August 25 - English4
August 25 - English4
August 25 - English4
August – 25
TNPSC BITS
❖ The Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General S. Padmanabhan passed away
recently in Chennai.
❖ The 4 Indian student team has bagged three gold and bronze each and two silver
medals across three competition categories at the 17th edition of the
International Earth Sciences Olympiad held in Beijing, China.
❖ The North Eastern Handicrafts and Handlooms Development Corporation
recently received the OEKO-TEX certification from Germany for its Eri silk
(world’s only vegan silk).
o The certification is a rigorous standard that ensures textiles are tested for
harmful substances and produced in environment-friendly conditions.
TAMIL NADU
Status of Forests in Tamil Nadu 2024
❖ The State Planning Commission has identified policy focus areas to improve the
forest cover in Tamil Nadu after analysing 20 years of data.
❖ It has been brought out by the Tamil Nadu State Land Use Research Board of the
Commission.
❖ The Nilgiris now tops the table with a loss of 226 sq. km between 2003 and 2011
of dense forests and 348 sq. km of moderately dense forests between 2011-2021.
❖ The five - Chennai, Tiruvarur, Karur, Nagapattinam, and Perambalur districts
accounts for only 1.89% of the State’s Forest cover.
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❖ Sivagangai district’s forest cover came down by 20.47% in the last two decades,
followed by Villupuram (13.85%), and Kancheepuram (13.03%).
❖ Dharmapuri has lost 409 sq. km of open forests.
❖ The tree cover in the State from 2001 to 2021 to an extent of 1,630 sq. km.
❖ The share of Tamil Nadu in the national mangrove cover is only 0.9%.
❖ Tamil Nadu has recorded an increase in the mangrove cover from 23 sq. km in
2001 to 49 sq. km in 2017.
❖ But the State had lost 4 sq. km of the mangroves between 2017 and 2021.
Diabetes registry
❖ Tamil Nadu has formed a registry for type 1 diabetes.
❖ Patients in the registry would receive treatment, including insulin therapy, at no
cost.
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NATIONAL
Krishi Decision Support system
❖ The Union Ministry of Port Shipping and Waterways has officially launched the
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Green Tug Transition Program (GTTP).
❖ The Green Tug Transition Program (GTTP) as a key initiative under the ‘Panch
Karma Sankalp’.
❖ The GTTP is designed to phase out conventional fuel-based harbour tugs
operating in Indian Major Ports and replace them with green tugs powered by
cleaner and more sustainable alternate fuels.
❖ Phase 1 of the GTTP will begin on October 1, 2024, and continue until December
31, 2027.
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INTERNATIONAL
11 New Nuclear Reactors - China
❖ China approved 11 new nuclear reactors across five sites to support its push to
cut emissions.
❖ The total investment for all 11 units will be at least 220 billion yuan ($31 billion)
with construction taking about five years.
❖ China has more nuclear reactors under construction than any other nation in
the world.
❖ It also approved 10 new reactors in each of the last two years.
❖ The country has 56 reactors currently in operation, with a combined capacity
that equates to around 5% of total electricity demand.
❖ It is expected to surpass France and the US to be the world’s leading atomic
power generator by 2030.
❖ OpenAI's anti-cheating tool modifies the way ChatGPT selects words to generate
text
❖ It creates certain pattern, called watermarks, which is undetected by the human
eye.
❖ But the company isn’t sure about releasing the tool.
ENVIRONMENT
Origin of forever chemicals
❖ American researchers have found a method to be able to trace the origin and the
destination of forever chemicals.
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❖ The global youth unemployment has hit the lowest level for 15 years and is likely
to continue to fall.
❖ The ILO’s report was titled "Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024 (GET for
Youth).
❖ Around 64.9 million people aged between 15 and 24 worldwide were unemployed
last year.
❖ The youth unemployment rate of 14.5 per cent in 2023 in East Asia was a
historical high.
❖ One in five (20.4%) youth in the region was in ‘not in employment, education or
training’ status in 2023 in South Asia.
❖ By 2025, the youth unemployment rate in the region is expected to continue its
decline to 13.7%.
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