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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 05 October 2022

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Indore ranked first under ‘Cities with more than 1 lakh population’ and Madhya Pradeshranked first under category “States with more than 100 Urban Local Bodies”.
The awards were given in ceremony hosted as part of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban(SBM-U) 2.0 by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

About Swachh Survekshan

It is the world’s largest urban sanitation and cleanliness survey conducted byMoHUA (under the ambit of the SBM-U) since 2016.
It started out with the assessment of 73 cities. Swachh Survekshan 2022 hasmanaged to accomplish the assessment of 4354 cities.
SS 2022 emphasized on End-to-End Digital monitoring, Swachh City TechnologyChallenge – Innovative Solutions from Citizens/Start-ups, etc., Gender & SocialInclusion, Covid-19 Response with focus on Municipal Frontline Workers, etc.

Prime Minister expresses happiness on Garba attaining popularity among National Games participants.

About:

Garba is a dance form native to the Indian state of Gujarat, performed in October to honour the Hindu Deity of Divinity, Goddess Durga
It is a joyful style of dance, based on a circular pattern and characterized by a sweeping action from side to side.
Garba performances often include singing and a musical accompaniment traditionally provided by dhol (double-headed drum) and the similar but smaller dholak; hand clapping; and assorted metallic idiophones, such as cymbals.

A team of researchers has flagged changing chemistry of western region of theArctic Ocean after discovering acidity levels increasing three to four timesfaster than ocean waters elsewhere.

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The team identified a strong correlation between the accelerated rate ofmelting ice and the rate of ocean acidification.
The relation between sea-ice melting and rapid pH decrease, is explained infollowing ways.
The water under the sea ice, which had a deficit of carbon dioxide, now isexposed to the atmospheric carbon dioxide and can take it up freely.
The seawater mixed with meltwater is light and can’t mix easily into deeperwaters, which means carbon dioxide is concentrated at the surface.
The meltwater dilutes the carbonate ion concentration in the seawater,weakening its ability to neutralise the carbon dioxide into bicarbonate.
Ocean acidification refers to a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extendedperiod of time, caused primarily by uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Possible Impacts of Ocean acidification: Creates life-threatening problems forthe diverse population of sea creatures (especially organisms like oysters andcorals), plants and other living things that depend on a healthy ocean.

Global News Forum 2022 is the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union's (ABU) premier annual NEWS event for three days Hosted about 80 foreign media and journalism participants from various broadcasters.
The theme of the Global News Forum ‘Truth and Trust at times of Crisis’.

About:

Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)was founded in 1964 as a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political professional association with a mission to advance the development of broadcasting organizations in the region currently headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
ABU advances the collective interests of TV and radio stations as well as key industry players and also facilitates media cooperation s regionally and internationally for members.

Ministry of Education recently launched YUVA 2.0 (Young,Upcoming and VersatileAuthors) scheme.

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It is an author mentorship programme to train young and budding authors (below 30 years ofage).
Its objective is to promote reading, writing and book culture in the country, and project Indiaand Indian writings globally.
Under the scheme, a total of 75 authors will be selected through an All India Contest.
Implementing Agency: National Book Trust (NBT).

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science".

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Two of the laureates—John Clauser and Alain Aspect—worked on firming up the concept of quantum entanglement and developing more complex experiments that demonstrated this phenomenon, especially creating, processing and measuring what are called Bell pairs. The third laureate, Anton Zeilinger, has been chosen for his innovative use of entanglement and Bell pairs both in research and application such as quantum cryptography.

Significance:

Quantum information science has a broad range of potential implications in areas such as secure information transfer, quantum computing and sensing technology.
One of the most mature applications of quantum technology is quantum cryptography, which takes advantage of the fact that changes made to one particle in an entangled system affect the other.
Quantum entanglement: