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DAILY DOSE 27th  JUNE -2024 CURRENT AFFAIRS

1) Skin Bank Facility: Indian Army

  • The Indian Army has recently launched a skin bank facility
  • Indian Army’s Skin Bank was launched to help treat severe skin burn injuries and other skin-related conditions for service personnel and their families.
  • The first-of-its-kind facility established in the Armed Forces Medical Servicesis staffed with trained medical professionals, including plastic surgeons, tissue engineers, and specialised technicians.
  • It will serve as a centralised hub for the collection, processing, storage, and distribution of skin grafts, providing a “critical resource” for military medical centres across the country.
  • A skin bank is a facility where skin is taken from an eligible donor, and processed, and stored under appropriate temperature for up to five years.
  • Skin from a deceased person can be donated within six hours after death.
  • Anyone can donate skin, irrespective of sex and blood group. The donor’s minimum age should be 18 years.

 

2) Jal Jeevan Mission : Update

  • The Central Government is conceiving a “new project” to ensure that rural households, which were provided taps under the ambitious Jal Jeevan Mission but had not yet been able to avail water, would soon be provided potable water.
  • Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is envisioned to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTCs) by 2024 to all households in rural India.
  • JJM will be based on a community approach to water and will include extensive Information, Education and communication as key components of the mission.
  • The Mission was launched on August 15, 2019.
  • Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Jal Shakti.

 

3) India’s External Debt : Update

  • India’s external debt was placed at $663.8 billion, an increase of US$ 39.7 billion over its level at end-March 2023, informed the Reserve Bank of India recently.
  • At end-March 2024, India’s external debt was US$ 663.8 billion, an increase of US$ 39.7 billion over its level at end-March 2023.
  • The external debt-to-GDP ratio declined to 18.7 percent end-March 2024 from 19.0 percent at end-March 2023.
  • The Valuation effect due to the appreciation of the US dollar vis-à-vis the Indian rupee and other major currencies such as the yen, euro and SDR amounted to US$ 8.7 billion.
  • Valuation effects are the change in value of assets held abroad with regard to the value of domestic assets held by foreign investors.
  • Excluding the valuation effect, external debt would have increased by US$ 48.4 billion instead of US$ 39.7 billion at end-March 2024 over end-March 2023.

4) Kerala Seeks Renaming To Keralam:

  • The Kerala Assembly unanimously passed a resolution asking the Centre to rename the state as “Keralam’’ in the Constitution.
  • Article 3 of the Indian Constitution empowers the Centre to change the name of existing states which also needs amendment in the name of the state listed under Article 1 of the constitution.
  • Kerala is the English word for the Malyali Keralam and the earliest mention of the word can be found in Emperor Ashoka’s Rock Edict II of 257 BCE which mentions “Keralaputra”.
  • Keralaputra in Sanskrit literally means “son of Kerala” which refers to the dynasty of the Cheras, one of the three main kingdoms of southern India (the other two dynasties being Chola and Pandya).

 

5) Underground Coal Gasification: Jharkhand

  • The Ministry of Coal has initiated India’s first pilot project for Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) in Jharkhand, aiming to revolutionize the coal industry.
  • Coal gasification is a process that converts underground coal into valuable gases such as methane, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide.
  • This is achieved by partially oxidizing coal using air, oxygen, steam, or CO2 under controlled conditions to produce syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

 

6) International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO):

  • The International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) celebrates World Hydrography Day on June 21 each year to raise awareness about hydrography’s role in improving knowledge of seas and oceans.
  • Hydrography is the science of measuring and describing the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes, and rivers.
  • The Indian Naval Hydrographic Department (INHD), under the Indian Navy, is responsible for hydrographic surveys and nautical charting in India.

International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO):

  • The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is an intergovernmental organization that ensures the world’s seas, oceans, and navigable waters are surveyed and charted.
  • It coordinates the activities of national hydrographic offices.

 

7) PESA : Forest Conservation In India

  • The Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA) empowered Scheduled Tribes by mandating political representation in local governance, thereby linking their livelihood needs with forest conservation.
  • The Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA) of 1996 extended Part IX of the Constitution, which pertains to Panchayats, to Scheduled Areas.
  • These areas, defined under Article 244(1), receive special provisions under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.
  • PESA mandates political representation for Scheduled Tribes (STs) in local governance, ensuring they have a significant role in decision-making regarding their resources and livelihoods.

 

8) Innovations For Defence Excellence:

  • The 350th contract under the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) was signed with SpacePixxel Technologies Pvt Ltd for miniaturised satellite.
  • Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) is the flagship initiative of the Union Ministry of Defence.
  • It aims to achieve self-reliance and foster innovation and technology development in Defence and Aerospaceby engaging Industries including MSMEs, start-ups, individual innovators, R&D institutes and academia.
  • It has partnered with leading incubators in the country to provide handholding, technical support and guidance to the winners of iDEX challenges.

 

9) ALMA Telescope:

  • Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope, astronomers have gained new insights into how planets form around binary star systems, where two stars orbit a common centre of mass.
  • ALMA Telescope is a state-of-the-art telescope that studies celestial objectsat millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths.
  • It is a radio telescope comprising 66 antennas located in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
  • They can penetrate through dust clouds and help astronomers examine dim and distant galaxies and stars out there.
  • It also has extraordinary sensitivity, which allows it to detect even extremely faint radio signals.

 

10)  African Swine Fever : Outbreak                                                                                      

  • The death toll of pigs following the outbreak of the African Swine Fever (ASF) disease in Mizoram since February has crossed 3,350, officials said recently.
  • African Swine Fever (ASF) is a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs, whose mortality rate can reach 100%.
  • The ASF virus is a large, enveloped, double-stranded DNA virus that is the sole member of the genus Asfivirus within the family Asfarviridae.
  • The clinical symptoms can look very much like those of classical swine fever: fever, weak pigs, lack of appetite, inflamed eye mucous membranes, red skin, (bloody) diarrhea and vomiting.

 

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