Ksg:Newspaper Crux 25Th January, 2021

KSG:NEWSPAPER CRUX 25TH JANUARY, 2021

NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS MASCRADE 2021  Amid a raging debate over data 1.Movement against Smuggled & Counterfeit privacy while using messaging Trade(MASCRADE) is the annual flagship conference platforms such as WhatsApp, organised by FICCI(Federation ofn Indian Chambers of terrorist groups and their Commerce & Industry). handlers from Pakistan are 2.It provides a platform to identify opportunities for switching to new applications, joint action between governments and private sector, including one developed by a and enforcement machinery to combat illegal trade. Turkish company. 3.Established in 1927, FICCI is the largest and oldest apex business(non-government, not-for-profit) in India.  The Indian Sunderbans, which is part of the largest mangrove SHREE NARAYAN GURU forest in the world, is home to 1.He was saint and social reformer born in Kerala into an 428 species of birds, a recent Ezhava family, a lower caste. He preached “One Caste, publication of the Zoological One God for All” and also authored ‘Atmopadesa Survey of India (ZSI) states. Satakam’(one hundred verses of self-instruction). 2.He was one of the greatest proponents and re-  Chief Election Commissioner evaluators of Advaita Vedanta, the principle of non- Sunil Arora said the trials of duality put forward by Adi Shankracharya. the Election Commission’s 3.He extended this non dualistic principle into practical remote voting project would be modes of self-realisation through spiritual education, carried out soon. compassion, and peaceful coexistence of humanity.

 The top human rights body of VARIOUS INITIATIVES LAUNCHED BY MINISTRY OF the United Nations has urged TRIBAL AFFAIRS FOR TRIBAL MIGRANTS the Indian government to 1.ShramShakti-A portal to collect data related to tribal release the activists who are in migrant workers and link them with the existing prison for the 2018 Bhima welfare schemes. Koregaon case. 2.It will include demographic profile, livelihood options, skill-mapping and migration pattern.  As India and China started the 3.ShramSaathi-A tribal training module to ensure that ninth round of Corps the process of livelihood migration is safe and Commander talks on Sunday to productive. address the nine month long 4.Training will enable them to demand and access standoff• along the Line of services, rights and entitlements related to livelihood and Actual Control (LAC) in eastern social security before and after migration. Ladakh, the head of one of the ASTROSAT border villages claimed that Chinese vehicles were using 1.AstroSat is the first dedicated Indian astronomy Indian roads to enter Indian mission(ISRO) aimed at studying celestial sources in X- territory. ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously. 2.Its aims to understand high energy processes in  The ruling Nepal Communist binary star systems. Party, led by rebel leaders 3.Recently, AstroSat`s Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ spotted rare ultraviolet-bright stars in a massive intriguing and former Prime Minister cosmic dinosaur(globular cluster NGC 2808) in the Milky Madhav Kumar Nepal expelled Way. Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli from the party. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM(DSS) BY COMMISSION FOR AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT(CAQM)

1.CAQM will rope in top technical institutions to set up a  India took less than a week to vaccinate over a million DSS.DSS will have a web, Geographical Information System beneficiaries, the Union Health and multi-model based operational and planning decision support tool. Ministry said on Sunday, stating 2.It will have an integrated framework to handle both primary that the country is ahead of the and secondary pollutants using a chemical transport model. U.S. (10 days) and the U.K. (18) 3.CAQM was recently established for better coordination, in achieving this mark. research, identification and resolution of problems

surrounding air quality index in NCR region. 

 The Central government has SMART ANTI-AIRFIELD WEAPON(SAAW) undertaken many initiatives 1. that focus on empowering the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) girl child, including access to successfully test fired SAAW from Hawk-1 jet of Hindustan education, better healthcare and Aeronautics Limited(HAL). 2. indigenously designed stand-off weapon improving gender sensitivity, SAAW is developed capable of engaging enemy airfield assets such Prime Minister Narendra Modi as radars, bunkers, taxi tracks, and runways etc. said on National Girl Child Day. up to a range of 100 kms.