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1st Sep Current Affairs News Analysis | Prelims & Mains 2020
Today's Must Read Articles :Coal gasification target
HEADLINES:
India aims to achieve 100 MT coal gasification target by 2030: Pralhad Joshi
WHY IN NEWS:
Coal Ministry organises webinar on Coal Gasification and Liquefaction
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3: Energy : Coal
ISSUE:
COAL GASIFICATION BY 2030
- India aims for 100 million tonnes (MT) coal gasification by 2030 with investments worth over Rs. 4 lakh crores.
- For use of clean sources of fuel, government has provided for a concession of 20% on revenue share of coal used for gasification.
IASbhai WINDUP:
This will help in harnessing nation’s reserves for maximum utilisation while heading on the path to sustainability, as per global standards.
SOURCES: PIB | 1st Sep Current Affairs News Analysis
Father of Science Centre Movement
HEADLINES:
Dr. Saroj Ghose: The Father of Science Centre Movement in India turns 85
WHY IN NEWS:
In 1979, Dr. Saroj Ghosh turned a municipal garbage ground at Worli into the world’s first science park- Nehru Science Centre
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 1 : Personality
ISSUE:
- The doyen of science popularization movement not only in India but acclaimed internationally, Dr. Ghose is known as museum maker.
- Science Museums and Science Centres are institutions that popularize science and technology in a non-formal way.
CONTRIBUTION
- Dr. Ghose graduated from Jadavpur University in Electrical and Communication Engineering, and joined the upcoming Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM), in Kolkata, under the aegis of CSIR, as a Technical Officer in 1958.
- BITM was opened in 1959 and Dr. Ghose soon became an indispensable part of it.
- In 1965, Dr. Ghose took charge of BITM.
- The exhibition was on the theme ‘Our Familiar Electricity’ which had 30 exhibits mounted on portable stands, and carried by a bus.
- NCSM now operates 48 Mobile Science Exhibition buses throughout the country.
- Limca Book of Records recognized this programme as the largest and the longest running Non-Formal Science Education Programme in India.
He was also the President, Second Science Centre World Congress, 1999.
IASbhai WINDUP:
These Science Centres continue to play a vital role in spreading the message of Science in the country since their inceptions.
SOURCES: PIB | 1st Sep Current Affairs News Analysis
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2020
HEADLINES:
Air Force Sports Control Board Conferred with ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2020’
WHY IN NEWS:
Hot from PIB !
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3: Sports
ISSUE:
AWARD
- Air Force Sports Control Board received the award from Hon’ble President of India in an organised online ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan.
IASbhai WINDUP:
- Air Force Sports Control Board (AFSCB) is the apex body for planning and conduct of sports activities within the IAF and at Inter-Services level.
- The promotion of sports at grass root level aims at encouraging sports culture in the environment and motivates young Air Warriors to include sports activities as a way of life.
SOURCES: PIB | 1st Sep Current Affairs News Analysis
Renati Chola
HEADLINES:
Rare Renati Chola era inscription unearthed.
WHY IN NEWS:
It was found engraved on a dolomite slab and shale in a remote village in Kadapa district of A.P
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 1 : History : Chola dynasty
ISSUE:
THE INSCRIPTION
- Going by the language and characters, the inscription was written in archaic Telugu, which was readable in 25 lines — the first side with 11 lines and the remaining on the other side.
- The inscription seems to throw light on the record of a gift of six marttus (a measuring unit) of land gifted to a person Sidyamayu, one of the Brahmins serving the temple at Pidukula village.
RENATI CHOLAS
- The Telugu Cholas of Renadu (also called as Renati Cholas) ruled over Renadu region, the present day Cuddapah district.
- They were originally independent, later forced to the suzerainty of the Eastern Chalukyas.
- They had the unique honour of using the Telugu language in their inscriptions belonging to the 6th and 8th centuries.
- The inscriptions at Gandikota at Jammulamadugu and Proddatur are proof of this fact.
DESCENDANTS
- The earliest of this family was Nandivarman (500 AD) who claimed descent from the family of Karikala and the Kasyapa gotra.
- He had three sons Simhavishnu, Sundarananda and Dhananjaya, all of whom were ruling different territories simultaneously.
- The family seems to have had its origin in Erigal in the Tumkur district, situated in the border between Pallava and Kadamba regions.
- He too bears the title Erikal-mutturaju.
IASbhai WINDUP:
The inscription was found engraved on a dolomite slab and shale excavated from a farmer’s field.
- Dolomite is a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of calcium magnesium carbonate.
- Shale or mudstone is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that forms from the compaction of silt and clay-size mineral particles.
SOURCES:DownToEarth | 1st Sep Current Affairs News Analysis
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