Note: Text looks long today but it's just 5 mins read. Read this and you can skip most part of the newspaper :)
🚨August 17 2023 | Thursday🚨
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Mains Keywords✍🏻
1. e-Bus
Any bus whose propulsion and accessory systems are powered exclusively by zero-emission electricity source
Pre related📝
1. PM e-Bus Sewa
• Cities of 3 lac population to be covered w/ 10 year bus operations support
• 2 sub schemes: City Bus services (169 cities) & Green Urban mobility (181 cities)
• City Bus services: 10k e-buses on PPP model
• Green Urban mobility: Green initiatives in urban mobility with centre offering subsidies and state managing operations
• Priority to cities w/ no organized bus service
• All capital of UTs, NE & hills to be included
2. National Tiger Conservation Authority
• Statutory body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd 2005 u/ Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (2006 amendment)
• Managing authority of Project Tiger & India's Tiger Reserves
3. Forest Survey of India
• National org to assess and monitor forest resources of Indian regularly
• estd. 1981 w/ HQ at Dehradun u/ MoEFCC
• Scientific body that primarily deals with forest data
4. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
• Statutory body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd. u/ Wildlife Protection Act 1972
• It is an enforcement authority
5. Central Zoo Authority
• Statutory Body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd. 1992 u/ WPA 1972, chaired by Envt Minister
• Purview limited to functioning of the zoos
6. U20
• Estd. 2018 u/ G20
• Aim: To generate discussion among G20 members on urban issues
• First chair: Buenos Aires; current chair: Ahmedabad
• Ahmedabad took over chairmanship from Jakarta
7. Triton Island
• Location: South China Sea
• Disputed between China, Vietnam and Taiwan
• In news for Chinese construction on the disputed island
8. Beach Towel Movement
• A movement in Greece 'reclaiming' the beaches 'acquired' by hospitality industry
Quote(s)💭
• Technology is advancing citizen empowerment and democracy that once drew their strength from constitution - Narendra Modi
Reading Recommendations🗞
IE
1. Why SC handbook on gender stereotypes matters?
2. India's new non-poor [understand basics]
3. IAF role in counter-insurgency: When Mizoram was bombed in 1966 [Know the issue]
TH
1. New bills and a principled course for criminal law reforms
2. Why is Bihar's caste based survey facing legal challenges? [read to learn about issue]
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