Daily Current Affairs for TNPSC Group Exams, Upsc Exams, SSC, RRB, BANK & All Government Exams

1. Invasive weed, 17 plants stifling Kaziranga
    

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• Environment and Conservation.
   
• A Vitamin D3-rich weed and a shrub with roots that wild boars love to gorge on are among the 18 invasive plants stifling the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, the best¬ known address of the greater one-horned rhinoceros on the Earth.

2. CCTV cameras to check custodial torture in Rajasthan police stations
    

• Page 3.
• Transparency and Accountability.
   
• Sardar Patel had said it was not enough for the police to only detect crime and bring offenders to book, but they must also try to win the affection of the people. “A police officer who loses his head in handling a situation is not fit to be a member of the police force”.

3. Brick by brick
    

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• IR.
   
• The 14th BRICS Summit, revealed much about the grouping of five emerging nations. That this bloc of five disparate countries has not only made it to its 14th summit, but has been able to demonstrate some concrete, albeit modest, outcomes of cooperation, such as the emergence of the New Development Bank (NDB), suggests there remains a strong convergence of interests amid undeniable differences. In his address to the summit hosted by China this year and held virtually, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the binding glue as “a similar approach to global governance”. That approach, according to the lengthy joint Beijing Declaration that followed, was premised on “making instruments of global governance more inclusive, representative and participatory”.

4. The advent of ‘app­solute’ chaos in NREGA 
    

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• Govt Policies and Interventions, Issues Arising Out of Design and Implementation of Policies, Welfare Schemes, Issues Related to Development, Right to Privacy.
   
• The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) launched the National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) app, a new application meant for “improving citizen oversight and increasing transparency” in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) works. It is to be deployed by NREGA Mates, local women at the panchayat level who are selected and trained to monitor NREGA worksites. The main feature of the app is the real-time, photographed, geo-tagged attendance of every worker to be taken once in each half of the day. The NMMS has very clear problems that will make it increasingly difficult for workers to continue working under NREGA, eroding the right to work that underwrites the NREGA Act.

5. Ship-borne weapon system tested
    

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• Technology, Growth and Development.
   
• Indigenously developed Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) was successfully flight¬ tested by DRDO and the Navy from a warship at Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. It is a shipborne weapon system meant for neutralising various aerial threats at close ranges.

6. ‘Vaccines prevented 42 lakh deaths in India’ 
    

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• Health, Growth and Development, Advancement in Science and Technology.
   
• Vaccines against COVID-19 prevented over 42 lakh deaths in India in 2021, said a study published in  Lancet Infectious Diseases, which based its findings on estimates of “excess” mortalities in the country during the pandemic.

7. RBI extends date for card tokenisation
    

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• Economy.
   
• The Reserve Bank of India has extended the card-on-file tokenisation deadline by three months to September 30, given various representations received from industry bodies. Tokenisation means replacement of actual card details with an alternate code dubbed as “token”. The token will be unique for a combination of card, token requestor and device. This token us used to do card transactions in contactless mode at point-of-sale terminals, code payments and quick response.