persons of age 15 years and above
✅Female Labour Force Participation Rate in urban areas rises to 25.6% during January-March 2024, reflecting Overall Increasing Trend in LFPR
✅Increasing Trend in Worker Population Ratio (WPR) for persons of age 15 years and above from 45.2% in January-March 2023 to 46.9% in January-March 2024
✅Female Worker Population Ratio in urban areas rises to 23.4% during January-March 2024, reflecting Overall Increasing Trend in WPR
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✅Unemployment Rate (UR) in urban areas decreased to 6.7% during January-March 2024 for persons of age 15 years and above
✅Female UR decreased to 8.5% in January-March 2024
✅Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) in urban areas shows an increasing trend from 48.5% to 50.2% during January-March 2023 to January-March 2024 respectively for persons of age 15 years and above
✅Female Labour Force Participation Rate in urban areas rises to 25.6% during January-March 2024, reflecting Overall Increasing Trend in LFPR
✅Increasing Trend in Worker Population Ratio (WPR) for persons of age 15 years and above from 45.2% in January-March 2023 to 46.9% in January-March 2024
✅Female Worker Population Ratio in urban areas rises to 23.4% during January-March 2024, reflecting Overall Increasing Trend in WPR
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🔆special Initiatives “NIDHI” & “STAR Program” for the development of indigenous telecom solutions & technologies.
Through STAR” Program C-DOT offers scholarship to PhD student one each from the top 20 NIRF (National Institute Ranking Framework) ranking engineering institute.
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Through STAR” Program C-DOT offers scholarship to PhD student one each from the top 20 NIRF (National Institute Ranking Framework) ranking engineering institute.
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🔆India attends Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for
Prosperity (IPEF) Ministerial meeting in Singapore
✅It was launched on 23 May 2022 at Tokyo, Japan
comprising of 14 countries – Australia, Brunei, Fiji,
India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,
Vietnam and USA.
✅The IPEF seeks to strengthen economic engagement and cooperation among partner
countries with the goal of advancing growth, economic stability and prosperity in the region.
✅The framework is structured around four pillars relating to Trade (Pillar I); Supply Chain Resilience (Pillar
II); Clean Economy (Pillar III); and Fair Economy (Pillar IV). India had joined Pillars II to IV of IPEF while
it has maintained an observer status in Pillar-I.
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Prosperity (IPEF) Ministerial meeting in Singapore
✅It was launched on 23 May 2022 at Tokyo, Japan
comprising of 14 countries – Australia, Brunei, Fiji,
India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,
Vietnam and USA.
✅The IPEF seeks to strengthen economic engagement and cooperation among partner
countries with the goal of advancing growth, economic stability and prosperity in the region.
✅The framework is structured around four pillars relating to Trade (Pillar I); Supply Chain Resilience (Pillar
II); Clean Economy (Pillar III); and Fair Economy (Pillar IV). India had joined Pillars II to IV of IPEF while
it has maintained an observer status in Pillar-I.
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🔆What is Anand Marriage Act
✅It provides statutory recognition of marriage rituals of the Sikh community in India.
✅The emergence of the Anand Marriage Act dates back to 1909 when the British Imperial Legislative Council passed legislation for the recognition of the Sikh wedding ceremony Anand Karaj.
✅The Act aimed to acknowledge and respect the customs and practices of the community.
✅In 2012, the Parliament passed the Anand Marriage (Amendment) Bill, bringing Sikh traditional marriages under the purview of legal recognition.
✅While the central government approved the amendments, it was left for individual states and union territories to frame respective rules for the registration of Anand marriages.
✅Significance of the Act: It provides statutory recognition to marriage rituals of Sikhs, fulfilling their long-standing demand to not have to solemnise their marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act.
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✅It provides statutory recognition of marriage rituals of the Sikh community in India.
✅The emergence of the Anand Marriage Act dates back to 1909 when the British Imperial Legislative Council passed legislation for the recognition of the Sikh wedding ceremony Anand Karaj.
✅The Act aimed to acknowledge and respect the customs and practices of the community.
✅In 2012, the Parliament passed the Anand Marriage (Amendment) Bill, bringing Sikh traditional marriages under the purview of legal recognition.
✅While the central government approved the amendments, it was left for individual states and union territories to frame respective rules for the registration of Anand marriages.
✅Significance of the Act: It provides statutory recognition to marriage rituals of Sikhs, fulfilling their long-standing demand to not have to solemnise their marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act.
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🔆Kharchi Puja:
✅It is one of the main festivals of Tripura.
✅It is performed during the months of July-Auguston the eighth day of the new moon.
✅The meaning of Kharchi can be understood by splitting the word into two Tripuri words “Khar” or Kharta meaning sin and “Chi” or si meaning cleaning. Hence it signifies the cleansing of our sins.
✅It occurs during the month of ‘Ashad’ on the ‘Shukla Ashtami’ day.
✅The fourteen Gods are worshipped by the Royal priest ‘Chantai.
✅It lasts for seven days and it takes place at old Agartala in the Fourteen Gods temple known as the ‘Chaturdasha Devata’ temple premises.
✅The Kharchi Puja deities do not have a full body; they have only heads which are worshipped.
✅On the day of the puja, the fourteen Gods are taken from the temple to the river Saidraby the Chantai members and given bathe with the holy river water, then carried back to the temple.
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✅It is one of the main festivals of Tripura.
✅It is performed during the months of July-Auguston the eighth day of the new moon.
✅The meaning of Kharchi can be understood by splitting the word into two Tripuri words “Khar” or Kharta meaning sin and “Chi” or si meaning cleaning. Hence it signifies the cleansing of our sins.
✅It occurs during the month of ‘Ashad’ on the ‘Shukla Ashtami’ day.
✅The fourteen Gods are worshipped by the Royal priest ‘Chantai.
✅It lasts for seven days and it takes place at old Agartala in the Fourteen Gods temple known as the ‘Chaturdasha Devata’ temple premises.
✅The Kharchi Puja deities do not have a full body; they have only heads which are worshipped.
✅On the day of the puja, the fourteen Gods are taken from the temple to the river Saidraby the Chantai members and given bathe with the holy river water, then carried back to the temple.
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🔆e-FAST India Initiative
✅Recently, NITI Aayog has announced the launch of the ‘NITI GearShift Challenge’ as part of the e-FAST India initiative
✅e-FAST was born from the recognition of the urgent need to decarbonize road-based freight transportation in India to realize its 2070 net zero commitments.
✅It was launched in September 2022.
✅It aims to galvanize the transition towards cleaner and greener freight transportation.
✅The platform facilitates active collaborations at both the national and international levels, supports ideation and development of pilot programs on a scalable basis, and explores technology integration and associated research.
✅It is a platform that facilitates deliberation, debates and collaboration between different stakeholders including the government, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Logistics Service Providers, Shippers, and industry experts to enable the development and adoption of electric technology in the freight sector at scale.
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✅Recently, NITI Aayog has announced the launch of the ‘NITI GearShift Challenge’ as part of the e-FAST India initiative
✅e-FAST was born from the recognition of the urgent need to decarbonize road-based freight transportation in India to realize its 2070 net zero commitments.
✅It was launched in September 2022.
✅It aims to galvanize the transition towards cleaner and greener freight transportation.
✅The platform facilitates active collaborations at both the national and international levels, supports ideation and development of pilot programs on a scalable basis, and explores technology integration and associated research.
✅It is a platform that facilitates deliberation, debates and collaboration between different stakeholders including the government, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Logistics Service Providers, Shippers, and industry experts to enable the development and adoption of electric technology in the freight sector at scale.
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