Cabinet approves roads in border area of Rajasthan and Punjab

Construction of 2,280 km of roads with an investment of Rs 4,406 crore

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✅DISC 12 challenge

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Empowering Rural India: NABARD Survey on Rural Financial Inclusion
✅NABARD has published the findings from its second All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS) for 2021-22, which offers primary data based on a survey of 1 lakh rural households, covering various economic and financial indicators in the post-COVID period
✅ The average monthly income of households saw a substantial rise of 57.6% over a five-year period, increasing from Rs. 8,059 in 2016-17 to Rs. 12,698 in 2021-22

MPPSC 2024 Mains Admit Card जारी।

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🔆Living Planet Report

✅It is published biennially by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
✅It is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. 
✅The Living Planet Report 2024 is the 15th edition of the report.
✅The WWF uses the Living Planet Index (LPI), which tracks the average trends in wildlife populations rather than focusing on increases or declines in individual species numbers.
✅By monitoring changes in species population sizes over time, the LPI serves as an early warning indicator of extinction risk and helps assess ecosystem efficiency.

📍 Highlights of the Living Planet Report 2024

✅The sharpest decline is reported in freshwater ecosystems at 85%, followed by terrestrial ecosystems at 69% and marine ecosystems at 56%.
✅WWF highlighted declines in monitored animal populations around the world as follows
Latin America and the Caribbean, where populations have dropped by 95 per cent
✅Africa: 76 % decline.
✅Asia-Pacific region: 60 % decline.
✅Central Asia: 35% decline
✅North America: 39 % decline.
✅Major threats to wildlife include Habitat loss, overexploitation, climate change, pollution, invasive species, and diseases, which were the dominant drivers of the decline of wildlife.
✅Habitat loss was driven by unsustainable agriculture, fragmentation, logging, mining, to name a few causes.
✅Ongoing mass coral reef bleaching, affecting over 75 per cent of the world’s reefs, the Amazon rainforest, the collapse of the subpolar gyre and the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are all nearing critical tipping points.
✅More than half of the United Nations-mandated Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 are unlikely to meet their targets, with 30 per cent of them either already missed or worse off than their 2015 baseline.

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2024

🔆Dree Festival

✅The Apatani tribe that reside in Arunachal Pradesh primarily celebrate the festival. Currently, more and more tribes have started observing the rituals of Dree festival.
✅It is one of the biggest celebrations held in the Ziro valley.
✅During the festival, people offer prayers and offerings to four main Gods: Tamu, Metii, Medvr, Danyi and Mepin. These offerings are given to pray for a good and plentiful harvest.
✅People gather around the valley and perform traditional dances.
✅One of the most unique points of this festival is that cucumber is distributed to all the attendees as a symbol of good harvest.

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The Haryana government has declared that a written examination will now be a requirement for promotions in government jobs.

🔆Torgya Festival, Arunachal Pradesh

✅Torgya festival is a monastic festival celebrated in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. This festival is celebrated every year towards the end of January.

✅Torgya festival is very significant in Arunachal Pradesh as it celebrates the destruction of negative forces and the ushering in of prosperity, peace and good will. It is believed that the rituals performed during this festival would help ward off natural calamities and other disasters.

✅Rich presence of colour is one of the main features of this festival. Colourful dances mark the occasion along with the gaiety displayed everywhere.

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