NFAI and FFSI Conducts Online Film Appreciation Course in Marathi.
National
Film Archive of India is organising 15th edition of Film Appreciation Course in
Marathi along with Federation of Film Society of India (FFSI). The course is to
be held online for the first time from November 1 to November 7, owing to the
COVID Pandemic.
About:
It
was established in 1964 in Pune.
It
is a media unit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
It
aims to trace, acquire and preserve for posterity the heritage of Indian
cinema; to classify, document data and undertake research relating to films; to
act as a centre for the dissemination of film culture.
Recently,
the CarbonCopy and Respirer Living Sciences, two environmental organisations
have released a Dashboard which presents a comparative picture of particulate
matter (PM) for 122 Indian cities since 2016.
About the Dashboard:
•
It establishes a three-year rolling average trend for PM2.5 and PM10 levels
across the cities from 2016 to 2018.
•
The State of Global Air 2020 revealed that India had faced the highest exposure
to toxic air in the world last year.
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122 cities are referred to as non-attainment cities under the National Clean
Air Programme (NCAP).
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It is a National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP) based dashboard, built
on data from the Central Pollution Control Board’s National Ambient Air Quality
Monitoring (NAAQM) Network which was started in 1984-85 and covers 344
cities/towns in 29 states and 6 UTs.
•
Each station records about 104 observations a year covering four pollutants–
Sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), suspended particulate matter
(SPM), and respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM).
•
State pollution control boards and the National Environmental Engineering
Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur carry out the monitoring, and the Union
Ministry of
Environment,
Forest and Climate Change oversees the operation under the NCAP.
About Particulate Matter:
•
It is also called particle pollution, it is a term for a mixture of solid
particles and liquid droplets found in the air.
✓ PM10: Inhalable
Particles, with Diameters that are generally 10 Micrometers and smaller; and
✓ PM2.5: fine Inhalable
Particles, with Diameters that are generally 2.5 Micrometers and smaller.
•
Some are emitted directly from a source, such as construction sites, unpaved
roads, fields, smokestacks or fires.
•
Most particles form in the atmosphere as a result of complex reactions of
chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which are pollutants
emitted from power plants, industries and automobiles.
•
Small particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter pose the greatest
problems, because they can get deep into the lungs, and some may even get into
the bloodstream.
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Particle pollution exposure has been linked to a variety of problems, including
irregular heartbeat, aggravated asthma, decreased lung function and increased
respiratory symptoms, such as irritation of the airways, coughing or difficulty
breathing.
National Clean Air Programme:
•
The Centre had launched the National Clean Air Programme in 2019 to address air
pollution in 122 cities. These cities are referred to as non-attainment cities
as they did not meet the national ambient air quality standards for the period
of 2011-15 under the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme.
Strategic Policy and Facilitation Bureau.
Ministry
of AYUSH and M/s Invest India will form a collaboration to set up a strategic
policy unit called “Strategic Policy and Facilitation Bureau (SPFB)” to
facilitate planned and systematic growth of the Ayush Sector.
This
is among the various steps which the Ministry has initiated to chart future
directions along which the stake-holding groups of the Ayush Sector can move.
The activities to be undertaken by
the SPFB would include:
Strategic
and Policy-Making Support, State Policy Bench marking: Undertaking State Policy
bench marking to formulate uniform guidelines/regulations regarding AYUSH
sector in India,
Investment
Facilitation: Follow up and facilitation of investment cases and MoUs, and
coordination among different Department, organisations and States.
Issue
Resolution: Invest India would work with companies and other institutions on
issue resolution across States and among various sub-sectors.
Some
of the Specific Deliverables of Bureau would include project monitoring for
Inter-Ministerial Groups, Skill Development Initiatives, setting up Strategic
Intelligence Research Unit and initiating an Innovation Program.
Mission Sagar II.
As
part of ‘Mission Sagar-II’, Indian Naval Ship Airavat entered Port Sudan on 02
November 2020.
About:
As
part of Mission Sagar-II, Indian Naval Ship Airavat will deliver food aid to
Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea.
Mission
Sagar-II, is in line with the Prime Minister’s vision of Security and Growth
for All in the Region ‘SAGAR’ and highlights the importance accorded by India
to relations with her maritime neighbours and further strengthens the existing
bond.
The
Indian Navy is progressing this mission in close coordination with the
Ministries of Defence and External Affairs, and other agencies of the
Government of India. Phase 1 and 2:
Mission
Sagar-II, follows the first ‘Mission Sagar’ undertaken in May-June 2020,
wherein India reached out to Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and
Comoros, and provided food aid and medicines.
Super typhoon Goni blasts into Philippines.
Recently,
this typhoon killed 7 people in Philippines.
A
typhoon is defined as a tropical cyclone in the western Pacific.
Typhoons
generally track in a westward or northern direction, and occur most frequently
in a region of thewestern Pacific and east Asia.
Typhoon
season lasts from the early summer to early autumn, often coinciding with the
monsoon seasonin Southeast Asia and the wet season in eastern Japan.
Hurricane
is essentially the same thing as a Typhoons that takes place in the North
Atlantic, or central oreastern North Pacific.
Super Typhoon:
Since
2009 the Hong Kong Observatory has divided typhoons into three different
classifications: typhoon, severe typhoon and super typhoon.
A
typhoon has wind speed of 64–79 knots (73–91 mph; 118–149 km/h), a severe
typhoon has winds of at least 80 knots (92 mph; 150 km/h), and a super typhoon
has winds of at least 100 knots (120 mph; 190 km/h.
E-way bills.
E-way
bills for October clocked 64.1 million, the highest since the introduction of
the system more than two years ago.
About:
Union
government has announced introduction GST E-way bills from April 1,2018.
Key highlights:
The
e-invoice system under goods and services tax (GST) was launched on October 1,
2020 for the businesses with aggregate turnover of more than Rs 500 crore in
the financial year.
According
to NIC, within the first month of introduction itself, more than 495 Lakh
e-invoices were generated on the NIC portal by 27,400 tax payers.
Modes
of generations of invoice reference number (IRN) in NIC system:
Currently,
there are three modes of generations of IRN in NIC system.
First
is the direct API interface of ERP system of tax payer with NIC system.
Second
is the API interface of ERP system of the tax payer through GSP with NIC system.
Third
is using the offline tool for bulk uploading of invoices and generating IRNs.
Around
15% of the tax payers are using the offline tool for the IRN generations and
85% are integrating through API.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopath
It
was reported that England World Cup winner Bobby Charlton, regarded England’s
greatest, had developed dementia.
About:
Dementia
is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other
thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life.
Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopath:
Former
boxers are most commonly diagnosed with it, however, there have been instances
of CTE in many other contact sports like pro wrestling, mixed martial arts, ice
hockey, rugby, baseball, Australian rules football and, of course, football.
A
2017 research by University College London and Cardiff University pointed to
six cases of players in 60s developing dementia having played for an average of
26 years
Four
showed signs of CTE adding that the risk was ‘extremely low’ from playing
recreational football.
Earth Observation Satellite EOS-01.
Recently,
India would launch its latest earth observation satellite EOS-01 and nine
international customer satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra
Pradesh’s Sriharikota.
Highlights:
•
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C49) of the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) will launch these ten satellites on 7th November 2020. It
will be PSLV's 51st Mission.
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It is an earth observation satellite and is intended for applications in
agriculture, forestry and disaster management support.
•
Earth observation satellites are the satellites equipped with remote sensing
technology.
Earth
observation is the gathering of information about Earth's physical, chemical
and biological systems.
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Many earth observation satellites have been employed on sun-synchronous orbit.
•
Other earth observation satellites launched by ISRO include RESOURCESAT- 2, 2A,
CARTOSAT-1, 2, 2A, 2B, RISAT-1 and 2, OCEANSAT-2, Megha-Tropiques, SARAL and
SCATSAT-1, INSAT-3DR, 3D, etc
•
NSIL is incorporated in 2019 (under the Companies Act, 2013), is a wholly owned
Government of India company, under the administrative control of Department of
Space (DOS).
•
NSIL is the commercial arm of ISRO with the primary responsibility of enabling
Indian industries to take up high technology space related activities and is
also responsible for promotion and commercial exploitation of the products and
services emanating from the Indian space programme.
The Major Business Areas of the
NSIL Include:
✓ Production of Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)
through industry.
✓ Production and
marketing of space-based services, including launch services and space-based
applications like transponder leasing, remote sensing and mission support
services.
✓ Building of Satellites
(both Communication and Earth Observation) as per user requirements.
✓ Transfer of technology
developed by ISRO centres/ units and constituent institutions of Dept. of
Space.
✓ Marketing spin off
technologies and products/ services emanating out of ISRO activities.
✓ Consultancy services.
•
The Government of India has created the Indian National Space Promotion and
Authorization Center (IN-SPACe), an independent nodal agency under the
Department of Space, to provide a boost to the private sector participating in
space-related activities or using India’s space resources.
Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle:
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is the third generation launch
vehicle.
•
Its first Successful Launch was in October 1994. PSLV was used for two of the
most important missions. These are Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 and Mars Orbiter
Spacecraft in 2013.
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Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark II and GSLV MkIII are other
two launch vehicles.
•
GSLV Mk II is the largest launch vehicle developed by India, which is currently
in operation. This fourth generation launch vehicle is a three stage vehicle
with four liquid strap-ons. The indigenously developed cryogenic Upper Stage
(CUS), which is flight proven, forms the third stage of GSLV Mk II.
•
GSLV MkIII, chosen to launch Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, is a three-stage heavy
lift launch vehicle developed by ISRO. The vehicle has two solid strap-ons, a
core liquid booster and a cryogenic upper stage.
•
GSLV Mk III is designed to carry a 4 ton class of satellites into
Geosynchronous Transfer
Orbit
(GTO) or about 10 tons to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is about twice the
capability of the GSLV Mk II.
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