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UN Disarmament Week Is Observed From 24 To 30 October.

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The UN Disarmament Week is observed from 24 to 30 October to create awareness about the issues of Disarmament worldwide.

Highlights:

The aim is to reduce the use of weapons particularly, nuclear weapons and bring peace to Society.

In 1995, the UNGA invited the government and non-governmental organizations to be part of the disarmament week.

The Disarmament plays a significant role in the achievement of Goals 16.

The United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs was established in January 1998 in New York, USA.

In 2018, UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres declared Securing our common future: An Agenda for disarmament.

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Soon AI-based Mandarin translation devices for troops on LAC

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Indian soldiers patrolling on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), when they come face to face with Chinese soldiers, will soon be able to understand Mandarin and reply back instantly, with the help of a 600gm -based device developed by an Indian start-up. Currently under advanced trials with the Army, it was one of the 75 AI-enabled products and applications unveiled by DEFENCE Minister Rajnath Singh at the AI in Defence symposium.

The first demonstration was done in 2017 and since then,

there have been several trials. Stating that they are now working with the Army for deployment and orders.

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Govt dept earned 62 crore by selling off scrap

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh said the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances has contributed over 62 crore to the exchequer by selling off scrap, mostly electronics, as he noted that it might be a new avenue for startups to consider.

The Department of Administrative Reforms did not only confine itself to sermonising Governance reforms, we took up the initiative

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Operation Megha Chakra

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

One of the major CBI-led global operations in recent times, Operation ‘Megha Chakra’ is a rapid response toonline child sexual exploitationwith international linkages and organised cyber-enabled financial crimes.

The operation deals with a case where victims, accused, suspects and conspirators are located across global jurisdictions. This has required an internationally coordinated law-enforcement response.

The name of the operation stems from its target cloud storage, which is being used to circulate the material online. Hence, the codename Megha Chakra.

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Centre has no new data on child labour

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Centre does not have any data onChild Labour in the countryand a reason for this is the drying up of budgetary provisions meant for the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) scheme, which was monitoring the problem for about three decades.

Searching for proper data on child labour, the Standing Committee reached

out to 14 Union Ministries and Departments, including the Home Ministry, the Women and Child Development Ministry, and several States.

NASA’s James Webb telescope detects water on distant planet

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the of a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star over a thousand Light years away, the U.S. space agency said on July 13.

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observation is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb’s unprecedented ability to analyse distant atmospheres, according to NASA. WASP-96 b is one of more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way.

Located roughly 1,150 light-years away in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix, it represents a type of gas giant that has no direct analogue in our Solar System, it said in a statement.

The transmission spectrum revealed the previously hidden details of the atmosphere: the unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze, and evidence of clouds that were thought not to exist based on prior observations.

Italy gets its first female PM – Giorgia Meloni

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party won the Italian election, defeatingMario Draghiby a huge margin.

The alliance claimed over 43% votes, which would translate to 114 seats in theSenate.

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Tokenization for Mobiles, Laptops and Wearables

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

In 2019, RBI had accepted authorized card charge networks to provide card tokenization offerings to any token requestor (i.e., third-party app provider) thru mobile phones and tablets. Now RBI has prolonged the scope of tokenization to include purchaser devices

laptops, desktops, wearables (wristwatches, bands, etc.), Internet of Things (IoT) devices, etc.

The permission for tokenization extends to a number channels [e.g., Near Field Communication (NFC) / Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) primarily based contactless transactions, in-app payments, QR code-based payments, etc.] or token storage mechanisms (cloud, impenetrable element, trusted execution Environment, etc. The ultimate duty for the card tokenization offerings rendered rests with the licensed card networks.

Tokenization refers to the replacement of true card important points with a unique alternate code referred to as the token, which shall be special for a combination of card, token requestor, and device (referred hereafter as identified device).

It was launched by Union AYUSH minister, Sarbananda Sonowal.

On the occasion, several bouquets of activities and campaigns was launched by Ministry of Ayush to commemorate Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

Apart from Y-Break App, a year-long campaigns like cultivation of medicinal Plants in farmland, distribution of medicinal plants to households and sensitisation of School & College going students on Ayush systems were launched.

This week-long activities & campaigns will start from August 30 to September 5.

These activities will be launched with the aim of reaching to remote areas in India and address all categories of our Population viz., children, old people, farmers and corporate.

Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav is a series of events being organised to commemorate the 75^thAnniversary of Indias Independence. Events are being organised by government of India and it will be celebrated as a Jan-Utsav in the spirit of Jan-Bhagidari.

First Sectoral Index of India

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

ndias first sectoral index in the Agri commodities basket i.e. GUAREX was launched through the (National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited).

GUAREX is a fee primarily based sectoral index that tracks the movement in the futures contracts of guar gum sophisticated splits and guar seed on a real-time basis. This index product will provide a lot of possibilities to the price chain.

The weightage of guar seed and guar gum refined splits in the index will be sixty three per cent and 37 per cent, respectively. The index futures will be cash-settled. Initially, Guarex futures contracts expiring in September and October will be made handy for trading.

India is the worlds greatest guar producer accounting for 80-85 per cent of the output, while Rajasthan is the countrys top

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producer with 80 per cent market share. Guar seed was sown on 1.81 million hectares so far this year, down from 2.25 million hectares logged in the identical length closing year.

Renovated Complex of Jallianwala Bagh Smarak

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

PM Narendra Modi has dedicated to the state the renovated complex of Jallianwala Bagh Smarak in Punjabs Amritsar, to mark 102 years of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

The historical garden is a memorial of countrywide importance, preserved in the memory of infinite revolutionaries, sacrificers, fighters, who had been killed in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, which befell on the pageant of Baisakhi on 13 April 1919. Apart from this, PM Modi also inaugurated four museum galleries developed at the Smarak, to exhibit the historical fee of activities that unfolded in Punjab in 1919. The PM also introduced multiple improvement initiatives taken with the aid of the authorities to upgrade the complex.

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