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DAILY DOSE 12th JUNE -2024 CURRENT AFFAIRS
1) Hunar se Rozgar Scheme:
- The Ministry of Tourism has been implementing the Hunar se Rozgar Scheme (skill to employment) since 2006 and it needs to relaxation in bureaucratic norms to boost participation.
- Hunar se Rozgar Scheme has significant potential to skill and employ youth in the tourism sector.
- The primary goal of the scheme is to offer short-term vocational training to non-literate, semi-literate, and educated unemployed youth aged 18-28 years to improve their skills and employability.
- It enables less-educated youth to pursue formal employment after brief training.
2) Southern Cryonics:
- Southern Cryonics (a company in Australia) announced that it has successfully frozen its first client, with the hope of bringing him back to life in the future.
- The first patient was an 80-year-old man, who died in May 2024 at a hospital in Sydney.
- Cryonics involves keeping the human body at cryogenic temperatures (-196°C) in the hopes that one day, medical science will be able to repair the molecular damage caused by ageing and disease and bring the patient back to full health.
- The process involves initially cooling the man’s body to 6 degrees Celsius with ice, using a heart-lung bypass machine to circulate a preserving solution and lower the temperature.
3) Global Debt Crisis : UN Report
- A report released by the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) titled “A World of Debt 2024: A Growing Burden to Global Prosperity,” has revealed an unprecedented global debt crisis in the world.
- Approximately 3.3 billion people currently live in countries where the payment of interest on debts surpasses the expenditure on either education or health.
Highlights of the Report:
- Institute of International Finance (a global association of financial institutions) has estimated that global debt (including borrowings of households, businesses and governments) has reached USD 315 trillion in 2024, which is 3 times the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- Global public debt is rising rapidly, due to a combination of recent crises (such as Covid-19, rising food and energy prices, climate change, etc.) and a sluggish global economy (slowing growth of economy, rising bank interest rates etc).
4) Agnipath Scheme : Update
- The ruling-party government’s ambitious Agnipath scheme, announced in June 2022, has been facing opposition from various political parties and Armed Forces veterans.
- Ongoing concerns highlight the scheme’s impact on military recruitment and the welfare of soldiers.
- The term “Agniveer” translates to “Fire-Warriors” and is a new military rank.
- It is a scheme of recruiting army personnel below officer ranks such as soldiers, airmen, and sailors who are not commissioned officers to the Indian Armed Forces.
- They are recruited for a period of 4 years, after which, upto 25% of these recruits (called Agniveers), can join the services on a permanent commission (another 15 years), subject to merit and organisational requirements.
5) 17th PM-KISAN Instalment:
- After being re-elected for a third term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first act was to approve the 17th installment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) plan. By giving out about Rs 20,000 crore, this new payment is expected to help about 9.3 crore farmers.
- The PM-KISAN scheme, which started in February 2019 and went into force in December 2018, is meant to help all eligible farmers’ families across India by giving them money. Each qualified farmer gets ₹6,000 a year from the program.
- This money is given to people in need in three equal payments of ₹2,000 every four months. It is sent straight to their bank accounts.
6) Aditya-L1 Spacecraft : Image
- The Aditya-L1 spacecraft started its trip toward the Sun on September 2, 2023.
- It was India’s first mission to study the sun. The Lagrangian point L1 was successfully reached on January 6, 2024, just 127 days after launch.
- It is in a key location about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
- The location at L1 is very important because it gives the spacecraft a clear view of the Sun, which makes monitoring the Sun easier all the time.
- Two important tools that Aditya-L1 has are the Solar Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) and the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC).
- These tools are very important for recording and studying things that happen in the sun. In May 2024, there was an unusually long time of high solar activity.
7) Birsa Munda : Death Anniversary
- The Jharkhand Governor and Chief Minister recently paid tribute to tribal icon Birsa Munda on his death anniversary.
- Birsa Munda was a folk hero and a tribal freedom fighter who played a pivotal role in the Indian independence movement, particularly in the tribal regions of British India.
- He belonged to the Munda tribe in the Chota Nagpur Plateau area.
- He spearheaded an Indian tribal mass movement that arose in the Bihar and Jharkhand belts in the early 19th century under British colonisation.
- Munda rallied the tribals to fight against the forceful land grabbing carried out by the British government, which would turn the tribals into bonded labourers and force them to abject poverty.
- He influenced his people to realise the importance of owning their land and asserting their rights over it.
8) Four-Horned Antelope:
- A rare four-horned antelope has been sighted for the first time in Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve (Sagar district), which was earlier known as Nauradehi Sanctuary.
- Four-Horned Antelope also called Chousingha, is a small bovid antelope.
- They are the smallest antelopes found in Asia.
- Scientific Name: Tetracerus quadricornis
- It is endemic to India and Nepal.
- In India, they range from the foothills of the Himalayas in the north to the Deccan Plateau in the south.
9) AIM – ICDK Water Challenge 4.0
- Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog (AIM) announced the launch of two groundbreaking initiatives aimed at fostering innovation and sustainability in India: the ‘AIM – ICDK Water Challenge 4.0’ and the fifth edition of ‘Innovations for You’ handbook, spotlighting SDG entrepreneurs of India.
- The AIM – ICDK Water Challenge 4.0 is an initiative launched by the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) under NITI Aayog to address critical water-related challenges through inventive solutions.
- The challenge is a collaborative effort with the Innovation Centre Denmark (ICDK) at the Royal Danish Embassy in India.
Objectives:
- Address water challenges: To address critical water-related challenges through innovative solutions..
10) SPS Agreement:
- India and the US informed the World Trade Organization (WTO) that they have reached a mutually agreed solution on the outstanding dispute on poultry imports from Washington, thereby resolving all of their seven disputes at the global trade watchdog.
- The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) is a treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that came into force with the establishment of the WTO on January 1, 1995.
- It sets out the basic rules for food safety and animal and plant health standards.
- SPS measures must be based on scientific principles and sufficient evidence, except for provisional measures.
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