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Schemes
Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajiv Ranjan Singh launched ‘White Revolution 2.0’ connected Thursday. (Photo: PTI Photo)
— Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah connected 19th September launched ‘White Revolution 2.0’, on with an enactment program connected the enactment and strengthening of 2 lakh caller Multipurpose Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies, dairy and fishery cooperatives,
— The absorption areas of the programme are empowering women farmers, enhancing section beverage production, strengthening dairy infrastructure, and boosting dairy exports.
— Operation Flood, launched successful 1970 led to the White Revolution that transformed the dairy assemblage successful India.
— The bulk of the backing for White Revolution 2.0 volition travel done the National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD) 2.0
- NPS Vatsalya Scheme
— The National Pension System Vatsalya (NPS Vatsalya) strategy which was announced successful the Union Budget 2024-25 was launched by the Finance Minister connected 18th September.
— Vatsalya is simply a caller pension strategy for children successful the property radical of 0 to 18 years. A genitor tin deposit a minimum of 1000 per period and a maximum with nary limit.
— This relationship volition beryllium operated by the parents until the kid turns 18, aft which the relationship volition beryllium successful the sanction of the children. Once the kid turns 18, the relationship tin beryllium seamlessly converted into a regular NPS relationship oregon a non-NPS scheme.
— It is regulated and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory Authority of India (PFRDA).
(Source: PIB)
— The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of schemes of PM-AASHA to supply remunerative prices to farmers and power terms volatility of indispensable commodities for consumers.
— The Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) is an umbrella strategy launched successful 2018 to guarantee remunerative prices to farmers for their produce.
— The components of PM-AASHA volition beryllium the Price Support Scheme (PSS), Price Stabilization Fund (PSF), Price Deficit Payment Scheme (POPS), and Market Intervention Scheme (MIS).
— The Union Cabinet has approved an outlay of Rs 79,156 crore (Central Share: Rs.56,333 crore and State Share: Rs. 22,823 crore) for the PM JUGA, a caller tribal payment strategy that was announced successful the Union Budget successful July.
— The halfway nonsubjective of the strategy is to guarantee saturation sum and implementation of cardinal schemes for improving the socio-economic conditions of tribal communities.
— It volition screen 63,000 villages crossed 545 districts successful 30 states and is aimed to payment 5 crore tribal people.
— The strategy volition dwell of 25 payment components nether six wide categories – household and assemblage infrastructure, connectivity, health, education, electrification, and economical empowerment.
— India has ST colonisation of 10.45 crore arsenic per the 2011 census and determination are much than 705 tribal communities, dispersed crossed the country.
Environment
Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai and CM Pramod Sawant, motorboat ‘Prachin Vriksha Ayurvedic Chikitsa’ inaugural connected Tuesday. (@DrPramodPSawant/X)
— Goa Raj Bhavan has launched a Prachin Vriksha Ayurvedic Chikitsa inaugural to support and sphere past trees crossed the state.
— This was launched to observe the day of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
— Under this initiative, 7 fruit-bearing trees which are implicit a 100 years aged and steadily decaying owed to infections, person been identified for Ayurvedic attraction to reconstruct their wellness and widen their lifespan, Raj Bhavan said successful a statement.
- Typhoon Bebinca
— Typhoon Bebinca deed the Lingang country of Shanghai’s Pudong district.
— It is the strongest typhoon to deed Shanghai successful 75 years.
— The territory head of Manipur’s Tamenglong territory has imposed a prohibition connected hunting, catching, sidesplitting and selling of the migratory vertebrate Amur falcon (Falco Amurensis) which is locally known arsenic Kahuaipuina (Akhuipuina).
— The vertebrate arrives chiefly successful Manipur and Nagaland connected its southbound migration from breeding grounds successful North China, Eastern Mongolia and far-east Russia en-route to its wintering grounds successful South Africa.
— IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern.
— It is covered nether the Convention connected the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and are besides afloat protected by nationalist authorities successful India.
Polity
— The Union Cabinet has cleared the connection to clasp simultaneous elections successful India, arsenic recommended by a high-level committee headed by erstwhile President Ram Nath Kovind.
— The determination to simultaneous elections would beryllium effected successful 2 phases — successful the archetypal phase, Lok Sabha and Assembly elections volition beryllium aligned; the 2nd phase, which volition beryllium held wrong 100 days of the first, volition screen section assemblage elections.
— A moving insubstantial released by the EAC-PM has shown that occidental and confederate states “performed notably better” than the remainder of the state implicit six decades from 1960-61 to 2023-24.
— Maharashtra and Gujarat person consistently shown beardown economical show portion West Bengal recorded a “continuous decline.”
— EAC-PM is an autarkic assemblage constituted to counsel connected economical and related issues to the Government of India, specifically to the Prime Minister.
— At contiguous Dr. Bibek Debroy is the president of the EAC-PM.
International Cooperation
— FATF has travel retired with the Mutual Evaluation Report for India connected 19th September.
— The FATF is an intergovernmental organisation that was formed successful 1989 arsenic a G7 inaugural to analyse and make measures to combat wealth laundering. In 2001, the FATF expanded its mandate to besides combat violent financing.
— Currently, determination are 40 subordinate countries and India joined the FATF successful 2010.
— The FATF monitors countries to guarantee they instrumentality the FATF standards afloat and effectively.
— FATF has fixed the “regular follow-up” standing to India which is shared by lone 4 different G20 countries — the UK, France, Italy, and Russia (suspended from FATF successful February 2023).
— Most of the processing countries are successful the “enhanced follow-up” category, which requires submission of reports connected an yearly basis, arsenic against erstwhile successful 3 years successful the “regular follow-up” category.
— India has sent a ceremonial announcement to Pakistan, this clip seeking the “review and modification” of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).
— The IWT was signed betwixt India and Pakistan connected September 19, 1960, for the usage of h2o disposable successful the Indus and its tributaries.
— It was signed successful Karachi by past Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and past Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan aft 9 years of negotiations arranged by the World Bank.
Map showing the Indus h2o strategy that is important for some Pakistan and Northern India. (Express Graphic)
— India connected Wednesday abstained successful the UN General Assembly (UNGA) connected a solution that demanded Israel to bring an extremity to its unlawful beingness successful the Occupied Palestinian Territory wrong 12 months.
— The UNGA, the United Nation’s main policy-making and typical organ, was created successful 1945. It meets successful regular sessions from September to December each year, and thereafter arsenic required.
— It consists of 193 subordinate states who person adjacent close to vote.
— The President of the 79th league of the UNGA is Philemon Yang of Cameroon.
(Source: un.org)
Events successful News
— The 4th Global Renewable Energy- Investment (RE-INVEST) conscionable and Expo was organised from 16 – 18 September 2024 astatine Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
— Host state: Gujarat
— Partner states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh.
— Country partners: Australia, Denmark, Germany, and Norway.
— RE-Invest is simply a planetary level bringing unneurotic cardinal players successful the renewable vigor sector.
— The archetypal RE-INVEST India was held successful 2015, and the 2nd was held successful 2018 and the 3rd RE-INVEST India was held successful 2020.
(Source: re-invest.in)
— September 15 is celebrated arsenic National Engineer’s Day to honors the contributions of engineers and commemorate the commencement day of Sir M. Visvesvaraya.
— Sir Visvesvaraya was calved connected September 15, 1861, and made groundbreaking contributions to the tract of civilian engineering, including the plan and implementation of important infrastructure projects.
— It was successful 1968 that the Government of India declared that Sir M Visvesvaraya’s commencement day would beryllium celebrated arsenic Engineer’s Day.
— The 8th India Water Week 2024 was inaugurated by President Droupadi Murmu connected 17th September 2024.
— It is simply a biennial lawsuit that volition beryllium held from September 17-20.
— This year’s India Water Week taxable is ‘Partnerships and Cooperation for Inclusive Water Development and Management’.
— Azerbaijan is hosting the COP29 successful its capital, Baku, from November 11 to 22.
— Azerbaijan has decided to motorboat a caller money to concern clime enactment successful the processing world.
— The Climate Finance Action Fund (CFAF) would question “voluntary” contributions from fossil-fuel-producing countries and companies, with Azerbaijan, itself a petroleum economy, making the archetypal contribution.
— The CFAF is portion of a ample bundle of proposals that Azerbaijan has prepared for inclusion successful the last result of COP29.
Union Minister of Food Processing Industries and LJP (Ram Vilas) Chief Chirag Paswan and MoS Ravneet Singh Bittu during a property league connected the juncture of World Food India, successful New Delhi, Wednesday. PTI
— The 3rd variation of the World Food India 2024 was organised successful New Delhi from 19th-22nd September.
— It is organised by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India to bring unneurotic the policymakers & regulators, planetary investors, concern leaders, and cardinal executives of salient planetary and home nutrient companies.
— The International Day of Peace is observed connected September 21. It was established successful 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly.
— The taxable for this twelvemonth is Cultivating a Culture of Peace.
Science and Technology
— Iran has successfully launched its Chamran-1 probe outer into orbit done the Qaem-100 rocket developed by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
— The Chamran-1 satellite, weighing 60 kilograms, was placed into a 550-kilometer orbit.
— It is designed to trial “hardware and bundle systems for orbital maneuver technology.”
— Phosphoric acerb which is the main constituent of DAP has been uncovering its mode into the accumulation of batteries for electrical vehicles (EVs), fuelling the “food versus cars” dilemma.
— DAP is the 2nd astir consumed fertiliser aft urea. It contains 46% phosphorous (P).
— Phosphorous (P) is required by the works astatine the aboriginal maturation stages of basal and sprout development. The ‘P’ comes from phosphoric acid, which is manufactured from stone phosphate ore aft grounding and reacting with sulphuric acid.
— Phosphoric acerb is besides the root of ‘P’ successful lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries.
— India imports phosphoric acerb chiefly from Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, and Tunisia and stone phosphate from Morocco, Togo, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE for the home accumulation of DAP, arsenic good arsenic different P-containing fertilisers.
Isro volition purpose for a March 2028 motorboat for the Venus ngo announced by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. (PTI Photo)
— The Union Cabinet connected Wednesday has approved 4 abstraction projects of ISRO.
— the Venus ngo which is aimed for a March 2028 launch. This volition beryllium India’s 2nd ngo to a planet, aft the Mars Orbiter Mission successful 2014. The intent of the ngo volition beryllium to survey the aboveground of the planet, its particulate and cloud, volcanism, atmosphere, and ionosphere, arsenic good arsenic the enactment of the satellite with the sun.
— The Chandrayaan-4 ngo is designed to onshore connected the lunar surface, cod samples, store them successful a vacuum container, and bring them back.
— The Cabinet has besides approved the mounting up of the Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS). The abstraction bureau has acceptable a deadline of December 2029 for the completion of each launches and operations of the archetypal module of BAS.
— The Cabinet gave a motion to the gathering of the Next Generation Launch Vehicle, which volition summation Isro’s motorboat capableness from the existent 10T to the debased world orbit to 30T to the debased world orbit.
— Last week, M Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) launched the Integrated Ocean Energy Atlas online.
— It has been developed by researchers astatine the Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS).
— It provides estimated values of renewable vigor that tin beryllium generated from either idiosyncratic oregon integrated bluish renewable sources astatine imaginable sites on the coast.
Earth, moon, and a mini moon, generated by Gemini.
— According to a caller study, the Earth’s gravitational tract volition temporarily seizure a tiny asteroid, called 2024 PT5, successful precocious September. It is called a mini-moon. The asteroid volition enactment for 2 months earlier flying disconnected into space.
— Mini-moons are asteroids that neglect to flight Earth’s gravity and extremity up orbiting the satellite for immoderate time. They are usually precise tiny and hard to observe — lone 4 mini-moons of Earth person ever been discovered, and nary are inactive orbiting Earth, according to a study by The Planetary Society.
— This asteroid was discovered with the assistance of the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS).
Diseases
(Just FYI: UPSC has consistently included questions connected wellness and diseases successful its examinations implicit the years. For instance, successful 2014, a question astir the Ebola microorganism appeared successful the Prelims, and successful 2017, a question astir the Zika microorganism was featured. Therefore, it is important to enactment updated connected diseases that are presently successful the news.)
— A 24-year-old from Kerala’s Malappuram district, who died earlier this month, was confirmed to beryllium affirmative for the Nipah virus. This was the 2nd decease owed to the corruption reported this year.
— The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had sent monoclonal antibodies to Kerala for the treatment.
— Nipah is simply a viral corruption that chiefly affects animals specified arsenic bats, pigs, dogs, and horses.
— Humans get infected erstwhile they travel successful interaction with the saliva, urine, oregon faecal substance of infected animals — by eating fruits that person been bitten into by the animals oregon scaling trees wherever the bats live.
— People with Nipah commencement showing symptoms astir 4 to 14 days aft getting infected. The corruption causes fever, headache, cough, sore pharynx and trouble breathing. In aboriginal stages, the corruption tin besides pb to encephalon swelling oregon encephalitis, putting the idiosyncratic into coma wrong 24 to 48 hours.
Pests
The pinkish bollworm burrows its larvae onto the fabric boll, staining and cutting the lint. (Wikimedia Commons)
— Farmers successful Haryana are deserting fabric cultivation owed to deadly pinkish bollworm.
— The PBW, known among farmers as gulabi sundhi, damages the fabric harvest by burrowing its larvae into the fabric bolls.
— The PBW archetypal appeared successful North India during the 2017-18 season, successful a fewer locations of Haryana and Punjab, chiefly cultivating Bt cotton.
— It chiefly spreads done the air. Residue of infected crops, often near by farmers connected the tract to beryllium utilized arsenic fuel, tin besides harbour PBW larvae which tin past infect aboriginal crops.
Awards
The formed and unit of Shogun (left) and Hacks judge the grant for Best Drama Series and Best Comedy Series, respectively, astatine the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards successful Los Angeles, California. (Images: Reuters)
— The Emmy Awards are the astir renowned accolades fixed to tv and emerging media performances. Unlike Oscars and Golden Globe awards, they aren’t fixed for films.
— The Emmy Awards were conceived successful 1948 and the archetypal ceremonial took spot connected January 25, 1949.
— This twelvemonth Shogun acceptable a single-season grounds for astir wins with 18.
| Category | Winner of the 76th yearly Emmy Awards |
| Drama series | Shogun |
| Comedy series | Hacks |
| Actress successful a play series | Anna Sawai, Shogun |
| Actor successful a play series | Hiroyuki Sanada, Shogun |
| Limited, anthology bid oregon movie | Baby Reindeer |
| Actress successful a drama series | Jean Smart, Hacks |
| Actor successful a drama series | Jeremy Allen White, The Bear |
Sports
(Just FYI: With the unpredictability of the UPSC examinations and questions similar the ICC World Test Championship question 2021, you can’t beryllium definite of anything. It is omniscient to cognize what it is and not spell into excessively overmuch detail.)
— India won the Asian Champions Trophy hockey by defeating big China to clinch their 5th Asian Championship Trophy.
— India has won the men’s Asian Champions Trophy a grounds 5 times.
Terms making buzz
— Punganur breed of Cow: A calf was calved astatine the PM residence which was named ‘Deepjyoti’. The cattle belonged to the Punganur breed of Andhra Pradesh. The Punganur is an indigenous breed autochthonal to the Punganoor, Vayalapadu, Madanapalli, and Palamaneer talukas of the Chittoor territory of confederate Andhra Pradesh. They are a unsocial dwarf breed, considered the shortest-humped cattle successful the world.
Test Your Knowledge
(Note: The champion mode to retrieve facts for UPSC and different competitory exams is to callback them done MCQs. Try to lick the pursuing questions connected your own.)
A. It is 1 of the main ingredients of Di-ammonium phosphate. Sulphuric acerb is utilized successful its production. Its constituent is besides utilized successful the accumulation of batteries for electrical vehicles (EVs). The crops necessitate it astatine the aboriginal maturation stages of basal and sprout development.
Identify the element.
(a) Ammonia
(b) Potassium
(c) Magnesium
(d) Phosphorus
B. Consider the pursuing statements:
1. India is 1 of the founding members of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
2. FATF has fixed an “enhanced follow-up” standing to India which requires submission of reports connected an yearly basis.
Which of the pursuing statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
C. Which of the pursuing birds is locally known arsenic Kahuaipuina?
(a) White-tailed Robin
(b) Indian Cuckoo
(c) Amur Falcon
(d) Red-wattled Lapwing
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