November 2024
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Defence
CORPAT
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- The fourth edition of the Indian Navy-Bangladesh Navy Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) commenced in the Northern Bay of Bengal on 22 May 22.
- Indian Navy and Bangladesh Navy units will undertake joint patrolling along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) till 23 May 22.
- The last IN-BN CORPAT was conducted in October 2020.
- Two indigenously built IN Ships - Kora, a guided-missile corvette and Sumedha, an offshore patrol vessel are participating in the exercise along with Bangladesh Navy Ships BNS Ali Haider and BNS Abu Ubaidah.
- The regular conduct of CORPATs has strengthened mutual understanding and enhanced interoperability between both the navies in countering transnational maritime threats at sea.
Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swami Ji
- Prime Minister lauded the efforts of Avadhoota Datta Peetham for nation building and to build a good society.
- He was virtually addressing the devotees and religious heads as part of the 10-day 80th birthday celebrations of Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji, the Founder Pontiff of Avadhoota Datta Peetham.
- The event also marked the 100th birth anniversary of Sri Jayalakshmi Mata, the mother of Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji and the 24th anniversary of Nada Mantapa in the Ashram
- Sri Swamiji established Shuka Vana, an aviary and a rehabilitation center for birds. Located on premises of Ashrama in Mysore.
- The aviary has over 2,100 rare birds of more than 470 endangered and critically endangered exotic species.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM), the Ministry of Culture held inaugural ceremony to commemorate the year long celebration of the 250th Birth Anniversary of Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Born into a prosperous upper-caste Brahmin family, Roy grew up within the framework of orthodox caste practices of his time: child-marriage, polygamy and dowry were prevalent among the higher castes and he had himself been married more than once in his childhood.
- Most influential social and religious reformers of the 19th century
- He was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent.
- He was given the title of Raja by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor.
- His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration, education and religion.
- He was known for his efforts to abolish the practices of sati and child marriage.
- Roy is considered to be the "Father of the Bengal Renaissance" by many historians
- He was a great scholar of Sanskrit, Persian and English languages and also knew Arabic, Latin and Greek
- Ram Mohan Roy's impact on modern Indian history was his revival of the pure and ethical principles of the Vedanta school of philosophy as found in the Upanishads.
- He preached the unity of God, made early translations of Vedic scriptures into English, co-founded the Calcutta Unitarian Society and founded the Brahma Samaj.
- The Brahma Samaj played a major role in reforming and modernizing the Indian society.
- He successfully campaigned against sati, the practice of burning widows.
- He sought to integrate Western culture with the best features of his own country's traditions.
- He established a number of schools to popularize a modern system (effectively replacing Sanskrit based education with English-based education) of education in India.
- He promoted a rational, ethical, non-authoritarian, this-worldly, and social-reform Hinduism.
Biological Research Regulatory Approval Portal (BioRRAP)
- In keeping with the spirit of "One Nation,One Portal", Union Minister of State (IC) Ministry of Science and Technology launched Single National Portal for Biotech researchers and Start-ups.
- The Portal "BioRRAP" will cater to all those seeking regulatory approval for biological research & development activity in the country and thus offer a huge relief for "Ease of Science as well as Ease of Business.
- India is poised to become a Global Bio-manufacturing Hub and will figure among the top 5 countries of the world by 2025.
- The Portal will also allow stakeholders to see the approvals accorded against a particular application through a unique BioRRAP ID.
- This unique portal of DBT as a step towards Ease of Doing Science and Scientific research and Ease of Start-ups in India.
- This portal will strengthen interdepartmental synergies and bring accountability, transparency and efficacy in functioning of agencies regulating various aspect of biological research and issuing permission.
- At present there is no mechanism to track the requisite regulatory approval for a research proposal on a single portal and therefore, to provide more credibility and recognition to such biological researches, Government of India has developed a web system under which each research, requiring regulatory oversight, will be identified by a unique ID called "BioRRAP ID".
- The portal will serve as a gateway and will help researcher to see stage of approval of their applications for regulatory clearances and to see preliminary information on all the research work being undertaken by the particular researcher and/or organization.
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