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It was established in 1961 and is headquartered at Gland, Switzerland.

Indian Shooters bags 43 medals in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championship.

Highlights

The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championship happened in Lima, Peru.

The Indian Shooters won 43 medals and took the top of the table with 17 Gold, 16 Silver and 10 Bronze medals.

USA won 21 medals with six gold, eight silver and six bronze and took second place on the Medal Table.

Manu Bhaker won the highest number of medals, that is 5 Medals, in a single edition of the ISSF Junior World Championships.

Desh Ke Mentor program was launched by Delhi Cheif Minister Aravind Kejriwal for the Delhi Government Schools.

Highlights:

This program aims to provide guidance to school students on the career choices of successful citizens in their respective fields.

The Desh ke mentor programme entails adopting one to 10 government school students who can be mentored by experts.

Sonu Sood will be the brand ambassador for the mentors programme.

The mentors will have 10 mins every week to guide the youths over the phone regarding their fields.

Prime Minister Modi is set to participate in the Extraordinary Leaders Summit On Afghanistan on 12 October.

Highlights:

Prime Minister will attend the summit virtually on 12 October at 4 PM.

The Agenda of the meeting comprises of a discussion on response to humanitarian needs and access to essential Services and livelihood

It also includes a discussion on the fight against Terrorism, Mobility, Migration and Human Rights.

PM Modi also participated in the SCO-CSTO outreach summit, and External Affairs minister Jai Shankar Participated in the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.

G20

G20 is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries and the European Union.

IEA has asked India to become its full-time member as it is the worlds third-largest energy consumer.

Highlights

If this proposal is accepted, India will increase its strategic oil reserve to 90 days.

Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri held negotiations with IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

The IEA executive director invited India to expand its cooperation with IEA by becoming its full member during the discussion.

India started as an associate member of the IEA in March 2017 and agreed to enter into a strategic PARTNERSHIP to reinforce its collaboration regarding Energy Security and clean energy transition.

International Energy Agency, IEA is a Paris-based body that suggests industrialised countries about energy policies.

IEA was founded in 1974 by industrialised nations under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) structure.

https://exam.pscnotes.com/multidimensional-POVERTY-index”>Multidimensional Poverty Index Report 2021 was released by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).

Highlights

The report estimates multidimensional poverty across 109 developing countries, with data from surveys ranging from 2009 to 2020.

These include 26 low-income countries, 80 middle-income countries and 3 high-income countries.

The index measures each persons deprivations across 10 indicators divided into three equally weighted dimensions.

Nearly half (644 million) are children under age 18.

About 8.2 per cent (105 million) are aged 60 or older.

Approximately 85 per cent live in Sub-Saharan Africa (556 million) or South Asia (532 million).

84 per cent (1.1 billion) live in rural areas, and 16 per cent (about 209 million) live in urban areas.

Over 67 per cent live in middle-income countries.

In India, five out of six multidimensionally poor people were from lower tribes or castes.

Samvatsari is a festival celebrated by the Jain community, mainly the Shwetambara sect.

It is the last day of an eight-day observance of prayers known as Paryushana Parva or Paryushana.

It falls on Shukla Panchami every year in the Jain calendar month of Bhadrapada.

Samvatsari is also regarded as the Day of Forgiveness.

On this day, people are looking for forgiveness from others for wrongs done knowingly or unknowingly. To seek forgiveness from others, people will say the words Michhami Dukkadam

Goa became the 2nd state in India to complete one hundred percent covid vaccination of the first dose for all its eligible residents.

Himachal Pradesh was the first state to attain this feat. According to Sept 11, the active case load in India stands at 3,91,516.

The complete tally is 3,32,08,330 in accordance with the Union Health Ministry’s data for today’s data. So far, the country has received 730.5 million doses of Covid vaccine.

According to the union health ministry, around 58% of Indias adult Population has obtained the first dose and almost 18% both doses.

High numbers of cases are being found in Kerala and Maharashtra.

The center revised the “Transportation and Marketing Assistance” (TMA) scheme for specific agricultural products.

Highlights:

Now, the scheme has been notified for the duration April 2021 to March 2022. In the revised scheme, the following modifications have been made:

products, which have not been protected under the former scheme, will be eligible for help under the revised scheme.

Rates of assistance have been increased, via 50% for exports by sea and by a hundred percent for exports by air.

The revised scheme is expected to strengthen assistance to help Indian agricultural exporter’s products with rising freight and Logistics costs.

I n collaboration with ISRO and CBSE, the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) launched ATL Space Challenge 2021.

Highlights:

The mission has been designed for all mentors, teachers and school students throughout the country who not only are related with schools having ATL labs but for all the non ATL schools as well.

This is to make sure that students of classes 6 to 12 are given an open platform where they can innovate and allow themselves to solve digital age Space Technology problems.

The 2021 ATL Space Challenge is consistent with the 2021 World Space Week and is held on a global scale from October 4th to 10th to celebrate the contributions of space Science and Technology.