UPSC Quiz – 2024 : IASbaba’s Daily Current Affairs Quiz 25th April 2024

·       It is one of the mission-mode projects under the umbrella of the E-Governance Plan.

·       It was launched in the year 2015.

·       Objectives: It works towards bridging the gap between job-seekers and employers, candidates seeking training and career guidance and agencies providing training and career counselling by transforming the National Employment Service.

·       It provides a host of career-related services such as dynamic job matching, career counselling, job notifications, vocational guidance, and information on skill development courses, internships and alike.

Enhancing Career and employment opportunities

·       Counselling and guidance for career development

·       Focusing on decent employment

·       Enhancing female labour force participation

·       Encouraging entrepreneurial endeavours

Nodal Agency: The project is being implemented by the Directorate General of Employment, Ministry of Labour & Employment.

·       Necessity – Maintaining tiger landscapes are vital to maintaining biodiversity, sequestering carbon, supplying resources to over 100 million people and ensuring the overall health of the planet.

Tiger Conservation Coalition

·       It is a group of NGOs that has worked for many years with partners to conserve tigers.

·       The 10 NGOs in the coalition are:

·       Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA),

·       Fauna & Flora International (FFI),

·       International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),

·       Natural State,

·       Panthera,

·       TRAFFIC,

·       United Nations Development Programme (UNPD),

·       Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS),

·       The World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and

·       The Zoological Society of London (ZSL).

·       It has the ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere.

·       It allows algae to convert atmospheric nitrogen into usable forms, a critical step for growth.

·       Traditionally, nitrogen fixation was seen as a prokaryotic (bacteria and archaea) domain.

·       Nitroplast discovery disrupts this notion, highlighting the fluidity of evolution.

·       Benefits – Understanding nitroplasts could revolutionize agriculture.

·       By incorporating nitrogen-fixing genes into crops, scientists envision plants that don’t rely on fertilizers and can reduce the environmental impact.

·       ICDRI is the annual international conference of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in partnership with member countries, organizations and institutions to strengthen the global discourse on disaster and climate-resilient infrastructure.

·       CDRI is an Independent International Organization consisting of global partnership of national governments, United Nations agencies and programs, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academic and research institutions.

·       It was launched in 2019, at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.

·       CDRI is India’s second major global initiative after the International Solar Alliance (ISA).

·       The CDRI Secretariat is based in New Delhi, India.

Members:

·       Since its inception, 31 countries, 6 international organisations and 2 private sector organisations have joined CDRI as members.

·       India launched this initiative as a part of the CDRI that would focus on building capacity, having pilot projects, especially in Small Island Developing States or SIDS.

Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund:

·       The Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund is a fund supported by both the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

·       It is a trust fund that will be managed by the United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (UN MPTFO) to help in improving the ability of infrastructure systems to withstand disasters, with a special focus on developing countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).s

·       Crystal Maze 2, also referred to as ROCKS, is an air-launched medium-range ballistic missile.

·       It is of Israeli origin.

·       It is designed to target high-value stationary and relocatable assets, such as long-range radars and air defense systems, of potential adversaries.

Features:

·       Distinguished from its predecessor, Crystal Maze 1, which has been inducted into the IAF from Israel previously, the Crystal Maze 2 boasts extended stand-off range capabilities as an air-to-surface missile.

·       It is capable of hitting targets over 250 kilometers away.

·       With options for either a penetration or blast fragmentation warhead, the missile is capable of destroying above-ground or well-protected underground targets.

·       It is specifically effective in GPS-denied environments.

·       The deployment strategy of the ROCKS involves releasing the missile well outside the surface-to-air-defended area, followed by a high-velocity trajectory to minimize the risk to aircraft and missiles.