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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on October 21, 2022 said most of the “hotspots” in the country are almost free from anti-national activities now and the situation in major security theatres has improved over the last eight years of the Narendra Modi government.

He said more than 70% decline has been recorded in incidents of violence that were reported from insurgency-hit areas of the Northeast during this time period and this is an indicator of a “happy Northeast”.

Same was the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as well as in the states affected by Naxal violence, the Minister said while addressing top Police and paramilitary forces commanders at the National Police Memorial in the Chanakyapuri area here on the occasion of the National Police Commemoration Day.

To bolster investments in solar power projects, the (ISA), in its General Assembly meeting here on Tuesday, approved the Solar Facility, a payment guarantee mechanism expected to stimulate investments into solar projects through two financial components a Solar Payment Guarantee Fund and Solar Insurance Fund.

The thrust of the facility is to attract private capital to flow into underserved markets in Africa. The ISA would aim to crowdsource investments from various donors across the globe and proposed projects in Africa would be able to purchase payment guarantees or partial insurance premium from these funds.

The Union Minister for Road Transport launched iRASTE, an -powered project. The venture goals to help decrease avenue accidents, recognize the Elements accountable for these activities and come up with solutions to mitigate them. iRASTE is acronymed as Intelligent Solutions for Road Safety through Technology and Engineering.

Highlights:

The project was launched on a pilot foundation in Nagpur, Maharashtra with the target of reducing accidents by 50 % in the city.

The task is launched jointly by the Centre, Intel, INAI, IIIT-Hyderabad, CSIR-CRRI (Central Road Research Institute), Mahindra & Mahindra and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).

The important focal point of the undertaking will focus on automobile safety, mobility analysis and road Infrastructure security to go closer to a Vision Zero accident scenario.

The Ministry of Law and Justice has launched a Pan-India Special Campaign called Ek Pahal Drive for Justice Delivery at doorstep.

The campaign was launched in a bid to encourage mass registration under Tele-Law.

The campaign was launched by Department of Justice and NALSA.

This campaign seeks to actualize the aspiration of access to justice for citizens in India.

The Preamble to the Constitution of India has recognised Justice as the first deliverable for the Indian citizens. A successful and vibrant Democracy is where every citizen not only get guaranteed justice, but where justice is equitable. This principal mandates for State to create an Environment where justice-delivery is looked as a citizen-centric service rather than a sovereign function.

Tata Steel has commissioned the first carbon capture plant of India that extracts CO2 at once from the blast furnace gas, at its Works of Jamshedpur. By this achievement, Tata Steel has come to be the countrys first steel corporation to adopt such a carbon seize technology. The CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilization) plant was inaugurated by T.V. Narendran (CEO and MD of Tata Steel) in the presence of employer officers and different dignitaries.

Highlights:

The plant can seize 5 tonnes of CO2 per day (5-tonne per day (TPD)). The agency will reuse the captured CO2 on-site in order to promote a circular carbon economy.

The CCU facility uses amine-based technological know-how and makes the captured carbon available for onsite reuse.

The depleted CO2 gasoline is sent lower back to the fuel Network with multiplied calorific value. This task has been performed with technological aid from Carbon Clean, a global leader in low cost CO2 capture technology.

World Bamboo Day is found each and every year on 18 September to raise attention to the benefits of bamboo & to promote its use in daily products.

Highlights:

Bamboos are used for a number of functions more often than not in East & Southeast Asia.

Bamboo is a very tall, tree-like grass of the Poaceae family. It includes greater than a hundred and fifteen genera and 1,400 species.

The theme of 2021 is #PlantBamboo: It Is Time To Plant Bamboo

WBD was formally declared by the World Bamboo Organization (WBO) on September 18 at the eighth World Bamboo Congress held in Bangkok in 2009.

The intention of the WBO is to bring the achievable use of bamboo to greater expanded exposure, to develop new cultivation of bamboo for new industries in regions across the globe, and to promote ordinary uses domestically for neighborhood financial development, etc.

The World Water Monitoring Day is determined every year on September 18 when you consider that 2003 to extend public awareness and involvement in water monitoring and protecting water sources around the world.

Highlights:

This day is celebrated to increase public recognition and involvement in water monitoring and protecting water sources around the world.

The Water Monitoring Day engages people of all ages in monitoring the situation of local rivers, streams, estuaries and different water bodies. The theme 2021 is valuing water.

The day was determined in 2003 through Americas Clean Water Foundation (ACWF) as a global academic outreach program by enticing citizens to habitually monitor their neighborhood water bodies.

The tournament is now coordinated with the aid of the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association.

PM Narendra Modi launched the Vehicle Scrappage Policy in India on Friday, 13 August, at the Gujarat Investor Summit and requested youths and start-ups to be part of the programme.

Highlights:

Personal vehicles older than 20 years and business automobiles older than 15 years will have to bear a Health test at government registered automated fitness centres.

Vehicles that fail to omit the test will be declared as end-of-life vehicles that means that they would have to be recycled. Thus, paving the way for older motors to be scrapped.

In case, the automobiles ignore the test, the proprietors will have to pay a hefty rate for re-registration that would be hiked to around eight instances for non-public vehicles, and around 20 times for commercial vehicles.

The coverage is a waste-to-wealth mission and an important phase of the round financial system that will reduce pollution in our cities and additionally replicate the governments dedication toward speedy development.

The policy will additionally convey investments worth extra than Rs 10,000 crore and, in the process, create EMPLOYMENT possibilities for lots of youngsters.

The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the manufacturer -SonChiraiya for Urban SHG products.

Details:

The SonChiraiya company and logo used to be launched by way of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for advertising urban Self-Help Group (SHG) products.

This initiative will prove as a step in the right direction in the direction of expanded visibility and world entry for the products made through city SHG Women.

The Ministry expects to hyperlink many extra such SHG members, with a range of professionally packaged, homemade ethnic products, accomplishing the doorsteps of the clients globally.

Indias first Cattle Genomic Chip IndiGau was released. IndiGau is Indias first Cattle Genomic Chip for the conservation of pure types of indigenous cattle breeds like Gir, Kankrej, Sahiwal, Ongole, etc.

About IndiGau:

This indigenous chip was once developed by way of the concerted efforts of scientists of the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, an self-reliant institution underneath the aegis of the Department of Biotechnology.

According to the announcement released, IndiGau is the biggest cattle chip in the world.

It has 11,496 markers (SNPs) extra than that placed on 777K Illumina chips of US & UK breeds.

IndiGau will have sensible utility in the authorities schemes to attain the purpose of conservation of the indigenous breeds with better characteristics.

SNP chip:

SNP chip is a small sliver of glass, about the dimension of a fingernail, into which are etched a very giant variety of very small pits. Each of these hold a tiny quantity of DNA, which has been extracted from the tissue pattern of an animal or plant and can be read via a DNA sequence-reading machine.

Four more Indian sites – two every from Haryana and Gujarat – have been acknowledged as wetlands of global significance below the Ramsar Convention.

Highlights:

Further, according to latest estimates through Wetlands International South Asia, almost 30% of the natural wetlands in India have been misplaced in the last three decades. Majorly, the loss of Wetlands is extra distinguished in Urban areas.

Wetlands International of South Asia was established in the year 1996, with an office in New Delhi, as a section of the Wetlands International community to promote conservation and sustainable improvement of wetlands in the South Asia region.

New Ramsar Sites:

The Ramsar Convention has specified four new wetlands in India, as wetlands of world importance.

Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary which is the largest wetland in Haryana is a human-made freshwater wetland.

Sultanpur from Haryana helps more than 220 species of resident, iciness migratory and nearby migratory waterbirds at integral degrees of their existence cycles.

The Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat lies on the Central Asian Flyway and more than 320 chook species can be found here.

Wadhwana Wetland from Gujarat is internationally necessary for its birdlife as it provides a wintering floor to migratory waterbirds, such as over 80 species that migrate on the Central Asian Flyway.