Current Affairs Exam

Ease processes for filmmakers in Bihar: Nitish Kumar

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

With places of scenic beauty going untapped, the has initiated a variety of measures to promote shooting of films in a bid to cultivate its fairly new image before the world.

Chief ministerNitish Kumar, who reviewed the works of the arts, culture and youth affairs department at a meeting held here on Thursday, asked the officials concerned to simplify the official processes for clearance and provide all facilities to the interested filmmakers so that they don’t face any problems in film shooting in the state.

The CM said filmmaking in the state would not only promote tourism, but also provide opportunities to local artists and create new job opportunities.

The state government is setting up a film city in Rajgir, a prominent tourist town in Nalanda which is the Home district of Nitish, while several other sites located amid hills and other natural surroundings are being developed to draw the attention of filmmakers. Shekhodewra, a village located in Nawada district, is one such location which has been especially developed for the purpose in the state.

Maternal mortality rate in Chhattisgarh dips to all time low

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in Chhattisgarh has fallen to an all-time low of 137.

A communiqu from the Health Department said that MMR, which was 159 between 2016-18, fell due to special attention given to the health of pregnant andlactating Women as well as infants.

A special bulletin from the office of the Registrar General on Monday said the MMR has dipped 22 points.

MMR is defined as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births due to pregnancy or termination of pregnancy, regardless of the site or duration of pregnancy.

The maternal mortality rate is used to represent the risk associated withpregnancy among women.

Between 50 to 98 percent of maternal deaths are caused by direct obstetric causes (hemorrhage, infection and hypertensive disorders, ruptured uterus, hepatitis and anemia). Deaths are also linked toillegally induced abortion

153 government schools to get smart classrooms in Madhya Pradesh

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

As many as 153government schoolsacross the state to havesmart classroomsfor students of classes one to eight for the academic session 2022-23 under the ICT and digital initiatives for e-Learning. While there are as many as three forIndoredistrict, over 20 are allocated for the schools of Indore division.

Among the districts of Indore, Barwani will have one smart classroom, Alirajpur, Burhanpur and Khandwa districts have been allocated four classrooms each. Dhar district is to get three smart classrooms and as many as two are planned for Jhabua and Khargone districts.

A budget of Rs 2.40 lakh has been allocated for each school as per the plan to procure two desktop computers (i3-12 generation), two LED TV 65” (Smart TVandroid), and two UPS 600 VA (30 minutes back-up). The department has also stated the technical specifications of the items that are to be procured.

Worlds Tallest Pier Bridge in Manipur

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Indian Railways is creating the highest pier RAILWAY bridge in the world in Manipur.

Highlights:

The grand scheme of the Railways in Manipur is part of the Jiribam-Imphal railway line.

This will ultimately be part of a new broad gauge line being constructed to connect the northeastern state with the rest of the country.

The tallest pier bridge account is currently owned by a 139-metre high Mala-Rijeka viaduct built at Montenegro in Europe.

The bridge is being constructed at a height of 141 metres. The total length of the Manipur bridge will be 703 metres.

Once finished, the project will allow passengers to cover 111 km of distance in 2-2.5 hrs.

IIT-G, Aus institutes tie up on water management

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) is collaborating with the Australia India Water Centre and the Western Sydney University to support water management reforms in India.

With the aim to provide a structured platform for capacity building with strategic and long-term to support water management reforms in India, the ‘India Young Water Professional Programme’ has been launched.

The objective of the programme will be to equip water professionals with necessary skills, knowledge, behaviours and networks that will better enable them to contribute to the development and management of Resources“>Water Resources in India and address the competency needs and priorities of the water sector.

Bhubaneswar ranks last in quality education in SDG Urban Index

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The city has been ranked bottom in quality Education in the Goals Urban Index 2020-21 recently released by the NITI Aayog contrary to its increasing popularity as an education hub.

The Odisha capital has scored 50 out of 100 in quality education while Thiruvananthapuram tops the list with 96 points. The survey was conducted for Percentage of school Internet, schools with computer available, schools with functional electricity and drinking water, pupil-teacher ratio and percentage of trained teachers at secondary level in schools in 56 cities.

The survey revealed only 25.10% schools in the state capital have internet facilities while 57% have computers. Among the cities that have failed in providing internet Services to schools, Agra tops the list followed by Kolkata and Bhubaneswar.

Among the top three cities in quality education are Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Chandigarh with 96, 93 and 88 marks out of 100 while the bottom three cities are Agra, Bhopal, and Bhubaneswar with 54, 54 and 50 marks.

Odisha on the other hand has improved its ranking in quality education from 40 marks in 2019 to 45 in 2020. It is ranked 21 among the states in quality education in the index.

Tamil Nadu: CCTVs to monitor jaggery manufacture

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

As demand forjaggeryspikes with the arrival of winter, the state food safety department has askedmanufacturersto installCCTV camerasin their units to checkadulteration.

A state-level monitoring committee held meetings with the stakeholders earlier this year. All manufacturers, particularly small-scale units located near agricultural fields, have been instructed to installCCTVcameras covering all operations from arrival of raw material to dispatch of final products. They have been told to submit the footage to food safety officers during inspection.

Jaggery sales usually increase during this time of the year for two reasons. First, it is used more to prepare traditional winter foods.

Seven months on, govt yet to act on committee report

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Almost seven months after a committee appointed by thegovernmentsubmitted its report on theparticipatory pension scheme(national pension scheme,NPS) implemented for the employees, the government has not taken any decision on it, while keeping the report under wraps without revealing the committees recommendations.

After the committee submitted its report to the government on April 30 this year, the report reached additional chief secretary (finance)Rajesh Kumar Singhwho examined and forwarded it to finance minister K N Balagopal on July 20 this year, as is clear from the electronic file records of the government. The file is now resting on the table of the finance minister.

It is reliably learnt that the government is going slow on the report as the committee has recommended that the scheme can be continued, which is against the LDFs pre-election assurance in 2016 that the scheme will be withdrawn if theLDFgovernment comes to power.

Karnataka received 249% excess rain in November

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

In an all-time record,Karnatakareceived 249% excess rainfall in November, which caused flash floods and widespread damage to crops and .

Bengaluru recorded 224mm rainfall in November 329% above normal. In the past 100 years, only twice before has the city had more rain than this in November the first in 1916 and again in 2015.

October and November remained extraordinarily wet months throughout Karnataka, with the state recording 35% and 249% excess rainfall respectively. Coastal Karnataka, Malnad and south interior Karnataka received the highest rainfall, while north interior Karnataka registered normal rain.

At 7,000 crore, Telangana registration income higher than pre-Covid collection

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The enhanced land rates four months ago seem to have made no dent in the revenues as the registration department’s coffers continue to swell. In the past eight months alone, the government has netted Rs 7,000 crore, which is twice the revenue earned during pre-Covid time and more than three times during the 2020-21 financial year.

Of the 12 lakh documents registered by the registration and stamps (R&S) department, over three lakh pertain to Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture properties that were registered through Dharani web land portal. Among the districts, Rangareddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri, Hyderabad, Sangareddy and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri contributed the lion’s share (60%) of the revenue.

The official said of the eight months in the current financial year (2021-2022), the department earned over Rs 1,000 crore in just a month.