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DAILY DOSE 6th JULY -2024 CURRENT AFFAIRS
1) Successful Completion Of 9 Years Of The Digital India Initiative:
- The Prime Minister praised the successful completion of 9 years of the Digital India initiative, highlighting its role in enhancing ‘Ease of Living’ and transparency.
- Digital India Initiative launched in 2015 aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It covers various projects from Central Ministries, Departments, and States/UTs.
- Key focus areas include:
- Digital infrastructure
- Governance
- Services on demand
- Digital empowerment of citizens
2) Meta 3D Gen AI System:
- Meta has introduced a new AI tool that can generate or retexture 3D objects in under a minute.
- Meta 3D Gen AI System is a combined AI system that can generate high-quality 3D assets, with both high-resolution textures and material maps, all within one minute.
- It uses two AI-powered sub-systems called Meta 3D AssetGen and Meta 3D TextureGen.
- The system can take text prompts from the user and produce a final output of AI-generated 3D content such as characters, props or scenes.
- Additionally, the user can also provide the system with an already created 3D mesh, which is essentially the structure of a 3D model and ask it to add texture to it.
3) Exercise NOMADIC ELEPHANT:
- India-Mongolia Joint Military Exercise NOMADIC ELEPHANT is scheduled to be conducted from 03rd to 16th July 2024 in Umroi, Meghalaya.
- Exercise NOMADIC ELEPHANT is the 16th edition of the India-Mongolia Joint Military Exercise.
- A Battalion of SIKKIM SCOUTS is representing the Indian contingent comprising of 45 personnel along with personnel from other arms and services.
- It is an annual training event conducted alternatively in India and Mongolia. The last edition was conducted in Mongolia in July 2023.
- Aim is to enhance the joint military capability of both sides to undertake counter-insurgency operations in a sub-conventional scenario under Chapter VII of the United Nations Mandate.
4) Jadui Pitara:
- Jadui Pitara’ -a play-based learning-teaching material tailored for children between the age group of 3-8 years
- Developed under the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (part of the implementation of the New Education Policy 2020)
- Available in 13 Indian languages
- Includes playbooks, toys, puzzles, posters, flashcards, storybooks, and worksheets that reflect local culture and social contexts.
- Aim:
- Accommodate the diverse needs of learners and pique curiosity
- Making the learning-teaching environment more child-centric, lively, and joyful
5) First Meeting Of The Colombo Process:
- India chaired the first meeting of the Colombo Process in Geneva, marking its first time at the helm.
- Colombo Process is a regional consultative forum comprising 12 Asian member states and aims to share best practices related to overseas employment for South and Southeast Asian countries that send migrant workers abroad.
- The member states include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- The forum, founded by 10 of these states, makes non-binding decisions by consensus.
6) Megafauna:
- The discovery of a 41,000-year-old ostrich nest by a team of archaeologists in Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh could provide key information about the extinction of megafauna in the Indian subcontinent.
- Megafauna term is generally used to describe animals weighing more than 50 kg.
- The term was first used by the English naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace in his 1876 book, The Geographical Distribution of Animals.
- Megafauna may be classified based on their dietary type as megaherbivores (plant-eaters), megacarnivores (meat-eaters), and megaomnivores (who eat both plants and meat).
- Ostriches are megaomnivores, with an adult ostrich weighing anywhere between 90 and 140 kg, with height between seven and nine feet.
7) Windfall Tax : Increased
- The Indian government has increased the windfall tax on domestically produced crude oil from Rs 3,250 per tonne to Rs 6,000 per tonne.
- A Windfall Tax is a type of tax that is levied on companies or individuals who have unexpectedly and/or dramatically gained large profits, often due to external factors beyond their control.
- It is commonly levied on industries such as oil, gas, and mining.
- The purpose is to capture a portion of the extraordinary profits that companies make and redistribute it for public good.
- It is a strategic measure to promote transparency and fairness and responsible economic practices in the energy industry.
8) Indian Solar Mission Aditya-L1 Completes Its 1st Halo Orbit Around the Sun-Earth L1 Point:
- The Aditya-L1 spacecraft, India’s 1st space-based solar observatory mission at Lagrangian point 1 (L1), completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point. The spacecraft in the Halo orbit takes 178 days to complete one revolution around L1.
- During its travel into the halo orbit, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft undergoes Station-Keeping (SK) maneuvers to maintain its orbit due to various perturbing forces.
9) Dick Schoof sworn in as the New Prime Minister of Netherlands:
- Willem-Alexander, the King of the Netherlands swore in Dick Schoof as the New Prime Minister(PM) of the Netherlands at the ceremony held in Huis Ten Bosch Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.
- He succeeds Mark Rutte, who served as the PM of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024.
- Rutte is set to take over as the New Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in October 2024.
10) LIC Re-designated Siddhartha Mohanty as its CEO and Managing Director (MD):
- Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), India’s largest Public Sector Insurance Company, has re-designated its Chairman, Siddhartha Mohanty as its new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with effect from 30th June 2024.
- He was appointed as chairman of LIC in April 2023 until 29th June 2024 and was also appointed as MD and CEO of LIC from June 2024 until 7th June 2025.
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