13-06-23 Daily-Haryana-HPSC Current Affairs

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced a monthly pension of Rs 10,000 for the Padma awardees from the state.

Besides the monthly pension, the chief minister has also announced a free travel facility in the ‘Volvo bus’ service of the for Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awardees from Haryana.

Khattar made this announcement during his visit to Karnal. He said the government has formulated various welfare policies to make life easier for the people of the state. ”People are getting direct benefits from the schemes in our government. Now the assistance amount (under various schemes) goes directly to the beneficiary’s account,” he said.

He said that the state government is giving the benefit of Health Insurance up to Rs 5 lakh to families with an annual income of up to Rs 1.80 lakh. The government is also considering including the families in this scheme whose annual income is also between Rs 1.80 lakh and Rs 3 lakh by taking some premium amount to give them a benefit of up to Rs 5 lakh, he added.

Khattar said after the implementation of the family ID card scheme — Parivar Pehchan Patra — 12.5 lakh new Below <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/POVERTY-line”>Poverty Line (BPL) ration cards have been made in the state.

(CAG) Girish Chandra Murmu said that Supreme Audit Institutions should develop new techniques and capabilities to audit marine life or the Blue economy to ensure Sustainable Development.

In order to fulfil their commitment towards sustainability goals in consonance with SDG 14 Life below Water the governments are reorienting policies and regulatory structures to conserve and sustainably use the Oceans, seas and <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/marine-Resources“>Marine Resources for sustainable development.

In order to manage overall and to prevent hoarding and unscrupulous speculation, the government has decided to impose stock limits on wheat for traders, wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers and processors. The order will be applicable with immediate effect and will be applicable until March 31, 2024.

In order to manage overall food security and to prevent hoarding and unscrupulous speculation, the government has decided to impose stock limits on wheat for traders, wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers and processors. The order will be applicable with immediate effect and will be applicable until March 31, 2024.

Stock limits will be applicable for each entity individually such as: traders/wholesalers- 3000 tonne; Retailer- 10 tonne for each of the retail outlets; Big Chain Retailer- 10 tonne for each outlet and 3000 tonne at all their depots and Processors – 75 per cent of annual installed capacity.

Further, the centre has also decided to offload 15 lakh tonnes of wheat in the first phase from central pool stock under Open Market Sale Scheme to control retail prices of wheat.

Wheat will be sold in lot sizes of 10-100 tonnes. Registration for this auction is open on the Fci‘s e-auction platform. It has also been decided to offload rice under the open market scheme in order to moderate the prices.

The size of Chinas nuclear arsenal increased from 350 warheads in January 2022 to 410 in January 2023, and it is expected to keep growing, according to estimations by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

The key finding in SIPRI Yearbook 2023 is that the number of operational nuclear weapons started to rise as countries long-term force modernisation and expansion plans progressed.

According to SIPRI estimates, the nuclear arsenals of India grew from 160 in 2022 to 164 in 2023 and that of Pakistan from 165 to 170.

The nine nuclear-armed states the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Israelcontinue to modernise their nuclear arsenals and several deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapon systems in 2022

The powerful lower house of Japan’s parliament on June 13 passed a bill to promote understanding ofLGBTQ+ issuesamid protests by activists that last-minute revisions by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s conservative party favoured opponents of sexual instead of guaranteeing equal rights.

Japan is the only member of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations which does not have LGTBQ+ legal protections.