19 July 2024, The Indian EXPRESS
Report NEET-UG results city-wise, centre-wise, SC tells testing agency
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GS2- Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Education
- THE SUPREME Court Thursday asked the National Testing Agency (NTA) to publish city-wise and centre-wise NEET-UG 2024 examination results of all 23 lakh candidates, masking their identities, on its website by 12 pm Saturday.
- “We direct the NTA to publish the marks obtained by students at the UG-2024 NEET examination, while, at the same time, without disclosing the identity of the students.
- The result should be declared city and centre-wise by 12 noon on 20 July 2024 and shall be uploaded on the website of the NTA,” a three-judge bench presided by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud ordered.
Layered plantation, Miyawaki, aquatic forests among L-G’s green plan for Capital
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GS1-Urbanization, their problems and their remedies
- Layered plantations, Miyawaki forests, and aquatic forests: These are among techniques that could be incorporated to maximise the utility of the land in Delhi, L-G V K Saxena announced on Thursday.
- The Delhi Lieutenant Governor held a review meeting with officials on the status of afforestation and greening spaces in the Capital.
Govt won’t allow even a gram of drugs to enter India: Shah
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GS3-Security Challenges and their Management in Border Areas - Linkages of Organized Crime
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah Thursday said the government will not allow a single gram of drugs to enter the country, exhorting anti-narcotics agencies to adopt a ruthless approach to dismantle supply chains.
- Addressing senior officials of the central and state anti-narcotics agencies, Shah also launched the MANAS helpline number ‘1933’ along with an email id: info.ncbmanas@gov.in.
- These can be used by people to give information about drug trafficking to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). Information can also be submitted on ncbmanas.gov.in.
Ensure personnel not doing farming, fishery: NDRF brass
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GS3-Various Security Forces and Agencies and their Mandate
- Dairy work, fishery, farming. Getting wind of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel being tasked with such activities, the force’s headquarters has shot off a set off directives to its branches to ensure that the personnel perform only their official duties and are not mentally harassed.
- The order was issued on July 11 by Deputy Inspector General (Administration/Work) Gambhir Singh Chauhan after the headquarters found out that personnel — apart from their government duties — were involved in farming, dairy work, fishery and growing vegetables.
- In one instance, some personnel were even learnt to be selling produce grown by them to a shop located inside the campus.
Proxy war continuation of same ideology and mindset that have not changed: CDS
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GS3-Role of External State and Non-state Actors in creating challenges to Internal Security
- Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan Thursday hailed the heroics of Indian bravehearts in the Kargil war 25 years ago and said all efforts of Pakistan clearly “fell short of its aim” during the 1999 conflict.
- “The proxy war that we witness today is a continuation of the same ideology and mindset that have not changed,” he said.
- Speaking at the ‘Kargil Diwas Honours’ hosted by TV9 Network here to mark the 25th anniversary of the Kargil war, the CDS also said besides recalling memories of a war, it is also important to look at its aftermath and draw the “right lessons” for the future.
ALL-Win
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GS2-Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health
- Despite the challenges, India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is one of the major public health success stories, globally.
- With the government planning the launch of a digital vaccination registry, U-Win, on August 15, the UIP is poised to be placed on a much surer footing.
- The portal will steer the inoculation of 29 million pregnant women and 26 million infants annually against vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Under the current system, inoculation data is recorded manually by ASHA workers and then collated in state and national-level registries — this process usually takes more than a month.
Accumulation of food price pressures threatens inflation outlook: RBI Bulletin
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GS3-Inclusive Growth and issues arising from it
- The accumulation of food price pressures threatens the inflation outlook in the form of spillovers to wages, rent and inflation expectations, a Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) article said.
- The article said that the argument that food price shocks are transitory does not hold true as experienced over the past one year.
Facing criticism, EPFO plans 24X7 multilingual ‘Contact centre’ to address complaints
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GS2-Statutory, Regulatory and various Quasi-judicial Bodies
- The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) plans to set up a round-the-clock multilingual “contact centre” with the aim of offering a single-window interface to subscribers wanting to register a complaint or needing recourse to a redressal mechanism.
- The move to set up an integrated call centre for its nearly seven crore active subscribers has come in the wake of the retirement fund body facing backlash on social media platforms in recent months over delays in resolution of complaints and rising rates of rejection of settlement claims.
Looking at Trump-Vance: the policy view from New Delhi
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GS2-Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests
- Two days after he escaped attempted assassination — and immediately raised a defiant fist in what has become the defining image of his campaign to win back the White House — Donald Trump picked J D Vance, the junior Senator from Ohio, to be his running mate for the November election.
- Vance, 39, is the first millennial on the ticket and, if elected, will be the youngest Vice President of the United States since the Civil War.
- The nomination has generated understandable interest in India because of his Indian-origin wife, whose extended family is from Andhra Pradesh.
Green revolution in Maize
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GS3-Major Crops - Cropping Patterns in various parts of the country
- The Green Revolution was largely about wheat and rice.
- India became self-sufficient, if not surplus, in these two cereal grains, thanks to high-yielding varieties bred by institutions such as the Mexico-based CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi, under the leadership of scientists like Norman Borlaug and M S Swaminathan.
- There is, however, another less celebrated revolution that has taken place in India — in maize. Between 1999-2000 and 2023-24, its annual output has more than tripled, from 11.5 to over 35 million tonnes (mt), with average per-hectare yields also rising from 1.8 to 3.3 tonnes.
