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UPSC Current Affairs February 2019 in English www.gradeup.co 1 www.gradeup.co Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Preparation 01.02.2019 Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan • Under the scheme, an assured 1. Budget Highlights 2019-20 monthly pension of Rs 3,000 per month will be provided to workers in the unorganised sector after 60 years of age. • To avail of the scheme, workers will have to contribute Rs 100 month. Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog • To upscale sustainable genetic upgradation of cow resources and to enhance production and productivity of cows. Topic- GS-3- Economy Source-PIB 2. A unique travelogue series ‘Rag Rag Mein Ganga’ launched on Doordarshan • Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation launched travelogue program “Rag Rag Mein Ganga” on Doordarshan. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi • This series has been made by (PM-KISAN) Doordarshan in collaboration with National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). • The show relays the message of the need of rejuvenating River Ganga while also informing about the efforts of the Government to clean Ganga – presented in a unique and interesting format. Topic- GS Paper 1 –Art and Culture Source-PIB 3. DIPP renamed as DPIIT • The government has notified changing the name of the Department of • To extend direct income support at Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) the rate of Rs. 6,000 per year to to the Department for Promotion of farmer families, having cultivable land Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). upto 2 hectares. • The notification has also included four • Under this Government of India new categories of responsibilities to funded Scheme, Rs.2,000 each will be DIPP. It includes transferred to the bank accounts of (a) The promotion of internal trade around 12 crore Small and Marginal (including retail trade) farmer families, in three equal (b) The welfare of traders and their instalments. employees • This programme would be made (c) Matters relating to facilitating Ease effective from 1st December 2018 and of Doing Business the first instalment for the period (d) Matters relating to start-ups. upto31st March 2019 would be paid. 2 www.gradeup.co Related Information • He got this award for the Department of Industrial Policy and transformational changes brought by Promotion him during his tenure as Union • Department of Industrial Policy & Minister of Power. Promotion (DIPP) functions under the Related Information Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Carnot Prize Government of India. • The Carnot Prize is the annual • It is responsible for formulation and recognition by the US-based Kleinman implementation of promotional and Center for Energy Policy for developmental measures for growth distinguished contributions to energy of the industrial sector, keeping in policy through scholarship or practice. view the national priorities and socio- • The prize has been named after economic objectives. French scientist Sadi Carnot, who in • It is also responsible for facilitating 1824 published Reflections Motive and increasing the foreign direct Power of Fire, which became the basis investment (FDI) flows to the country. for the second law of Topic- GS Paper 3 –Economics thermodynamics. Source- The Hindu • Carnot recognized that the power of 4. Polar Vortex the steam engine would “produce a • Recently the south-directing current great revolution” in human of the North Polar vortex has brought development. deadly cold waves to the USA. Topic-GS Paper-2–Important awards/prizes • Reason - During winter in the Source- Indian Express northern hemisphere the vortex 6. Global Warming Affect El Niño in the becomes weak and expands, sending 21st Century Arctic cold air southward due to which • The most recent projection of global North Polar vortex has brought deadly warming impact on El Niño appeared cold waves to the USA. in scientific journal ‘Nature ‘in which Related Information has thrown some light on the effects Polar vortex of global warming on El Niño in the • The Polar vortex is a large area of low 21st Century. pressure that consistently overlies the Finding of the study North and South poles. • El Niño remains the largest climate • It always exists near the poles but phenomenon that occurs frequently weakens in summer and strengthens producing droughts, floods, wildfires, in winter. dust and snow storms, fish kill, and • They are called ‘vortexes’ because of even elevated risks of civil conflicts. the mass of cold, dense air that spins • The theatre of action for El Niño is the counter-clockwise like a hurricane. tropical Pacific Ocean but its global • The polar vortex can lead to major reach costs the global community tens cold air outbreaks in the Northern of billion dollars each time. Hemisphere, including North America, Related Information Europe and Asia. EI Nino • It is capable of delivering subzero • In a normal year, a surface low temperatures in the new areas for pressure develops in the region of several days at a time. northern Australia and Indonesia and Topic- GS Paper 3 –Science and a high-pressure system over the coast Technology of Peru. Source- Science Daily • El Nino refers to the unusual warming 5. Piyush Goyal has been awarded the of the central and east-central Carnot Prize 2018 equatorial Pacific Ocean which leads • The Union Minister of Railways, Piyush to air pressure drops over large areas Goyal has been awarded the Carnot of the central Pacific and along the Prize 2018. coast of South America. 3 www.gradeup.co • The warmer waters of the Pacific 8. Cow urine may be a reason for global Ocean cause the winds in various warming: Study regions to reverse • In a study Cow urine — a minor fount • This change in wind direction leads to of research in India for its medicinal warmer winters and summers and a benefits — may also contribute to decrease in rainfall during the global warming. monsoon. • The urine from the ruminant is a Effects of El Nino’s source of nitrous oxide emissions • El Nino affects global weather. (N2O), a gas that is 300 times more • El Nino reduces upwelling of cold powerful than carbon dioxide. water, decreasing the uplift of • The cattle and livestock are a nutrients from the bottom of the significant source of methane, a ocean which affects marine life, greenhouse gas, and therefore a seabirds and the fishing industry. contributor to global warming is well- • Drought caused by El Nino can be known. widespread, affecting southern Africa, Related Information India, Southeast Asia, Australia, and • India had estimates for dung and the Pacific Islands. urine production per cow or buffalo or • A recent WHO report on the health other livestock animals as well as their consequences of El Nino forecasts a overall estimates for their populations rise in vector-borne diseases, as per 2012 livestock census. including those spread by mosquitoes, • But the exact contribution of cow in Central and South America. urine to the total nitrous oxide • Cycles of malaria in India are also emission from India is not estimated linked to El Nino. precisely. Topic- GS Paper 3 –Environment Topic- GS Paper 3 –Science and Source- Down to Earth Technology 7. Biopolymer research to focus on new Source- The Hindu products 9. African Asian Rural Development • Rajasthan is promoting research in Organisation the biopolymer sector with an • An international workshop on fisheries emphasis on the fabrication of new and aquaculture has called for products and generation of more regional cooperation among member employment opportunities. countries of the African Asian Rural • The research on Biopolymer is carried Development Organisation (AARDO) out by the Centre for Skilling and to develop joint fisheries management Technical Support and the National plans. Institute of Fashion. Related Information • The initiative will also be helped the AARDO handicraft industry. • AARDO is an autonomous inter- Biopolymer governmental organization • Biopolymers are polymers that are comprising 33 members from Africa produced by living organisms. and Asia formed in 1962. • They are generally polymers of starch. • Its headquarters is in New Delhi. • These are composed of monomeric • The Organization was set up with a units. view to promoting coordinated efforts, • Cellulose is the most common organic exchange of experiences and compound and biopolymer on Earth. cooperative action for furthering the • Other examples of biopolymers objectives of development of the rural include rubber, suberin, melanin areas. and lignin. • India is one of the Founder Members Topic- GS Paper 3 –Science and of the Organization and is the largest Technology contributor in terms of membership Source-The Hindu contribution. 4 www.gradeup.co • The first Afro-Asian Conference on • The United Nations Security Council Rural Reconstruction held its historic has adopted a resolution 2454 to Session in New Delhi during 18-25 extend sanctions against the Central January 1961. African Republic (CAR) for another Topic- GS Paper 2 –Important year. Organisation Features of Resolution 2454 Source- The Hindu • It has adopted unanimously by the 15-member council, decides to renew 04.02.2019 the sanctions regime – an arms embargo, travels ban and asset freeze 1. Inkjet’ solar panels set to reshape till January 31, 2020. green energy • It also decides to extend the mandate • A PhD scholar has developed a novel of the panel of experts, which helps inkjet processing method the Security Council with the for perovskites — a new implementation of the sanctions, until generation of cheaper solar cells. Feb 29, 2020. • It makes it possible to produce solar • The resolution envisages the panels under lower temperatures, establishment of key benchmarks in thus sharply reducing costs. various sectors that could help the • Solar panels coated with the mineral Security Council review the arms are light, flexible, efficient, embargo on the CAR government by inexpensive and come in varying hues April 30, 2019. and degrees of transparency. United Nations Security Council (UNSC) • They can easily be fixed to almost any • It is one of the six principal organs of surface — be it laptop, car, drone, the UN.
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