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Daily Current Affairs, 21st June 2019
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1) International Day of Yoga: 21 June
•The International Day of Yoga aims to raise awareness worldwide of the many benefits of practicing yoga. This is the 5th Edition of International Day of Yoga.
•Theme: Yoga for Climate Action
2) World Music Day: 21 June
•World Music Day is observed every year on June 21. Each year there are events in over 120 countries and 700 cities around the world, not including France where there were too many events to count. The event is also known as Fête de la Musique (or World Music Day) and originated in France in 1982.
3) 35000 km of highways to be built by 2022 under Bharatmala
•Also, under the ‘Sagarmala Project’, a network of good quality roads are to be constructed in coastal areas and areas adjoining ports.
4) World Archery appoints Bindra to sort AAI trouble
•AAI violated the constitution by unanimously electing two parallel bodies in Chandigarh and New Delhi.
5) SEBI sets up panel to review margins on derivatives
•These margins on the derivatives segment are pushing up the cost of trading while not managing risk in the most efficient manner.
6) 249 startups were given financial support with FFS: DPIIT
•FFS contributes to the corpus of SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs).These AIFs in turn have to invest at least twice the contribution under FFS in startups.
7) Bronze for India in the 58th Ostrava Golden Spike Athletics meet
•While Croatia’s Sara Kolak took the gold and Slovenia’s Martina Ratej bagged the silver.
The HINDU Notes – 21st June 2019
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📰 Japan’s ‘washi’ paper torn by modern life; struggles to attract customers
Despite its UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage tag, the artefact’s market value is dwindling
•Once an indispensable part of daily life in Japan, ultra-thin washi paper was used for everything from writing and painting to lampshades, umbrellas, and sliding doors, but demand has plunged as lifestyles have become more westernised.
•Despite its 1,300-year history and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage status, washi paper is struggling to attract consumers and the market value has dropped by more than 50% in the past two decades.
•But at a small workshop in western Japan, Hiroyoshi Chinzei, a fourth-generation traditional paper maker, creates washi with a unique purpose that may help revive interest — both at home and abroad. His product, the world’s thinnest paper, has helped save historical documents at major museums and libraries — including the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum and Washington’s Library of Congress — from decay.
•“Washi paper is more flexible and durable” than what Japanese refer to as “western paper”, which disintegrates into tiny pieces when it becomes very old, said the 50-year-old.
•The traditional hand-made paper is manufactured from plants called kozo, or mulberry, which has fibres that are much longer than materials used for paper in the west such as wood and cotton.
•“Old Japanese books from the seventh or eighth century remain in good condition... thanks to the fibres of the kozo plants,” said the washi maker at his small factory in Hidaka, a village 640 km southwest of Tokyo.
‘Wings of a mayfly’
•Mr. Chinzei’s washi, a type called tengu-joshi paper also known as “the wings of a mayfly”, is 0.02 mm thick and weighs 1.6 gm per square metre.
•“It’s a mesh-like paper mainly made with fibres... It’s as thin as human skin,” Mr. Chinzei said. This compared to a standard sheet of photocopy paper, which is about 0.09 millimetres thick and weighs 70 gm per square metre. Using both machines and hand-made techniques passed down for generations, the firm can create ultra-thin paper, which is also used by conservationists to restore and protect cultural objects.
•One such conservationist, Takao Makino, carefully applies washi with a brush onto golden sticks representing the halo of a Buddhist statue estimated to be around 800 years old.
•He used washi for the first time in 2007 to protect the surface of one of the two main statues at Tokyo’s historic Sensoji Temple.
•“The surface was damaged and peeled off. So we covered all of it (with washi) to contain the damage,” the 68-year-old said.
📰 President bats for simultaneous polls
Vision IAS Mains 2019 Essay Test 2 English & Hindi PDF
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ANALYSIS OF PRELIMS – 2019 (PAPER-1) AND HIDDEN SYLLABUS – UPSC PRELIMS (AND IMPORTANT TIPS TO ACE PRELIMS IN 2020)
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Introduction
UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) exam is not so predictable and uncertain elements keep popping up year after year, we all realize this, but note that it is not the wild-wild west as many believe it to be! A halo of uncertainty has been fashioned around this exam, and it has become almost a fad to curse the examiner coming out of the examination hall.
To an experienced mind, such an exercise might seem as conventional myth-making. The exam does seem bizarre at first but it starts to make sense and feel more familiar as you look to the past. Why are we saying this? Understand that a teacher or an examiner, say here at Insights, looks at a paper quite differently from the way you do. Wider knowledge and experience allow them to draw observations that often do not occur to aspirants.
THE HINDU NEWSPAPER IMPORTANT ARTICLES 21.06.2019
Thursday, June 20, 2019
SSC Notice with Revised Dates of SSC CGL 2018 Tier 1 Result
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SSC Notice with Revised Dates of SSC CGL 2018 Tier 1 Result (20.08.2019)
The Staff Selection Commission has conducted the Combined Graduate Level Examination (Tier-I), 2018 from 04.06.2019 to 13.06.2019. The Commission also conducted re-examination for 4825 candidates on 19.06.2019.
The salient features of the examination are given in the table below:-
The salient features of the examination are given in the table below:-
Daily Current Affairs, 20th June 2019
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19:18
1) World Refugee Day: 20 June
•Theme for 2019: Step With Refugees — Take A Step on World Refugee Day
2) India grants $15mn to Niger for African Union Summit
•India is also building a convention centre in Niger as part of a plan to build chain convention centres across 20 African states as signature infrastructure projects.
3) Himachal Pradesh makes GPS device must for trekkers
•According to the Himachal Pradesh government, as Himachal Pradesh being a disaster prone state, therfore
4) FM chairs the 20th Meeting of the FSDC in New Delhi
•The FSDC Meeting was also attended by senior officers of the Government of India and the Financial Sector Regulators.
•The meeting reviewed the current global and domestic economic situation and financial stability issues including those concerning Banking and NBFCs.
5) WHO offers a new tool for action against antimicrobial resistance
AWaRe classifies antibiotics into three groups:
•“Access” specifies which antibiotics to use for the most common and serious infections.
•“Watch” specifies which ones should be available at all times in the healthcare system.
•“Reserve” are those that must be used sparingly or preserved and used only as a last resort.
6) ICANN partners NASSCOM to develop tech, standards for IoT devices
•Under the collaboration, both the bodies will first focus on updating Internet of Things(IoT) devices using domain name system (DNS).
•The project team under the collaboration includes ICANN technical experts, NASSCOM’s Centre of Excellence IOT team, IIT Hyderabad team and participants from India’s Education and Research Network (ERNET).
7) Indian engineer wins Innovation Award in UK
•Nitesh Kumar Jangir created Saans, a breathing support device to tackle avoidable deaths of premature babies from respiratory distress syndrome.
8) QS World University rankings for 2020
•The next two Indian Universities in the top 200 are IIT Delhi (182) and the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (184).
•There are a total of 23 Indian institutions in the top 1,000.
9) NCERT organises National Yoga Olympiad of school children
•The Olympiad was inaugurated by the Director and UNESCO Representative for India, Mr. Eric Falt. This year 567 students from 33 States/UTs participated in the Olympiad.
•The purpose of olympiad was to create positive attitude among all human beings and promote peaceful living together in the society.
