Places in News- Beirut

◆capital and largest city of Lebanon.
◆an important regional seaport

◆News -huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital Beirut

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National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013

Objective: To provide for food and nutritional security in the human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantities of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.

Coverage: 75% of the rural population and upto 50% of the urban population for receiving subsidized foodgrains under TPDS

Eligibility
◆Priority Households to be covered under TPDS, decided by the State govt
◆existing household Antyodaya Anna Yojana.

Provisions
◆5 Kgs of foodgrains per person per month at Rs. 3/2/1 per Kg for rice/wheat/coarse grains.
◆Existing AAY household will continue to receive 35 Kgs of foodgrains per household per month.
◆Meal and maternity benefit of not less than Rs. 6,000 to pregnant women and lactating mothers
◆Meals to children upto 14 years of age.
◆Food security allowance to beneficiaries in case of non-supply of entitled foodgrains or meals.
◆Setting up of grievance redressal mechanisms at the district and state

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Thumbimahotsavam 2020

◆It is the first-ever State Dragonfly Festival in Kerala.

◆This is part of a national dragonfly festival being organised by the WWF India, Bombay Natural History Society & Indian Dragonfly Society in association with the National Biodiversity Board, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme and IUCN – Centre for Environment Conservation.

◆The Dragonfly Festival started in 2018

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World Wide Fund for Nature
international non-governmental organization.

Founded in 1961
Headquarter — Gland (Switzerland)

1.Living Planet Report— published every two years by WWF

2.Earth hour – a worldwide movement organized by WWF annually, encouraging individuals, communities, and businesses to turn off non-essential electric lights, for one hour, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on a specific day towards the end of March, as a symbol of commitment to the planet.

3.Debt-for-nature swaps–financial transactions in which a portion of a developing nation’s foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for local investments in environmental conservation measures.

4.Tx2 programme
Launched by World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) at the 2010 St Petersburg Tiger Summit held in Russia.

5.TRAFFIC:
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, is a leading non-governmental organisation working globally on trade in wild animals and plants.
It is a strategic alliance of IUCN and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

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▪️GREEN GOOD DEEDS CAMPAIGN
It was launched by the MOEFCC Ministry to sensitize the people and students, in particular, about climate change and global warming.

It‘s a people-oriented campaign. The plan is to broad-base it with the involvement of teachers, students and other voluntary organizations

▪️Nitrogen for Life
A campaign on sustainable nitrogen management called “Nitrogen for Life” was launced alongside Colombo Declaration

▪️ “Wood is Good” Campaign

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has launched “Wood is Good” Campaign under Partnership for Land Use Science (Forest-Plus).

It was launched on sidelines of two-day conference on “Sustainable landscapes and forest ecosystems: Theory to Practice” in New Delhi.

The purpose of campaign is to promote wood as climate-friendly resource and substitute to materials like steel and plastic as it is carbon neutral unlike others materials which leave carbon footprint in their production

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1.Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme of Telangana ,on
the Godavari River.

2.Mekedatu dam project:
by the Karnataka govt ,
on Cauveri river

3.Polavaram project on Godavari river by Andhra Pradesh govt

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EndoSulfan

◆known by its trade name Thiodan.
◆organochlorine insecticide
gets accumulated in food chains 
◆bioconcentrate in aquatic organisms
◆Carcinogenic mean Cancer causing ,Affect on sexual character

◆Endosulfan is listed under both Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

◆Supreme Court in India has banned the manufacture, sale, use, and export of endosulfan throughout the country, citing its harmful health effects in 2015

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Dugong (Dugong dugon) also called ‘Sea Cow

◆only existing species of
◆herbivorous mammal that lives exclusively in the sea including in India.herbivorous mammal
◆IUCN vulnerable
◆WPA 1972 Schedule I
◆Included in CMS Bonn convention
◆Dugongs graze on seagrass
◆Found at- Gulf of Mannar in Tamil Nadu, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat.

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