Addapedia Odisha | Daily Current Affairs | 29 September 2023 | Download PDF

• Increase in tiger deaths and combing operations were started by Forest dept. to ensure that there is no illegal movement of people and poachers.

About Mukhurti national park

• • The park is a part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
• Its vegetation  consists mostly of grassland,  Montane Evergreen Forest (shola).

• The park drains by the Bhavani River.
• It consists of peaks inside the National Park, the highest being Kolaribetta (2,630m), Mukurthi Peak (2,556m) and Nilgiri Peak (2,477m. 
• It is sandwiched between the Mudumalai National Park and the Silent Valley National Park.

• The area was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 1982 and upgraded to a National Park in 1990.
• It was established conserving its keystone to species – the Nilgiri Tahr..

Did you know?

Mukurthi National  Park  is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was formerly known as Nilgiri Tahr National Park.

• The ISAC recognizes and rewards the cities, projects and innovative ideas that are promoting sustainable development across the 100 smart cities.

Winners:-

• Indore – Best smart city award
• Madhya Pradesh – Best State Award
• Chandigarh – Best UT award

President of India informed that overall investment in urban development has increased by more than 10 times over the last decade.

Key points

• Under the G20, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs had organized the Urban 20 event.
• U20 is an important city diplomacy initiative, which reinforces the role of cities in taking the sustainable agenda forward.
• U20 is a subgroup of the G-20,which is working to establish a practice of collaboration between cities.
• It was launched on December 12, 2017, at the One Planet Summit in Paris.

Did you know?

• U20 2023 Cycle was chaired by the City of Ahmedabad.

About Generative AI

U.K. and New York-based KX, has entered the Indian market with software offerings to help enterprises and developers harness the full potential of generative AI (GenAI).

Generative AI

• Generative Artificial Intelligence is a type of AI system that can create new content or data that resembles human-made content, such as text, images, music, code, etc. 
• It works by using neural networks to learn from large amounts of data and then generate outputs based on the patterns and rules it has learned.
• ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Bard are examples of generative AI applications that produce text or images based on user-given prompts or dialogue.

• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards successfully launches a new military imaging satellite.
• The Nour-3 imaging satellite was placed in orbit 450 kilometers above earth.

• The recent allegations by Canadian PM on the Indian government for the killing of Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar is based on the information given by the Five Eyes Alliance

Key points

• The Five Eyes intelligence alliance, consists of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. 
• They share intelligence through a secret collective database known as ‘Stone Ghost.’
• Its objectives include exchanging views on mutual interests, sharing best practices, exploring cooperation, and engaging with non-Five Eyes countries.
• It is both surveillance-based and tracks signals intelligence (SIGINT). 
• Intelligence documents shared between the member countries are classified as ‘Secret—AUS/CAN/NZ/UK/US Eyes Only,’ which gave the group its title ‘Five Eyes.’ 

Recently  Bhima Prusty has been chosen  for  the prestigious ‘Sarala Puraskar’.

Key points

• He will receive the award for his novel ‘Jambuloka’ published by Paschima Publications.

About Sarala Purskar

• ‘Sarala Puraskar’ is given annually by IMPaCT, the charitable wing of the Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys Ltd. (IMFA).
• It was  instituted by eminent Odia industrialist, Dr Bansidhar Panda and his wife Ila Panda in 1980.
• It has been continuously awarded by the Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT). 

Guru Benudhar Mohapatra receives IIa-Bansidhar Panda  Kala  Samman award 

Key facts: 

Guru Mohapatra  is a unique pattachitra artist.

He is also famous for playing the flute.

The program was recently conducted in Mayurbhanj district of West Bengal

About program

• The program is  launched by the Odisha government in 2023.
• the aim to make parents as stakeholders in education systems.
•  PaP is a collaborative space where parents get a platform to play the role of partners in all the dedicated program interventions and programs.

Did you know? 

This initiative encompasses the motto of ‘Aame Janiba Aame Jiniba.

Odisha Police launches Cyber Safety Campaign 2023

Key points

• It has the primary objective of enhancing awareness and educating the public.
• The program is to educate people about the multifaceted aspects of cybercrime.

Did you know?

The  name of the mascot launched for the campaign is called Cyrra which is a combination of the words  cyber and Irrawaddi.

• It is the scheme of the Odisha  government to help SC/ST students academically.
• It was launched in 2015.

• Through this scheme, students from the SC and ST are allowed admission to private English medium schools.
•  More than 5,000 students from Odisha are eligible for this scheme.

• World Environment Health Day is observed on September 26 every year.
• It is to mark a day dedicated to creating awareness about the impact of environmental health on human lives.
• World Environment Health Day was founded by the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) in 2011.
• Theme for 2023: “Global Environmental Public Health: Standing up to protect everyone’s Health each and every day.”

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