Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 04 December 2020

::NATIONAL::

Government announces list of 10 best performing police stations in India

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) released a list of the top 10 police stations in India for the year 2020.

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The Government of India selects best performing Police Stations across the country every year, to incentivize more effective functioning of police stations and bring healthy competition among them.
The list was in accordance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directions while addressing the 2015 Directors General of Police (DGP) Conference in Kutch, Gujarat.

India’s top 10 police stations for the year 2020:

1.   Nongpok Sekmai (Thoubal, Manipur)
2.   AWPS-Suramangalam (Salem, Tamil Nadu)
3.   Kharsang (Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh)
4.   Jhilmili (Surajpur, Chhattisgarh)
5.   Sanguem (South Goa, Goa)
6.   Kalighat (North and Middle Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands)
7.   Pakyong (East district, Sikkim)
8.   Kanth (Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh)
9.   Khanvel (Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Dadra and Nagar Haveli)
10.   Jammikunta Town (Karimnagar, Telangana)

Nisarg Gram campus

Invoking recollections of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Nature Cure campaign of 1946 at the “Nisarg Upchar” Ashram in Uruli Kanchan village near Pune, the upcoming new campus of National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Pune will be called “Nisarg Gram”.
Located at a distance of 15 Km from NIN’s present premises at Bapu Bhavan, the new Institution will be future-ready, with many novelties and innovations incorporated in the project per se and the curriculum of the Naturopathy courses.

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NIN, Pune, an Autonomous Body under the Ministry of AYUSH is the inheritor of a unique Gandhian heritage.
It has been developed out of a Nature Cure institution of which the Mahatma was one of the founders.
The institution was called All India Nature Cure Foundation and was set up under Gandhi Ji’s leadership in 1945 at the same premises where the NIN presently functions.
It was subsequently taken over by the Central Government and structured into the present National Institute of Naturopathy.
As NIN is in the process of setting up an additional and larger campus at Nisarg Gram, the Ministry of AYUSH is taking all possible efforts to ensure that this campus is empowered to carry forward NIN’s unique legacy into the future.
To start with, the new institute’s curricula will be prepared in the light of National Education Policy, 2020.
The curricula will be rationalised to bring about qualitative, pedagogical understanding of Naturopathy and allied disciplines at the UG and PG level.

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::INTERNATIONAL::

Intellectual Property cooperation

Memorandum of Understanding signed between India and US on Intellectual Property cooperation.
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry signed the MoU with US Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce of the US.
Earlier the cabinet gave the approval for signing the MoU with USPTO in the field of IP Cooperation.
The MoU aims at increasing IP co-operation between the two countries.
It will facilitate exchange and dissemination of best practices, experiences and knowledge on IP among the public, and between and among the industry, universities, research and development organizations, and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.

Boko Haram

Recently, at least 110 farmers were killed by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Boko Haram is a militant group in northern Nigeria that is fighting to overthrow the government and createan Islamic state.
Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political orsocial activity associated with Western society.

Economy

Green Charcoal

•   Recently, Green Charcoal Hackathon was launched, by Ministry of power, with the objective to clean the air byeliminating farm fire, producing renewable energy out of the agro residue etc.
•   Green Charcoal is a type of bio-fuel that can be made locally and inexpensively.
•   To make this,agricultural waste materials appropriate to the season and the region arecarbonized (conversionof an organic substance into carbon or a carbon-containing residue) in a kiln.
•   It burns cleanly, reducing exposure to the smoke that causes respiratory infections.

::SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY::

Nuclear MagneticResonance

NMR spectroscopy is an analytical chemistry technique used in quality control by determining purity of asample.
It allows the molecular structure of a material to be analysed by observing and measuring the interaction ofnuclear spins when placed in a powerful magnetic field.
The advantages of NMR are that sample measurements are non-destructive and there is less samplepreparation required. Fields of application include bio, foods, and chemistry, as well as new fields such asbattery films.
CSE has used the technique to expose adulteration in honey.

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Sports

Michael Schumacher’s son Mick to race for team Haas in 2021

The Schumacher name will make a racing return to Formula One next year as Mick Schumacher -- son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher -- has signed a multi-year deal with Haas.
Schumacher (21), a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy, leads the Formula 2 title race heading into the final round of the season at Bahrain International Circuit (R12 December 4-6).
He holds a 14-point advantage at the top of the points table -- his sophomore season with Prema Racing netting 10 podium finishes to-date, including a pair of stand-out Feature Race victories at Monza and Sochi.

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