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DAILY DOSE 20th  JULY -2024 CURRENT AFFAIRS

 

1) Enemy Property In India:

  • The Indian government has begun to auction properties classified as ‘enemy properties’.
  • Enemy Property are those immovable and moveable assets which were left behind by people who took citizenship of Pakistan and China after leaving India during the partition and post the 1962 and 1965 wars.
  • Besides real estate, enemy property may also include bank accounts, shares, gold, and other assets of such individuals.
  • The enemy properties are vested with the Custodian of Enemy Property for India (CEPI), an authority created under the Enemy Property Act, 1968.
  • The 2017 amendment to the Act (Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2017) stated that the successorsof those who migrated to Pakistan and China ceased to have a claim over the properties left behind in India.

 

2) Rwanda : Election

  • Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has smashed his own record by winning recent elections with more than 99% of the vote.
  • Rwanda is a landlocked countrylocated south of the equator in east-central Africa.
  • It is part of the Great Rift Valley region of Africa.
  • Often referred to as the “land of a thousand hills”, Rwanda’s landscape is mostly hilly and mountainous.
  • It covers an area of 26,338 sq. km.
  • Rwanda shares a border with the four nations of Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Capital: Kigali

 

3) Gaia Spacecraft:

  • Gaia spacecraft has faced and overcome significant challenges in its mission to map over a billion stars in the Milky Way.
  • Gaia Spacecraft was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013.
  • It is located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2).
  • It monitors each of its target stars about 14 times per year. It is precisely charting their positions, distances, movements, and changes in brightness.
  • It is expected to discover hundreds of thousands of new celestial objects, such as extra-solar planets and brown dwarfs, and observe hundreds of thousands of asteroids within our own Solar System
  • The mission is also studying more than 1 million distant quasars and providing stringent new tests of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.

 

4) Khelo India Rising Talent Identification (KIRTI) Program:

  • The Government’s ambitious Khelo India Rising Talent Identification (KIRTI) program is set to get a fresh boost under the leadership of the Union Minister for Youth Affairs.
  • Khelo India Rising Talent Identification (KIRTI) Program is aimed at school children between nine and 18 years age group.
  • The nation-wide scheme will have two main objectives to hunt talent from every nook and corner of the country and
  • KIRTI made a solid launch across 50 centres in India. Fifty thousand applicants are being assessed in the first phase across 10 sports, including athletics, boxing, wrestling, hockey, football and wrestling.

 

 

5) UN Water Convention : Ivory Coast Joined

  • Ivory Coast joined the United Nations Water Convention, becoming the 10th African nation to do so.
  • It is also known as the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes which was adopted in Helsinki in 1992 and entered into force in 1996.
  • It is a unique legally binding instrument promoting the sustainable management of shared water resources, the implementation of the SustainableDevelopment Goals, the prevention of conflicts, and the promotion of peace and regional integration.
  • It was originally negotiated as a regional framework for the pan-European region.
  • It requires Parties to prevent, control and reduce transboundary impact, use transboundary waters in a reasonable and equitable way and ensure their sustainable management.

 

 

6) Foreigners Tribunals:

  • The Assam government asked the Border wing of the State’s police not to forward cases of non-Muslims who entered India illegally before 2014 to the Foreigners Tribunals (FTs).
  • Foreigners Tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies formed through the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order of 1964 under Section 3 of the Foreigners’ Act of 1946, to let local authorities in a State refer a person suspected to be a foreigner to tribunals.
  • The FTs are currently exclusive to Assam as cases of “illegal immigrants” are dealt with according to the Foreigners’ Act in other States.
  • Each FT is headed by a member drawn from judges, advocates, and civil servants with judicial experience.

 

7) SEBI : Introduction Of a New Asset Class Or Product Category

  • The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has proposed the introduction of a new asset class or product category.
  • This move is aimed at providing investors with a regulated investment product that features higher risk-taking capabilities, while also curbing the proliferation of unregistered and unauthorised investment products.
  • The minimum investment threshold under the new asset class has been proposed at Rs 10 lakh per investor.
  • SEBI proposes distinct naming for this new asset class to differentiate it from traditional MFs, PMS, Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (INVITs).

 

8) The Voicebox Programme:

  • The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has joined hands with Netflix India to launch an upskilling program for voice-over artists in India called “The Voicebox”.
  • Voicebox Programme will offer Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) training for voice-over artists focusing on English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati languages.
  • The program is open to professionals, preferably women, with more than two years of experience in the media and entertainment sector, who are eager to enhance their skills in voice-over.
  • It is sponsored by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity, which has dedicated $100 million a year over five years to setting underrepresented communities up for success in the TV and film industries through programs all around the world.

 

9) 5th Positive Indigenization List And Internal Security Plan:

  • The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has recently notified a fifth Positive Indigenisation List (PIL) comprising defence items, aimed at boosting self-reliance and minimizing imports and encouraging the domestic defence sector.
  • Key Highlights of the Fifth Positive Indigenisation List:
  • The fifth PIL comprises 346 items aimed at advancing Aatmanirbharta (self-reliance) in defence and reducing import dependence by Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs).
  • It ensures that these items are procured exclusively from the Indian industry, including Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and startups.
  • Items include strategically important Line Replacement Units (LRUs), systems, sub-systems, assemblies, sub-assemblies, spares, components, and raw materials.

 

10)  Grand Slam : Winner

  • Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz has beaten Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the men’s single tennis Wimbledon final match, winning his 4th Grand Slam title.
  • Alcaraz became the youngest player to win 4 Grand Slam titles, achieving this before the age of 22.
  • The new generation of tennis players, led by Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner (from Italy), has won 4 of the last 5 Grand Slams, signalling a shift in the balance of power in men’s tennis.
  • Grand Slam refers to winning all 4 major tennis championships in the same calendar season – Australia, France, Britain (Wimbledon), and the US.

 

 

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