June Flashcards
Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA)
It is an intergovernmental forum ; enhancing cooperation and stability in asia, India is a member. Every 4 years CICA held
S. Jaishankar said that terrorism poses greatest threat to people in Asia.
Proposed by Kazakhastan,Secretariat at NurSultan, Kazakhastan and 2019 5th Summit at Dushanbe ,Tajikistan
FATF
Saudi first Arab country to get member status of this organisation.
Intergovernmental financial watch dog ,also looks into terrorism and Money laundering.
Estabilished 1989 by G7 ,HQ at OECD in Paris.
Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA)
Between India and Marshall Islands - Non binding
Help curb Tax Evasion by OECD.
International Seed testing Association ISTA
32nd ISTA congress @ Hyderabad Telangana
Set up in 1924
Seed testing and certification, Not for profit body
Beekeeping Development committee
Bibek Dibroy in Economic Advisory Council to PM
Recognise beekeepers as farmers , honey as agriculture input and institutionalise national bee board and rename it as honey and pollinators board of India under MoA FW
Number 1 producer is China , India is on Number 8 for beekeeping
National Bee Board
SFAC Small farmers agribusiness Consuritum registered NBB under Societies Registration Act ,1860
Implementing National horticulture mission and horticulture mission for north east
Varunastra
Developed by National Science and Technological Labrotary NSTL of DRDO and BDL bharat dynamics limited
Indigenous developed , Heavyweight underwater toredo, electronically propelled , GIS enabled ,Range 40 kms , warhead 250 kg
Strum Ataka
Russia anti Tank Missile
Spice 2000
Israel guided bombs Smart Precise Impact Cost Effective, GPs jamming
Spike
France missile
Igla-S
Russia MANDAPS - Man portable air defence system
Operation Sankalp
Navy sent in Persian Gulf via Gulf of Oman to assure safety of Indian Vessels following some martitime incidents
Due to US and Iran oil tankers war- Connected via strait of Hormuz
Action Plan on Marine litter
By G20
Adopted at G20 Hamburg Summit 2017
Volcano Eruptions
Etna Sicily or Italy
Mount Sinabung, Soputan and Abak Krakatau
Indonesia
Mayotte
France
CAAQMS
Continous Ambient Air monitoring Quality System
Part of Armys countrywide Go Green Initiative
Monitor air polllution on real time basis
Emission trading system- ETS
In Gujrat ,India’s First to combat Particulate Matter pollution -Cap and Trade Market On NCDEX
Launched on World environment Day june 5th - Of UNEP ,2018 China beat plastic pollution, 2019 India Beat air pollution
End Of Childhood Index
113/176 Rank Of India on wellbeing of children - 8 Indicators
UK based Save the children NGO ,upto 19 years of age
India reduced child mortality, stunting,child narraiges , adolescent births ,
Go tribal Campaign
TRIFED and Minstry of Tribal affairs(1987) along with Amazon Opened Tribes India
Create awareness and promote tribal arts
AWARE
WHO released for use of antibiotics safely and reduce AntiMicrobial Resistance
Devided medicines into access /watch and reserve
Swach Survekshan 2020
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs - 5th Edition
In three quarters, Toppers- Indore and Jamshedpur
National Defence Fund
Set up 1962 , Voluntary donations , cash and kind ,Administered by executive committe ,PM As chairperson
Under it PMSS scheme , Increased to 2500 and 3000 for boys and girls
National Maritime Heritage Museum
Lothal India Portugal ,Ministry of shippong
Display heritage of inland waterways
Minstry of shipping through Sagarmala
Kohlapuri Chappal
Maharashtra and Karnataka ,gi tag, Patents designs and trademarks act 1999 cg pdtm
Kohlapuri Chappal
Maharashtra and Karnataka ,gi tag, Patents designs and trademarks act 1999 cg pdtm
Puerto Williams
Chile southernmost replaced ushuaia of argentina
Arogyapacha
University of Kerala have decoded the genetic make-up of Arogyapacha (Trichopus zeylanicus), a highly potent medicinal plant endemic to the Agasthya hills.
Kani tribe- They are indigenous to tropical forests of the Agasthyamalai hills of the Western Ghats, a mountain range in Kerala. They have a population of almost 25,000. The tribal physicians, known as Plathi – are the exclusive holders of the traditional medicinal knowledge of the tribe.
Agasthyamalia Hills
Agasthya hills is a 1,868-metre tall peak within Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Western Ghats of Kerala,border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, part of the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve Unesco- which lies on the border between the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The Thamirabarani River is a perennial river which originates from the eastern side of the range and flows into the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.
Sheath Blight
Fungal disease in rice
Partheogenesis
Asexual reproduction ,anaconda in USA
Dragonfly mission
Titan moo of saturn by nadsa 2026,nucleur Powered
Land on shangrila dune on titan
Dragonfly mission
Titan moo of saturn by nadsa 2026,nucleur Powered
Land on shangrila dune on titan
Raavana 1
Srilanka satellite
Libra and calibra
Facebook currency and wallet,changed from calibra to NOVI
Fiscal performanc Index
CII, assess budgetary deficit of center and states gdp
Global peace index
Intitute of economics and peace. Australian think tank ep, 141/163 India ranking ,most people Iceland, least peaceful afghanistan replaced Syria
Global exonomic prospects
World bank
World investment repi
Unctad Born 1964, HQ Geneva, Switzerland
World popln Report
Undesa
World drug report
Unodc (1997)
Brahmos
BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile,BRAHMOS is a joint venture between the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India (DRDO) and the NPOM of Russia.
Brahmos is named on the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva.It is a two-stage (solid propellant and liquid ramjet in second) air to surface missile with a flight range of around 300 km.
multiplatform i.e it can be launched from land, air, and sea and multi capability missile with pinpoint accuracy that works in both day and night With speed of 2.8 mch
UdChalo Portal
UdChalo’ is all set to take off at the Army’s Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre (PRC).‘UdChalo’ is a travel portal that caters for the personal travel of the military and paramilitary forces personnel by aggregating defence fares and getting exclusive discounts.It aims to empower the disabled military veterans.
NASAMs II
India is planning to procure National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAM - II) from U.S.It is an advanced air defence system.It is the state-of-the-art defense system that has ability to quickly identify and destroy enemy aircraft, UAV or emerging cruise missile threats.NASAMS-II is an upgraded version of the NASAMS and features new 3D mobile surveillance radars and 12 missile launchers for quicker reaction.
It is proposed to be deployed to protect national capital region.It will help in preventing 9/11-type attacks in Delhi.
Defence Space Research Agency DSRA
Has been entrusted with the task of creating space warfare weapon systems and technologies.
comprises members of the three services (Army, Naval and Air Force), help the country fight wars in outer space, set up in Bengaluru
Kharga Prahar
Joint exercise by the Indian Army and Air Force.undertaken in the plains of Punjab by various units and formations of Army’s Kharga Corps.
Kudrakumai Rangakari
Wasp species found in Goa At coronado Wildlife Sanctuary Goa
Impressed tortoise
tortoise named ‘Manouria impressa’ has been discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
One of fourth species of forest-dwelling tortoise occurring in Southeast Asia. Classified as Vulnerable
Asian Forest Tortoise
Asian brown tortoise, is a species of tortoise found in India (Assam), Bangladesh, Burm, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.It is the largest tortoise in mainland Asia.This is a relatively and classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List.
Paddy Frog
Scientists from Delhi Uniand the Wildlife Institute of India, in collaboration with researchers from Indonesia and the US,discovered a new species of ‘paddy frog’ from Northeast India, specifically Assam.
The newly found species has been named Micryletta aishani, derived from the Sanskrit word ‘aishani’ or aisani meaningbreeds northeast before the onset of monsoon and then go into hiding for the rest of the year.Micryletta aishani, are generally found very close to human settlements. Northeast.
Asiatic Golden Cat
Color Morphs could help in conservation of Asiatic Golden Cats, as it provides Ecological Benefits to cats like:occupying different habitats at different elevations from wet tropical lowland ,Providing camouflage while preying bits.
Dibang Valley, arunachal Pradesh, The Asiatic golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is listed as near threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species
Colour Morphs
Colour morphs are thought to arise from random genetic mutations and take hold in the population through natural selection.Dibang Valley hosts the world’s most diverse range of colour morphs of a wild cat species ever reported in one site
Proton therapy
proton is a positively charged particle.At high energy, protons can destroy cancer cells.Doctors may use proton therapy alone or may also combine it with x-ray radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, and/or immunotherapy.Like x-ray radiation, proton therapy is a type of external-beam radiation therapy.It painlessly delivers radiation through the skin from a machine outside the body.A machine called a synchrotron or cyclotron speeds up protons.The high speed of the protons creates high energy.
RADARSAT
RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is a three-spacecraft fleet of Earth observation satellites operated by the Canadian Space Agency. The RCM’s goal is to provide data for climate research and commercial applications including oil exploration, fishing, shipping, etc.[3] With satellites smaller than RADARSAT-2,[4] the RCM will provide new applications—made possible through the constellation approach—as well as continuing to provide C-band radar data to RADARSAT-2 users
African Union
The African Union is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union. WikipediaHeadquarters: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
G20
Osaka Japan, formed 1999, intergovernmental body, governors and miniaters of finnce
GoAML
The UAE’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) launched the new anti-money laundering platform ‘goAML’ (Anti-Money Laundering) to curb the organized crimes.
The UAE has become the first country in the Gulf to launch a new reporting platform developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to curb organized crimes.
Ibelong Campaig
IBelong Campaign aims to end statelessness within ten years, by resolving, and preventing the emergence of new cases of statelessness. Through legal advocacy and awareness-raising, UNHCR works with governments and partners
Confetti
The Social networking giant Facebook launched its first interactive game show, titled “Confetti” in India on 4 June 2019.
It is Facebook’s first official show in India and will go on air starting 12 June 2019. It will air from Wednesday to Sunday on Facebook Watch, Facebo
Juneteenth
celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States.It was originally celebrated on June 19, the day that Union soldiers in 1865. Although the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the South in 1863, it could not be enforced in many places until after the end of the Civil War in 1865.The term Juneteenth is a blend of the words June and nineteenth. The holiday has also been called Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day.
Traffic Index
Mumbai has been ranked as the most traffic-congested city in the world for the second consecutive year.Traffic Index 2018 is published by TomTom, an Amsterdam based company that offers traffic solutions, by using location technology to collect traffic information. Delhi is Ranked 4
Difference Vegetation Index
normalized difference vegetation index does not yield a reliable estimate of food abundance for elephants in tropical forests.Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the density of vegetation and amount of food abundance available for herbivorous animals, for example, elephants.This index has a negative correlation with graminoids (grassy food – grasses, sedges, and rushes – preferentially consumed by elephants) in tropical forests.
Since healthy vegetation strongly absorbs red and reflects near-infrared light, this difference can indicate the presence of healthy vegetation and can be mapped into a colour code (green and red).High NDVI value (bright green) indicates healthier vegetation whereas low value (red) indicates less or no vegetation.
Hodeidah Mission
The UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) is a civil observer mission initiated by the United Nations in Yemen. Beginning in January 2019, the mission consists of civicl, military personnel, and the police. The headquarters of the UNMHA is at Al-Hudaydah, located on the west coast of Yemen. The UNMHA mandate is between the Yemeni government and the Houthi militia .
WAWE Waste Management Accelerators for Aspire Women Entrepreneurs (WAWE).
The WAWE Summit will be held in November-December 2019.Bodies Involved: It will be jointly organized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Institute of Waste Management (IIWM) at Jaipur.Theme: Make your own bag – empowering women to take up income generation activity and entrepreneurship in waste management through making a business out of this record creating concept.
It will be the largest gathering of young women students to promote entrepreneurship in waste management and providing alternatives to single use plastic carry bags.
G7 Summit 45th Summit
Biarritz ,France, discussion on amazon rainforest,GAFA tax,JCPOA,tradewars,hongnkong joint declaration endorsed, UK Brexit
India was invited by france as a special invitee
Discuss and deliberate international economic issues
VG Kannan
ATM charges ,CEO Indian Bank association
Acute Encephalitis
Lychee plantations of Bihar has caused AES or Chamki Fever Or Brain Fever, bloating of brain, caused by Virus ,fungus and parasite, rarely by bacterium,human to human no
Japanese Encephalitis
Major cause of AES, Flavi virus diseases tjat affact membrane of brain- Sams as Dengue, West Nile, Yellow Fever, By mosquitoes borne
Hyper STDV Sonic technology demonstrator vehicle
Unnamed demonstrator, sCram jet
First solar kitcbhen
MAdhya Pradesh betul
Jnanpith Award
54tg Amitav Ghosh
Shangai Corporation Organisation
RATMy üBishkek, Kyrgystan, 2001 HQ: Beijing
RATS
SCO anti terrorist 2004, Uzbekistan Tashkent
SVEEP
ECI
Hong Kong Protests extradition
To China
GRIHA Summit
Teri and MNRE, to promote green buildings in India
India and Green Building
IGBCA, Rating program, It is part of CII
LEED
EcoLeadership in energy and Environment design, IB Loopy, made by IGBC
Eco Niwas
BEE
Bhrat bhushan Prasoon Committee
Railway gurgaon rapid metro
Kimberly Process
India Founding member
Yuvika Yuva Vigyanik Karyamram
ISRo, Opened Labs tonundergo 2 year training
Abhuj mariya tribe
Chattisgarh
Operation Sunrise 2
India and myanmar
Cop 14
UNCCCD
Bonn Challenge
Land Degradation
World day to. Combat desertification
17-Jan
FSDC
Fm
QS world Ranking
Iit Bombay number 2
Elephant Care Center
Mathura UP, by Wildlife SOs
Kaleshwaram Lift
gidavri
Sadikpur Sanaulu
UttarPradesh
ASIy
Alexandra Cunningham. ministry of culture
ReCaap
Indian Coast Guard. piracy, 20 countries member
PLFS Report
Periodic labour force survey PLFS- NSSO, MOSPI , launched 2017 , replaced emplyment unemplt survey
Lauched once in 5 yrs, findings - read important
https://www.drishtiias.com/daily-updates/daily-news-analysis/periodic-labour-force-survey-plfs
Nationl Defence Fund
The National Defence Fund was set up to take charge of voluntary donations in cash and kind received for promotion of the national defence effort, and to decide on their utilisation. The Fund is used for the welfare of the members of the Armed Forces (including Para Military Forces) and their dependents.
The Fund is administered by an Executive Committee, with PM as Chairperson, and Defence, Finance and Home Ministers as Members. Finance Minister is the Treasurer of the Fund and the Joint Secretary, PMO dealing with the subject is Secretary of the Executive Committee. Accounts of the Fund are kept with the Reserve Bank of India. The fund is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions from the public and does not get any budgetary support.
Seven summits
Denali, aconcagua, vinson, mont blanc , kilimanjaro, elbruz , everest, puncak ,koscuizco
CAATSA
The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, is a United States federal law that imposed sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia. The bill was passed on July 27, 2017
GSP Generalisedsystem of preferences
The Generalized System of Preferences, or GSP, is a preferential tariff system which provides tariff reduction
MFN status provides equal treatment in the case of tariff being imposed by a nation but in case of GSP differential tariff could be imposed by a nation on various countries depending upon factors such as whether it is a developed country or a developing country. Both the rules comes under the purview of WTO.
GSP
The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is a U.S. trade program designed to promote economic growth in the developing world by providing preferential duty-free entry for up to 4,800 products from 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories.
The trigger for the latest downturn in trade ties was India’s new rules on e-commerce + drive to force global card payments companies such as Mastercard and Visa to move their data to India
The GSP was adopted at UNCTAD in New Delhi in 1968 and was instituted in 1971
Directorate of Enforcement (DE)
Ministry of finance, implements Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999 and Prevention Money Laundering A 2002
Origin is Direcrorate Emforcement Unit ,Department of Economic Affairs DEA
law enforcement agency and economic intelligence agency responsible for enforcing economic laws and fighting economic crime in India. It is part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance
Kartarpur corridor
Ravi river , from gurdaspur in india to Kartarpur in pakistan,550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak
NCLT
NCLT tribunal was established under the Companies Act 2013
Based on the recommendation of the V. Balakrishna Eradi committee on law relating to the insolvency and the winding up of companies
The NCLT bench is chaired by a Judicial member who is supposed to be a retired or a serving High Court Judge and a Technical member who must be from the Indian Corporate Law Service, ICLS Cadre.
NCLT
National Company Law Tribunal is the adjudicating authority for the insolvency resolution process of companies and limited liability partnerships under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
Decisions of the tribunal may be appealed to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, the decisions of which may further be appealed to the Supreme Court of India on a point of law.
IMD -Indian Meterological Department
(IMD) is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India. It is the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology
Formed 1875
Golden Crescent
PAI - Pakistan Afghanistan Iran- area of illicit opium production
Golden Triangle
MTVL - Myanmar, Thailand , Vietnam, Laos - drug menace
Nipah Virus
Zoonotic virus,animals to human transfer
White Stem Borer
Coffee pest ,xylo-trechus-quadripes, in arabica pest
NRC
Citizens of assam
Glaciers
Siachen- JnK, Pimdari - Uttrakhand, Rathong- Sikkim
GES
Usa and netherlands , first to be held in EU, this eas 9th edn , 8th was held in India hyderabad
Intellectual Property Appellate Board
Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has been constituted by a Gazette notification of the Central Government under DIPP,Ministry of Commerce and Industry on 15th September 2003
Hear appeals against the decisions of the Registrar under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. IPAB has its headquarters at Chennai and shall have sittings at Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Ahmedabad.
Each bench of IPAB consists of a judicial member as well as a technical member.Appeal from the decision of the controller to IPAB must be made within three months.
IPAB
applicants of all Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can directly file Special Leave Petition (SLP) before the Hon’ble Supreme Court against any order of Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB).
Operation Cactus
Indian forces intervention to undo an attemotrd coup of Maldivian group led by abdullah lathufi
Chagos island
UK and MAURITIUS. + US
SAARC
Estd Dhaka,Bangladesh in 1985, Secretariat Katmandu Nepal
Members BBIN-A bangladesh, Bhutan India Nepal, Afghanistan - IPS , India Pakistan Sri Lanka
BIMSTEC
BANGKOK DECLARATION - Littoral Regions of bay od bengal, formed. 1997, HQ : Dhaka Bangladrsh
BBIN+ MYanmar ,THAIland, SriLanka
SCO
Formed 2001, beijing China
Members china , kazakh,kyrgs,tajik,uzbekistan, russia + India + Pakistan
OIC Organisation of Islamic Corppration
Largest inter governmental orgn afyer UN - 57 memevrrs
Formed Rabat Morroco, HQ Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Benchmarking India’s payment system report
RBI - Reserve Bank of India
Comoarisons between payment systems in india and developed nations to gauge indias progress
Look out
Repo is selling securitirs to raise funds with agreemenet to repurchasr at later date Repo , Reserse Repo, NBFC
Reverse repo means buying securities to lend funds
103 AA
Only for general category 10 percent reservation for EWS
PMJAY
Centrally sponsered with Ayushman bharat as central sector scheme
Special cat status
Low popln density, low per caita , hilyl , border locantiom, non vaible , tribals
National strategy for well being 2031
UAE
Appeal against SEBI
Securities Appelate Tribunal
Border roads organisn
Ministry of defence
Arctic coucil
India observor for 2nd time - held ar Rovaniemi - Finland!!!
Not treaty based , but consensus vased
5G
10-20 GB per second - will need to change devices
Asiatic lions
Entire genome srquenced by CSIR , it is endangered
540 only in gir
Serengeti NP
Tamzania
BS norms
BS 6 from,April 2020
Samadhi Buddha
Sri lanka ,gifted indin pm ,in dhyan mudra
PVTG
HIGHEST ODISSA, ENTITLED TO FRA 2006
Kimberly
2003
Bishkek declaration
SCO, Bishkek is capital pf Kyrgystan, ir is landlocked , bordering - Kazakh, China, Tajik, Uzbek
BAC
NEA Leader of lok sabga never sots represemted by min of parltry affairs
NEA Nucleaur Energy Agency
Intergovernmental - cooperation - under OECD of Paris ,France
Bimla jalan
Rbi reserves
West Nile vVirus,
Uganda- horses effect - vaccime for horse.is there but not.for humans
Windrush scheme
uk, migrants bring drnied british citizenship
One health conceot
Human health + animal health + environment healt
Oussudu lake
Pondicherry, manmade, in news because plactis waste and also this year migratpry species did not come here. It is man made lake . Listed as important wtland ,also it is an
IbA Importanr Bird area, also bird sactuary in TN state alsos it lies
Project sashakt
Banks
Jam shikshan sanstham
Vocstional training to neo literates ,illeterates drop outs. Removed fres for SCST
Was under MHRd now MSDE
Bhuvan
Isro portal clearimg house , bhuvan srisht, bhuvan gail , bhuvan panchayat
Yoga locatoor
Ministry of ayush and isro to locate yoga facilities
Apeda
Ministry of.commerce and industry
Tribes Rohingyas// yao,hamong and karen// bedouin// kurds
Myanmar// thailand// kuwait//iraq
