1) Passport to Earning (P2E) Initiative: More than one million young people in India are certified through UNICEF’s P2E Initiative in areas of financial literacy and digital productivity.
- Notably, 62 percent of all young learners who benefitted from P2E courses in India are adolescent girls and young women.
- P2E is an e-learning solution which empower youth with relevant skills and abilities to thrive.
- It aims to deliver long-term sustainable skilling to 5 million youth in age group of 14-29 in India by 2024.
- It is aligned with National Education Policy 2020.
- P2E solution offers provisions for online, hybrid, and offline learning models.
2) Pontus Tectonic Plate: A long-lost tectonic plate named ‘Pontus’ was discovered in Borneo.
- It disappeared 20 million years ago.
- Location: Present-day South China Sea.
- Early Movement shrank steadily over its lifespan, finally getting pushed under the Australian plate to the south and China to the north.
- Significance: revealed planet’s paleogeography and climate have changed over time etc.
3) National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG): Executive Committee of NMCG has approved seven projects.
- NMCG was registered as a society in 2011 under Societies Registration Act 1860.
- It acted as implementation arm of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) which was constituted under provisions of Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
- Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Jal Shakti.
- Objective of NMCG
- Ensure effective abatement of pollution and rejuvenation of river Ganga by adopting a river basin approach.
- Maintain minimum ecological flows in river to ensuring its water quality and sustainability.
- NMCG has a two tier management structure and comprises of Governing Council and Executive Committee. Both of them are headed by Director General of NMCG.
4) Data Analytics Dashboard and Poorvottar Sampark Setu Portal: Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) has launched two portals viz:
- DoNER Data Analytics Dashboard: has data of 112 schemes across 55 Departments and Ministries,
- Will help in Data-driven decision-making; Ease of operations; Centralized monitoring, etc.
- Poorvottar Sampark Setu portal: generates a curated list of Ministers who can be nominated for a fortnightly visit of Union Ministers to North east region
Places in News:
1) Italy (Capital: Rome)
- India and Italy signed pact to deepen defence cooperation.
- Political Boundaries
- Country of south-central Europe.
- Surrounded by Mediterranean Sea, in particular by Adriatic Sea (northeast), Ionian Sea (southeast), Tyrrhenian Sea (southwest), and Ligurian Sea (northwest).
- Bordered by France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia.
- Geographical features
- Highest Peak: Mont Blanc.
- Major Rivers: Po River (longest), Adige, Tiber etc.
