Addapedia Odisha | Daily Current Affairs | 6 October 2023 | Download PDF

Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize for literature for the year 2023. He hails from Norway.

Key facts

• The writer was honored for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.
• The prize is awarded for a writer’s entire body of work.
• “A New Name: Septology VI-VII” – One of his best works.

2023 Theme is “Fulfilling the Promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for Older Persons: Across Generations”

Year by year, the themes for International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) are:

• 2022 theme: Resilience of Older Persons in a Changing World
• 2021 theme: Digital Equity for All Ages
• 2020 theme: Pandemics: do they change how we address age and ageing?
• 2019 theme: The Journey to Age Equality

• Roughly 15 % of elders (22 million in India) have serious mental illness.
• The “treatment gap“ is a staggering 90 % in India.

Solutions

• Healthy aging, as a concept, should be introduced in the school curriculum. 
• The SCARF (Schizophrenia Research Foundation) has partnered with Azim Premji Foundation to raise awareness about elder mental health in four rural Taluks of Chengalpet district in Tamil Nadu.
• City and town planners should consider elder-friendly designs to improve mobility and reduce dependency.

Did you know?

• India had 149 million older adults (10.5 %) in 2022, This figure will grow to 347 million (20.8 %) by 2050 according to projections

Recently a founder of news portal got arrested under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act(UAPA) Act

About Unlawful Activities Prevention Act

• • UAPA was passed in 1967 to designate a group or an organization as unlawful.
• Recent UAPA 2019 Amendment allows to designate an individual as a terrorist.
• A law  aims at effective prevention of unlawful activities associations in India.

• Unlawful activity refers to any action taken by an individual or association intended to disrupt the territorial integrity and sovereignty of India.
• The Act empowers the central government to  declare  an activity as unlawful by adding it in the Official Gazette of India.
• It has the death penalty and life imprisonment as the highest punishments.
• Under UAPA, both Indian and foreign nationals can be charged. 

Mr. Modi laid the foundation stone of Veerangana Rani Durgavati Memorial and Garden  in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

Rani Durgavati 

• She was the ruling Queen of Gondwana from 1550 until 1564. 
• She is chiefly remembered for defending her kingdom against the Mughal Empire.
• Heritage during that period and khajuraho belonged to the Chandel dynasty.
• She assumed the  leadership of the Gond kingdom around 1550.

Recently,  a study conducted by the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and ministry of health  regarding diabetes.

Key facts

• A study revealed that 11.4% of India’s population or 10.13 crore people are living with diabetes.
• 15.3% of the population or an additional 13.6 crore people are pre-diabetic. 
• It also found that 28.6% of the population would be considered to be obese as per the BMI measure.
• According to the World Health Organization, a 10% increase in the consumption of ultra-processed food a day is associated with a 15% higher risk of type-2 diabetes among adults.

• It is a year-long social and mass media campaign.
• It was started by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
• It is the new healthy eating approach to bring  Health Revolution through food and fitness.
• The FSSAI has put in place robust regulatory measures under three major pillars: Eat Safe, Eat Healthy and Eat Sustainably for the programme.

• A term made popular by Adam Tooze 
• It refers to the interconnected and compounding crises related to climate change.
• It encompasses the physical impacts of climate change (rising temperatures, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events).
• It also encompasses social, economic, and political challenges that arise from these impacts

• An NCA system extends carbon accounting ideas, unifying the nation, starting from individuals to households, under a single carbon accounting framework.
• Carbon accounting (or greenhouse gas accounting) is a framework of methods to measure and track how much greenhouse gas (GHG) an organization emits.

The government has notified that the protection offered under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 to debtors for repaying dues will not cover aircraft, helicopters and engines.

Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code(IBC), 2016

• IBC was formulated  in 2016.
• It is implemented to consolidate all laws related to insolvency and bankruptcy 
• Its aim is to tackle Non-Performing Assets (NPA.
• The IBC Covers all individuals, companies, Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) and partnership firms.
• Adjudicating authority are:-

1. National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for companies and LLPs.
2. Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) for individuals and partnership firms.

Did you know?

• Insolvency is unable to repay outstanding debt.
• Bankruptcy is a situation whereby a court of competent jurisdiction has declared a person or other entity insolvent. It is a legal declaration of one’s inability to pay off debts.

Odisha’s Kishore Jena has bagged silver medal in javelin throw event at Asian Games at Hangzhou in China

Javelin throw 

• It is a track and field event 
• Javelin throwing is an event of both the men’s decathlon and the women’s heptathlon.

A student from  Odisha won bronze at the second International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics for Juniors (IOAA-Jr) in Volos, Greece

IOAA-Juniors 

• It aims to introduce early high school students to the marvels of the cosmos
• It is to promote their knowledge in the area of astronomy and astrophysics. 

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has suspected fraud and corruption in the implementation of the post-matric scholarship (PMS) scheme under direct benefit transfer (DBT) in Odisha.

Post-matric scholarship (PMS) scheme

The objective of the scheme is to appreciably increase the Gross Enrolment. Ratio of SC students in higher education with a focus on those from the poorest backgrounds.

Nuakhai Paribar of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) organized ‘Nuakhai Bhetghat-2023’ at The Aquila School in Dubai. 

Key points

• A program organized to  display Sambalpuri culture.
• The event showcased  western Odisha’s language, music and dance, and handlooms. 
• Traditional Western Odisha foods like ‘Pitha’ and ‘Manda’ were reportedly served. 
• A Sambalpuri desktop calendar was also released which has glimpses of Western Odisha’s traditions and culture.

Did you know?

Nuakhai is the Sambalpuri festival celebrated in western Odisha.

The private bus operators in Odisha were protesting against the government’s decision for not including the private bus  fleet in the LAccMI scheme.

Key facts

• The private bus owners association has requested the government to include a few of their buses in the fleet of the Laxmi bus scheme.

Location Accessible Multi-modal Initiative (LAccMI) scheme

• • It is aimed at establishing a sustainable, affordable, and safe transportation network 
  • This initiative seeks to create a seamless public transport network.
• Every Gram Panchayat (GP) will connect to the main block at affordable prices.
• The scheme will be started in six districts of Odisha including Koraput, Gajapati and Kalahandi in first phase.

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