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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has introduced the fortification of rice distributed below a number of government schemes, together with the (PDS) and mid-day foods in schools, by 2024.

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The announcement is vast as the United States has high levels of Malnutrition amongst Women and children.

According to the Food Ministry, each second lady in the united states of america is anaemic and each and every third baby is stunted.

India ranks ninety four out of 107 countries and is in the serious hunger class on the Global Hunger Index (GHI).

Malnutrition and lack of integral VITAMINS in poor ladies and bad teenagers poses important obstacles in their development.

According to the Food Ministry, fortification of rice is an economical and complementary method to make bigger diets and mineral content in diets.

According to Fssai norms, 1 kg fortified rice will include iron (28 mg-42.5 mg), folic acid (75-125 microgram) & Vitamin B-12 (0.75-1.25 microgram).

The upcoming Tokyo Paralympics will witness the biggest ever Indian contingent being sent, with fifty-four para-sportspersons collaborating throughout 9 Sports disciplines.

The 54-member Indian contingents had been given a formal and virtual send-off on August 12, 2021, by Youth Affairs Minister and Sports Anurag. The 2020 Summer Paralympics Games are scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan from August 24 to September 05, 2021.

Withdrawal of Rs 2,000 notes by Reserve Bank on May 19 and the subsequent near total return of the currency to the system has buoyed deposit accretion to a six-year high of Rs 191.6 lakh crore in June, according to a report.

Earlier this month, the RBI said more than three-fourths of the total 3.62 lakh crore of Rs 2,000 bank notes have come back to the system by way of deposits (over 85 per cent) and the rest as note exchanges.

Deposits rose 13 per cent in the reporting fortnight and sequentially, it expanded by 3.2 per cent to Rs 191.6 lakh crore and in absolute terms, deposits rose by Rs 22 lakh crore in the trailing 12-month period when it had stood at Rs 185.7 lakh crore.

The Centre is aiming for digitising land records across all districts by March 31 next year and the ministry of rural development is also working on linking the digitised records with e-courts and banks to check fraudulent land transactions and prevent disputes.

According to the ministry under the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), 94% digitisation targets have already been achieved across the country. Showing the way to others to meet the targets are 68 districts across nine states Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Tripura, Gujarat, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Assam. On Tuesday they received the Bhoomi Samman from PresidentDroupadi Murmufor meeting 99% and above of the targets on all components of digitisation.

The government, under DILRMP, carries out monthly grading on six components computerisation of land records; digitisation of cadastral maps; linkage of land records with cadastral maps; computerisation of registration; integration of registration (sub registrar office) with land records (revenue office); and creation of a modern record room. The districts are graded as platinum (99% and above), gold (95% and above till 99%) and silver (90% and above till 95%).

India and Argentina discussed the ongoing DEFENCE cooperation initiatives, including measures to enhance defence industrial PARTNERSHIP, the Ministry of Defence said after a bilateral meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Argentine counterpart Jorge Enrique Taiana.

Argentina has shown interest in sourcing Tejas, a Light combat aircraft, from India. The Argentine Minister will visit the public sector giant, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the makers of the plane. Hal has already done its sales pitch with the South American country.

India and Argentina are working closely together to make defence engagements an important facet of their strategic partnership.

The Asian (ADB) on Wednesday retained Indias economic Growth forecast at 6.4 per cent for the current financial year and 6.7 per cent for the next, saying robust domestic demand will continue to support the region’s recovery.

In an update to its Asian Development Outlook, the ADB said Inflation is expected to continue to fall, approaching pre-pandemic levels as fuel and food prices decline. It forecast 3.6 per cent inflation this year for developing economies in Asia, and 3.4 per cent in 2024.

In April, the ADB had projected that India’s economic growth is expected to moderate to 6.4 per cent in the current financial year due to tight monetary conditions and elevated oil prices.

Researchers have discovered a new way to reverse the effects offentanyl, which is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine.
Their research, which was published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, could lead to a new method of reversing overdoses, either through a new product or by working in tandem with naloxone.
According to the Centres for Disease Control, 100,000 Americans die each year from overdoses, the majority of which are caused by the use of synthetic opiates such as fentanyl. While naloxone, the only antidote for opiateoverdose, is becoming more widely available, it is less effective against fentanyl-class synthetic opioids.

Under the Namami Gange Programme, an agreement was signed for the development of a 35 MLD (Mega Liters per day) sewage treatment plant in Maheshtala (a city on the east bank of the Ganga). The project was signed in the form of a Hybrid Annuity PPP.

The Namami Gange program is a comprehensive conseration mission. It was approved by the Union Government as a “flagship program” in June 2014 to achieve the dual goals of effectively reducing pollution and protecting and rejuvenating the national river Ganges.

It is operated by the Ministry of Resources“>Water Resources, River Development and Ganges Rehabilitation Department of Jal Shakti Ministry.

The program is implemented by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and its state counterpart, the State Program Management Group (SPMG).

The National Ganga Council’s implementation wing is the NMCG (set in 2016; which replaced the National Ganga River Basin Authority – NGRBA).

It has a Rs. 20,000-crore corpus that is centrally funded and non-lapsable, and it includes nearly 288 projects.

The Ministries of , Shipping, and Waterways (MoPSW) and Civil Aviation (MoCA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Development of Sea Plane Services in India.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has deliberate to launch the worlds first wood satellite. It is going to be launched from New Zealand. It will be launched from a Rocket Lab Electron rocket by the last of 2021. The satellite is the brainchild of Jari Makinen.

The satellite, WISA Woodsat, is a nanosatellite. It is 10cm on every side, length, height, and width.

The sensors of the satellite have been developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and designers have placed the timber in a thermal vacuum chamber to keep it dry.
A very thin aluminium oxide layer has been used to decrease the vapour coming from the wood and to defend it from the erosive outcomes of atomic Oxygen. The non-wooden external parts are made up of aluminium rails.

The Union Minister of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare delivered a speech at the 42nd session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The conference is held every two years. India is a founding member of FAO

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The national planning framework developed by India’s FAO in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare of the Government of India adopts a multi sectoral approach.

India has provided technical expertise and assistance in cases of trans-boundary pests, primarily Fall Army Worm and Desert Locust.

The FAO also supported India’s proposal for an International Year of Pulses (2016) and an International Year of (2023).