The Hindu Notes

26 May

1. World's Children's Prize (WCP) Foundation

-Child Rights Hero ceremony

-WCP Child Rights Hero of the Decade award

-Honorary award

2. Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) 

-developed android application- CLART - Composite landscape assessment and restoration tool

-Geographic information system based app

-helps recharge of ground water or augment surface water availability depending upon location

3. Kumbhirgram- the existing airport for Barak Valley operated by the Indian Air force

4. Export of sugar

-restricted beyond 10 million tonnes

-the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)- specific permission from the Directorate of Sugar, Department of Food and Public Distribution for export of sugar between June 1 and October 31 or till further orders 

-on receiving applications from sugar mills and exporters, the Export Release Orders (EROs) will be released

5. National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report

-asses the health of the school education system

-survey of children's learning competencies at classes 3, 5, 8, 10

6. Captain Abhilasha Barak

-first women to join the Army Aviation Corps as combat aviator

-Combat Army Aviation Training School- Nashik

Cheetah

Dhruv- advanced light helicopter

Rudra- weaponised 

7. International Labour Organisation (ILO)

-document- Inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex an queer (LGBTIQ+) persons in  the world of work 

8. SEAR- South East Asia Region 

-one quarter of world's population

-40% of global poor

-30% of the overall disease burden

9. SC recognizes sex work as a profession

-under special powers- Article 142 of the constitution 

-police should not interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers

-only running the brothel is unlawful

-a child of a sex worker should not be separated from the mother merely on the ground that she is in the sex trade

-if a minor is found living in a brothel or with sex workers, it should not be presumed that the child was trafficked

-Medico legal support on abuse

10. Numocity - a digital platform for electric vehicle charging

29   May

1. QUAD

-India, Australia, Japan, U.S.

-Rolling out MDA- Indo-Pacific maritime domain awareness- share information and maritime surveillance 

-IFC-IOR- Indian Navy's Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region

2. Jamui- Bihar 

-Country's largest gold reserve in Jamui district

-Geological Survey of India says:

-222.88 million tonnes of gold reserve

-which includes- 37.6 tonnes of the mineral rich ore, are present in the district

3. B.A.4 sub-lineage of Omicron variant of coronavirus

4. Laterite cave discovered at Koodallur, Anakkara gram panchayat - Pallakad district, Kerala

-Kerala's megalithic culture

-ock-cut cave

-double chambered with typical iron age features- twin chambers used for secondary burial

-found- pottery- pots, cooking vessels, lids, ring stand, bowls, dishes and shallow dishes

-Red and black russet coated painted (RCP) ware

-Iron objects- a knife, a dagger, iron bar hook and a hanging lamp stand

5. K-stores: Kerala stores

-1000 ration outlets to serve as multi-service centres in remote areas

-ATM services available- Can withdraw up to 5000 rupee

-utility services

-various e services provided by Akshaya centres

-cooking gas

-Supplyco outlets

-Milma booths

6. NADI-3 Asian Confluence River conclave- Guwahati 

-NADI- River- vision- sub-regional cooperation in the Bay of Bengal region and South East Asia

-Recognizes the region south of Himalayas from Ganga and Brahmaputra to Mekong - contiguity of river basin with common challenges

 

-India-Japan Act East Forum-  launch 2017

7. CITU- the Centre of Indian Trade Unions

Bureau for Workers Activities (ACTRAV)  of ILO

Committee on Freedom of Association

10. Oxfam Report

CMIE- Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy

Nav Sankalp Economic Policy (NSEP)

NYAY- Nyuntam aai yojana- minimum income support

11. Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSS)- extended for another 5 years

-Introduced in 2011 by Congress-led UPA government

-for students from Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh 

-for 5000 meritorious students each year to study in private and government educational institutions across the country

-annual budget- 180 -190 crores 

-implemented by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

-features:

-4,500 seats for general education courses (Bachelor's in Arts, Commerce and Science)- scholarship- 1.3 lakh, includes 1 lakh for maintenance fees that covers hostel and mess charges

-250 for engineering ( scholarship- 2.25 lakh) and medical degrees (scholarship- 4 lakh)

12. Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994

13. Lidar- Laser remote- sensing technology

- to map land inhabited by the Casarabe culture - AD 500 to 1400- Bolivia, south west corner of Amazon Basin

14. Third limb

-parrots use heads to propel themselves

15 Coccolithophores- single celled planktons

-lived in seas millions of years ago- from three Jurassic and Cretaceous warming events (94, 120 and 183)- were resilient to past climate change

-left microscopic imprints or ghosts

30 May

1. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

-parent body of UIDAI

2. 'Dastan-e-Chouboli' - Mahmood Farooqui and Darain Shahid

-Chouboli- Rajasthan folk tale adapted by Mr. Farooqui to the 5th century Dastangoi tration of story telling - its a story within a story 

-Arts and Literature Foundation

-Old World Hospitality-runs Habitat World at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi

3. Section 358 Cr. P.C 

-fine to be imposed on a person on whose complaint a person is arrested without sufficient grounds

4. BRICS

-Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

-BRICS Vaccine Research and Development Centre

5. World Trade Organisation- TRIPS - Geneva

6. NADI- Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence conclave

-projects announced:

1. 20 railway projects worth 74000 crores for 2011 km spread across northeast

2. 4000km of roads with a total cost of 58000 crores

3. Indo- Bangladesh Protocol Routes- to be increased from existing 8 to 10

-Protocol Routes are reviewed every 5 years. Recent review- May 2022

4. Further development of National Waterway -1 on Ganges

-NW-2 on Brahmaputra

-NW-16 on Barak

7. US surpasses China to become India's top trading partner in 2021-22

June 2, 22

1. Microbial Fuel cell (MFC)

-developed by Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

-a bio-electrochemical device that can generate 'Green energy' by treating waste water

2. Manas National Park

-500 sq. km

-UNESCO  World Heritage Site 

-straddling Assam and Bhutan 

-140 km west of Guwahati

-NTCA (Normative Standards for Tourism and Project Tiger) Guidelines 2012

-Phase out night stay tourism from the core areas of tiger reserves

-no new tourism structure should be constructed in critical tiger habitat of reserves 

-Supreme Court Directives-

July 2018

forest rest houses or inspection bunglows were facilities created for the camping of forest officers primarily to discharge their duties connected with conservation, protection and management of forests and wildlife and such facilities could not be used for tourism purposes

3. Rushikonda Hills, Visakhapatnam

-NGT is subordinate to the High Court in so far as territorial jurisdiction is concerned.

4. British Residency, Hyderabad

-216 year old building

-Sculpted pillars

-ornate papier mache ceiling

-Oval ballrooms of Darbar Hall 

5. Industry Transition Dialogue, Stockholm as a part of Leadership for Industry Transition (LeadIT)

-India and Sweden- jointly hosting

 -United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change for climate change- Nationally Determined Contributions

-Paris Agreement

-First United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, Sweden- 50 years age from June 5 to 16 in 1972

-The Stockholm conference led to the creation of United Nations Environment Programe

6. Government allows the cooperatives to sell products on Government-e- Marketplace (GeM)

-transaction fee will be charged to cover the incremental loss

-Private buyers cannot buy on GeM

-Private people can sell products to government bodies through the portal

-Ministry of Cooperation and GeM SPV(Special Purpose Vehicle) to decide the validated list of cooperatives to be onboarded on the platform

7. Section 164 Cr.PC - recording of confessions ad statements before a magistrate