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15 Oct 2022 10:54

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ARMED FORCES BATTLE CASUALTIES WELFARE FUND (AFBCWF)

Recently, the Defence Minister launched the 'Maa Bharati Ke Sapoot’ website' for the Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund (AFBCWF).

👉Key details:

AFBCWF is a tri-service fund which is utilised for grant of immediate financial assistance of ex-gratia, to the next of kin and dependents of battle casualties.

Indian Army, on behalf of Ministry of Defense is maintaining Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund, which accepts donation for families of battle casualties from Army, Navy and Air Force.

👉Note: There is no upper limit of contribution towards this fund.

The donations received in the fund are utilised for grant of immediate financial assistance to the families of soldiers/sailors/airmen who lay down their lives or get grievously injured in active military operations.

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14 Oct 2022 16:28

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14 Oct 2022 15:38

👉HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY'S CDG

✔️LIVING PLANET REPORT 2022

✔️LEAD POISONING

✔️THE BIJOE EMMANUEL CASE

✔️SNOW LEOPARD

✔️PURPLE REVOLUTION

✔️GRAMEEN UDYAMI PROJECT

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13 Oct 2022 13:28

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What is the Interpol?

It is an inter-governmental organisation comprising 195 member countries, which helps police forces in all these countries to better coordinate their actions.

👉It enables member countries to share and access data on crimes and criminals, and offers a range of technical and operational support.

What is a Red Notice?

Criminals or suspects often flee to other countries to evade facing justice.

A Red Corner Notice, or Red Notice (RN) alerts police forces across the world about fugitives who are wanted internationally.

👉A Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.

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13 Oct 2022 08:11

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👉September Monthly Magazine is out now!
Download the PDF by using the aforementioned link☝️

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12 Oct 2022 13:54

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BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO SCHEME

In 2015, the Indian government introduced the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme to address concerns of gender discrimination and women empowerment in the country.

The scheme aims to educate citizens against gender bias and improve efficacy of welfare services for girls.

It was launched with an initial funding of Rs. 100 crore (US$ 13.5 million).

👉Objectives
Improve the child sex ratio
Ensure gender equality and women empowerment
Prevent gender-biased, sex selective elimination
Ensure survival and protection of the girl child
Encourage education and participation of the girl child

Chahal Academy

11 Oct 2022 14:43

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Nyaya School of Philosophy

👉Akshapada Gautama was founder of this school and Nyaya Sutras composed by him is principal text of the school.

Nyaya is considered as a technique of logical thinking. According to Nyaya, valid knowledge is defined as the real knowledge, that is, one knows about the object as it exists.
👉For example, it is when one knows a snake as a snake or a cup as a cup. This is also known as school of logic and analysis.

This school argues that logical tools like inference, hearing, and analogy could verify truth of preposition or statement.

According to the Nyaya school, there are exactly four sources of knowledge (pramanas):
✔️perception (pratyaksha)
✔️inference (anumana)
✔️comparison (upamana), and
✔️sound, or verbal testimony (shabda)

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11 Oct 2022 13:19

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Tele-MANAS

Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) initiative launched on occasion of World Mental Health Day.

Acknowledging the mental health crisis in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and an urgent need to establish a digital mental health network that will withstand the challenges amplified by the pandemic, Government of India announced National Tele Mental Health Programme (NTMHP) in the Union Budget 2022-23.

👉Tele-MANAS aims to provide free tele-mental health services all over the country round the clock, particularly catering to people in remote or under-served areas.

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10 Oct 2022 15:49

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👉HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY'S CDG

✔️KERCH BRIDGE
✔️ROSETTA STONE
✔️ELECTION COMMISSION FREEZES THE SHIV
✔️SENA’S SYMBOL
✔️CHANDRAYAAN-2 GAUGES SODIUM CONTENT ON
✔️MOON’S SURFACE
✔️HOW CHINA REDUCED POVERTY - LESSONS FOR
INDIA

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10 Oct 2022 08:42

Tea Board in India

👉🏼 The Tea Board set up under section 4 of the Tea Act 1953 was constituted on 1st April 1954.

👉🏼 The present Tea Board is functioning as a statutory body of the Central Government under the Ministry of Commerce.

👉🏼 The Board is reconstituted every three years. Its head office is located at Kolkata (West Bengal).

👉🏼 Currently, Tea Board has two overseas offices located at Dubai, and Moscow.

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08 Oct 2022 09:15

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COAL SATYAGRAHA

A historic coal satyagraha, that draws inspiration from Mahtama Gandhi's salt satyagraha, has been running in the remote areas of Pelma, Chhattisgarh since 2011.

The ‘coal satyagraha’ started in 2011 in order to put pressure on the administration to not give coal blocks to big industrialists for mining.

👉Held to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, October 2, a resolution passed at the Coal Satyagraha insisted on the need for greater assertion for greater community control over natural resources, at a time where the most vulnerable communities are resisting large-scale corporate capture of their lands, forests and minerals.

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08 Oct 2022 08:27

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07 Oct 2022 09:31

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HAND, FOOT, AND MOUTH DISEASE

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease is common in children under the age of 5, but anyone can get it.

It is most commonly caused by a coxsackievirus, which belongs to a group of viruses called nonpolio enteroviruses.

The illness is usually not serious, but is very contagious.

👉Children are mostly treated with anti-allergic medicines and ointments.

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06 Oct 2022 15:31

👉CDG for 5th October as well as 6th October combined!

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06 Oct 2022 08:22

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CLICK CHEMISTRY

Context: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 has gone to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless, the latter winning the second Nobel of his career.

👉What is click chemistry?

Chemists often try to recreate complex chemical molecules found in nature, and this has applications, among other things, in the field of medicine – how to target and block pathogens in cells.
👉However, this process can be complicated and time-consuming.

Instead of trying to wrangle reluctant carbon atoms into reacting with each other, Barry Sharpless encouraged his colleagues to start with smaller molecules that already had a complete carbon frame.

👉If chemists choose simple reactions – where there is a strong intrinsic drive for the molecules to bond together – they avoid many of the side reactions, with a minimal loss of material.

👉Sharpless called this robust method for building molecules click chemistry, saying that even if click chemistry cannot provide exact copies of natural molecules, it will be possible to find molecules that fulfil the same functions.

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15 Oct 2022 10:28

Constitution Bench

👉🏼 Article 145(3), which deals with the rules of the court, provides for the setting up of a Constitution Bench.

👉🏼 Article 145(3) says a minimum of five judges need to sit for deciding a case involving a “substantial question of law as to the interpretation of the Constitution”, or for hearing any reference under Article 143, which deals with the power of the President to consult the SC.

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14 Oct 2022 16:15

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13 Oct 2022 14:37

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👉HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY'S CDG

✔️WHO WAS JAYPRAKASH NARAYAN?
✔️ROLE OF NEHRU IN THE ACCESSION OF KASHMIR
TO INDIA
✔️WHAT IS THE INTERPOL, AND WHAT IS A RED
NOTICE?
✔️PRIME MINISTER’S DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
FOR NORTH EAST REGION (PM-DevINE)
✔️WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY
✔️TAMIL NADU NOTIFIES INDIA’S FIRST SLENDER LORIS SANCTUARY

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13 Oct 2022 13:15

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TAMIL NADU NOTIFIES INDIA’S FIRST SLENDER LORIS SANCTUARY

👉About Slender Loris

The slender lorises (Loris) are a genus of loris native to India and Sri Lanka.

The genus comprises two species:
✔️the red slender loris found in Sri Lanka and
✔️the gray slender loris from Sri Lanka and India.

They are found in tropical rainforests, scrub forests, semi-deciduous forests, and swamps.

The primates have lifespans of approximately 15 years and are nocturnal.

Slender lorises generally feed on insects, reptiles, plant shoots, and fruit.

👉IUCN has listed them as Endangered.

They are listed under the Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972, according them the highest level of legal protection.

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12 Oct 2022 15:04

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👉HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY'S CDG

✔️HISTORIC DEAL BETWEEN ISRAEL-LEBANON

✔️WHAT LAWS REGULATE SURROGACY IN INDIA?

✔️IMF CUTS INDIA’S GROWTH FORECAST TO 6.8% THIS YEAR

✔️THE ASHOKA VIJAYA DASHAMI CONTROVERSY

✔️NON-TRADITIONAL LIVELIHOODS SKILLING OF
GIRLS INCLUDED IN ‘BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO'SCHEME

✔️NHRC ISSUES ADVISORY ON PREVENTING OCULAR
TRAUMA

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12 Oct 2022 09:35

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11 Oct 2022 13:39

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👉India Becomes the World’s Largest Producer of Sugar

In Sugar Season (Oct-Sep) 2021-22, a record of more than 5000 Lakh Metric Tons (LMT) sugarcane was produced in the country out of which about 3574 LMT of sugarcane was crushed by sugar mills to produce about 394 LMT of sugar (Sucrose).

Out of this, 35 LMT sugar was diverted to ethanol production and 359 LMT sugar was produced by sugar mills.

With this, India has emerged as the world’s largest producer and consumer of sugar as well as the world’s 2nd largest exporter of sugar.

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11 Oct 2022 13:15

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Economics Nobel 2022

For significantly improving our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for 2022 was awarded to three American economists: Ben S Bernanke, Douglas W Diamond and Philip H Dybvi.

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10 Oct 2022 09:59

Polar Code

☝🏻The International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters or Polar Code is an international regime adopted by the International Maritime Organization in 2014.

☝🏻The Code sets out regulations for shipping in the polar regions, principally relating to ice navigation and ship design.

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08 Oct 2022 14:36

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👉HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY'S CDG

✔️NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 2022
✔️AATMANIRBHAR IN DEFENCE PRODUCTION
✔️HOW IS INDIA’S TOP JUDGE CHOSEN
✔️KONDA REDDI TRIBE
✔️UIGHURS OF XINJIANG

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08 Oct 2022 08:28

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07 Oct 2022 15:31

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Snow Leopard

IUCN: Vulnerable
CITES: Appendix I
Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972:- Schedule I

👉🏻It has threats due to poaching and habitat destruction.

It inhabits the Himalayas at elevations ranging from 3,000 to 4,500 m across Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh

Habitat: Cold and High Mountains

👉In Uttarakhand, snow leopards are found in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Gangotri National Park, Askot Wildlife Sanctuary and other places of altitude between 3000-4500 meters.

Snow leopards are found in 12 countries—including China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, and Mongolia.

Snow Leopard capital of the world: Hemis, Ladakh

👉Hemis National Park is the biggest national park in India and also has a good presence of Snow Leopard.

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07 Oct 2022 08:22

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Moonlighting

Moonlighting means taking up another job while still in employment with an organization.

The second job is usually without the employer’s knowledge and hence the income earned from moonlighting can lead to tax complexities.

👉Moonlighting is not defined in any of the statutes in India.

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06 Oct 2022 15:18

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LASSA FEVER

It is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus family of viruses.

👉It is an animal-borne, or zoonotic, acute viral illness spread by the common African rat. The first documented case occurred in 1969.

Lassa fever is named after the town in Nigeria where the first cases occurred.

👉The disease is endemic in the rodent population in parts of West Africa.

👉Treatment: An antiviral drug called ribavirin is given.

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04 Oct 2022 16:04

TURTUK

Context: The Prime Minister of India saluted the people of Turtuk in Ladakh for their passion and vision towards Swachh India.

About Turtuk

It is a small village sandwiched between Karakorum Range and Himalayas Mountains.

It is one of the northernmost villages of India, close to the Line of Control between India and Pakistan.

Turtuk is situated in the Nubra tehsil of the Leh district, on the banks of the Shyok River.

👉This village form the only region in India populated by Balti people.


👉The Baltis:

The Balti people or Baltis are an ethnic group of Tibetan descent who are native to the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit−Baltistan.