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$50m fund to support disaster-proof infrastructure

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Coalition for Disaster Resilient (CDRI) announced setting up theInfrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund(IRAF) with allocation of $50 million to support global action to build robust infrastructure, especially in developing countries and small island developing nations, that can withstand the impacts of Climate-change”>Climate Change.

It will be a multi-donor trust fund, managed by UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, New York. Supported by

India, the UK, Australia and theEuropean Union, the IRAFs multi-pronged programme will offer customised technical assistance, capacity building, research, knowledge management, and advocacy across the infrastructure life cycle for countries at all stages of development.

The CDRI, launched byPM Narendra Modiin New York in 2019, is a PARTNERSHIP of national governments, UN agencies and multilateral Development Banks that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of Sustainable Development.

Sugar Cane, Cotton, Jute Farmers To Get Incentives

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) authorized a number of measures to help , sugar cane, and jute growers.

Highlights:

The CCEA raised the price of ethanol made from sugar cane juice in order to blend it with gasoline.

Blending of ethanol with gasoline is predicted to reach 10% by 2022 and 20% by 2025.

The rate of ethanol produced from C-heavy molasses has also risen thanks to

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CCEA.

At the rate specified by the government, oil Marketing corporations buy ethanol from distilleries and sugar mills.

The ethanol blending scheme helped to minimize the country’s reliance on crude oil imports.

The Cotton Corporation of India received committed price assistance of Rs. 17,408.85 crore from the CCEA (CCI).

Reservation guidelines for the required use of jute in packaging were authorized by the CCEA.

Public Service Broadcasting Day Is Observed On 12 November

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Every year on November 12th, Broadcasting Day is observed.

Highlights:

The day is observed to honor Mahatma Gandhi‘s first

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and only visit to the All India Radio studio in Delhi in 1947.

Mahatma Gandhi addressed the displaced people (a Pakistani refugee) who had temporarily moved to Kurukshetra, Haryana, after partition on November 12, 1947.

After Suhas Borker, Convenor, Jan Prasar, conceptualized the day, it was declared Public Service Broadcasting Day or (Jan Prasaran Diwas) in 2000.

Prasar Bharati has been entrusted with the task of public service broadcasting in order to strengthen democratic traditions and provide opportunities to people from all walks of life.

Delhi Declaration: Afghanistan

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

OnNovember 10, 2021,India hosted a regional security summit. Eight countries, including Iran and Russia, attended the summit.

Highlights:

Each country’s national security advisors attended the conference.

During the summit, it was announced that Afghanistan and its territories could not be used to harbor, train, or finance terrorists.

The “Delhi Declaration on Afghanistan” was issued by the countries as a

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unified statement.

According to the statement, eight countries discussed the growing Afghan situation, as well as the worldwide implications of the Taliban’s takeover.

They devoted specific attention to terrorism threats, Afghanistan’s current political crisis, radicalization, and drug trafficking.

World Pneumonia Day Commemorated On 12 November

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Every year on November 12th, the world commemorates World Pneumonia Day

Highlights

It is celebrated to raise awareness, promote prevention and treatment, and inspire action to combat the disease.

World Pneumonia Day 2021 is an annual event that first took place in 2009.

Raise awareness of pneumonia,

the biggest cause of death in children under the age of five.

In order to

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prevent and treat pneumonia, interventions must be strengthened, accelerated, and sustained.

Focus on ensuring that all people have equal access to and receive comprehensive pneumonia prevention and control programs.

Develop specialized ways to reach “harder-to-reach” people in order to increase their access to available solutions.

Starlink Introduces A New, Smaller Dish For Connecting To Satellites

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Starlink, an Internet Service initiative, has launched a dish that interested customers can purchase to learn more about SpaceX’s developing low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation.

Highlights:

According to The Verge, the dish is a slimmer and lighter-weight choice than the circular dish that Starlink beta testers will be testing in 2020.

SpaceX’s satellite internet project is called Starlink.

It was launched with the goal of deploying 12,000 satellites into low Earth orbit to offer people on the ground

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broadband internet access.

It will deliver Services in regions where traditional internet is lacking, such as isolated and rural areas.

In order to use the system, users must install a dish near their Home, such as on their roof.

At all times, the dish should be positioned so that users have an unobstructed view of the sky (free of trees or other obstructions).

Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit nominates Justice D.Y. Chandrachud as his successor

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Chief Lalits recommendation to the government would start the process for appointment of Justice Chandrachud as the 50th Chief Justice of India.If the government approval comes through, Justice Chandrachud would be the first second-generation Chief Justice of India. His father, Justice Y.V. Chandrachud, was the 16th Chief Justice of India and one of the longest serving ones.

Justice Chandrachuds years in The Supreme Court has seen his hand in almost every notable judgment of the court. His erudite verdicts and dissents on the Bench were marked by a reformist approach, especially in the arena of civil liberties, individual and womens rights.

His latest judgment had held thatsingle Women are equally eligible to the protection of abortion laws. Justice Chandrachud had decriminalised adultery, upheld the right of women short service officers in Army

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and Navy to be considered for permanent commission and stood by a womans right to marry a partner of her choice. Justice Chandrachud upheld theright of women of menstrual age to enter the Sabarimala temple.