Accure - result, arise, follow

Unabated- assiduous, conscientious, diligent

Fissiparous-Separation

Mediocrity- Commonplaceness

Pecuniary-  

 

Current Affairs 24 June

Nirbhay Chetna

Artilce for fire services formally included as a municipal function withing the 12th schedule?

Artcile 243W

FATF full form

Financial Action Task Force

FATF - Monitor Money support for terrorist activities

 Full Form of TNI

Turquoise Nexus Initiative 

Primary aim

To integrate food security, water management and climate adaptation into national climate plans

 Which river is the Life line of Kerala?

Periyar River

 Abhigyan App a centralized digital platform designed to support law enforcement agencies by strengthening data driven policing has been developed by which of the following organizations

NCRB

Ammonia, a colorless and pungent gas consisting of nitrogen and hydrogen is primarily manufactured on an industrail scale by which of the following processes.

Haber Bosch Process

Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty refers to a nation's stability to maintain effective control over digital infrastructure data and technological systems.

example: Development of national data centers and indigenous cloud platforms.

Supreme Court Judgement

In Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India the supreme court examied internet restrictions imposed in Jammu and Kashmir

FCRA Timeline

1976 Originally introduced during the emergency to keep track of foreign influence in social, political, economic and religious decisions.

1984 Mandatory for non profits to register before receiving foreign donations they cannot pass the funds on to other non-register NGOs.

2010 The 1976 act was repealed and replaced by a stricter Foreign contribution ( Regulation) Act, 2010 along with the Foreign Contibution (Regulation) rules, 2011

Key changes introduced FCRA registration validity, permanent earliar reduced to five years and subjected to renewal.

Only 50 percent foreign contributions could be used for administrative expenses no such provisions existed under the 1976 act

2020 The FCRA amendment bill, 2020 broadly redefined terms related to acceptance, transfer and utilisation of foreign contributions under the 2010 Act. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current affairs for exam 23rd June

How junk food harms health

HFSS- High level of fat sugar and salt

Ex...Chips, Cold drinks, Breakfast Cereals

Ultra processed food..

India to assume vice presidency of Financial Task Task force for the first time.

Shri Vivek Agarwal appointed vice president for 2026-27 

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit a revered Santali religious site, known as Gosani, in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on June 20, coinciding with the President's 68th birthday.

 

  

Daily reading

 New in library Science 

Modern MARC & Linked Data

• Catalogs are bridging the gap between legacy MARC21 records and linked open data standards like BIBFRAME. Systems now automatically suggest Dewey and LCC classifications based on real-time global records.

  BIBFRAME :  Initiated by the Library of Congress, BIBFRAME provides a foundation for the future of bibliographic description, both on the web, and in the broader networked world that is grounded in Linked Data techniques. A major focus of the initiative is to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 formats while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. read more at  https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/

   Cataloguing in BIBFRAME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJJCxjCQmqs 

  Open Source Platforms: Systems like FOLIO (which leverages the Eureka platform) are transitioning to open-source Library Services Platforms (LSPs), offering more modern architecture and flexibility.

  FOLIO: FOLIO represents a critical pivot in the Library Technology landscape. Together libraries and vendors have created an environment for collaboration that allows independence and community ownership of the capabilities and roadmap for technology that powers the library, and the process for managing it. While the technology and architecture are to be admired, perhaps the greatest strength of FOLIO is the community that surrounds it. Open, collaborative, modern, sophisticated … all community owned and directed. read more here https://folio.org/

  Watch youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsu-N8mVIl8 

   

   

   

Daily News and Vocabulary

International day for UN peacemakers

Theme: Invest in peace