Daily Current Affairs For UPSC IAS Prelims, 25 February 2023 Current Affairs For Civil Services

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New START Treaty

In News

On February 21, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the suspension of Russia’s participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty(for Nuclear Arms Control), known as New START Treaty.

About New START Treaty

Background: The name START comes from the original ”Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty”, known as START-I, which was signed between the US and the erstwhile USSR in 1991, and came into force in 1994. START-I was lapsed in 2009, and was replaced first by the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT, also known as the Treaty of Moscow), and then by the New START treaty.

Signed? New START Treaty, signed by then US president Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, in 2010.

Time Frame: The New START Treaty came into force in 2011 and was extended in 2021 for five more years after Joe Biden took office.

What It Caps? The New Start treaty caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy. Together, the US and Russia own 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons.

Word Deploy Means? In this context, ”deploy” means ready for immediate use, rather than have in storage. Weapons kept in storage are ”non-deployed”. Warheads count as deployed if loaded onto a missile that is itself deployed.

What Are The Commitments? Under the New START Treaty agreement, Moscow and Washington are committed to deploying no more than 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads and a maximum of 700 long-range missiles and bombers. Each side can conduct up to 18 inspections of strategic nuclear weapons sites every year to ensure the other has not breached the treaty’s limits.

Russia-US New START Treaty Suspended, Key Implications

Tyagaraja Aradhana

In News?

• In Sri Lanka, the Swami Vivekananda cultural centre held a festival of Carnatic Music, the Tyagaraja Aradhana at Saraswati Hall in Colombo.
• The festival is an annual Aradhana of Telugu saint composer Tyagaraja. Saint Tyagaraja attained Jeeva Samadhi in Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu. The aradhana witnessed rendering of the saint’s Pancharatna Kritis.

Background
The main Tyagaraja Aradhana Festival is held in Thiruvaiyaru(the birth place of the great saint Tyagarajar). Every year this remarkable festival falls in the month of January in Thiruvaiyaru(T.N.)

About Saint Thyagarajar

• Thyagaraja was the greatest among the music composers of South India and one of the musical prodigies of all time.
• He was the father of modern Carnatic music.
• His Keerthanas about gods are of delicate spirituality, full of melodic beauty and in the highest sense artistic.
• In his childhood itself, he was remarkable for his liking and affection for music.
• He composed his first song at the age of 13. Soon he reached the supercilious summit of the musical fame and composed the grandest songs ever written and two music plays of unequalled beauty.
• He spent most of his time doing pooja and singing to the idols of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita, and thus his compositions were inspired and infused with Rama bhakthi.
• Aware of his approaching end, he took Sanyasa. On the 10th day of his Sanyasa, he merged with eternity in 1847.

What Is The Significance Of Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Aradhana Mahotsava?

COP-28

In News

Sultan al-Jaber, the UAE’s climate envoy and president-designate of the UN Cop 28 climate summit, at the the World Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi , said that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C is “non-negotiable”.

What Is COP 28?

• For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’.
• The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the UNFCCC will convene from 30 November to 12 December 2023. It will take place in the United Arab Emirates.

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Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

In News?

On February 23, 2023, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (Ratna) & Award (Puraskar) For 2019, 2020 And 2021 were presented by President Murmu in New Delhi.

-:About Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards:-

One of the important activities of the Sangeet Natak Akademi has been to give recognition and honours to artists as it would help setting standards in these arts and restore the art and artists to their rightful place in independent India.

History Of Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

• The institution of Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards is now nearly seventy years old.
• The Awards in Hindustani and Carnatic music were instituted as early as in 1951, even before the Akademi was set up and these were known as Presidential Awards.
• With the formation of the Akademi the Awards came to be known as Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards and the investiture became the responsibility of the Akademi.
• The Presidential Awards for 1952 and 1953 were subsequently incorporated in the list of Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards.

What Does Sangeet Natak Akademi Honour Symbolze?

The Sangeet Natak Akademi honours – Akademi Ratna and Akademi Puraskar not only symbolize the highest standard of excellence and achievements on a national basis in the field of the performing arts but also recognize the sustained individual work of the highest professional order and contribution to the practice and appreciation of these arts through teaching and scholarship.

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