Magsaysay Award
Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has won the 2024 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
- Asia’s premier prize and highest honor that recognizes greatness of spirit shown in selfless service
- Awarded to outstanding individuals and organizations whose selfless service has offered solutions to some of the most intractable problems of human development.
- Also known as – “Nobel Prize of Asia.”
- Ramon Magsaysay – Former Philippine President whose ideals inspired the Award’s creation.
Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA)
IEPFA has launched a new toll-free number to better serve claimant queries.
- Ministry – Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
- Established under – Companies Act, 2013.
- Mandate – Responsible for managing the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF).
- Focuses on safeguarding investor interests by facilitating the refund of shares, unclaimed dividends, and matured deposits/debentures.
Wood Wide Web
The term Wood Wide Web is recently in news
- Network used by trees and other plants to communicate among them
- These are underground fungal threads known as mycelium which connect the roots of plants, allowing them to share nutrients and communicate through chemical signals
E Shram Portal
E shram has achieved over 30 crore registrations in the span of just 3 years.
- “One-Stop-Solution” for Country’s unorganised workers
- Seeks to create a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW), including migrant workers, construction workers, gig and platform workers, etc.
- Launched by – Ministry of Labour & Employment
- Aim – To facilitate access of various social security schemes being implemented by different Ministries/ Departments to unorganised workers
Brunei Darussalam
PM of India embarked on a first ever bilateral visit by an Indian PM to Brunei Darussalam.
- Location – Country in Southeast Asia consisting of 2 unconnected parts, situated on northern coast of island of Borneo.
- Border – Apart from northern coastline on South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by Malaysian state of Sarawak.
- A member of Commonwealth and ASEAN.
- Climate – Equatorial climate influenced by monsoon systems