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Astronomers recently discovered five young star clusters, and possibly the oldest star clusters ever, born from the time when the Universe was an infant.
A Star cluster is either of two general types of stellar assemblages held together by the mutual gravitational attraction of its members, which are physically related through common origin.
They are particularly useful to astronomers as they provide a way to study and model stellar evolution and ages.
The two basic categories of stellar clusters are open clusters, also known as galactic clusters and globular clusters.
Open clusters are so named due to the fact that the individual component stars are easily resolved through a telescope.

With the aim of strengthening ties among the administrations of African countries and India in the postal sector, the ‘India Africa Postal Leaders Meet’ was organised in India.
It is an initiative under the “South- South and Triangular Cooperation” programme of the Universal Postal Union and is organised with the support of India Post and the United States Postal Service.
The key theme of the meet is capacity building, through study visits.
During the study visits India Post demonstrated the delivery of services through India Post, including e-commerce parcels, Dak Niryat Kendras, postal financial services by the India Post Payments Bank, Aadhaar enabled services, Passport services and Digital Life Certificate.

3) Livestock Census : Upcoming

The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD) hosted a workshop for the upcoming 21st Livestock Census scheduled for September to December 2024.
This aimed to equip State and Union Territory officers with the necessary tools, including a mobile app and software, for efficient data collection during the census.
Officials were trained on data collation strategies and familiarized with various registered breeds of livestock.
A livestock census has been conducted across the country every 5 years since 1919.

The exhibition depicting 115 oil paintings of Shivaji Maharaj was organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) to mark the 350th anniversary of the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji .
The paintings at the exhibition were created under the guidance of Padma Vibhushan Babasaheb Purandare.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was crowned as the king of the Marathas on 6th June 1674, at Raigad.
He was born on 19th February 1630 at Shivneri Fort in District Pune.
His father Shahaji Bhonsle was a Maratha general under the Bijapur Sultanate and his mother was Jijabai.
He took on the titles of Chhatrapati, Shakakarta, Kshatriya Kulavantas and Haindava Dharmodhhaarak.

Julian Assange is en route to a courtroom on the Pacific island of Saipan where he is expected to plead guilty to a single criminal charge in a plea deal that will see him walk free and return home to Australia.
Saipan Island is located in the Western Pacific Ocean.
It is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), a US commonwealth in the western Pacific which beginsroughly 70 km (44 miles) north of Guam and stretches across 14 islands.
It was a colony of Spain, Germany and then Japan, the United States took control of the island in World War-II.
Like territories such as Guam or Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands are part of the US without the full status of a state.

A rare Indian Painted Frog was recently sighted at Telangana’s Kawal Tiger Reserve, marking a significant find outside its usual habitats.
Indian Painted Frog is a species of narrow-mouthed frog that is part of the Microhylidae family.
Scientific Name: Uperodon taprobanicus
It is found in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, southern and eastern India, and Nepal up to an altitude of about 1300 metres.
It is most common in Sri Lanka.

7) Annual Ambubachi Mela:

Guwahati’s Kamakhya temple started annual Ambubachi Mela, with festivities underway.
The Ambubachi Mela is an annual Hindu fair held at the historic Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati.
It takes place during the monsoon season, specifically in the Assamese month of Ahaar, around the middle of June.
The festival celebrates the yearly menstruation course of goddess Maa Kamakhya and is also known as Ameti or Tantric fertility festival due to its association with the Tantric Shakti cult prevalent in eastern India. It is managed jointly by the Assam government and the Kamakhya Temple Management Committee

8) Lake Natron:

According to experts, the population of flamingos on Lake Natron is steadily declining as fewer birds return each year due to extreme weather and encroachment.
Lake Natron is a salt lake located on the border between Tanzania and Kenya, part of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley.
It is a Ramsar site and has a unique composition of warm waters and salt, caustic soda, and magnesite deposits that provide ideal conditions for flamingos to thrive.
The lake is fed by the Ewaso Ng’iro River, which originates from the central region of Kenya.

9) Priority Sector Lending:

The RBI recently revised its priority sector guidelines to encourage banks to provide small loans in economically disadvantaged districts with low average loan sizes.
Priority Sector Lending (PSL) is a lending requirement administered by the RBI, requiring banks to give a minimum proportion of their loans to sectors of development importance or the sectors that have difficulty of getting loans.
The RBI is periodically updating the sectors that are eligible to get priority sector lending and the limits of loans.
Similarly, the regulations identify institutions that are obliged to provide these loans.

10) World Craft City:

Srinagar has earned the World Craft City (WCC) tag from the World Crafts Council (WCC).
World Craft City is a groundbreaking initiative launched in 2014 by the World Crafts Council AISBL (WCC-International) in recognition of the pivotal role local authorities, craftspeople, and communities play in cultural, economic, and social development worldwide.
It establishes a dynamic network of craft cities across the globe, aligning with the principles of the creative economy.
Under the World Craft City Programme, Jaipur(Rajasthan), Mammalapuram (Tamil Nadu) and Mysore (Karnataka) have been added as craft cities from India.