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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.

NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) in PARTNERSHIP with Fiserv Inc. to launch the plug-and-play RuPay card stack, nFiNi. nFiNi is a ready stack of offerings required for fintechs and banks to difficulty RuPay credit cards and will enable fintech to co-create bank-sponsored credit cards. It is a BaaS (Banking-as-a-service) programme.

The nFiNi platform will power RuPay cards (including National Common Mobility Card) with the aid of imparting access to wished Services via the NPCI community blended with FirstVisionTM cloud-based open API integrations from Fiserv.

The Indian External Affairs Minister and the Minister of Defense held talks with the Australian Foreign Minister at the high-level meeting of the India-Australia 2+2 Foreign Ministers and Defense Ministers Dialogue in New Delhi.

Highlights:

This dialogue aims to further strengthen the overall defense and strategic cooperation between the two countries, including cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region amid Chinas growing military confidence in the region.

The in-person talks are taking place at a time the world focus has been on the situation in Afghanistan and the problem is possible to determine in the deliberations.

The talks between the foreign and defense ministers were held as the Quad member states renewed their efforts to expand cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.

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It was constituted under the Chairpersonship of Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment.

The council look after the implementation of the Policy and advise the Government to formulate and implement policy and programmes for senior citizens.

NCOP was reconstituted in 2012 to encourage more participation from every region. Council was renamed as National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSrC).

Third meeting of the Council was held in June, 2018.

Issues like Schemes, Programmes and Act were discussed in the meeting for the welfare of Senior Citizens.

Status or action taken by the Government is listed below:

Council suggested to strengthen the Amendments to the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (MWPSC) Act, 2007. Following it, government introduced Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha.

Council suggested to organise more distribution camps under Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RYY). Based on this, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment revised RVY to cover all the districts across country.

Council also advised to simplify the process of registration of NGOs following which, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has been running a simplified Online NGO portal called e-Anudaan.

It suggests to provide financial assistance to senior citizens who are cancer patients from Senior Citizens Welfare Fund (SCWF). In line with the suggestion, government is providing financial assistance of up to Rs 2 lakh under Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) scheme.