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18 MAY 2022 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS | UPSC CDS CAPF AFCAT NDA SSB

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May 18 2022

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18 MAY 2022 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS | UPSC CDS CAPF AFCAT NDA SSB
1. MALVIYA MISSION
Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan pitched in with an idea of a “Malviya Mission” to develop enabling ecosystem across the country for teacher education/faculty development.

About:

  • Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861 – 1946) was an Indian educationist and a Freedom Fighter.
  • Names: He was conferred the title of ‘Mahamana’ by Mahatma Gandhi. During his school days he started writing poems under the pen name ‘Makarand’ which were published in journals and magazines.
  • Role in Freedom Movement: He was a moderate leader. He was elected as the president of Indian National Congress four times in 1909, 1918, 1932 and 1933, but owing to his arrest by the Government of India, he could not preside over the 1932 and 1933 sessions which had been banned.
  • As an Educationist: He founded Banaras Hindu University (BHU) at Varanasi in 1916, which was created under the B.H.U. Act, 1915. He was Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1919–1938.
  • Journalism: He started the 'Abhyudaya' as a Hindi weekly in 1907 and made it a daily in 1915. He also started the 'Maryada' a Hindi monthly in 1910. He started the 'Leader' an English daily in 1909. He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the 'Hindustan Times' from 1924 to 1946.
Source : PIB

2. NATIONAL STARTUP ADVISORY COUNCIL (NSAC)
The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal today chaired the 4th meeting of National Startup Advisory Council (NSAC) in New Delhi.

About:

  • Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) had constituted the National Startup Advisory Council to advise the Government on measures needed to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation and startups in the country.
  • Besides the ex-officio members, the council has non-official members, representing various stakeholders such as founders of successful startups.

NavIC Grand Challenge

  • The Minister also launched NavIC Grand Challenge which aims at promoting adoption of NavIC as geo-positioning solution, a key proponent for digital Aatmanirbharta.
  • The applications for the grand challenge are open on Startup India’s website (www.startupindia.gov.in) and it aims to identify and handhold solutions of startups which are engaged in developing NavIC enabled drones.
Source : PIB

3. 6G SERVICES
Speaking at a programme marking the 25 years of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), PM Modi said by the end of this decade, we should be able to launch 6G services, and our task force has started working on it.

About:

  • In telecommunications, 6G is the sixth generation standard currently under development for wireless communications technologies supporting cellular data networks.
  • It is the planned successor to 5G and will likely be significantly faster.
  • Like its predecessors, 6G networks will probably be broadband cellular networks, in which the service area is divided into small geographical areas called cells.
  • 6G networks are likely to support applications beyond current mobile use scenarios, such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), ubiquitous instant communications, pervasive intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT). 
Source : Indian Express

4. BIRDCOUNT
Uttarakhand reported the highest number of bird species, at 293, while the highest number of checklists (lists of birds seen and heard by birdwatchers), at 192, was uploaded from Jammu & Kashmir, according to the primary report from birdwatchers in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal and Bhutan.

About:

  • The exercise was undertaken on May 14 and a total of 607 species were documented in just one day. A checklist includes birds seen and heard.
  • Bird Count India is an informal partnership of organisations and groups interested in documenting and monitoring India’s birds. The initiative encourages birdwatchers to upload their bird lists to eBird (ebird.org/india), a global platform for bird observations.
  • This first edition of the event was co-organised by Bird Count India, Bird Conservation Nepal, and the Royal Society for Protection of Nature, Bhutan.
Source : The Hindu
 
5. URBAN HEAT ISLAND
Several parts of the country are reeling under heat wave conditions. Cities, especially, are a lot hotter than rural areas. This is due to a phenomenon called an “urban heat island”.

About:

  • An urban heat island is a local and temporary phenomenon experienced when certain pockets within a city experience higher heat load than surrounding or neighbouring areas on the same day.
  • These are not the typical islands around water bodies, but urban heat islands that record higher day temperatures than other localities.
  • The temperature variation can range between 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.
  • For example, a greener locality like Pashan in Pune often records cooler temperatures than urban areas like Shivajinagar, Chinchwad or Magarpatta.

Causes

  • The variations are mainly due to heat remaining trapped within locations that often resemble concrete jungles.
  • Rural areas have relatively larger green cover in the form of plantations, farmlands, forests and trees as compared to urban spaces. This green cover plays a major role in regulating heat in its surroundings.
  • Cities usually have buildings constructed with glass, bricks, cement and concrete — all of which are dark-coloured materials, meaning they attract and absorb higher heat content.
Source : Indian Express
 
6. MAME KHAN
A 11-member Indian delegation walked the red carpet at the inauguration of the Cannes Film Festival in France, where India has been named as the ‘country of honour’ at the Marche du Film, the business counterpart of the Cannes Film Festival.

About:

  • Mame Khan, a traditional Manganiyar singer from Rajasthan, became the first folk artiste to open the red carpet event for the Indian contingent. He will also perform at the festival.
  • He belongs to the Manganiyar community, a Muslim community found in the desert of Rajasthan, mostly in the districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer.
  • Manganiyars along with the, Langha community, are known for their folk music.
  • Their songs are passed on from generation to generation as a form of oral history of the desert.
  • Their key Instruments are Kamaicha, Khartaal and Dholak.
Source : The Hindu
 
7. WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX (WPI)-BASED INFLATION
The Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation rate surged to a record high of 15.1 per cent in April, with rise in prices of vegetables, fruits, milk and fuel, government data released showed.

Causes:

  • The heatwave led to a spike in prices of perishables such as fruits, vegetables and milk, which, along with a spike in tea prices, pushed up primary food inflation.
  • The core-WPI inflation rose to a four-month high of 11.1% in April, with producers forced to pass on the input price pressures. Fuel inflation rose to 38.66 per cent, while inflation for manufactured products rose to 10.85 per cent.
  • Much of the inflation spike is being seen as a result of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with the contribution in retail inflation being seen at three-fourths of the index.

Impact

  • WPI inflation has been in double digits for the thirteenth months in a row now.
  • With WPI inflation remaining in double-digits, the probability of a repo hike in the June monetary policy has risen further.
Source : The Hindu

8. VADNAGAR
On the occasion of Buddha Purnima, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that his birthplace Vadnagar in Gujarat’s Mehsana district had been a great centre for Buddhist learning centuries ago.

About:

  • In 2006, the Gujarat state archaeology department began excavations in Vadnagar, a small town in Mehsana district of north Gujarat.
  • In 2014, the excavation work was taken over by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and the combined efforts have thrown up Buddhist relics and around 20,000 artefacts, some dating back to the 2nd century.
  • Among these, senior ASI officials revealed, are an elliptical structure and a circular stupa along with a square memorial stupa of 2×2 metres and 130 centimetres in height with a wall enclosure.
  • Vadnagar is mentioned often in the Puranas and even in the travelogue of the great Chinese traveler, Hiuen Tsang (7th century), as a rich and flourishing town.

Do you know?

  • Gujarat government has also launched the Tana-Riri annual music festival at Vadnagar in the name of two sisters, who were gifted singers, and who, by Gujarati folk lore, gave up their lives instead of agreeing to sing in the court of Emperor Akbar.
Source : Indian Express
 
9. PREFERENCE FOR SONS
The newly released National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) reconfirms that a large number of Indians have a preference for sons. NFHS-5 covers the period 2019-21.

About:

  • The number of married people (age 15-49) who want more sons than daughters is several times the number who want more daughters than sons. In spite of these preferences, most Indians still believe an ideal family should include at least one daughter.
  • Among the states and UTs, men in Mizoram (37%), Lakshadweep (34%) and Manipur (33%), and women in Bihar (31%) show the strongest preference for more sons than daughters.

Meghalaya

  • The only exception is women in Meghalaya, among whom the preference for more daughters than sons is more prevalent than the preference for more sons than daughters.
  • The explanation for Meghalaya women’s preference for daughters is that it is a matrilineal society.
Source : Indian Express

10. AIR POLLUTION DEATHS
Air pollution was responsible for 16.7 lakh deaths in India in 2019, or 17.8% of all deaths in the country that year.

About:

  • This is the largest number of air-pollution-related deaths of any country, according to a recent report on pollution and health published in The Lancet Planetary Health.
  • The majority of the 16.7 lakh air pollution-related deaths in India – 9.8 lakh — were caused by PM2.5 pollution, and another 6.1 lakh by household air pollution.
  • According to the report, air pollution is most severe in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. This area contains New Delhi and many of the most polluted cities.
  • Burning of biomass in households was the single largest cause of air pollution deaths in India, followed by coal combustion and crop burning.
  • Globally, air pollution alone contributes to 66.7 lakh deaths, according to the report, which updates a previous analysis from 2015.
Source : Indian Express

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