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12 SEPTEMBER 2021 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS | UPSC CDS CAPF AFCAT NDA SSB

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12 SEPTEMBER 2021 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS | UPSC CDS CAPF AFCAT NDA SSB
1. EDIBLE OIL
In order to ensure availability of edible oil to consumers at fair prices, Government of India has further reduced the standard rate of duty on Crude Palm Oil, Crude Soyabean oil and (i) Crude Sunflower Oil to 2.5% with effect from 11.09.2021 and (ii) the standard rate of duty on Refined Palm Oils, Refined Soyabean oil and Refined Sunflower Oil to 32.5% with effect from 11.09.2021.

About:

  • In the same notification the Agri-cess for Crude Palm Oil has been increased from 17.5% to 20%.

  • It may be noted that the International prices and thereby domestic prices of edible oils have been ruling high during 2021-22 which is a cause of serious concern from inflation as well as consumer’s point of view. Import duty on edible oils is one of the important factors that impacted landed cost of edible oils and thereby domestic prices.
Source : PIB

2. HYPERTENSION
The World Health Organization recently released guidelines for pharmacological treatment of hypertension.

About:

  • Though high blood pressure is a leading cause of disease, disability and death in all regions of the world, affecting an estimated 1.4 billion persons across the world, only 14% have it under control.

  • This is because of three gaps in health system performance. Many who have hypertension are unaware, several of those who are detected are not on treatment and only half of those who are treated are effectively controlled on their prescribed treatment.

Important Info :

Recommended targets:

  • The target is to lower blood pressure values to less than 140/90 mm, in all adults.
  • In persons with known cardiovascular disease, the target is a systolic value less than 130 mm.
  • It has been recommended that non-physicians like nurses and pharmacists can provide drug treatment for hypertension if they receive proper training, have prescribing authority, follow specific management protocols and have physician oversight.
  • Community health workers may assist in patient education, blood pressure measurement and delivery of medications, as part of a health team. Telemonitoring and home or community-based self-care are encouraged to improve blood pressure control, as part of an integrated management system.
Source : The Hindu

3. UAPA
The Supreme Court has held that magistrates cannot favour an investigating agency by extending the period of probe in Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) cases at will.

About:

  • Under UAPA, the investigation has to be completed within 90 days. If not, the accused is entitled to default bail.

  • In so far as “extension of time to complete investigation” is concerned, the “Magistrate would not be competent to consider the request and the only competent authority to consider such request would be ‘the Court’ as specified in the proviso in Section 43-D (2)(b) of the UAPA

  • By ‘the Court’, the Bench meant the Special Court under the UAPA.
Source : The Hindu

4. ‘2+2’ MINISTERIAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN INDIA & AUSTRALIA
India and Australia began the high-level 2+2 foreign and defence ministerial dialogue in New Delhi.

About:

  • External affairs minister S Jaishankar and defence minister Rajnath Singh held the closed-door talks with their Australian counterparts Marise Payne and Peter Dutton.

  • The dialogue is aimed at further ramping up the overall defence and strategic cooperation between the two countries, including in the Indo-Pacific amid China's increasing military assertiveness in the region.

  • The foreign and defence ministerial talks are taking place amid renewed efforts by the Quad member countries to expand cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. Besides India and Australia, the Quad comprises the US and Japan.
Source : Hindustan Times

5. CHILDRENS CODE
Last week the U.K. government brought into effect the Age Appropriate Design Code or the Children’s Code, as an amendment to the Data Protection Act, 2018, operationalising a set of regulations that will make using the digital space safer for children.

About:

  • While the Code is officially in place only in the U.K., tech majors such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have tightened safety rules for children, and campaigners hope this will become the norm globally.

  • The Children’s Code is a data protection code of practice for online services likely to be accessed by children. It sets out 15 standards for online services, including in apps, games, toy and devices and even news services.

Important Info :

What are the threats to children online?

  • Services such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are allowing children, some as young as 13 years old, to be directly targeted within 24 hours of creating an account with a stream of harmful content.
  • Despite knowing the children’s age, the companies are enabling unsolicited contact from adult strangers and are recommending damaging content, including material related to eating disorders, extreme diets, self-harm and suicide as well as sexualised imagery and distorted body images.
Source : The Hindu

6. BANAS DAIRY
Banas Dairy, one of dairies set up under “Operation Flood” four decades ago, has announced a third unit in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

About:

  • Banas Dairy is also known as Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur.

  • It is a statutory corporation under the ownership of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Darying ,Government of Gujarat based in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat.

  • It was founded in 1969, in accordance with the 1961 rule of the National Dairy Development Board under Operation Flood.

  • Galbabhai Nanjibhai Patel played an important role in the foundation of the dairy.

  • It is headquartered at Palanpur.

  • The company's products are marketed by Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Anand.
Source : Indian Express

7. DIRECT-AIR CARBON CAPTURE
Orca, the largest direct-air carbon capture facility, started operations in Iceland.

About:

  • It will pull CO2 from the air and trap it in the ground. It will do this at the rate of 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, which is the amount the world would release in four seconds.

  • Direct air capture is one of the few technologies extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and is viewed by scientists as vital to limit global warming, blamed for causing more heatwaves, wildfires, floods and rising sea levels.

  • Direct air capture is still a fledgling and costly technology, but developers hope to drive down prices by scaling up as more companies and consumers look to reduce their carbon footprint.
Source : Reuters

8. COLOUR-CODED WEATHER WARNING
Amid heavy rainfall in Delhi-NCR on Saturday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert for three hours in the region.

About:

  • Colour codes are used in weather warnings for bringing out the severity of the weather phenomena expected as per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).

  • The main purpose is to forewarn disaster management authority and people to keep themselves ready for necessary action related to disaster risk reduction.

  • These alerts are universal in nature and are also issued during floods, depending on the amount of water rising above land/in a river as a result of torrential rainfall.

Important Info :

The IMD uses 4 colour codes

  • Green (All is well): No advisory is issued.
  • Yellow (Be Aware): Yellow indicates severely bad weather spanning across several days. It also suggests that the weather could change for the worse, causing disruption in day-to-day activities.
  • Orange/Amber (Be prepared): The orange alert is issued as a warning of extremely bad weather with the potential of disruption in commute with road and rail closures, and interruption of power supply.
  • Red (Take Action): When the extremely bad weather conditions are certainly going to disrupt travel and power and have significant risk to life, the red alert is issued.
Source : Indian Express

9. AYUSH
The central government has increased the financial support from Rs 9 crore to Rs 70 crore to ensure more Ayush colleges are opened across the country, Union Minister of Ayush said.

About:

  • The Union minister said that there are only a few Ayush colleges in the North-East and the Indian traditional medicine systems can only be popularised by making available more qualified practitioners.

  • Ministry of Ayush has also accorded in-principle approval for upgrading the Government Ayurvedic College, Jalukbari, Assam as the Centre of Excellence with the support of up to Rs 10 crore.

  • The minister also announced the starting of a Panchkarma Technician course affiliated to Health Sector Skill Council - National Skill Development Corporation at Central Ayurveda Research Institute (CARI), Guwahati with 10 seats for 10+2 students to produce skilled manpower for Panchkarma therapy in NE region.
Source : PIB

10 . VULTURES
In October 2020, eight critically endangered Oriental white-backed vultures were released into the wild for the first time in India from the Jatayu Conservation and Breeding Centre (JCBC) situated at the Bir Shikargah Wildlife Sanctuary in Shivalik ranges of the Himalayan foothills in Haryana’s Pinjore.

About:

  • A year later, they have blended well into the untamed habitat outside the aviary, offering hope to conservationists. But the grave threats to the survival of vultures are far from over.

  • The Oriental white-backed vultures that were released in the wild are resident birds and not migratory, so they largely stay within a radius of 50-100 km of the breeding centre.

  • As many as 378 vultures of three species are housed at the centre, of which 131 are Oriental white-backed vultures, 195 are Long-billed vultures, and 52 are Slender-billed vultures.

  • The “founder stock” of birds at the centre was collected from various States, including Assam, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, to maintain genetic diversity.

Important Info :

Threat

  • Once very common, vultures are on the verge of extinction in India.
  • Uncontrolled veterinary usage of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), including Aceclofenac, Ketoprofen and Nimesulide, and the illegal use of the drug Diclofenac, are toxic to vultures if they feed on carcasses within 72 hours of the drugs' administration to such livestock.
  • The vulture population in India was estimated at 40 million once. Populations of three species of vultures have declined by over 97% since the 1990s, and that of the Oriental white-backed vultures by a drastic 99.9%. It has been established that the vulture population was decimated by the veterinary usage of Diclofenac in India.
  • The key reason behind the use of Diclofenac is the fact that it’s a very low-cost drug.
  • Governments need to ensure that alternative drugs are subsidised to be cheaper than Diclofenac.
Source : The Hindu
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