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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 24 February 2022 Praggnanandhaa Defeats World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen Indian teenage chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has created a history by defeating world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen...

Zaheer Hussain
February 24, 2022
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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 24 February 2022

Praggnanandhaa Defeats World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen

Indian teenage chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has created a history by defeating world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen at the online rapid chess competition.
Achieving the remarkable feat, Praggnanandhaa became the 3rd Indian to defeat Carlsen after Vishwanathan Anand and P Harikrishna.
Congratulations have been pouring in for the 16-year-old ever since he defeated the chess king.
Sachin, MK Stalin, Modi govt, Vishwanathan Anand have wished Praggnanandhaa.
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has expressed happiness over R Praggnanandhaa for winning against the noted champion Magnus Carlsen in online Chess tournament.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister said:
“We are all rejoicing on the success of the young genius R Praggnanandhaa. Proud of his accomplishment of winning against the noted champion Magnus Carlsen. I wish the talented Praggnanandhaa the very best for his future endeavours.”

Annual Frontiers Report 2022

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released its Annual Frontiers Report named Noise, Blazes and Mismatches.
The Frontiers report identifies and offers solutions to three environmental issues: urban noise pollution, wildfires and phenological shifts that merit attention and action from governments and the public at large to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
Recommendations:
Appreciating and adopting indigenous fire management techniques.
A preventive approach, rather than reactive approach by engaging vulnerable groups, will help adapt to the wildfires.
It is important to enhance fire-fighting capabilities and strengthen community resilience-building programmes
It is important to focus on long-range weather forecasting.
Focus on remote-sensing capabilities such as satellites, ground-based radar, lightning detection as well as data handling.

Extension Of PM CARES Scheme For Children

The Centre has extended the PM Cares for Children Scheme till 28th February 2022, which was earlier valid till 31st December 2021.
The scheme was launched on 29th May, 2021 with the aim to support children who lost both or surviving parent(s), legal guardian/adoptive parents or single adoptive parent to Covid-19.
The status of children in need of care and protection included orphans (10,094), lost either parent (1,36,910) and abandoned (488) taking the total to 1,47,492.
PM-CARES Fund: The government has set up the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES Fund) to deal with any kind of emergency or distress situation like posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Fund is a public charitable trust with the Prime Minister as its Chairman. Other Members include Defence Minister, Home Minister and Finance Minister.

National Means Cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme

Ministry of Education has approved the continuation of National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship (NMMSS) over the 15th Finance Commission cycle for a period of five years i.e. from 2021-22 to 2025-26 with financial outlay of Rs. 1827.00 crore.
It is a central Sector Scheme, launched in 2008-09 to award scholarships to meritorious students of economically weaker sections to reduce drop-outs in class VIII.
22.06 lakh scholarships have been sanctioned till 2020-21 involving an expenditure of Rs. 1783.03 crore.
Scholarship of Rs. 12000/- per annum (Rs.1000/- per month) per student is awarded to selected students every year for study in classes from IX to XII.
The selection of students awarded the scholarships is made through an examination conducted by the State Governments.
Scholarships are disbursed by the State Bank of India directly into the bank accounts of students on a quarterly basis.

Ayush Start-Up Challenge

The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in association with Startup India has launched the ‘Ayush Start-up Challenge’.
It was launched to encourage start-ups and individuals working on innovations in the field of Ayurveda and alternative healing.
The winners of ‘Ayush Start-up Challenge’ will receive both a cash prize and incubation support from the AIIA.
Cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh for the winner and Rs. 50,000 for the runner-up.
3 entry categories for participating start-ups:
Ayush Food Innovations:
Ayush Bio-instrumentation (Hardware solutions)
Ayush IT Solutions (Software solutions).
There will be two winners in each of the 3 categories.

Prevention Of Sexual Harassment At Workplace

1st Workshop on Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace held on 23rd February 2022 under the aegis of Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law & Justice.
Shri Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, Union Law Secretary, while addressing the women officers/officials of the Department of Legal Affairs, highlighted that sexual harassment at the workplace is a violation of the Fundamental Rights under Article 14, 21 of the Constitution.
Until and unless the women come out and open, it will be difficult to bring in changes in attitudes.
There are various challenges attached to it and the first step entails talking and writing the incident/complaint to the Complaints Committee.
Cyber Crime has also opened a new way of sexual harassment which is a huge challenge.
Law Secretary pointed out the provisions under the I.P.C. that cover crimes relating to women.

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Zaheer Hussain

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