UPSC Prelims Facts – 25 October 2024

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Delhi signs MoU with Centre to implement PM-SHRI (PM Schools for Rising India) scheme.

  • Centrally sponsored initiative
  • Objective – Strengthening the existing schools from amongst schools managed by Central government/State/ UT Government/local bodies.
  • Aligns with National Education Policy (2020).
  • Time Period – 2022-23 to 2026-27

Pink cocaine has been seized in many countries.

  • Rarely contains cocaine, typically containing ketamine, a drug with entirely different effects.
  • Has hallucinogenic properties
  • Health effects – Heart attacks, high blood pressure, stroke, behavioural changes, addiction, anxiety, depression, psychosis, etc.

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment highlighted that impact of PM-YASASVI (PM Young Achievers Scholarship Award Scheme for Vibrant India)

  • Aim – Streamline educational support for socially and economically disadvantaged students
  • Seeks to provide quality education to students from Other Backward Classes, Economically Backward Classes, and Denotified Tribes.
  • Subsumed earlier initiatives like Dr. Ambedkar Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme for EBCs and DNTs.

India is set to build its 1st convective cloud chamber at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune under ‘Mission Mausam.

  • A closed cylinder where water vapor and aerosols are injected, allowing clouds to form under controlled humidity and temperature conditions.
  • Help in understanding of cloud physics under conditions typical of Indian weather systems

Presence of ‘Asiatic golden cat’ reconfirmed in Assam’s Manas National park recently.

  • A wild cat native to Asia.
  • Distribution – Found across Northeast India, Southeast Asia, and southern China.
  • Appearance – Polymorphic in colour (Showcases a variety of coat colours, including golden, red brown, dark brown, and grey)
  • Conservation status –
    • IUCN – Near Threatened.
    • Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 – Schedule-I.
    • CITES – Appendix I

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