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DAILY DOSE 21st MAY -2024 CURRENT AFFAIRS

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DAILY DOSE 21st MAY -2024 CURRENT AFFAIRS

 

1) Blood Scandal: UK

  • The independent investigation into the contaminated blood scandal in the UK is set to release its findings in May 2024.
  • People in the National Health Service (NHS) say that this incident is one of the worst cases of bad care in their history.
  • The British government plans to give more than £10 billion to people who got HIV or hepatitis from tainted blood products in the 1970s and 1980s as compensation.
  • On the eve of the release, there was a vigil in Westminster to remember the victims.
  • In the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of people, mostly those with hemophilia, got blood products that were tainted with HIV and hepatitis.

 

2) Lunar Polar Exploration Mission : Scheduled Flight In Few Years

  • The India-Japan partnership for their joint moon mission, Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX), is likely to take flight in a few years, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in an interview recently.
  • Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX) is a collaborative endeavor between Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
  • The mission is scheduled to launch in 2025.
  • This mission will take off aboard Japan’s H3 rocket.
  • Primary Goal is to explore the moon’s southern polar region, investigating the presence of water and other elements, potentially in the form of surface ice.

 

3) Commission On Crime Prevention And Criminal Justice:

  • After five days of discussions to strengthen crime prevention, criminal justice responses and cooperation, the 33rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, came to a conclusion recently.
  • Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) is a commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
  • It acts as the principal policymaking body of the United Nations (UN) in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice.
  • The CCPCJ has 40 member states that are elected by ECOSOC and is chaired by a Bureau.

 

4) Project Astra:

  • Google at the company’s annual developer conference, presented an early version of Project Astra.
  • Project Astra is a new multimodal AI agent developed by Google.
  • It is capable of answering real-time questions fed to it through text, video, images and speech by pulling up the relevant information.
  • It can see the world, remember where one has left a thing and even answer if a computer code is correct by looking at it through the phone’s camera.
  • It is more straight-forward, there is no range of emotional diversity in its voice.

 

5) Asset Reconstruction Companies:

  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised supervisory concerns regarding the functioning of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs).
  • Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) are financial institutions that acquire and manage stressed assets from banks and financial institutions. Registered under Section 3 of the SARFAESI Act, 2002, ARCs face several challenges, including issues like back-door entry of defaulting promoters, lengthy settlement processes, and non-transparent practices.
  • The direction stipulates that ARCs must maintain a minimum capital requirement of Rs 300 crore, with existing ARCs given until March 31, 2026, to meet this threshold.
  • Non-compliant ARCs will face supervisory action, including the prohibition on incremental business until compliance is achieved.

 

6) Centre Granted Citizenship Under CAA:

  • The Union Government has granted citizenship certificates to over 300 people who applied under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019.
  • The Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024, were notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 11th March 2024, that paved the way for the implementation of the CAA after 4 years since its passage by Parliament in December 2019.
  • The CAA provides citizenship to undocumented migrants from 6 non-Muslim communities (Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, or Christian) from 3 neighboring countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan), who entered India on or before 31st December 2014.
  • It also reduced the period to qualify for citizenship from existing 11 years to 5 years.
  • The Act states that such minorities “shall not be treated as illegal migrants” and will be exempted from punishable sections under Section 3 of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 and the Foreigners Act, 1946.

 

7) Digital Arrest Scams : Warning

  • The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a warning about an increase in ‘digital arrest’ scams, where cybercriminals impersonate government officials to extort money from unsuspecting victims.
  • The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), in collaboration with Microsoft, is actively combating this organised online economic crime.
  • Scammers pose as personnel from various government agencies, including the police, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Narcotics Department, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), or Enforcement Directorate.
  • Victims receive calls alleging their involvement in illegal activities, such as sending or receiving contraband items like drugs or fake passports.

 

8) Pig Butchering Scam: Online Investment Fraud

  • An online financial fraud called the Pig Butchering Scam is increasing across the globe, including in India.
  • Pig Butchering Scam is also known as a “sha zhu pan” scam, which is a type of online investment fraud that involves scammers creating fake online personas to lure victims into fraudulent investment schemes.
  • The term “pig butchering” comes from the scammers’ practice of “fattening up” their victims by building trust over time before “slaughtering” them and stealing their money.
  • It all begins with the “host” contacting people online through social media, dating apps, or deceptive messages.
  • Once they’ve found a target, known as the “pig,” the host establishes a false sense of friendship and encourages them to explore cryptocurrency trading.

 

9) R21/Matrix-M Vaccine:

  • Vaccines manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII) recently said it has started exports of ‘R21/Matrix-M’ malaria vaccine to Africa as part of the global fight against the disease.
  • R21/Matrix-M Vaccine is a new vaccine approved for the prevention of malaria in children.
  • It is the second malaria vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO),following the RTS, S/AS01 vaccine, which received a WHO recommendation in 2021.
  • The vaccine was developed by the Jenner Institute at Oxford University and the Serum Institute of India with support from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (‘EDCTP’), the Welcome Trust and the European Investment Bank (‘EIB’).

 

10)  Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) Programme:

  • As part of a multi-agency effort to locate a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi that crashed in East Azerbaijan province recently, the European Union activated its Copernicus EMS rapid response mapping service at Iran’s request.
  • Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) Programme named after the renowned 15th-century scientist Nicolaus Copernicus, the programme is the earth observation component of the European Union’s (EU) space initiative.
  • Copernicus was launched in 1998 and was earlier known as the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Programme (GMES).
  • The programme uses global data from satellites, and ground-based, airborne, and sea-borne measurement systems to provide environment-related information to researchers, policymakers, public authorities, international organisations and commercial and private users to address issues related to climate change, disaster management and agriculture, among other uses.
  • The space segment uses a group of satellites, called the Sentinels and the Contributing Missions.

 

 

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