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UPSC Daily Current Affairs| One Liners 22-03-2025

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March 22, 2025

One Liners 22-03-2025

History, Art and Culture

Indo-U.S. Cultural Property Agreement

  • Signed in – 2024.
  • Aim – To prevent smuggling of Indian antiquities to USA.
  • Features – It has provision for fostering cooperation and mutual understanding in the matters of technical assistance, illicit trade and pillage of cultural property.
  • Agreement, being preventive in nature has no timelines or target numbers.
  • Repatriation of antiquities – So far, 588 antiquities have been repatriated from USA, out of which 297 received in 2024.

Economy

Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme

  • Launched in – 2021.
  • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
  • Objectives – To make India a global hub for high-tech production and attract multinational chip manufacturers.
  • To generate 85,000 industry-ready manpower at B.Tech, M.Tech, and PhD levels specialized in semiconductor chip design.
  • Activity – It provides the students a complete hands-on experience in chip design, fabrication, and testing.
  • Participating Institutions – Academic institutions/R&D organizations, Start-ups and MSMEs.

Oeko Tex Certification

  • It is a worldwide certification for textiles such as yarns, fabrics, buttons, linens, terry cloth, thread, and other accessory materials.
  • It tests for harmful substances in raw, semi-finished and finished textile materials and products.
  • In India – The North Eastern Handicrafts and Handlooms Development Corporation Ltd. (NEHHDC) under the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, has obtained Oeko-Tex certification for eri silk from Germany.
  • Significance – Certification ensures that the final product is safe for human use.

Eri silk

  • It is one of the most durable and strong fibres.
  • Properties – It provides cooling effect in the summer and warming effect in the winter.
  • World’s only vegan silk – It distinguishes itself through an ethical production process where the silk moth is allowed to naturally emerge from its cocoon, leaving the silk intact.
  • In India – It is mostly cultivated in tribal areas of Assam.

Agriculture

Radiation based Food Preservation

  • Radiation processing of food – It involves controlled application of energy from ionizing radiations such as gamma rays, electrons and X-rays for food preservation.
  • Working – It disrupts the biological processes that lead to decay.
  • The interaction of radiation and radiolytic products of water with DNA impair reproducing capacity of microorganism and insects.
  • In India – Presently, 37 Gamma Radiation Processing Plants are in private, cooperative, semi government and government sector.
  • 21 plants out of 37 are capable of carrying out radiation processing of agricultural/ food products.

Environment

International Day of Forests 2025

  • Celebrated onMarch 21st every year.
  • Declared by – United Nations in 2021.
  • Aim – To celebrate and raise awareness about the vital role of all types of forests.
  • To recognize the importance of trees and forests, and take action to protect them.
  • 2025 theme – ‘Forests and Food’, which emphasizes the deep connection between forests and global food security.

Science

Technology Adoption Fund (TAF) scheme

  • It is for promoting the Indian industry especially start-ups towards commercialization of early-stage space technologies.
  • Launched byIndian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe), Department of Space.
  • Objectives – Upgradation of the existing space technologies and development of innovative products.
  • Import substitution of components whose technologies have not matured in the Indian industry.

Criteria for Funding support to Space Technology Startups

  • The startup should be under Indian management and control.
  • The proposal of the startup shall have potential commercial value.
  • The startup shall not source any funding from any other central & state government departments and/or ministries for the project forming the subject of their proposal(s).

National Cancer Grid (NCG)

  • Established in2012.
  • Established and managed byTata Memorial Centre (TMC), with the support of Department of Space, Ministry of Science and Technology.
  • Objectives – To involve and implement uniform standard of cancer care across India.
  • To offer state-of-the-art services for patients and to create human resources to tackle the rising need for cancer care.
  • To run epidemiological intervention studies to prevent cancer.
  • To direct cancer research in clinic and laboratory to offer cost effective solution to cancer in India.
  • Network – There are 362-member organizations in the NCG.

Nuclear Energy Mission

  • Announced in – Union Budget 2025.
  • Nodal agencyDepartment of Atomic Energy under Prime Minister’s Office.
  • Objectives – To deploy 100 GWe of nuclear energy by 2047, which is essential for NetZero by 2070.
  • To provide reliable energy alternative to fossil fuel energy sources with an objective to replace retiring thermal power-plants.
  • To set up captive plants for energy intensive industry.
  • To provide energy for remote as well as off-grid location with objective to decarbonize the energy sector.
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