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Posted 10 Mar 2025

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

IPCC has begun work on its seventh cycle of assessment reports.

  • IPCC assessments provide scientific basis for governments at all levels to develop climate related policies

IPCC

  • About: International body for assessing science related to climate change. 
  • Genesis: Set up in 1988 by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
  • Members: 195 countries including India.
  • Objective: To provide policymakers with regular assessments of scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.
  • Tags :
  • World Meteorological Organization
  • IPCC

Hantavirus

As per U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hantavirus severity has drawn attention.

About Hantavirus

  • Hantaviruses are a family of viruses carried by certain rodents, such as deer mice, white-footed mice, rice rats, and cotton rats.
  • Impact: Causes potentially fatal illnesses, including Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (severe respiratory illness) and Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (condition characterised by internal bleeding and kidney failure).
  • People at risk: who live or work in areas where rodent populations are more prominent including farmers, construction workers
  • Treatment: No specific antiviral treatment or cure.
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  • Hantavirus
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

Exercise Khanjar

KHANJAR-XII edition of 2025 is set to take place in Kyrgyzstan.

About Khanjar

  • It is an India-Kyrgyzstan Joint Special Forces Exercise.
  • It is held annually and conducted alternatively in both the countries.
  • Aim: To exchange experiences and best practices in Counter Terrorism and Special Forces Operations
  • Tags :
  • Military Exercises
  • India-Kyrgyzstan

Insider Trading

SEBI has issued warning to Nestle India for violating insider trading regulations.

About Insider Trading

  • Definition: Insider refers to any person (usually senior management and officials) in a company who has access to unpublished price-sensitive information (UPSI).
  • Regulation: Under Prohibition of Insider Trading (PIT) Regulations 2015 (as amended in 2024)enables insiders to trade in securities in a compliant manner. Under It:
    • insiders have a narrow window to carry out trades to avoid insider trading.
    • Insiders have to give a ‘trading plan’ specifying the share price, amount, and transaction 
  • Tags :
  • SEBI
  • Insider Trading
  • Prohibition of Insider Trading

Giant Goliath beetle

New research has found that the West African cocoa industry and the international trade in dried insects have wiped out one species of a Goliath beetle species.

About Goliath beetles

  • Features : 
    • Among the world’s largest insects (up to 110mm long).
    • Five species exist; males have Y-shaped horns, females do not.
    • They can fly and are nocturnal (primarily active during the night). 
    • Adults feed on tree sap in mature rainforests.
  • Habitat: primarily found in the Tropical Rainforests of Africa, 
  • Significance:  They are decomposers and scavenge meat and plant debris, recycling nutrients. Their abundance indicates good forest health. 
  • Tags :
  • West Africa
  • Giant Goliath beetle
  • Tropical Rainforests

Kinship and Community-Based Care Programme (KCBCP)

UNICEF, in collaboration with district authorities and NGOs, is working to address family-based childcare through its KCBCP in places like drought-prone Jalna in Maharashtra.

About KCBCP

  • It is part of broader shift in India's child protection system that move away from institutional care toward family-based solutions such as strengthening family to prevent separation of children, foster care, and kinship care.
  • It aims to keep children in their villages under the care of relatives or community members for better brain development.
  • Other initiatives like Mission Vatsalya also emphasize non-institutional support, enhancing family roles and ensuring no child is left behind.
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  • Kinship and Community-Based Care Programme
  • Mission Vatsalya

Sahitya Akademi Award

Recently, Sahitya Akademi honoured 23 authors with its prestigious ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ for 2024.

About Sahitya Akademi

  • Genesis: Formally inaugurated in 1954 and Registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
  • Ministry:  An autonomous body under Ministry of Culture.
  • Role: Undertakes literary activities in 24 languages (22 scheduled languages, English and Rajasthani).
  • Its major awards: Sahitya Akademi Award, Bhasha Samman
    • Sahitya Akademi Award is given annually, to the Indian national and the award is given to the author only once in a lifetime in one language in one particular category.
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  • Sahitya Akademi
  • Sahitya Akademi Award
  • Ministry of Culture
  • Bhasha Samman

e-Toycathon 2025

For the first time, “e-Toycathon 2025” was organized by C-DAC under MeitY’s research initiatives to boost electronic toy sector.

About e-Toycathon 2025

  • Announced under MeitY-funded project "Development of Electronics and IT-based Control and Automation Solutions for Consumer Electronic - Toys Industry”.

About India’s Toys Industry 

  • Status: Expected to reach US$ 3 billion by 2028.
  • Initiatives taken
    • DPIIT issued toys Quality Control Order, 2020 under Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016.
    • National Action Plan for Toys to promote trade; design and quality; and indigenous toys.
    • Directorate General of Foreign Trade mandated sample testing to curb import of sub-standards. 
  • Tags :
  • e-Toycathon 2025
  • Toys Industry
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