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Posted 24 Feb 2024

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Portals for a ‘Modernized Media Landscape’

  • The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launched 4 new media-related portals to streamline media-related services under its umbrella.

 

  • The four new portals are
    • Press Sewa Portal: for automation of the process for newspaper registration. 
    • NaViGate Bharat Portal: single platform with an interactive user interface for government videos
    • National Register for Local Cable Operators: To streamline regulatory processes in the cable television sector in the future.
    • Transparent Empanelment Media Planning and eBilling System for Central Bureau of Communication: to enhance transparency and efficiency in media planning processes.
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  • Press Seva Portal
  • media-related portals

Energy Charter Treaty

  • The UK to leave 'Outdated' Fossil Fuel Friendly Treaty ie. The Energy Charter Treaty. 

 

  • About Energy Charter Treaty
    • It provides a multilateral framework for energy cooperation that is unique under international law. 
    • It entered into legal force in April 1998. 
    • It is designed to promote energy security through the operation of more open and competitive energy markets while respecting the principles of sustainable development and sovereignty over energy resources.
    • Currently, there are 53 Signatories and Contracting Parties to the Treaty.
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  • Energy Charter Treaty
  • Energy cooperation

Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) Scheme

  • State Government of Odisha extends KALIA scheme by 3 years.

 

  • About KALIA Scheme
    • Objective: To provide financial assistance to small and marginal farmers (SMF) including sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and landless agricultural households (LAH) in the state.
    • Comprehensive welfare solution conceived as a Direct Income Transfer (DIT).
    • Excludes medium and large farmers.
    • Other benefits: Scholarship for Children of KALIA beneficiaries, Livelihood packages for landless households, etc.
    • Synchronized with PM-KISAN to provide annual benefit of ₹10000 to SMF (₹6,000 from PM-KISAN and ₹4,000, from KALIA).
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  • KALIA Scheme
  • Farmer income

Grey – zone Warfare

  • At Raisina Dialogue 2024, India’s Chief of Defence Staff talked about Grey-zone warfare.

 

  • Grey – zone warfare
    • Involves military actions which are below a particular threshold to invite a response.
    • Seeks to exploit operational space between peace and war to change the status quo.

 

  • About Raisina Dialogue
    • India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics.
    • Hosted by Observer Research Foundation in partnership with Union Ministry of External Affairs.
    • Theme of 2024 editionChaturanga: Conflict, Contest, Cooperate, Create.
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  • Grey - zone Warfare
  • Raisina Dialogue

Exercise 'DOSTI-16'

  • 16th biennial trilateral coast guard exercise between India, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka started.
    • Bangladesh is participating as an observer.
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  • DOSTI-16

Indian Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)

  • Indian Gharial spotted in Greater Kaziranga (Assam) after a gap of 75 years.

 

  • About Indian Gharial 
    • Distribution: Major population occurs in three tributaries of Ganga River - Chambal and Girwa in India and Rapti-Naryani in Nepal.
    • Gharial reserves of India are located in three States – UP, MP, and Rajasthan.
    • Habitat: Resides exclusively in river habitats with deep, clear, fast-flowing waters and steep, sandy banks.
    • Conservation status: IUCN (Critically Endangered), Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 (Schedule I), and CITES (Appendix I)
    • Behavioral Characteristics: Unlike other crocodiles, they feed on warm-blooded species and some are known to scavenge dead animals.
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  • Indian Gharial

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants(SLCPs)

  • Climate and Clean Air Conference 2024 called for international collaboration to phase-out SLCPs.
    • Conference is an annual meeting of Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) which is a partnership of over 160 governments and organisations committed to reducing SLCPs.

 

  • About SLCPs
    • They are pollutants that remain in atmosphere for much shorter period than carbon dioxide, with much higher warming potential.
      • e.g., Black Carbon, Methane, Tropospheric Ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
    • Major sources: Inefficient combustion of fuel, agricultural sector, waste sector, refrigeration and cooling, etc.
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  • SLCPs
  • CCAC
  • Black carbon

Kala Azar

  • India hit target towards eliminating Kala Azar for the  first time in 2023 by reporting less than one case per 10,000 population across all blocks

 

  •  About Kala Azar
    • It is also known as Visceral Leishmaniasis and is a protozoan parasitic disease.
    • Causing agent: infected female phlebotomine sandfly.
    • Symptoms: irregular fever, weight loss, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and anaemia. 
    • The disease is endemic in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
    • Areas infected: Brazil, east Africa, and India
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  • Kala Azar
  • Visceral Leishmaniasis

Personality in News

Sant Ravidas 

  • PM unveiled statue of Sant Ravidas on his 647th birth anniversary.

 

  • About Sant Ravidas
    • Was a poet, philosopher, and social reformer during 15th century.
    • Prominent bhakti saint of Nirguna Sampradaya in northern India.
    • Considered as spiritual Guru of Meera Bai.

 

  • Key contributions
    • Worked against system of untouchability.
    • His padas, devotional songs, and other writings are mentioned in the Guru Granth Sahib compiled by 5th Sikh’s Guru, Arjan Dev.
    • Begumpura city was pioneered by him as a city without any sorrow and full of peace and humanity.

 

  • ValuesCompassion, Social justice, Egalitarianism, Humanism, etc. 

 

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