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Daily News
Discussion
(DND)
19th - 21st June 2021
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Table of Contents
1. Environment ...........................................................................................................1
1.1.Climate change to increase sea level in Lakshadweep Islands ..................................1
1.2.Pact signed to conserve rare turtle in Assam ..................................................................1
2. Science & Technology ..........................................................................................5
2.1.Sale of illegal HTBt cotton seeds doubles ........................................................................5
2.2.Are your staple rice and wheat losing their nutrients? .................................................5
2.3.The debate around gain-of-function research ...............................................................7
3. Polity .........................................................................................................................8
3.1.Draft Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2021.............................................................8
4. International Relation .........................................................................................9
4.1.EUNAVFOR exercise .............................................................................................................9
Current affairs Worksheet ( 19th - 21st June 2021) .........................................................10
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1. Environment
1.1.Climate change to increase sea level in Lakshadweep Islands
• Climate change to increase sea level in Lakshadweep Islands, will affect airport & residential areas:
Study
1.2.Pact signed to conserve rare turtle in Assam
• A major temple in Assam has signed a memorandum of understanding with two green NGOs, the
Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden and the Kamrup district administration for the long-term
conservation of the rare freshwater black softshell turtle or the Nilssonia nigricans
Black softshell turtle
• Until sightings along the Brahmaputra’s drainage in Assam, the black softshell turtle was thought to
be “extinct in the wild” and con ned only to ponds of temples in northeastern India and Bangladesh.
• The International Union for Conservation of Nature had in 2021 listed the turtle as “critically
endangered”.
• But it does not enjoy legal protection under the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972 (Source-
The Hindu) although it has traditionally been hunted for its meat and cartilage, traded in regional and
international markets
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Past news (2020)
• The Forest Department, NGO Turtle Survival Alliance and Nagshankar temple authorities
collaborated for the conservation of black softshell turtles
• This was the rst time that turtles hatched in temple facilities have been released in a wetland —
Sildubi Beel — on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra.
Sildubi Beel
• An oxbow lake, Sildubi is under Biswanath Wildlife Division of Kaziranga.
• The lake is 1.8 km from the Brahmaputra and 7 km from Nagshankar temple.
• During the ooding season, this beel gets connected with the Brahmaputra.
Conservation effort
A vision document 2030
• was also launched after Turtle Survival Alliance India and Help Earth signed the pact involving the
Hayagriva Madhava Temple Committee.
• The temple, revered by both Hindus and Buddhists, is at Hajo
Zero turtle extinction project
• It entails documenting the extant populations of endangered turtles in northeast India, evaluating the
threats to them and their habitat, facilitating species recovery programme through multiple
stakeholder collaborations
Full year Current Affairs Revision through MCQs
Environment & Ecology – Day 4
1. Consider the following statements
1. Gujarat is the only place in the world where Asiatic lions are found.
2. The number of Asiatic is consistently increasing since last two decades.
Select the correct answer code:
A. 1 only
B. 2 only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. None of the above
2. How national biodiversity authority (NBA) help in protecting the Indian agriculture
1. NBA checks the biopiracy and protects the indigenous and traditional genetic resources.
2. NBA directly monitor and supervise the scienti c research on genetic modi cation of crop
plants.
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3. Application for IPR related to genetic/biological resources cannot be made without approval
of NBA.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct
A. 1 only
B. 2 and 3 only
C. 1 and 3 only
D. 1, 2 and 3 only
3. Which among the following species are critically endangered and can be found in North east
india
1. Namdapha ying squirrel
2. Pygmy hog
3. Bengal Florican
4. Pink headed duck
Select the correct answer code:
A. 1 and 3 only
B. 1 ,3 and 4 only
C. 3 and 4 only
D. All of the above
4. Consider the following matches
1. Mugger crocodile Endangered
2. Saltwater crocodile Least concern
3. Gharial Critically endangered
Select the correct answer code:
A. 1 only
B. 1 and 2 only
C. 2 and 3 only
D. All of the above
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5. Consider the following statements
1. Haathi Mere Saathi campaign was launched by Ministry of environment along with Wildlife
trust of India
2. The Wildlife trust of India is a registered charity in India under wildlife protection act 1972.
Select the correct answer code:
A. 1 only
B. 2 only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. None of the above
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2. Science & Technology
2.1.Sale of illegal HTBt cotton seeds doubles
• The illegal cultivation of herbicide tolerant (HT) Bt cotton has seen a huge jump this year, with seed
manufacturers claiming that the sale of illegal seed packets has more than doubled from 30 lakh last
year to 75 lakh this year.
2.2.Are your staple rice and wheat losing their nutrients?
• Recently Researchers from various institutes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR) and Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya conducted study on rice and wheat
Highlights
• The team collected seeds of rice (16 varieties) and wheat (18 varieties) from the gene bank
maintained at the ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Chinsurah Rice Research Station and ICAR-
Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research
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• The collected seeds were germinated in the laboratory, sown in pots and kept under an ambient
environment outdoors. They were treated with the necessary fertilizers and the post-harvest seeds
were studied for their nutrient content
• Rice, domesticated by humans over 10,000 years ago has now become the staple food for more than
three billion people. But today’s rice does not have the same density of essential nutrients as those
cultivated 50 years ago
• It also found depleting trends in grain density of zinc and iron in rice and wheat cultivated in India
Falling nutrient in Rice
• zinc and iron concentrations in grains of rice cultivars released in the 1960s were 27.1 mg/kg and
59.8 mg/kg.
• This depleted to 20.6 mg/kg and 43.1 mg/kg, respectively in the 2000s
Falling nutrient in Wheat
• In wheat, the concentrations of zinc and iron --- 33.3 mg/kg and 57.6 mg/kg in cultivars of the 1960s,
dropped to 23.5 mg/kg and 46.4 mg/kg, respectively in cultivars released during the 2010s.
Possible reasons
• Dilution effect- decreased nutrient concentration in response to higher grain yield. This means the
rate of yield increase is not compensated by the rate of nutrient take-up by the plants
• Soil support-soils supporting plants could be low in plant-available nutrients
Consequence
• Zinc and iron deciency affects billions of people globally and the countries with this de ciency have
diets composed mainly of rice, wheat, corn, and barley
Way forward
• Indian government has taken initiatives such as providing supplementation pills to school children, it
is not enough
• We need to concentrate on other options like bio-forti cation
• These negative effects need to be circumvented by improving the grain ionome (that is, nutritional
make-up) while releasing cultivars in future breeding programmes
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2.3.The debate around gain-of-function research
• The Wuhan Institute of Virology was said to have conducted gain-of-function research on
coronaviruses.
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3. Polity
3.1.Draft Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The government has sought public comments on the draft Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021
which proposes to penalise lm piracy with a jail term and empower the Centre to order re-
certi cation of an already certi ed lm in case of complaints.
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4. International Relation
4.1.EUNAVFOR exercise
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