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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 26 April 2021

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It was announced by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to accelerate adoption of Free andOpen-Source Software (FOSS) in government.
The challenge calls upon FOSS innovators, technology entrepreneurs and Indian Startups to submit implementable open-source product innovations with possible applications for Govtech in Health,Education, Agriculture, Urban Governance etc.
FOSS allows users and programmers to edit, modify or reuse the software’s source code.
This gives developers the opportunity to improve program functionality by modifying it.

Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CM) IGBC has launched ‘IGBC Mission on Net Zero’ to facilitate ‘India Achieve net zero carbon emission status by 2050’.
Net zero, also called as carbon-neutrality, is a state in which a country’s emissions are compensated by absorption and removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
IGBC is part of CM with vision to enable a sustainable built environment for all and facilitate India to be one of the global leaders in the sustainable built environment by 2025’.
CM is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organization, playing a proactive role in India’s development process, founded in 1895.

Hong Kong is set to grant a site on the western Kowloon peninsula, to China’s national security office for its permanent base in the city.
The national security law has allowed officers from China’s security forces to take enforcement action in the city for the first time.

About:

The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong, alongside Victoria Harbour and facing toward Hong Kong island.
The Kowloon Peninsula and the area of New Kowloon are collectively known as Kowloon.
Geographically, the term “Kowloon Peninsula” may also refer to the area south of the mountain ranges of Beacon Hill, Lion Rock, Tate’s Cairn, Kowloon Peak, etc.
The peninsula covers five of the eighteen districts of Hong Kong.
Kowloon Bay is located at the northeast of the peninsula.

Recently Chad’s President IdrissDeby has died of his injuries following clashes with rebels called Fact (the Front for Change andConcord in Chad).
Chad is named after Lake Chad.
This is the second-largest lake in Africa, but has shrunk by 90%since the 1960s.
The Sahara Desert roughly covers 1/3rd of the country.
Remains of a seven-million-year-old human-like creature – or hominid - known as “Toumai” were unearthed in 2001.

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways published Draft Standards for Road-Trains.
The standards have been prepared based on European benchmarks.
These standards shall pave way for a break through intervention for fast and efficient movement of goods along the long-distance freight corridors.
Road-Train is a motor vehicle wherein the traction is provided by the puller, which is connected to a serial combination of trailers or semi- trailers.
These shall ply on select stretches to reduce congestion, save fuel and reduce noise & air-pollution.

The Mizoram government has declared certain areas the state as the epicentre of African Swine Fever (ASF).

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ASF is a severe viral disease affecting domestic and wild pigs.
This trans-boundary animal disease (TAD) can be spread by live or dead pigs, domestic or wild, and pork products.
Furthermore, transmission can also occur via contaminated feed and fomites (non-living objects) due to the high environmental resistance of ASF virus.
There is no approved vaccine against ASF and it does not affect humans.