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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.