Daily CA One Liners
📅 06 April 2021 .
📅 05 April : International Day Of Conscienc
👤 Shivashankarappa S Sahukar Has Been Appointed As Chairman Of KPSC
✔️Shivashankarappa Joined KPSC As A Member On September 3 , 2019
✔️ KPSC : Karnataka Public Service Commission
🏏 Babar Became The Fastest Cricketer To Score 13th Centuries In ODI
✔️ Babar Azam Has Taken Just 76 Innings To Score 13 Centuries
😞 Noted Gujarati Poet Khalil Dhantejvi Passes Away Recently
😞 Veteran Actress Shashikala Passes Away Recently
😞 India’s 1st Female Cricket Commentator Chandra Naidu Passed Away
✔️ She Was The Daughter Of Former Cricketer CK Nayudu
🔶 The Uttarakhand Govt Declared Journalists As " Frontline Workers "
👤 Jeh Wadia Has Resigned From The Post Of MD Of Bombay Dyeing
🔶 TRIFED Recently Launched The " SANKALP SE SIDDHI "
✔️ It Aims To Cover 1,500 Villages In India In Hundred Days
⌚ IIT Kanpur Develops Touch Sensitive Watch For Visually Impaired
🏆 Hubert Hurkacz Of Poland Has Won The Miami Open Title
✔️ The Tournament Is Held At Hard Rock Stadium In Miami , Florida
🤝 Military Exercise " Shantir Ogroshena, 2021 " Was Begun At Bangladesh
✔️ Exercise Is To Be Held Between April 4 , 2021 - April 12 , 2021
✔️ Indian Army Contingent Of 30 Personnel Are Participating In The Exercise
✔️ Theme Of The Exercise Is " Robust Peace Keeping Operations "
👤 10CRIC Ropes In Chris Gayle As Its Brand Ambassador
👤 Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh Resigned From Post
👤 Chintan Vaishnav Appointed As New Mission Director For AIM
✔️ AIM : Atal Innovation Mission
👤 Shabir Hussein Shekhadam Khandwawala Appointed As BCCI's ACU Chief
✔️ ACU : Anti-Corruption Unit
👤 R K Verma Appointed As The Next Ambassador Of India To Gabon
👤 Ram Karan Verma , Presently Ambassador Of India To The Congo .
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🔆National Anti-Trafficking Bureau
✅The Government of India amended the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 in 2019 to inter-alia include Section 370 and 370A of the Indian Penal Code in the Schedule of the Act. The NIA has been given the mandate to investigate cases of human trafficking, including those having inter-state, national and international ramifications. Further, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has taken the following initiatives for the safety of women:
✅The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 was enacted for effective deterrence against sexual offences. Further, the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018 was enacted to prescribe even further stringent penal provisions, including death penalty, for rape of girls below the age of 12 years.
✅Emergency Response Support System provides a pan-India, single internationally recognized number (112) system for all emergencies, with computer aided dispatch of field resources to the location of distress.
✅To promote use of technology to aid smart policing and safety management, Safe City Projects have been sanctioned in eight cities namely, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow and Mumbai in the first Phase.
✅The projects have been prepared by State Governments taking into account the need for identification of hotspots for crimes against women for development of critical assets in urban areas including infrastructure, technology adoption and capacity building in community through awareness programmers.
✅A cyber-crime reporting portal was launched on 20th September, 2018 for citizens to report obscene content.
✅MHA launched the “National Database on Sexual Offenders” (NDSO) on 20th September, 2018 to facilitate investigation and tracking of sexual offenders across the country.
✅MHA has launched an online analytic tool “Investigation Tracking System for Sexual Offences” to monitor and track time-bound investigation in sexual assault cases in accordance with Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018.
✅MHA has notified guidelines for collection of forensic evidence in sexual assault cases and the standard composition in a sexual assault evidence collection kits. To facilitate adequate capacity in manpower, training and skill building programmes have been undertaken for Investigation Officers, Prosecution Officers and Medical Officers.
✅In order to improve investigation, MHA has taken steps to strengthen DNA analysis units in Central and State Forensic Science Laboratories. A State-of-the-Art DNA Analysis Unit has been commenced in Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Chandigarh on 23rd December 2019.
✅MHA has released Rs 200 crores to States/UTs for setting up and strengthening of Women Help Desks in police stations and Anti-Human Trafficking Units in all districts of the country.
🔸Further, a national level communication platform – Crime Multi Agency Centre (Cri-MAC) was launched by MHA on March 12, 2020. Cri-MAC facilitates dissemination of information about significant crimes, including human trafficking cases, across the country on real time basis and enables inter-State coordination. The coordination mechanism available to Police Officers in all States and UTs through Cri-MAC is an efficient and fast enabling-tool for sharing information in a safe and secure manner, which helps in locating and identifying the victims as also in prevention, detection and investigation of crimes.
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A friendly India Pakistan Relation is Much Needed
Synopsis: The positive signs in the India-Pakistan relation are again turning negative. Pakistan recently took an U-turn after the announcement to open trade with India.
Background:
Recently, Pakistan reversed a two-year old decision to suspend all trades with India. Followingly, Pakistan allowed for the import of cotton and sugar from India.
However, the decision to allow the import of cotton and sugar from India has been withdrawn within a fortnight.
It has been stated that restoration of J&K’s special status will be the precondition for opening up trade with India.
Why Pakistan was ready to resume trade with India?
Because of the following reasons, the government of Pakistan was ready to resume trade with India,
First, the economy of Pakistan is very weak, and it has been sustained by IMF loans.
Second, the action by Financial Action Task Force over possible blacklisting on terror financing is affecting the ordinary citizens.
Third, the Pandemic has also impacted the financial health of the country.
Fourth, a steep fall in the cotton yield has kept the prices of the commodity high. This has caused a crisis in the country’s main manufacturing and export industry.
What is the way forward?
India needs the cooperation of Pakistan to maintain peace on the western front. Especially after the standoff with China at the LAC in eastern Ladakh.
To maintain friendly relation, India needs to be supportive of Pakistan by helping them to overcome the financial crisis by
Lifting the 200 percent tariffs on Pakistani imports imposed after the Pulwama attack.
Restoring the hugely popular cross-LoC trade and bus service. This will also help to strengthen the peace across the border.
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Supernova explosion traced to one of the hottest kind of stars
• The rare Wolf–Rayet stars are highly luminous objects a thousand times that of the Sun and have intrigued astronomers for long.
• They are massive stars and strip their outer hydrogen envelope which is associated with the fusion of Helium and other elements in the massive core.
• Tracking of certain types of massive luminous supernovae explosion can help probe these stars that remain an enigma for scientists.
More information:
• A team of astronomers from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India with international collaborators have conducted the optical monitoring of one such stripped-envelope supernova called SN 2015dj hosted in the galaxy NGC 7371 which was spotted in 2015.
• They calculated the mass of the star that collapsed to form the supernovae as well as the geometry of its ejection.
• The scientists also found that the original star was a combination of two stars – one of them is a massive WR star and another is a star much less in mass than the Sun.
• Supernovae (SNe) are highly energetic explosions in the Universe releasing an enormous amount of energy.
• Long-term monitoring of these transients opens the door to understand the nature of the exploding star as well as the explosion properties. It can also help enumerate the number of massive stars.
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🔆EARTH’S SEISMIC NOISE
▪️Why in News?
✅Scientists at the British Geological Survey (BGS) have reported a change in the Earth’s seismic noise and vibrations amid the coronavirus lockdown.
▪️About:
✅ They have observed a 30-50 per cent fall in levels of ambient seismic noise since schools and businesses were closed in mid-March.
✅ Seismologists around the world have now begun a collaborative effort to study the fall in seismic noise levels.
▪️What is seismic noise?
✅In geology, seismic noise refers to the relatively persistent vibration of the ground due to a multitude of causes.
✅It is the unwanted component of signals
recorded by a seismometer– the scientific instrument that records ground motions, such as those caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and explosions.
✅This noise includes vibrations caused due to
human activity, such as transport and manufacturing, and makes it difficult for
scientists to study seismic data that is more valuable.
✅Apart from geology, seismic noise is also studied in other fields such as oil exploration, hydrology, and earthquake engineering.
▪️How to reduce the noise levels help scientists?
✅The seismic noise vibration caused by human activity are of high frequency (between 1-100 Hz), and travel through the Earth’s surface layers.
✅Usually, to measure seismic activity accurately and reduce the effect of seismic noise, geologists place their detectors 100 meters below the Earth’s surface.
✅ Due to lower noise levels, scientists are now hoping that they would be able to detect smaller earthquakes and tremors that had slipped past their instruments so far.
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🔆Tharu Tribe
✅Context: The Uttar Pradesh government has recently embarked upon a scheme to take the unique culture of its ethnic Tharu tribe across the world.
▪️About the Scheme
✅The Scheme is about connecting the Tharu villages in the districts of Balrampur,
Bahraich, Lakhimpur, and Pilibhit bordering Nepal, with the homestay scheme of the UP Forest Department.
✅The idea is to off er tourists an experience of living in the natural Tharu habitat, in traditional huts made of grass collected mainly from the forests.
✅It will encourage villagers to acquaint them with aspects of safety and cleanliness, and with the rules of the forest.
✅The intention is to put Tharu villages on the tourism map and to create jobs and bring economic independence to the tribal population.
▪️Who are the Tharu people?
✅The community belongs to the Terai lowlands, amid the Shivaliks or lower Himalayas.
✅The Tharus live in both India and Nepal.
✅ In the Indian Terai, they live mostly in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar
✅Most of them are forest dwellers and some practice agriculture.
✅Members of the tribe survive on wheat, corn, and vegetables are grown close to their homes.
✅A majority still lives off the forest.
▪️Details on Tharu language, food, and culture:
✅They speak various dialects of Tharu, a language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup, and variants of Hindi, Urdu, and Awadhi.
✅In central Nepal, they speak a variant of Bhojpuri, while in eastern Nepal, they speak a variant of Maithili.
✅Tharus worship Lord Shiva as Mahadev.
✅Most Tharutribals consume alcoholic beverages, and some eat beef.
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🔆EARTH’S SEISMIC NOISE
▪️Why in News?
✅Scientists at the British Geological Survey (BGS) have reported a change in the Earth’s seismic noise and vibrations amid the coronavirus lockdown.
▪️About:
✅ They have observed a 30-50 per cent fall in levels of ambient seismic noise since schools and businesses were closed in mid-March.
✅ Seismologists around the world have now begun a collaborative effort to study the fall in seismic noise levels.
▪️What is seismic noise?
✅In geology, seismic noise refers to the relatively persistent vibration of the ground due to a multitude of causes.
✅It is the unwanted component of signals
recorded by a seismometer– the scientific instrument that records ground motions, such as those caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and explosions.
✅This noise includes vibrations caused due to
human activity, such as transport and manufacturing, and makes it difficult for
scientists to study seismic data that is more valuable.
✅Apart from geology, seismic noise is also studied in other fields such as oil exploration, hydrology, and earthquake engineering.
▪️How to reduce the noise levels help scientists?
✅The seismic noise vibration caused by human activity are of high frequency (between 1-100 Hz), and travel through the Earth’s surface layers.
✅Usually, to measure seismic activity accurately and reduce the effect of seismic noise, geologists place their detectors 100 meters below the Earth’s surface.
✅ Due to lower noise levels, scientists are now hoping that they would be able to detect smaller earthquakes and tremors that had slipped past their instruments so far.
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