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Assam Current Affairs – June 05-06, 2022

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June 05-06, 2022

World Environment Day 2022

The World Environment Day 2022 is observed every year on June 5. It is celebrated every year to raise awareness about the conservation of the environment as well as to encourage people worldwide to take positive environmental actions in order to help in creating a better future.

The theme for World Environment Day 2022 is “Only One Earth”. It focuses on living sustainably in harmony with nature. This year Sweden is the host country. 

Background

The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm was the first world conference. It was the first world conference with environment as its major agenda. It declared “right to live in a healthy environment” as “basic human right”. With this, the idea of World Environment Day was formalized. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was created as a result of this conference.

World’s largest plant discovered in Australia 

Scientists recently discovered the World’s Largest Plant growing underwater in Western Australia. Living in the shallow waters off the coast of Western Australia, the marine flowering plant known as Posidonia australis. 

A group of researchers from Flinders University and The University of Western Australia have found that the plant is 4,500 years old. It is believe that the plant is large as 200 square kilometers (77sq miles),

It is a sea-grass which is measured to be 180 km in length. The scientists used genetic testing to identify the sprawling mass to be a single plant. It has double the number of chromosomes than other similar plants, and managed to survive the volatile atmosphere of the Shark Bay.

SC directed protected forest, national park and wildlife sanctuary across India should have a mandatory eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of minimum 1 km

The Supreme Court of India recently directed that every protected forest, national park and wildlife sanctuary across the country should have a mandatory eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of a minimum one km starting from their demarcated boundaries.

Directions by the Court

  • In case any national park or protected forest already has a buffer zone extending beyond one km, that would prevail. 
  • Mining within the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries shall not be permitted. 
  • In case the question of the extent of buffer zone was pending a statutory decision, then the court’s direction to maintain the one-km safety zone would be applicable until a final decision is arrived at under the law. 

About Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ)

  • Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) or Ecologically Fragile Areas (EFAs) are areas notified by the MoEFCC around Protected Areas, National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries. 
  • The purpose of declaring ESZs around national parks, forests and sanctuaries is to create some kind of a “shock absorber” for the protected areas. 
  • These zones would act as a transition zone from areas of high protection to those involving lesser protection. 
  • An Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) could go up to 10 kilometres around a protected area as provided in the Wildlife Conservation Strategy, 2002. 
  • To minimize the impact of urbanization and other developmental activities, the areas adjacent to protected areas have been declared as Eco-Sensitive Zones.
  • Activities like industries causing pollution Commercial mining, establishment of major hydroelectric projects (HEP), saw mills, commercial use of wood, Tourism, production of hazardous substances and discharge of effluents or any solid waste are all prohibited.
  • Activities like agricultural or horticultural practices, organic farming, rainwater harvesting, use of renewable energy sources, adoption of green technology etc are permitted.

Turkey changes its official name to Turkiye

The United Nations has changed the Republic of Turkey’s country name at the organisation from “Turkey” to “Türkiye”, following a request from Ankara for the change. 

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric had been received from the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu addressed to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, requesting the use of “Türkiye” instead of “Turkey” for all affairs.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said  that “Türkiye is the best representation and expression of the Turkish people’s culture, civilization, and values.”

The government of Turkey has started re-branding campaign. It will start featuring “Made in Türkiye” on all exported products.

Blue Duke declared as the state Butterfly of Sikkim

The Chief Minister of Sikkim, Prem Singh Tamang has declared Blue Duke as the state butterfly  on the occasion of World Environment Day at Saramsa Garden near Ranipool during the event organized by the Forest department.

Blue Duke edged past Krishna Peacock, which was to be announced as State Butterfly of Sikkim. The two butterflies, among the 720-odd butterfly species, had been shortlisted for the State Butterfly nominations. 

According to the Forest department, an online voting was conducted between April and September to select the State Butterfly. Among the 4036 votes, 57% of the votes went in favour of Blue Duke while 43% voted for Krishna Peacock.

About Blue Duke 

  • Blue Duke is a native butterfly species of Sikkim which was discovered in the state in 1858.
  • It is also called Bassarona durga durga, which is unique to Sikkim and Eastern Himalayas
  • It is found at an altitude below 1,500 metres in the Himalayas and is commonly found in places like Pakyong, Passingdong and Hee-Gyathang in Dzongu, Lingee in South Sikkim and Yangsum in West Sikkim and closer to the State capital in places like Tadong and Ranka.
  • Blue Duke falls in Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and is a protected species in the Himalayas.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches “Lifestyle for Environment Movement”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches a global initiative “Lifestyle for the Environment (LiFE) Movement”, on the occasion of World Environment Day today through video conferencing.  

The idea of LiFE was introduced by the Prime Minister during the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP-26 in Glasgow last year.

Mission LiFE borrows from the past, operates in the present and focuses on the future. 

The idea promotes an environment conscious lifestyle that focuses on mindful and deliberate utilisation instead of mindless and destructive consumption.

The launch will initiate the “LiFE Global Call for Papers” inviting ideas and suggestions from academics, universities and research institutions etc to influence and persuade individuals, communities and organisations across the world to adopt an environment-conscious lifestyle.

eSanjeevani integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

The National Health Authority (NHA) announced the successful integration of eSanjeevani with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).

Significance of the integration of eSanjeevani with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) 

  • The integration will help existing users of eSanjeevani to create their Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA). 
  • This is one such example where the 22 crore ABHA holders can link and store their health records created via eSanjeevani in the health lockers of their choice.
  • The users would also be able to share their health records with doctors on eSanjeevani leading to better clinical decision making and ensuring the continuum of care. 
  • ABHA beneficiaries will now be able to access medical facilities from the comforts of their houses through the eSanjeevani platform that provides telemedicine services. 

 

About eSanjeevani

eSanjeevani is a telemedicine service of the telemedicine service of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). 

eSanjeevani service is available in two variants: 

eSanjeevani Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centre (AB-HWC): It is a Doctor-to-Doctor telemedicine service under Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres scheme of the Government of India, to provide general and specialised health services in rural areas and isolated communities. 

eSanjeevani OPD: It is serving patients across the country by connecting them directly to doctors from the comforts of their homes.

Both eSanjeevani AB-HWC and eSanjeevani OPD have been integrated with the ABDM platform and has now joined other 40 digital health applications that have completed their ABDM integration.

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Assam Current Affairs – June 03-04, 2022

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June 03-04, 2022

India’s first Liquid Mirror Telescope sets up in Uttarakhand

India’s first liquid-mirror telescope- International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) has been established on the campus of the Devasthal Observatory of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in Nainital.

About the International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT)

  • The International Liquid Mirror Telescope facility is the result of collaborative work between astronomers from Canada, Belgium and India. 
  • It will keep a close watch on the skies to identify transient or variable objects such as asteroids, space debris, supernovae, and gravitational lenses.
  • Unlike the conventional telescopes that can be steered to track specific stellar source objects, the ILMT will be stationary. 
  • It will basically carry out observations and imaging at the zenith, that is, of the overhead sky. 
  • It is the only liquid-mirror telescope operational anywhere in the world.

Caste-based census to be held in Bihar

The government of Bihar is set to conduct a caste-based census in the state. The decision was taken at an all-party meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. 

The exercise would be called Jaati Aadharit Ganana and the state government will publish the data related to the census through advertisements in newspapers. The aim of this exercise is to carry out developmental work for people who are deprived.

This census will be conducted for people belonging to every caste and religion. This exercise will be helpful in developmental work for people of the state who are deprived. 

 

ISRO inaugurated new spacecraft manufacturing facility

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S Somanath inaugurated ANANTH Technologies’ spacecraft manufacturing unit at Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) Aerospace Park. 

About the Ananth Technologies Private Limited

The new state-of-the-art spacecraft manufacturing facility can conduct assembly integration and testing of four large spacecraft simultaneously.

The 15,000 sqm facility is capable of conducting the assembly, integration and testing of four large spacecraft at the same time, with four separate units present within the facility.

It is a first of its kind facility in India and that Ananth Technologies has contributed to the manufacturing of 89 satellites and 69 launch vehicles built/launched by ISRO since its establishment in 1992.

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June 04, 2022

A new species of dragonfly ‘Platygomphus benritarum’ discovered in Assam

A new species of dragonfly ‘Platygomphus benritarum’ discovered in Assam and has been named after Monisha Behal, a founder member of Northeast Network (NEN) and Rita Banerji, founder of Green Hub for their pioneering work in the northeast.

Initially, two researchers, Shantanu Joshi and Anuja Mital, found the species near the banks of the Brahmaputra in Assam’s Tezpur district in 2020. The species were seen resting on a huge tree which lies 5-6 metres away from the Brahmaputra’s banks. 

An article on the discovery has been published in the International Journal of Odonatology, produced by the World Dragonfly Association.

Meghalaya’s ‘e-Proposal System’ wins UN Award

The Meghalaya government’s key initiative of the “e-Proposal System”, wins the coveted UN Award – World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum Prizes 2022 at Geneva in Switzerland. The “e-Proposal System”, part of Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture (MeghEA), which eliminates 75 per cent physical work of files in all government departments in the state. 

Secretary General of ITU, Houlin Zhao presented the winner award to Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma in the WSIS Forum Prizes 2022. 

Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture (MeghEA) is the only project from India to win the winner award this year. 

About Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture (MeghEA) Project

  • Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture (MeghEA) Project is being implemented by the Planning Department of the Meghalaya government with the aim of improving governance and service delivery for the people of the state using the power of various digital technologies. 
  • It has several components such as government to citizen or business services, government to employee services, and government to government services. 
  • The e-proposal system, a part of the government-to-government component, enables faster processing and tracking of schemes. The system transforms the entire administrative approvals and sanctions of citizen’s schemes.

 

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched the scheme “SHRESHTA”

Union Minister of social Justice and empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar has launched the Scheme “SHRESHTA”-Scheme for residential education for students in High school in Targeted Areas. 

The Scheme for Residential Education for Students in Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA) has been formulated with the objective to provide quality education and opportunities for even the poorest.

About the SHRESHTA Scheme

  • This Scheme will provide for high quality education for meritorious but poor SC students in CBSE-affiliated reputed residential schools across the country.
  • The students, belonging to Scheduled Castes, studying in class 8th and 10th in the current academicyear are eligible for availing the benefits of scheme are selected through a transparent mechanism through a National Entrance Test for SHRESHTA (NETS), which is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission in class 9th and 11th. 
  • Students belonging to marginalized income groups within the SC community, whose parental annual income is upto Rs.2.5 Lakh are eligible. 
  • Successful candidates, after following the e-counselling process, are given admission in the school of their choice anywhere in the Country for their academic persuasion. 
  • The Department shall bear the total cost of the school fee and hostel charges till completion of their academic upto class 12th. Thereafter the students of the scheme may avail benefits of other schemes of the Department for their higher education.

Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh inaugurates Kangra Valley Summer Festival-2022 

Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh inaugurates Kangra Valley Summer Festival-2022 at Dharamshala. The Kangra Valley Summer Festival-2022 is being organized from 2nd June to 9th June, 2022 with four cultural evenings.

The festival is organised to familiarize tourists arriving in the state during summers with the culture and traditions of Himachal Pradesh.This year the festival is organised after the gap of 10 years. 

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Assam Current Affairs – June 01-02, 2022

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June 01-02, 2022

Loving Borgohain Elected Chair of IBA Athletes Committee

Lovlina Borgohain has been elected as chairman and voting member on the Board of Directors for the IBA’s Athletes Committee. 

Indian boxer and Tokyo Olympics Bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain had received the highest number of votes during the election held at the 2022 Women’s World Championship and thus has been elected as chair of the board.

Indian boxer Shiva Thapa has also been elected as a member of the IBA Athletes Committee following the election held during the 2021 IBA Men’s World Championships.

Appeal in Supreme Court against Assam Repealing Act converting state-funded madrassas to govt schools

A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging a Gauhati High Court’s order of upholding Assam Repealing Act 2020 which converted state-funded madrassas into regular schools. 

The Assam Repealing Act, 2020 repealed Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 and the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of Services of Teachers and Reorganisation of Educational Institutions) Act, 2018. The Governor of Assam granted his assent on January 27, 2021.

The plea contended that the Act takes away property coupled with statutory recognition of madrassa education and the impugned order dated February 2, 2021 issued by the Governor disbands the ‘Assam State Madrasa Board’ created in 1954. It amounts to an arbitrary exercise of both legislative and executive powers and amounts to a denial of the petitioner madrassas’ ability to continue as madrassas providing religious instruction coupled with religious education,” the plea added.

The plea contended that Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 (repealed by the Act of 2020) is only limited to the state undertaking to pay the salaries and provide consequential benefits to the teaching and non-teaching staff employed in madrassas as also the administration, management and control of these madrassa.

Tripura gets first virtual court for traffic e-challan cases

The Chief Justice of Tripura High Court unveiled the first virtual court for traffic e-challan cases. 

Justice S Talapatra, Justice T Amarnath Goud, Justice Arindam Lodh, Justice SG Chottapadhyay and senior state government officials also attended the inaugural ceremony.

Justice Mohanty proclaimed the day as ‘another red letter day’, which eliminates the necessity for litigants to appear in court for paying fines. The e-court was introduced in the state so that litigants don’t need to come to the court for justice. 

Asserting that litigants are the focus of the judiciary, the chief justice said, Whatever may be we are or working in whatever category – judges, registry and police officers – we all come under the umbrella of the Constitution. Everything we do or don’t do is aimed at serving the people of our country.

Justice Mohanty also lauded the role of the state government for extending fullest support to the High Court. Justice Talapatra while speaking at the programme exhorted the state government to make all out efforts to popularize the virtual court for e-challan cases.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi releases PM CARES for Children Scheme

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi released benefits under PM CARES for Children Scheme via video conference. The scheme was launched by the Prime Minister on 29 May 2021.

The scheme aims to support children who have lost both the parents or legal guardian or adoptive parents or surviving parent to Covid-19 pandemic,  during the period from 11 March 2020 to 28 February 2022. 

The objective of the Scheme is to ensure comprehensive care and protection of children in a sustained manner by providing them boarding and lodging, empowering them through education and scholarships, equipping them for self-sufficient existence with financial support and ensuring their wellbeing through health insurance. 

PM Modi has promised Rs 4,000 a month for basic needs, financial support for schooling, scholarship for higher education, and free treatment upto Rs 5 lakh.

A portal named pmcaresforchildren.in was launched to register the children. The portal is a single window system which facilitates approval process and all other assistance for children.

NTPC releases ‘Biodiversity Policy’ for conservation, restoration of biodiversity.

NTPC Ltd has issued a renewed Biodiversity Policy 2022 to establish a comprehensive vision and guiding principle for conservation, restoration, and enhancement of biodiversity. This Biodiversity Policy is an integral part of NTPC’s Environmental Policy. 

The power major aims to mainstream the concept of biodiversity across NTPC’s value chain and adopt a precautionary approach for sustainable management of biodiversity in all the decision-making processes to ensure the Earth’s variety of life in and around the business units of NTPC. 

The policy also aims to adopt systematic consideration of local threats to biodiversity beyond the company’s business activities.

NTPC is raising awareness among local communities, employees, and its associates across the supply chain about biodiversity through project-specific and national level trainings in collaboration with experts and also with local communities, organizations, regulatory agencies and research institutes of national/international repute in the field of biodiversity. 

NTPC was the first PSU to issue a Biodiversity Policy in 2018. In the same year, NTPC became a member of the India Business & Biodiversity Initiative (IBBI).

Justice PK Mohanty gets additional charge of Lokpal chairperson

Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty has been given the additional charge of Lokpal chairperson after justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose completed his term as the Lokpal chief.

At present, there are six members in the Lokpal. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to justice Ghose as the Lokpal chairperson. 

The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act envisages the appointment of a Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in states to look into cases of corruption against certain categories of public servants, was passed in 2013.

A Lokpal chief and members are appointed for a term of five years or until attaining the age of 70 years. They are appointed by the President after obtaining the recommendations of a selection committee headed by the Prime Minister and comprising the speaker of the Lok Sabha, the Leader of Opposition in the lower house, the Chief Justice of India or a judge of the Supreme Court nominated by him, and an eminent jurist as recommended by the chairperson and members of the selection panel.

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June 02, 2022

Maharashtra sets the highest sugar production in the 2021-22

Maharashtra has recorded an all-time high sugar production of 132 lakh tonnes in the 2021-2022 season, state sugar commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad has claimed. 

Maharashtra had a record of all-time high sugar production of 107 lakh tonnes in 2019-20. This year, it has reached nearly 132 lakh tonnes, which is again an all-time high record for the state, while Uttar Pradesh has so far produced 80 lakh tonnes of sugar so far this year,” Gaikwad said. 

‘Tomb of Sand’ by Geetanjali Shree becomes first Hindi Novel to win International Booker Prize 2022

Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ has become the first Hindi novel to win the International Booker Prize. ‘Tomb of Sand’ which was originally published in Hindi as Ret Samadhi is translated into English by Daisy Rockwell.

The translated Hindi novel has become the first book written in an Indian language to win the prestigious 2022 International Booker Prize. 

The novel ‘Tomb of Sand’, in Hindi titled ‘Ret Samadhi’, was published in Hindi in 2018. The novel narrates the story of an 80-years old woman who experiences a deep depression after the death of her husband. 

Eventually, she overcomes the depression and decides to visit Pakistan to finally confront the past that she had left behind during partition. 

PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer commissioned at IIT, Gandhinagar

PARAM ANANTA, a state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). 

It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), which was commissioned. This indigenous software stack is developed by C-DAC and is a Make in India initiative.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Gandhinagar and Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to establish this 838 TeraFlops Supercomputing Facility under NSM.  

The system is equipped with a mix of CPU nodes, GPU nodes, High Memory nodes, High throughput storage and high performance Infiniband interconnect to cater the computing needs of various scientific and engineering applications.

About the PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer

PARAM ANANTA system is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology to obtain a high power usage effectiveness and thereby reducing the operational cost.  

It will benefit to IIT Gandhinagar to pursue the Research and Development (R&D) activities in multidisciplinary domains of science and technology at the Institute, including, but not limited to, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Science; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Bio-engineering for Genome Sequencing and DNA studies

Energy studies which will help in carrying out design simulation and optimization of energy conversion devices at various scales; Fire Dynamics Simulation; Nanotechnology; Robotics; Applied mathematics; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Material Sciences; Quantum Mechanics; Studies on Civil Engineering and structural mechanics to understand the dynamic behaviour of buildings, bridges; and complex structure.

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics used in prediction and detection of gene networks; Atomic & Molecular Sciences that helps in understanding how a drug binds to a particular protein; Climate Change and Environment studies for extreme weather predictions and simulation of models which can predict the onset of a cyclone;

India win bronze at the Men’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022

India won bronze after defeating Japan 1-0 in the third-Place match at the Men’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

India were down to 10 men in the last minute of the match but they managed to hold on and win their second bronze medal at the Asia Cup. India’s Rajkumar Pal gave the team an early lead in the first quarter of the match itself, which they held on to till the end. 

South Korea has lifted the prestigious trophy for the fifth time. They have won the title in 1994, 1999, 2009 and 2013.

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