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Daily Current 2022-Nov-16: Net Zero Emission LTS COP27, Kasi Viswanathar Temple @TheMrunalPatel

Daily Current Pipudi (DCP) November 16, 2022

– Mrunal’s New Economy course targeting Prelims-2023 starting from Tomorrow https://unacademy.com/course/mrunals-economy-course-for-upsc-prelims-2023/7PY9OQMF (Discount Code: ‘Mrunal.org’)
– India’s long-term strategies to reduce emissions (LTS) -explained thru infographics at https://t.me/mrunalorg/2412
– Data protection Bill revised: Penalty up to Rs 200 crore if firms don’t have safeguards
– PEOPLE HOLDING public office should exercise self-restriction and not blabber things which are disparaging or insulting to other countrymen, the Supreme Court said
– 2022-Sept: Health ministry had released NEW National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM), → essential commodities act → Drug Prices Control Order → fixes ceiling prices for these essential formulations. NPPA – a body under the Chemical Ministry will regulate it
– Terror finance challenge: 1) Amorphous terror groups, recruitment via social media, lone wolf attacks 2) terrorists raise money through organised crime, narcotics, human trafficking, real estate, retail outlets, NGOs, charitable trusts, state sponsors like Pakistan. They need money for propaganda, intelligence, gathering, accommodation, travel, weapons, pay bribes, acquire weapons and stage attacks. 3) Terrorists use a wide variety of methods to move money- sharemarket, P-Notes, couriers/hawaala, smuggling, remittance, charities, bitcoins. Pakistan being placed on the FATF Grey List from 2018 to 2022 because it was not cooperating against all this
– NASA’s Artemis-1 Space Launch System (SLS) mission to Moon/ lunar Orbiter mission. Presently no human sent. But, In future, it may be used for sending astronauts to moon and bringing them back.
– Kasi Viswanathar Temple in Tenkasi in southwestern Tamil Nadu. 15th century King Parakrama Pandya built it for Lord Shiva’s devotees in who could not visit Kashi. 2022: The month-long Kashi Tamil Sangamam begins in Varanasi. BHU and IIT-Madras are knowledge partners for the event,
– MADHYA PRADESH notified Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, which gives more power to gram sabhas. CM said will ensure that conversions and marriages done by “alluring” tribal women to get land notified as tribal land is stopped.
– United Nations Population Fund → World Population Prospects 2022, released in 2022-July. It had predicted that 15/Nov/2022: World population will be 8 billion people. India to be most INDIA’S population growth is stablising, it is “still growing at 0.7% per year”. India to surpass China in 2023 as the world’s most populous country, according to the China’s population is no longer growing will decline by 2023”
– International Ethics: About 200,000 South Koreans were adopted overseas in 1970-80s and mainly to white parents in the US and Europe. Critics say past authoritarian leaders in South Korea saw adoptions as a way to reduce the number of mouths to feed, solve the “problem” of unwed mothers and deepen ties with the democratic West. Now those adopted grown-up South Korean is living in USA and Europe are demanding truth about their story.
– THE UK government has removed Pakistan from its list of “High Risk Third Countries”, which covers nations with unsatisfactory money laundering and terrorist financing controls.
– Nine Russian banks open special vostro accounts in Indian banks so Russian exporters getting paid in rupee currency. The money is kept in such accounts for using it for importing maal from India later on.