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Facts in News
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Hunar Haat
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- Organised in September 2020 with the theme of “Local to Global”.
- Organised multiple times over different cities in India.
- Organised by the Ministry for Minority Affairs.
- Aim:
- To provide a market and opportunity to master artisans and craftsmen from remote areas of the country.
- To develop brands of rare exquisite indigenous handmade products.
- To register artisans and their indigenous products on “GeM” (Government e Marketplace) and Export Promotion Councils.
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India Aadi Mahotsav
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- Tag Line: A celebration of the spirit of Tribal Culture, Craft, Cuisine, and Commerce!
- Organised by: TRIFED
- Aim: to boost the development of marketing of tribal products and enhance the tribal income
Source: TRIFED
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Dekho Apna Desh Campaign
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- Launched by Ministry of Tourism to boost domestic tourism
- Financial incentive to tourists for travelling to 15 different tourist
- For this tourists need to take an online pledge and later upload their pics from different locations.
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National Safety Council
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- Premier, non-profit, self-financing and tripartite apex body at the national level in India
- autonomous body set up by the Ministry of Labour and Employment in 1965 to generate
- Aim: To develop and sustain a voluntary movement on Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) at the national level.
- Registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and subsequently, as a Public Trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950.
- Organises Road safety week, Safety Day, Fire Service Week, World Environment Day in India
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African Swine Fever Virus
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- In News: Virus has become more deadly after mutation in CD2v gene and an adjacent 8CR gene
- large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family
- Symptoms: highly contagious hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs;
- some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly as a week after infection
- Doesn’t affect Humans
Source: (Research Gate)
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Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) Scheme
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- Haryana Chief launched a unique identity card called Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) through which the state government aims to monitor each of the approximately 54 lakh families living across the state.
- Under this, each family will be considered a single unit and allotted an 8-digit unique identification number.
- The PPP, mathematically, is an integral number of Aadhaar.
- While Aadhaar represents an individual as a unit, a PPP represents a family as a unit. Most of our government schemes are structured around the family. It is not structured around an individual.
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One District One Product Scheme
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- The initiative is operationally merged with ‘Districts as Export Hub’ which is being implemented by DGFT, Department of Commerce, with Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) as a major stakeholder.
- The objective is to convert each District of the country into an Export Hub by identifying products with export potential in the District.
- It fuels economic growth, generates employment and rural entrepreneurship moving towards the goal of AtmaNirbhar Bharat.
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Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
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- He was a member of the Kirana Gharana and renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music (bhajans and abhangs).
- He was honoured with Bharat Ratna in 2009 .
- He always encouraged new artistes through Sawai Gandharva Music Festival.
- The prestigious Akashvani Music Festival will be named after Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.
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Orobanche
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- It is known as the broomrapes, is a large genus of parasitic, herbaceous plants that are mainly found in the Northern Hemisphere.
- It is a serious hidden parasitic weed in mustard causing severe yield loss to the extent of up to 50% and there are no absolute control measures developed so far.
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Prosopis Juliflora
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- It is a shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae commonly known as Seemai Karuvelam.
- It is native to Mexico, South America and the Caribbean.
- It is an exotic tree, is one of the top invaders in India.
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