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History: 8th February
· 1872, 8th Feb: Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India, was killed by a prisoner named Sher Ali in the Andaman Islands.
- 1785, 8th Feb: Warren Hastings, who was the First Governor-General of Bengal from 1774 to 1785, left India.
- 1943, 8th Feb: Freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left for Japan via a ferry from Kell, Germany.
- 2000, 8th Feb: The government of Maharashtra decided to celebrate Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s birth anniversary on 19th February.
1) India has been ranked at the 38th position out of 139 countries in the Logistics Performance Index Report 2023: World Bank.
- According to the World Bank’s ‘Logistics Performance Index Report (2023): Connecting to Compete 2023’, India ranks 38 out of 139 countries.
- India’s rank has improved by six places from 44 in 2018 and sixteen places from 54 in 2014.
- The LPI was reported by the World Bank every two years from 2010 to 2018 with a break in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a restructuring of the index methodology, eventually came out in 2023.
- LPI 2023 allows for comparison across 139 countries and for the first time, LPI 2023 measures the speed of trade with indicators derived from big datasets tracking shipments.
2) 2026 FIFA World Cup final to be played in New Jersey
- The 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, U.S., on July 19.
- FIFA announced a Miami television studio, allocating the opener of the 39-day tournament spread across three North American nations to Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca on June 11 and the finale to the home of the NFL’s New York Jets and Giants.
- Seventy-eight of 104 matches of the first World Cup held in three nations will be played in the U.S., with 13 games each in Mexico and Canada.
3) Vidyanjali Scholarship Programme:
- The Union Minister of Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship recently launched the EdCIL Vidyanjali Scholarship Programme.
- This initiative guarantees access to high-quality learning systems by facilitating a seamless transition from secondary to higher education and extending financial support for the meritorious Navodaya Vidyalaya students who lack means.
- The beneficiaries of the Vidyanjali programme in its initial phase will be students of grades XI and XII studying in Navodaya Vidyalayas across the country.
4) Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary : Welcomed a New Batch Of Animals
- The Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary of Tripura recently welcomed a new batch of animals, which include two Royal Bengal tigers, two leopards, four golden pigeons, a silver pigeon, two peafowls, and four hill mynas.
- Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary (SWL) is located around 25 km from Agartala, Tripura.
- To conserve and propagate the biodiversity of the area, the Sepahijala bio-complex came into existence in 1972.
- With the addition of a botanical garden, a deer park, and a zoo, the bio-complex was subsequently attributed to the status of Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary in early 1987.
- It is spread over 18.5 sq. km and is home to migratory birds and animals.
- The wildlife sanctuary is divided into five sections, basically to segregate the different types of animals living here.
- They are the carnivore section, primate section, ungulate section, reptile section, and aviary section.
- It also has two natural lakes, namely Abasarika and Amrit Sagar.
- Clouded Leopard National Park, established in 2007, is a part of SWL.
- The sanctuary has no less than 456 plant species; many kinds of bamboo and a variety of grasses and medicinal plants also grow in the sanctuary.
5) India’s First Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility:
- The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) has successfully established and tested India’s first Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility recently.
- The S2, nicknamed ‘Jigarthanda’, is a 24-metre-long facility located at IIT Kanpur’s Hypersonic Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory (HEAL) within the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
- It is India’s first Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility.
- It was indigenously designed and developed over three years with funding and support from the Aeronautical Research and Development Board (ARDB), the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and IIT Kanpur.
- It is capable of generating flight speeds between 3-10 km/s, simulating the hypersonic conditions encountered during the atmospheric entry of vehicles, asteroid entry, scramjet flights, and ballistic missiles.
- It will be a critical asset for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
6) Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras:
- Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) have been allowed by the Government to operate Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras (PMBJK) under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana.
- Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras are set up under Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana, which was launched by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisersin November 2008.
- Objective is to provide quality medicines at affordable prices for all, particularly the poor, so as to reduce out-of-pocket expenses in healthcare.
- These Kendra’s provide generic drugs, which are available at lesser prices but are equivalent in quality and efficacy to expensive branded drugs.
- All therapeutic medicines are made available from Jan Aushadhi Stores.
7) World’s First Melanistic Tiger Safari : Odisha
- Odisha is set to unveil the world’s first melanistic tiger safari near the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR).
Melanism and Melanistic Tiger:
- Melanism is a genetic condition, that results in increased melanin production, leading to black or nearly black skin, feathers, or hair in animals.
- The Royal Bengal Tigers of Similipal boast a distinctive lineage with elevated melanin levels, giving rise to black and yellow interspersed stripes, making them pseudo-melanistic.
- According to the All India Tiger Estimation, 2022, Similipal Tiger Reserve houses 16 tigers, with 10 of them displaying melanistic traits.
- Spanning approximately 200 hectares near Dhanbad-Balasore National Highway-18, the safari site lies in close proximity to STR, providing a landscape akin to Simlipal.
- In the beginning, three melanistic tigers from Nandankanan Zoo, along with rescued or orphaned tigers, will occupy the open enclosures of the safari.
- It aims to raise awareness about the conservation needs of melanistic tigers, providing a platform for researchers and enthusiasts to engage with these rare big cats.
- The project necessitates approvals from the Central Zoo Authority and other regulatory bodies overseeing wildlife initiatives in the country.
- A National Tiger Conservation Authority committee will also conduct a feasibility study of the proposed site before granting final clearance.
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