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1) 13th Ministerial Conference Of The World Trade Organization:
- The 13th ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), India asserted a robust position concerning the permanent solution for public stockholding for food security.
Key Points Highlighted by India:
- India has called for a shift in the WTO’s focus, urging it to move beyond catering solely to the trade interests of agricultural exporters.
- Instead, the organisation should prioritise addressing fundamental concerns such as food security and sustaining livelihoods.
- India argues that public stockholding programs are essential for developing countries to ensure food security for their populations, especially for vulnerable sections of society.
- The current WTO rules allow some leeway for developing countries regarding public stockholding programs.
- However, these provisions are temporary and India seeks a permanent solution that acknowledges their development needs.
2) Voyager 1 Spacecraft : Started Sending Readable Communications
- NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun sending readable communications again after months of transmitting gibberish back to Earth.
- NASA’s Voyager flight team detected a glitch in November and worked to fix the problem via code, leading to the successful return of readable data.
- Voyager 1 was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977.
- Voyager 1 is part of the Voyager program, which also includes Voyager 2.
- Objective is to study the outer Solar System and beyond, including flybys of Jupiter and Saturn.
- It discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons: Thebe and Metis.
- At Saturn, it found five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring.
3) Satellite Technology Day 2024:
- The U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) celebrated Satellite Technology Day (STD) – 2024, marking the 50th anniversary of the successful launch of India’s first satellite, Aryabhata, on April 19, 1975.
- Aryabhata was India’s first satellite, launched on April 19, 1975 from Kapustin Yar, a Soviet rocket launch and development site.
- The satellite was built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and launched by the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet Interkosmos program.
- It was named after the 5th-century Indian astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata.
4) 1st ASEAN Future Forum:
- India’s External Affairs Minister, delivered remarks at the 1st ASEAN Future Forum.
- India supports ASEAN unity and centrality, emphasizing the importance of a strong and unified ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific region.
- ASEAN Future Forum was proposed by Vietnam at the 43rd ASEAN Summit in 2023.
- It is a common platform for ASEAN member states as well as partner countries to share new ideas and policy recommendations.
- It aims to contribute to promoting and shaping ASEAN’s development path.
5) Khanij Bidesh India Limited : MoU With CSIR – National Geophysical Research Institute
- KABIL signed a MoU with the CSIR – National Geophysical Research Institute to foster a long-term collaboration in the field of critical and strategic minerals.
- Khanij Bidesh India Limited (KABIL) is a Joint Venture Company formed with the participation of National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO), Hindustan Copper Ltd. (HCL) and Mineral Exploration Company Ltd. (MECL) in August, 2019.
- The equity participation between NALCO, HCL and MECL is in the ratio of 40:30:30.
- It is mandated to identify, acquire, develop, process and make commercial use of strategic minerals in overseas locations for supply in India.
- It is focusing on identifying and sourcing battery minerals like Lithium and Cobalt.
6) Global Report On Food Crises (GRFC) 2024:
- According to the recently released Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC), nearly 282 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 59 countries in 2023.
Highlights of GRFC 2024:
- It analyzed a population of 1.3 billion in 2023 across 59 countries. Nearly 282 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity.
- 2023 was the fifth consecutive year of rise in the number of people suffering acute food insecurity, defined as when populations face food deprivation that threatens lives or livelihoods, regardless of the causes or length of time.
- It identifies conflicts, extreme weather events and economic shocks as the three main drivers behind the exacerbation of food crises in the world.
- With food crisis escalating alarmingly in conflict hotspots in 2023, notably Palestine (Gaza Strip) and Sudan, conflict / insecurity became the primary driver in 20 countries, directly affecting 135 million people.
7) Mpox Virus : Study
- A study revealed a novel adaptation mechanism of the Mpox virus enhancing its ability to infect humans amidst recent outbreaks.
- The name was changed from “monkeypox” to “mpox” to avoid stigma towards monkeys and reflect the virus’s direct human infectivity.
- Mpox, also known as monkeypox, is a DNA virus.
- It belongs to the family Poxviridae, which consists of large, double-stranded DNA viruses.
- The virus was first identified in monkeys in 1958 but has since been found to infect humans as well.
- Mpox is primarily transmitted to humans from animals, particularly rodents and primates, through direct contact or through contaminated objects.
- Mpox infection in humans typically presents with fever, headache, muscle aches, and a characteristic rash that progresses from macules to papules to vesicles and pustules.
8) Flood In Dubai:
- One of the heaviest rainfall was recorded in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after a severe thunderstorm hit the country. The storm had initially hit Oman before it landed in the UAE.
- UAE lies in the arid regions of the world, so such heavy rainfalls are unusual there.
- On average, Dubai experiences 94.7 mm of rain in a year.
- But this event was historic as it brought more than 142 mm of rainfall that had soaked Dubai over 24 hours.
- The possible causes for such catastrophic event may be attributed to following reasons.
- Climate Change along with multiple factors associated with it like patterns of natural climate variability, such as El Niño and La Niña, has contributed to the extreme rain.
- It has led to higher temperatures causing evaporation of water not only from land but also oceans and other water bodies, causing a warmer atmosphere to hold more moisture.
- For every 1 degree Celsius rise in average temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more moisture.
9) Tiger Conservation Coalition:
- At the Sustainable Finance for Tiger Landscapes Conference, Bhutan and the Tiger Conservation Coalition Commit to Catalysing US$1 billion for tigers.
- Tiger Conservation Coalition is a group of NGOs that has worked for many years with partners to conserve tigers.
- Its vision is for a long-term presence of viable and ecologically functional populations of wild tigers secure in protected habitats, with representation and links across their indigenous range.
- It brings together leading tiger biologists and experts in wildlife crime, human-wildlife coexistence, policy, finance, development and communications with unprecedented alignment on achieving tiger conservation at scale.
- With food crisis escalating alarmingly in conflict hotspots in 2023, notably Palestine (Gaza Strip) and Sudan, conflict / insecurity became the primary driver in 20 countries, directly affecting 135 million people.
10) Prabowo Subianto Declared Indonesia’s President-Elect Amid Controversy:
- Indonesia’s electoral commission has officially declared Prabowo Subianto as the president-elect after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his landslide victory lodged by two losing presidential candidates.
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