🔥 Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA)

● Founded in 1997, IORA serves as a regional forum aimed at fostering understanding and mutually beneficial cooperation through a consensus-based, non-intrusive approach.

● IORA has members from Africa, West Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Oceania.

●The Association’s membership has expanded to 23 member states and 11 dialogue partners.

● Secretariat is based in Cyber City, Ebene, Mauritius.

● Six priority areas identified by the IORA are: Trade and Investment, Maritime Safety and Security, Fisheries Management, Disaster Risk Management and Blue Economy and Strengthening Regional Ties.

● It manages, coordinates, services and monitors the implementation of policy decisions, work programmes and projects adopted by the member states

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India Tea Association (ITA)

● Founded in 1881, the ITA is the premier and the oldest organization of tea producers in India.

● ITA, since its inception has remained the principal advisory and supervisory body in the tea industry.

● ITA is Headquartered in Kolkata.

● ITA continues to discharge a multidimensional role, formulating policies and effectively liaising with the Tea Board, Central and State Governments and a wide spread of quasi Governmental and regulatory agencies.

● The ITA and its branches represent over 60% of India's total tea production.

🔥Periodic Labour Force Survey

- It is a survey conducted by the NSO under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) 

- The NSO launched the PLFS in April 2017.

- This is 6th edition , each edition track 12 month period from July to June

The objective of PLFS is primarily twofold:

- to estimate the key employment and unemployment indicators (viz. Worker Population Ratio, Labour Force Participation Rate, Unemployment Rate) in the short time interval of three months for the urban areas only in the Current Weekly Status (CWS)

- to estimate employment and unemployment indicators in both usual status (ps+ss) and CWS in both rural and urban areas annually.

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🔥 Ethics Committee

Establishment:
-Lok Sabha Ethics Committee was established in 2000 by Speaker G M C Balayogi.
-Became a permanent part of the House in 2015.
-Rajya Sabha Ethics Committee was established in 1997.

Composition:
-Lok Sabha Committee: Up to 15 members, nominated by the Speaker.
-Rajya Sabha Committee: 10 members, nominated by the Chairman.

Function:
-Examines complaints of unethical conduct by Lok Sabha members.
-Accepts complaints from any individual or member regarding a Lok Sabha member's unethical conduct.
-Only MPs can be examined for misconduct by the Ethics Committee.

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🔥Purchasing Managers' Index

What Is the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)?

-The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is an index of the prevailing direction of economic trends in the manufacturing and service sectors.

-It aims to inform company decision-makers, analysts, and investors about current and future business conditions.

-Calculation: PMI is calculated separately for manufacturing and services sectors, and a composite index is also constructed.

- The index ranges from 0 to 100, where above 50 indicates expansion, below 50 indicates contraction, and 50 means no change.

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What is Marine cloud brightening ?
-Marine cloud brightening also known as marine cloud seeding and marine cloud engineering is a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique that would make clouds brighter, reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight back into space .

Objective:
-To reflect more sunlight back into space.
-Mitigate global warming and climate change.

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-Mechanism:Fine sea salt particles are sprayed into the air to act as cloud condensation nuclei.
-Result: Formation of brighter, whiter clouds that reflect more sunlight.


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🔥 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)

● Russia's parliament completed the passage of a law on withdrawing ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests.

● The CTBT is a multilateral treaty aimed at banning all nuclear explosions, whether for military or peaceful purposes.

● The CTBT was negotiated at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in 1994.

● In 1996, the United Nations adopted the CTBT, which imposed a complete ban on nuclear weapons testing, closing the gaps left by previous treaties.

● It has been signed by 187 nations and ratified by 178. However, the treaty cannot formally enter into force until it is ratified by 44 specific nations.

● Eight of these nations have yet to ratify the treaty:
— China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran, Egypt, United States.

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