24 May 2024, The Indian EXPRESS
How a Kerala dist helped migrant workers’ kids excel in school
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GS2- Mechanisms, Laws, Institutions and Bodies constituted for the Protection and Betterment of the Vulnerable Sections
- Pradeep Mohite, a migrant worker from Maharashtra, beams with pride as he talks about his son’s class 10 results released last week.
- Shivraj Mohite studies in a Malayalam-medium school in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, and scored A+ in all his subjects.
- Shivraj, a student of St George’s High School, Vennikkulam, is among several children of migrant workers in Kerala who had been part of Ernakulam district’s ROSHNI scheme, aimed at helping them overcome the language barrier and learn Malayalam, English, and Hindi.
Model Code and context
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GS2- Salient Features of the Representation of People’s Act.
- Satyameva Jayate (“Truth alone triumphs”) from the Mundaka Upanishad was adopted as the national motto on January 26, 1950, the day India became a Republic.
- A day earlier, the country’s Election Commission was born. Its primary responsibility is to enable us to exercise our democratic right to choose a government.
- The ECI is expected to provide a level playing field so that the candidates, political parties and their campaigners do not exercise undue influence on voters by excessive use of money and muscle power or by their mendacity.
Severe cyclone headed for Bengal by May 26: IMD
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GS1-Important Geophysical Phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc.
- The IMD has entered the pre-cyclone watch stage and said, ” This system will continue to move north-eastwards and concentrate into a depression (wind speed of 31 – 61km/hr) over central parts of Bay of Bengal by May 24. Further, it is likely to continue to move north-eastwards and strengthen into a cyclone.”
- By May 26, the cyclone (wind speed 62 – 88km/hr) would track a northward movement and is expected to barrel into Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal as a severe cyclone (wind speed over 89 – 117 km/hr).
Navy does away with ship terms ‘Jackstaff’ and ‘Jack’, replace with National flag staff, National flag
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GS3- Various Security Forces and Agencies and their Mandate
- Doing away with yet another colonial vestige, the Navy has changed names of ‘Jackstaff’ and ‘Jack’ on board ships to ‘National Flag Staff’ and ‘National Flag’.
- ‘Jack’ refers to a flag in naval parlance, usually the national flag, and ‘Jackstaff’ is a short pole on the bow of a ship from which it is flown. Both terms have their origins in British naval traditions.
Johansson, OpenAI, and the question of personality right
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GS3- Awareness in the fields of IT
- Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson has expressed “shock” and “anger” over hearing the voice for GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest AI model, which she has said sounds “eerily similar” to her own voice.
- In a statement issued this week, she accused OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, of using her voice despite her earlier declining licensing requests from company CEO Sam Altman.
Integrated theatre commands
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GS3- Various Security Forces and Agencies and their Mandate
- The Indian Armed Forces have been finetuning the final draft for the creation of integrated theatre commands.
- The ambitious defence reform is aimed at integrating the three defence services — the Indian Army, the Indian Navy, and the Indian Air Force (IAF) — to operate jointly in specific adversary-based theatres with defined military goals during a limited conflict or war.
Maldives to launch RuPay service
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GS2-India and its Neighborhood- Relations
- Notwithstanding the turbulence in their bilateral ties, the Maldives will soon launch India's RuPay service, which a senior minister has said "will bolster the Maldivian Rufiyaa."
- RuPay, a product of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), is the first of its global card payment network in India, with wide acceptance at ATMs, POS devices, and e-commerce websites across India.
- Minister of Economic Development and Trade Mohamed Saeed while announcing how both India and China have agreed to use local currency in bilateral trade, spoke about the upcoming launch of India's RuPay.
