यूनेस्को विश्व धरोहर सूची में शामिल हुआ गुलाबी शहर
यूनेस्को वर्ल्ड हेरिटेज की लिस्ट में भारत का एक और शहर शामिल हो गया है। राजस्थान की राजधानी जयपुर शहर को यूनेस्को वर्ल्ड हेरिटेज घोषित कर दिया गया है। यह ऐलान यूनेस्को ने 6 जुलाई 2019 को किया। राजस्थान में 37 वर्ल्ड हेरिटेज साइट्स हैं। इनमें चित्तौड़गढ़ का किला, कुंभलगढ़, जैसलमेर, रणथंभोर, और गागरोन का किला शामिल हैं।
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#India #UNESCO #WorldHeritage #PinkCity #Rajasthan #NarendraModi

सरकार की नई टैरिफ नीति
आम बजट में कुछ अहम सुधारों की घोषणा के बाद सरकार की नजर बिजली क्षेत्र में सुधारों को आगे बढ़ाने की है। इसमें सबसे पहले नई टैरिफ नीति का कैबिनेट नोट सभी संबंधी मंत्रालयों को भेज दिया गया है, जिस पर अगले एक पखवाड़े के भीतर फैसला होने की उम्मीद है। नई टैरिफ नीति से देशभर में ग्राहकों को चौबीसों घंटे बिजली की आपूर्ति सुनिश्चित होगी।
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#Government #tariffpolicy #Budget #DBT #household #UttarPradesh


Pink City declared world heritage site
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee inscribed Jaipur the ‘Pink City of India’ among its World Heritage Sites. In a meeting held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The UNESCO Committee decided to include seven cultural sites of different nations in its world heritage list.
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#India #UNESCO #WorldHeritage #PinkCity #Rajasthan #NarendraModi

Panel to be set up for encourage women
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 5 July 2019 said a committee will be set up to evaluate, suggest measures to encourage and facilitate women participation in country's development. Presenting the first Budget of the Modi government in its second term, Sitharaman proposed to expand self help groups (SHG) to all districts and said one woman in every SHG will get loan of up to Rs 1 lakh under Mudra Yojana.
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#NirmalaSitharaman #MudraYojana #Budget #Modi #SHG #NationalResearchFoundation

Country’s first overseas bond
The government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will finalise plans for the country’s first overseas sovereign bond issue by September when the Centre’s second quarter borrowing programme is finalised, finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said on 6 July 2019.
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#RBI #SubhashChandraGarg #India #PFC #IRFC #overseas

India's SRB down
India’s sex ratio at birth (SRB) — the number of female babies born for every 1,000 male babies — fell to an all-time low of 896 in 2015-2017. This would translate into approximately 117 lakh girls missing in the country in a span of three years. Five large states — Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Maharashtra and Gujarat — with poor sex ratios at birth account for about two thirds of these missing girls.
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#SRB #India #Gujarat #sexratio #UP #Rajasthan #approximately

India’s renewable energy
India’s renewable energy capacity has crossed the 80GW-mark, which includes 29.55 GW of solar energy and 36.37 GW wind power, Parliament was informed on 16 July 2019. The government has set an ambitious target of having 175 GW of clean energy capacity by 2022, including 100 GW solar and 60 GW of wind energy.
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#India #PPAs #SPPD #SECI #ETDA #CTU #INDC #solar

Justice Sikri Appointed As Judge Of SICC
Former Supreme Court judge Justice A K Sikri has been appointed as an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). A press release in the official website of the Singapore Prime Minister's office stated that the President of the Republic of Singapore, on the advice of the Prime Minister, has made the appointment of Justice Sikri from August 1. His appointment is until Jan 4, 2021.
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#SICC #AKSikri #CSAT #Singapore #SupremeCourt #HongKong #AlokVerma

Bill to fortify arbitration framework
A bill aimed at improving institutional arbitration in the country was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill 2019 seeks to make India a hub of domestic and global arbitration for settling commercial disputes.
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#framework #RaviShankarPrasad #Amendment #ACI #LokSabha

Deep Ocean Mission
After successfully venturing into space exploration, India will launch its ambitious ‘Deep Ocean Mission’ by October to enter hitherto untapped 75,000 sq km of area in international waters to tap vast marine resources.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21067-deep-ocean-mission-2
#Mission #CIOB #DRDO #ISRO #DeepOceanMission #manned #DBT

WII report on GIB
The critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB) is nearing extinction due to collision with high voltage power lines that criss-cross their flying path, according to a report by the Ministry of Environment.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21066-wii-report-on-gib
#GIB #WII #Rajasthan #CAMPA #NGT #GIBs #CWEL #Gujarat

Repatriation talks with Rohingya refugees
A Myanmar government delegation has met with representatives of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh to discuss creating conditions for their safe repatriation, officials said on 28 July 2019.
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#ASEAN #Bengalis #Myanmar #Bangladesh #Muslim #RohingyaMuslimrefugees

Indian wins People’s Choice Award in US
Renowned Indian sand artist and Padma Awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the People’s Choice Award at a prestigious sand sculpting festival in the US, wowing the American public with his sculpture that highlighted the message of combating plastic pollution in oceans.
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#Indian #US #Pattnaik #PadmaAwardee #SudarsanPattnaik

Arrow-3 system successfully tested
Israel and the United States have successfully carried out tests of a ballistic missile interceptor that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on 28 July 2019 provides protection against potential threats from Iran.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21063-arrow-3-system-successfully-tested
#Arrow3 #Israel #Iran #missile #Alaska #UnitedStates

Mary Kom wins gold medal
Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom claimed the gold medal without breaking a sweat in the 23rd President’s Cup, asserting her supremacy in a lop-sided 51kg bout final in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia on 28 July 2019. The Olympic bronze medallist pugilist decimated Australian April Franks 5-0.
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#MaryKom #goldmedal #23rdPresident #TokyoOlympics #Asian #WorldChampionships

Today's Headlines - 31 July 2023
International Tiger Day
GS Paper - 3 (Environment)

29 July is celebrated world over as the International Tiger Day in a bid to raise awareness on various issues surrounding tiger conservation. It was first instituted in 2010 at the Tiger Summit in St Petersburg, Russia when the 13 tiger range countries came together to create Tx2, the global goal to double the number of wild tigers by the year 2022. Last year, the designated date for achieving the goals of Tx2, however, saw uneven progress. As per the World Wildlife Fund, while countries in Southeast Asia struggled to control population decline, others, like India, fared much better.

How Project Tiger came about

Project Tiger was launched by the Central government on 1 April 1973, in a bid to promote conservation of the tiger.
The programme came at a time when India’s tiger population was rapidly dwindling. According to reports, while there were 40,000 tigers in the country at the time of the Independence (in 1947), they were soon reduced to below 2,000 by 1970 due to widespread hunting and habitat destrcutions.
Concerns around the issue intensified when in 1970, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the tiger as an endangered species.
Two years later, the Indian government conducted its own tiger census and found that there were only 1,800 of them left in the country.
To tackle the problem of hunting and poaching of not just tigers but also other animals and birds, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi promulgated the Wildlife Protection Act in 1972.
A year later, after a task force urged the government to create a chain of reserves dedicated to tiger preservation, Indira unveiled Project Tiger.

What is Project Tiger?

Launched at the Jim Corbett National Park, the programme was initially started in nine tiger reserves of different States such as Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, covering over 14,000 sq km.
Notably, Project Tiger didn’t just focus on the conservation of the big cats. It also ensured the preservation of their natural habitat as tigers are at the top of the food chain.

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