The Daily Brief – 24th October 2019

feed-our-future — "Feed Our Future" ad campaign

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The International Workshop on Environmental Flows Assessment and Implementation for India was inaugurated by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister for Jal Shakti in Delhi. He also released the first version of the Guidance Document on Environment flow assessment in India. The exchange of Indian, European and International Experiences was brought together by the National Mission of Clean Ganga (NMCG) along with the Indo-German Cooperation with its project “Support to Ganga Rejuvenation” (SGR).
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has announced that the Government will provide employment opportunities to artisans, craftsmen and traditional culinary experts through “Hunar Haat” in the next five years. More than 2,50,000 master artisans, craftsmen and culinary experts have been provided employment opportunities in the last three years. All Hunar Haat that are going to be organised in 2019 and 2020 will be based on the theme of ‘Ek Bharat, Shresth Bharat’.
“Feed Our Future” ad campaign
‘Feed Our Future’, a cinema ad campaign against hunger and malnutrition in India, has been launched by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with UFO Moviez, India’s largest in-cinema advertising platform, and the Screen Advertising World Association (SAWA). The campaign will help in spreading the message of zero hunger among Indians. The WFP was established in 1961 after the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Conference of 1960.
The Assam Cabinet adopted a population policy which makes government jobs out of bounds for people with more than two children. The policy will come into effect from 1^st January, 2021. In September 2017, the Assam government had passed the “Population and Women Empowerment Policy of Assam”, under which candidates with two children only would be eligible for government jobs. The policy warranted that existing government employees should strictly follow the two-child norm. With a population of 3.09 crores, the population density of Assam is 398 per sq km, which is greater than that of China.
Union Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homoeopathy) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Defence for the integration of AYUSH under the health establishments of the Directorate General of Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS). It aims to provide traditional medicine services at the armed forces’ hospitals and dispensaries. The agreement was signed after Union Minister of AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik inaugurated the Ayurveda Palliative Care Unit at the Palliative Care Centre at the Base Hospital, Delhi Cantonment in New Delhi.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), under the Union Home Ministry, released the Crime Bureau Statistics for the year 2017 on 21^st October, 2019. As per the report, Tamil Nadu topped in grave crimes followed by Maharashtra. There is a rise of 3.6% in the number of crimes registered in 2017 from the previous report published in 2016. The number of murder cases registered across the country declined by 6%. The number of kidnapping and abduction cases increased by 9% since 2016. Haryana topped in sedition cases i.e. the offences committed against the state. The rise in IPC crimes were the highest in Delhi, Assam and Kerala.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) inaugurated the Startup Summit 2019, which seeks to bring together key stakeholders and startups under one roof in New Delhi. The MeitY Startup Hub, which will facilitate the vision of the Ministry towards technology, startups, innovation and creation of intellectual properties, was launched at the summit. BHIM 2.0, a UPI based payment interface application, was also launched at the summit with new functionalities, support for additional languages and increased transaction limits.
Police Commemoration Day, also known as the Police Martyr’s Day, is observed every year on 21^st October in memory of the policemen killed at the Hot Springs in North Eastern Ladakh by Chinese troops on 21^st October, 1959. On this day in 2018, PM Modi had inaugurated the National Police Museum, the first police museum of its kind in India. The Indian police personnel were responsible for manning the 2,500 mile long border of India with Tibet until October, 1959.