Table of Content
- 1. India-Brunei Bilateral Ties
- 2. Aditya-L1 Mission
- 3. Financialization
- 4. Vishvasya-Blockchain Technology Stack
- 5. Centre and Tripura sign agreement with insurgents
- 6. Women in Police Force
- 7. Personality: V O Chidambaram Pillai
- 8.Also in News
- 8.1 Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H)
- 8.2 Centralised Pension Payment System
- 8.3 Poshan Tracker initiative
- 8.4 Phrynarachne decipiens
- 8.5 Quantum gravity
- 8.6 Houssehold savings
- 8.7 India Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (IGEIC)
- 8.8 Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
Also in News
Posted 05 Sep 2024
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Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H)
The PCIM&H has achieved the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Integrated Management System (IMS) Certifications.
About PCIM&H
- Subordinate office under Ministry of AYUSH.
- Institution for establishing and maintaining standards for Indian medicine and homoeopathy.
- Act as Central Drug Testing cum Appellate Laboratory for IM&H.
- Imparts capacity building training to drug regulatory authorities engaged in quality control pertaining to IM&H.
- Maintains an authentic Reference Raw Materials (RRM) Repository for IM&H.
Note: Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is a separate Autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, responsible to set standards of drugs in the country.
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- Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H)
- Central Drug Testing cum Appellate Laboratory
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Centralised Pension Payment System
Ministry of Labor and Employment approved CPPS for Employees’ Pension Scheme.
About CPPS
- It establishes a national-level centralized system enabling pensioners to receive their pensions from any bank, any branch, anywhere in the country.
- Existing pension disbursement system is decentralized, with each zonal/regional office of EPFO maintaining separate agreements with only 3-4 banks.
- It will be launched as part of EPFO’s Centralized IT Enabled System (CITES 2.01) from 1st January 2025.
- In the next phase, CPPS will enable a smooth transition to Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS).
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- Centralised Pension Payment System
- Centralized IT Enabled System (CITES 2.01)
- EPFO
- EPS
Poshan Tracker initiative
The Ministry of Women and Child Development has been awarded a National Award for e-Governance 2024 for their Poshan Tracker initiative.
Poshan Tracker initiative
- It is a tech tool to monitor Mission Poshan 2.0's progress, including growth measurements, Aadhar verification, and real-time tracking of nutrition services.
Benefits
- Tracks last-mile service delivery through 1.3 Million Anganwadi Workers
- Provides nutritional services to 101 Million beneficiaries
- Technology under Poshan Tracker is being leveraged for dynamic identification of stunting, wasting, under-weight prevalence among children.
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- POSHAN Abhiyaan
- Mission Poshan 2.0
- Poshan Tracker initiative
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Phrynarachne decipiens
Phrynarachne decipiens has been recorded for the first time in the country from Assam’s Kamrup district and Kokrajhar district.
About Phrynarachne decipiens
- Popularaly known as the bird dung or bird-dropping crab spider.
- Spiders of the genus Phrynarachne resemble a blob of bird dropping, and even smell like feces or urine.
- This may help it attract and ambush prey, and avoid the notice of predators
- Generally found in Malaysia and Indonesia’s Java and Sumatra.
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- Phrynarachne decipiens
- Crab spider
Quantum gravity
Indian Researchers have moved a step forward towards the unification of classical & quantum gravity.
- They have obtained an uncertainty relation induced from the noise of gravitons.
- A graviton is a hypothetical particle that is believed to mediate the gravitational interaction.
About Quantum gravity (QG)
- QG is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics.
- It deals with environments in which neither gravitational nor quantum effects can be ignored, such as in the vicinity of black holes or neutron stars.
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- Black Hole
- Gravity
- Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum gravity
- Neutron stars
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Houssehold savings
RBI Deputy governor said that Household savings will remain top net lenders to the economy in the coming decades.
- He noted that household savings are increasing from 10.6% during 2011-2017 to 11.5% during 2017-2023.
Household savings
- Household savings rate is expressed as ratio of household savings to GDP.
- household savings are categorized into
- Financial savings: currency, deposits, life insurance funds, etc.
- Decline in financial savings poses challenges for banking sector in maintaining liquidity and managing credit risk.
- Physical savings: physical assets along with savings made in gold and silver.
- Financial savings: currency, deposits, life insurance funds, etc.
- In India, household sector typically generates surplus savings relative to its investments, lending the excess to other sectors.
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- Household Savings Rate
- Household Savings
India Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (IGEIC)
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched IGEIC under the Graphene Aurora program (GAP).
- GAP was launched in 2023 to nurture the deep/emerging Graphene technology & innovation ecosystem.
- It is implemented by Digital University Kerala.
About IGEIC
- Incorporated as not for profit, section 8 company in Trivandrum, Kerala.
- Aims to create a hub of excellence in graphene technology commercialization.
- It shall fill the gap between R&D and commercialization by providing a complete facility to startup and industry.
- Earlier MeitY had launched India's first graphene centre-the India Innovation Centre for Graphene (IICG) in Kerala
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- Graphene Aurora program
- IGEIC
- MeitY
- Graphene
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Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
ONDC awarded Gold Award under category "Application of Emerging Technologies for Providing Citizen-Centric Services" in National Awards for e-Governance by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.
About ONDC
- Aims at promoting open networks for all aspects of exchange of goods and services over digital or electronic networks.
- Expected to make e-Commerce more inclusive and accessible for consumers.
- It is an initiative of the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
- ONDC was incorporated as a Section 8 (not for profit) company with the Quality Council of India and Protean eGov Technologies Limited as Founding Members.
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- E-commerce
- Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
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