07 AUGUST 2021 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. NATIONAL HANDLOOM DAY

National Handloom Day is being organised on August 7 by the Ministry of Textiles. Handloom, an Indian legacy is the theme of 2021’s National Handloom Day celebrations.

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7th August was chosen as the National Handloom Day to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement which was launched on the same date in the year 1905.
The objective is to generate awareness about the Handloom Industry among the public and its contribution to socio-economic development.

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India & handloom industry

One of the earliest industries to be established in India, it accounts for 14% of the total Industrial production, contributes to nearly 30% of the total exports, and is the second-largest employer in the country after agriculture, employing more than 43 lakh weavers and allied workers.
The Government has also implemented a number of schemes like the National Handloom Development Programme (NHDP), Handloom Weavers Comprehensive Welfare Scheme (HWCWS), Comprehensive Handloom Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS) and Yarn Supply Scheme (YSS).
Further, in 2015, the ‘India Handloom’ brand was launched to represent high-quality handloom products and was adopted to promote the production of niche handloom products with high quality, authentic traditional designs with zero defect and zero effect on environment.

Source : All India Radio

2. POPULATION GROWTH

Details of steps taken by the Government to stabilize population growth in last five years are given below:

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Mission Parivar Vikas has been introduced for substantially increasing access to contraceptives and family planning services in 146 high fertility districts in 7 high focus states.
Expanded Contraceptive Choices: The current contraceptive basket has been expanded with inclusion of new contraceptives namely Injectable contraceptive (Antara programme) and Cent chroman (Chhaya).
Post-partum Intrauterine contraceptive device (PPIUCD) incentive scheme under which PPIUCD services are provided post-delivery.
Redesigned Contraceptive Packaging: The packaging for Condoms, OCPs and ECPs has now been improved and redesigned so as to augment the demand for these commodities.
Family Planning Media Campaign: A holistic media campaign is in place to generate contraceptive demand.
The WorldPopulation Day & fortnight (July 11 – July 24) is observed each year to boost Family Planning efforts all over the country.
Scheme for Home Delivery of contraceptives by ASHAs at doorstep of beneficiaries has been taken up.
Family Planning Logistics Management Information System (FP-LMIS) is being implemented to ensure last mile availability of FP commodities.

Source : PIB

3. DRONES

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted conditional exemption from Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Rules, 2021 to the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar.

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The exemption allows the aerial survey and photogrammetry of centrally protected monuments in collaboration with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) using drones.
The approved locations for drone operations for the NISER include Raja-Rani Temple, Bhubaneswar &Lingaraj Temple, Bhubaneswar.
This exemption is valid for a period of one year from the date of approval or until further orders, whichever is earlier and shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the SOP issued by DGCA.
Earlier this month, drone use permission was also granted to the Directorate of Urban Local Bodies (DULB), Haryana for data acquisition, mapping, and implementation of web-based GIS platform for the development of AMRUT cities and property tax survey for Hisar, Panchkula, Ambala urban areas.

Source : All India Radio

4. CORALS

Thailand has banned sunscreens containing chemicals that damage coral from all of its marine national parks.

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Concerns are growing that lotions tourists use for sun protection are harming slow-growing corals.
The Thai Department of Conservation said four ingredients commonly found in sun creams were shown to destroy coral larvae, obstruct coral reproduction and cause reef bleaching.
The banned lotions are those containing oxybenzone, octinoxate, 4-methylbenzylidene camphor or butylparaben.
Anyone flouting the ban can be fined up to 100,000 baht (£2,100).
Similar bans have been introduced by the Pacific island of Palau and the US state of Hawaii. This is the latest attempt by the Thai government to protect its coral from the tourism industry.

Source : All India Radio

5. GURDWARA THALA SAHIB

India has condemned the act of removal of Nishan Sahib, a Sikh religious flag atop the roof of Gurdwara Thala Sahib, Chamkani in Paktia province of Afghanistan.

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The historical Gurdwara was visited by Sri Guru Nanak Dev.
Afghanistan has been witnessing Taliban-driven violence in light of the ongoing withdrawal of troops by the US.

Source : The Hindu

6. PENDING CASES IN LOWER, SUBORDINATE COURTS

Nearly 4 crore cases — over 1 crore civil and nearly 3 crore criminal — are pending in lower and subordinate courts across the country as of July 30 this year. This emerges from figures tabled in Parliament by Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju.

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As per the information available on National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), as on 30.07.2021 a total of 3,93,21,607 cases are pending in the lower and subordinate courts.
While a bulk of the cases are up to three years old, 1,20,001 (0.26 per cent) have been pending for more than 30 years.
No time frame has been prescribed for disposal of various kinds of cases by the respective courts.
Of the 3.93 crore cases that are pending, 2.88 crore are criminal cases, while 1.05 crore are civil cases.

Source : Indian Express

7. IPCC ASSESSMENT REPORTS

The Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the first part of its Sixth Assessment Report, the periodic status check that has now become the most widely accepted scientific view of the state of the Earth’s climate.

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This part of the report will present the latest scientific understanding of the climate system, how and why is it changing, and the impact of human activities on this process.
The second and third parts of the report, dealing with the expected impacts of climate change, and the actions required to prevent the worst impacts, are slated to come out next year.
The five previous assessment reports that have come out since the IPCC was established in 1988 have formed the basis of international climate change negotiations.
The fourth assessment report, which came out in 2007, won the IPCC the Nobel Peace Prize.

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What will be new

The Sixth Assessment Report will put much more emphasis on regional assessment.
In the last few years, there has been significant advancement in attribution science, allowing scientists to say whether a particular event was a result of climate change. Attribution science is likely to get important space in the report.
The Sixth Assessment Report is expected to present specific scenarios the climate change impacts on cities and large urban populations, and also implications for key infrastructure.

Source : Indian Express

8. ARABIAN SEA CYCLONES

Studies using a 50-year (1970-2019) extreme weather events dataset of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) have shown that in recent decades, there has been increased occurrences of extreme weather events, including extremely severe cyclonic storms, Minister for Science & Technology informed Lok Sabha.

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An analysis of past data of cyclones over the North Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea) during the period 1891–2020 indicates that the frequency of extremely severe cyclonic storms has increased in recent few years over the Arabian Sea since 1990, and remained the same over the Bay of Bengal.
The highest loss of lives occurred during Cyclones Tautkae, 2021, 118 deaths), Amphan (2020, 98 deaths), Titli (2018, 78 deaths) and Nilam (2012, 75 deaths), the data showed.

Source : Indian Express

9. MONETARY POLICY

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the key policy rate — Repo rate, or the RBI’s lending rate to banks — unchanged at four per cent for the seventh time in a row, and reverse repo rate — RBI’s borrowing rate from banks — at 3.35 per cent.

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The panel has also raised the inflation target for fiscal 2001-22 but maintained the growth forecast at 9.5 per cent.
It decided to continue with an accommodative stance as long as necessary to revive and sustain growth on a durable basis and continue to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the economy.
The RBI panel has hiked the inflation target for fiscal 2021-22 to 5.7 per cent from 5.1 per cent projected earlier.
Although the target is below the RBI’s upper band of inflation target of six per cent, input prices are rising across manufacturing and services sectors and weak demand and efforts towards cost cutting are tempering the pass-through to output prices.

Source : Indian Express

10. MAJOR DHYAN CHAND KHEL RATNA AWARD

India's highest sporting honour Khel Ratna Award, which was named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was rechristened in the honour of hockey wizard Dhyan Chand following the admirable performance of both men's and women's hockey teams in the Tokyo Olympics.

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Major Dhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the history of the sport.
He was known for his extraordinary goal-scoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932 and 1936.
Popularly known as The Wizard or The Magician of hockey for his superb ball control, Chand played internationally from 1926 to 1949; he scored 570 goals in 185 matches according to his autobiography, Goal.
The Government of India awarded him Padma Bhushan in 1956.
His birthday, 29 August, is celebrated as National Sports Day in India every year.

Source : The Hindu

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