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Nine states, UTs yet to adopt gender budgeting

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Even though the government adoptedgender budgetingin 2005-06 as a strategy to advance gender mainstreaming, nine states andUnion Territories Goa, , Haryana, Chandigarh, Meghalaya, Ladakh, Mizoram, Puducherry and Sikkim are yet to adopt it. So far, 27 states UTs and 37 central ministries

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and departments have adopted BUDGETING“>Gender Budgeting.

The Gender Budget Statement (GBS) is a reporting mechanism to assess budgets which are being allocated for Women and girls by different ministries and departments. Data shared

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by women and child development minister Smriti Irani in a written response to a question in Lok Sabha showed that for 2021-22, Rs 1,53,326 crore has been allocated for women and girls by 43 ministries, departments and UTs.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has approved a grant of Rs 200,000 for V Tejaswini Bai of Karnataka, who won the Arjuna Award in 2011 and was a member of the womens Kabaddi team, that won gold medal games at the Asian Olympic Games in 2014 and 2014 respectively. The Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons (PDUNWFS) has approved financial assistance.

States look to meet Har Ghar Jal target ahead of national goal

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As the Centres flagship programme to provide tap water connections to all rural households in the country has entered its third year of implementation, states and Union Territories (UTs) have started rolling out their annual planning exercise with objective to meet their respective targets ahead of the national goal of 2024.

Funds will be released by the Jal Shakti ministry to the states/UTs as per their approved plans under

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the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) that aims to provide tap connections to all rural households in the country by 2024.

In addition to Rs 50,000 crore budgetary allocation for the JJM, there is also assured fund of Rs 26,940 crore available under the 15th grant for water and sanitation.

Henley Passport Index 2023, Japan retained its top position

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According to the latestHenley Passport Index,Japanhas retained its position as the most favourible passport in the world, allowing visa-free entry to

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193 global destinations. which the country tops for the fifth consecutive year.Singapore and South Koreacame in a joint second on the ranking, followed by Germany and Spain, and then a slew of other European nations.

Election Laws (Amendment) Bill

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To Link Adhaar with the Electoral roll, The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, will be introduced in Lok Sabha.

Highlights:

When the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021 is approved, electoral registration officers will ask for the Aadhaar number of persons who want to register as voters.

To verify your identification, they will want your Aadhaar number. The bill also proposes allowing electoral registration officers to request Aadhaar numbers from people already on the electoral record.

This will be done to verify the entries in the electoral roll and to identify the registration of the same person’s name in the electoral roll of more than one constituency or the registration of the same name in the same constituency more than once.

The bill will amend several provisions of the

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and 1951.

The 1950 Act will be changed to enable the linkage of electoral roll data with the Aadhaar ecosystem. This modification will mitigate the threat of multiple enrolments of the same person in different areas.

LogiXtics: DPIIT Launches Hackathon for Logistics

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Department for Promotion of and Internal Trade (DPIIT) launched the Unified Logistics Interface Platforms (ULIP) Hackathon called LogiXtics for crowdsourcing more ideas for the benefit

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of logistics industry.

ULIP is designed for enhancing efficiency and reducing logistics cost across India. This objective will be reduced by creating a transparent platform which will provide real time information to all the stakeholders and remove all asymmetry information.

ULIP Hackathon LogiXtics is being organised by NITI Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission.

It is also supported by NICDC Logistics Data Bank Services Limited (NLDSL) and National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC).

ULIP was conceptualised as a technology platform in logistics sector.

ULIP is being developed as

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technology platform to provide real time information to all the stakeholders.

It will converge visibility of multi-modal transport across existing systems of several Ministries or Departments working in silos.

ULIP will transform the logistic sector by lowering down the logistics cost and enhancing Indias competitiveness in international trade.

MicroAge Experiment

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An experiment called MicroAge is set to be launched to International Space Station on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

MicroAge Experiment will help people in

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living a longer and healthier life.

As the part of this experiment, human cells will be launched to space.

Human cells have been put into small 3Dholders. These cells will be electrically stimulated, once they reach to space. The electrical stimulation will help in inducing contractions in muscle tissue. This experiment will help scientists in examining the cells closely.

These cells will be analysed by Researchers from University of Liverpool. Research will be funded by the UK Space Agency. UK Space Agency has provided 1.2 million in funds to conduct the experiment.

Japanese Space Tourists Back To Earth

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After spending 12 days aboard the International Space Station, a Japanese tycoon, his producer, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on 20 December.

Since 2009, Maezawa and Hirano have been the first self-paying guests to visit

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the space station.

Misurkin, on the other hand, was on his third space trip.Before them, in October 2021, Russian actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko spent 12 days on the space station to make the world’s first movie in space. Roscosmos, Russia’s space corporation, financed this project.

Seven space tourists flew to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft between 2001 and 2009.

Gen-Next Democratic Network

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India is set to host young leaders under the new initiative called Gen-Next Democratic Network on 25 November.

The Initiative was planned by (ICCR) and will happen in November.

This is hosted for

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5 to 7 young people under 35, invited from 75 different democratic countries from the ruling, opposition and other key parties.

The event will be inaugurated by Om, Brila, Lok Sabha speakers and will begin on 25 November.

The ICCR is trying to build relations with Gen Next

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of 75 countries, who will become future leaders of their countries.

Air Quality Early Warning System Launched

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The Decision Support System (DSS) and Air Quality Early Warning System (AQEWS) were launched by Dr Jitendra Singh.

Highlights:

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) has revealed a new Decision Support System (DSS) as well as the Air Quality Early Warning System (AQEWS).

They were launched for better air-quality management in

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the Delhi-NCR region.

IITM is an autonomous institute operating under the Ministry of Earth Sciences based in Pune.

IITM has also created a website to deliver quantitative data concerning emissions from Delhi and joining districts to air quality.

It consists of providing information on the contribution of -burning activities in the adjoining states.