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History: 12th March
- 12-March-1930:- Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier.
1) Measles And Rubella Champion Award:
- India has been honoured with the prestigious Measles and Rubella Champion Award by The Measles and Rubella Partnership at the American Red Cross Headquarters in Washington D.C., USA.
- The partnership, comprising various organizations dedicated to reducing global measles deaths and preventing rubella illness, applauds India’s commitment to public health and leadership in controlling these infectious diseases, particularly among children.
- Measles is a highly contagious disease that can cause death in young children.
- It can cause brain damage, deafness, and blindness.
- The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is safe and highly effective in preventing rubella.
- The WHO recommends two doses of the measles vaccine to ensure immunity and prevent outbreaks.
- Rubella is a contagious viral infection that can cause birth defects.
- It’s also known as German measles or three-day measles. Rubella is not as infectious or as severe as measles.
2) Mahatari Vandana Yojana:
- The Prime Minister recently launched the Mahatari Vandana Yojana in Chhattisgarh.
- The scheme aims to ensure the economic empowerment of women, provide them with financial security, promote gender equality, and strengthen their decisive role within families.
- All married women above the age of 21 as of 1st January 2024, including widows, divorced, and deserted women, are eligible to benefit from this scheme.
- Eligible married women in Chhattisgarh will receive financial aid of Rs 1000 per month through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
- Approximately 70 lakh women are expected to benefit from the Mahatari Vandana Yojana in Chhattisgarh, contributing to their socio-economic upliftment.
3) Second Thomas Shoal: Submerged Reef
· A recent incident in the Second Thomas Shoal area, renewed global interest in the flashpoint between the Philippines and China.
· Second Thomas Shoal is a submerged reef located in the Spratly Islands in South China Sea.
· It is low-tide elevation located within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
· The Philippines first took possession of the Second Thomas Shoal in the late 1990s, setting an outpost on the drowned BRP Sierra Madre.
· It continues to maintain its presence there and the ship serves as a military outpost, manned by a small contingent of troops.
· The Second Thomas Shoal lies about 108 nautical miles (200 km) from the Philippine island of Palawan.
· China claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, including the Second Thomas Shoal, based on the historical and controversial Nine-dash line.
4) Exercise Cutlass Express:
- INS Tir, the lead ship of First Training Squadron (1TS) participated in Exercise Cutlass Express – 24 (CE – 24) held at Port Victoria, Seychelles
- Exercise Cutlass Express is an exercise conducted in East African coastal regions and the West Indian Ocean to counter malign influence, aggression and activity along overlapping command seams and maritime regions.
· It is a premier multinational maritime exercise sponsored by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and led by U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet.
· It brings together maritime forces from East Africa, West Indian Ocean nations, Europe, North America and several international organizations to enhance maritime law enforcement capacity, promote national and regional security and increase interoperability among participating nations.
5) Core Inflation:
- According to economists, core inflation is likely to remain low, around 3% in the near term, owing to weak rural demand, softness in housing inflation and lower input cost pressures.
- Core Inflation is the change in the costs of goods and services excluding the price variations in seasonal elements, such as those related to food and energy.
- Food and energy prices are exempt from this calculation because their prices can be too volatile or fluctuate wildly. Core inflation represents the long-term trend in the price level.
- It is used to determine the impact of rising prices on consumer income.
- To deal with such situations, many central banks use measures of core inflation that are designed to filter transitory price movements.
- If the increase in the price index is due to temporary shocks that could soon reverse themselves, it may not require any monetary policy action.
6) Yaounde Declaration:
- Ministers of Health from African countries with the highest burden of malaria recently signed the Yaounde Declaration with the objective of ending malaria deaths.
- Yaounde Declaration was signed by the health ministers of 11 African countries with the highest burden of malaria, committing to accelerated action to end deaths from the malaria disease.
- It was signed at the Yaoundé conference, co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of Cameroon.
- The 11 countries that signed the declaration are: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.
- These countries carry roughly 70% of the global malaria burden.
- They committed to provide stronger leadership and increased domestic funding for malaria control programmes; to ensure further investment in data technology; to apply the latest technical guidance in malaria control and elimination; and to enhance malaria control efforts at the national and sub-national levels.
7) Neengal Nalama Scheme:
- The Tamil Nadu government has launched the ‘Neengal Nalama’ (Are you fine?) scheme, a beneficiary outreach program aimed at reviewing the implementation of flagship schemes and addressing the grievances of the public
8) Kishor Makwana Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes:
- Kishor Makwana has assumed the charge of Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) in New Delhi.
9) AS Rajeev Appointed as Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission:
- AS Rajeev was appointed as Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission by the Honourable President of India on 9th February 2024.
10) RBI and Bank Indonesia Sign MoU to Promote Use of Local Currencies for Bilateral Transactions:
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Bank Indonesia (BI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for establishing a framework to promote the use of local currencies of both countries, such as the Indian Rupee (INR) and the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR), for cross-border transaction
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