TITBITS:
1.India's Plans to get into the manufacturing value
chain of Small Modular Reactors are yielding some positives with a handful of
private players learning to have shown interest in deploying these at their
captive site.
2.Three years into the five-year Swachh Bharat Mission
(SBM) Urban 2.0, big cities are yet to clear any land in half of their legacy
landfill sites, with only 38% of the total dumped waste being remediated so
far, government data shows.
3.To boost the manufacturing ecosystem, the government
is exploring ways to ease public procurement criteria for the production of new
and innovative products that are typically not produced domestically, Commerce
and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said.
4.In a first-of-its-kind attempt to enumerate people
engaged in the hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks in India's cities
and towns, government data gathered from over 3,000 urban local bodies in 29
States and Union Territories shows that 91.9% of the 38,000 workers profiled so
far belong to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), or other backward
class (OBC) communities.
5.India and Greece discussed avenues for
cross-training in niche technologies and advanced courses, as well as ways to
strengthen strategic and operational ties, during Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K.
Tripathi's just-concluded visit to Greece.
6.FATF
Mutual Evaluation Report
FATF
launched Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) for India.
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An assessment of a country’s measures to combat money laundering and terror financing and
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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India is in the top “regular
follow-up” category.
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Most developing countries fall under the “enhanced follow-up”
category, requiring annual reports, compared to every 3 years for “regular
follow-up” countries
7.Circumnutation
New
study highlights the role circumnutations could play in plant growth patterns.
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Small, continuous movements made by plants to
explore their environments.
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The movements appear as spirals or zigzags.
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For example, Sunflowers form a zigzag pattern when grown in
dense rows for maximizing sunlight