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Prelims in Focus-Part-09

1.  The central government fixes MSP of 22 “mandated agricultural crops” and the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane based on the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP).
2. It is estimated that women account for two-thirds of the 1.4 billion people currently living in extreme poverty and make up 60% of the 572 million working poor in the world.
3. Gender Specific Indexes 

   ➖Gender Parity Index-UNESCO
   ➖Gender Social Norms Index- UNDP
   ➖Gender Inequality Index-UNDP
   ➖Gender Gap Report-WEF

4. Copenhagen Accord

   ➖Document which delegates at the 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

   ➖Drafted by, on the one hand, the United States and on the other, in a united position as the BASIC countries (China, India, South Africa, and Brazil), is not legally binding and

   ➖Does not commit countries to agree to a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose round ended in 2012.

   ➖Acknowledges that “deep cuts in global emissions are required . . . so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius

5. 🔹Formosa Strait (Taiwan Strait)
   ➖Joins: South China Sea & East China Sea
   ➖Location: Between China-Taiwan

   🔹Torres Strait
   ➖Passage between the Coral Sea, on the east, and the Arafura Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean.

   🔹Strait of Otranto
   ➖Links Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea
   ➖Seperates Italy and Albania

   🔹Strait of Messina
   ➖A channel in the Mediterranean Sea.
   ➖Separating Sicily and Italy
   ➖Linking the Tyrrhenian and Ionian seas

   🔹Strait of Tartary
   ➖Joins: Japan Sea & Okhotsk Sea
   ➖Located: Russia (East Russia-Sakhalin Islands)

   🔹Tsugaru Strait
   ➖Joins: Japan Sea and Pacific Ocean
   ➖Location: Japan (Between Hokkaido and Honshu Island)

6. Girish Chandra Ghosh was the editor of an English weekly published newspaper “Hindoo Patriot” in 1853. It was a nationalist publication known for its active role in exposing the oppression of indigo planters in Bengal.

   ➖Director of “Amar Katha: Story of Binodini”

   ➖Left Hindoo Patriot to start another English newspaper named the Bengalee

   ➖Father of Bengali theatre, Calcutta’s own Goethe, as brilliant and prolific as Shakespeare

7. Metallolophia taleensis
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   🔹New moth species that was discovered belongs to the rare genus ‘Metallolophia’, of which only 16 species are known globally and 3 in India

   🔹Distinguished from other species in the same genus by the presence of prominent oval black-edged oval green spot on upperside forewing and smaller spot on hindwing

   🔹Named it ‘Metallolophia taleensis’ after the Tale wildlife sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh where it was discovered

8. Mela Kheer Bhawani
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   🔹The fair of goddess Kheer Bhawani

   🔹Celebration for Pandit community of Kashmir

   🔹The reference of the primordial deity – of goddess Raganya popularly known as Kheer Bhawani can be traced back to the ancient text of “Rajatarangini” by Kalhana.

9. Djibouti Code of Conduct/ Jeddah Amendment (DCOC/JA)
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   🔹 A grouping on maritime matters comprising 18 member states adjoining the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, the East coast of Africa and Island countries in the IOR

   🔹Aimed at the repression of piracy and armed robbery against ships in the Western Indian Ocean Region, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea

   🔹Provides a framework for capacity building in the Gulf of Aden and Western Indian Ocean
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   📌 In News-Recently India joins as Observers along with Japan, Norway, the UK and the US

10. As per extant RBI guidelines, a Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) account is treated as inoperative if there are no customer induced transactions in the account for over a period of two years