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CURRENT AFFAIRS - 6th December 2024
NATIONAL
❖ PSLV XL Proba-3 Launch: ISRO successfully launches ESA’s mission to study sun’s corona
➢ ISRO successfully launched European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3
mission aboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C59 rocket.
➢ The four-stage PSLV-XL rocket (PSLV C59) lifted off from the Satish
Dhawan Space Center in the second attempt.
➢ The Proba-3 (Project for Onboard Anatomy) consists of two satellites
Coronagraph (310kgs) and Occulter (240kgs) in which two spacecraft would
fly together as one, maintaining precise formation down to a single millimetre to
study the Corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere.
➢ Proba-3 is the world's first precision formation flying mission. 'Probas' is a Latin word, meaning 'Let's try'.
➢ PSLV-C59 is a 44.5-metre-tall rocket and is on its 61st flight and the 26th with the PSLV-XL variant which
is normally used to place heavy satellites.
➢ Director General of the ESA - Josef Aschbacher; ISRO Chairman - S. Somanath.
❖ India honored with the ISSA Good Practice Award for Asia and Pacific 2024
➢ India has been honored with the International Social Security Association
(ISSA) Good Practice Award for Asia and Pacific 2024.
➢ It presented by Dr. Mohammed Azman, President of ISSA, at the Regional
Social Security Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
➢ Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) won 4 merit awards.
➢ Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) received five Certificates
of Merit for Communication channels, E-proceedings.
➢ The five award categories and brief description about each is as follows:
▪ Communication Channels: Reaching stakeholders through different Media.
▪ E-proceedings: A case on use of information and communication technology in justice delivery.
▪ Nidhi Aapke Nikat 2.0: Ensuring last mile delivery of Services.
▪ Multilingual Call Centres: Effort towards an inclusive grievance redressal.
▪ Prayaas: Prioritizing Pensioners.
❖ 63rd ISAM conference to be held at IAM Bengaluru
➢ Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ISAM) is organising its 63rd annual
conference at Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM), Bengaluru, from 05 to
07 December 2024.
➢ The Institute deals with military and civil aerospace medicine including the
human aspects of space flight programme of the country.
➢ It established in the year 1952.
➢ ISAM has been conducting an annual scientific conference since the year 1954.
➢ The current conference is themed 'Collaborate for Research'.
❖ India's GDP growth projection for FY25 has been revised by Morgan Stanley from 6.7% to 6.3%
➢ In the July-September quarter of 2024, India’s GDP growth slowed to 5.4%
year-on-year. This was its lowest level since March 2023.
➢ This was a declined from 6.7% growth in previous quarter. This fell short of
Morgan Stanley's forecast of 6.3%.
➢ Both private consumption and capital expenditure showed signs of slowing down. Private consumption
grew at a faster rate.
➢ However, with a growth rate of 7.1%, the services sector showed resilience.
➢ Manufacturing and energy were the main drags on the industrial sector, which trailed at 3.9%.
❖ Limit for UPI Lite payments has been increased by the RBI
➢ RBI has increased the UPI Lite wallet limit to ₹5,000 and the per-transaction
limit to ₹1,000.
➢ This has been done in a bid to encourage wider adoption of digital payment
systems.
➢ As part of its monetary policy in October 2024, the RBI had informed of its intention to adjust these limits.
➢ At present, there is a limit of ₹500 per transaction and an overall limit of ₹2,000 per UPI Lite wallet.
➢ UPI Lite allows users to do fast, one-click transactions without the requirement to enter the PIN.
➢ In September 2022, RBI launched the UPI Lite feature to ease the UPI transaction process.
➢ The UPI Lite feature is enabled by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
STATE
❖ Assam bans Beef consumption in Hotels and Public Places
➢ The consumption of beef in hotels, restaurants, festivals, and community events has
been prohibited.
➢ This decision aligns with the Assam Cattle Preservation Act, passed in 2021, which
aims to regulate cattle slaughter.
➢ Currently, the Act bans cattle slaughter and the sale of beef in areas where Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs are in
the majority, and within a five-kilometre radius of their places of worship.
INTERNATIONAL
❖ India, Kuwait sign MoU to establish Joint Commission for Cooperation
➢ External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar and Kuwait's Foreign
Minister Abdullah Ali Al Yahya signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to establish a Joint Commission for Cooperation
(JCC) at the level of foreign ministers.
➢ Abdullah Ali Al Yahya was on an official visit to India.
➢ Under the new MoU, new Joint Working Groups will be established
in Education, Investment, Trade, Agriculture, Technology, Security, and
Culture.
➢ The JCC would also oversee existing working groups in areas such as hydrocarbons, health, and consular
matters.
➢ Kuwait: A small kingdom situated in the Arabian Peninsula.
• It is a Muslim Arab country rich in petroleum oil.
• It has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.
• It gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1961.
SCHEMES & INITIATIVES

❖ Beti Bachao Beti Padhao improved sex ratio and Gross Enrollment ratio of girls
➢ The Government has said that the Sex Ratio at Birth of girl
child in the country has improved from 918 in 2014- 15 to 930 in
2023-24 as per the provisional data of Health Management
Information System (HMIS) of Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare (MoHFW).
➢ As per the data of the Unified District Information System
for Education, the National Gross Enrollment ratio of girls in school at the secondary level has increased
from 75 per cent in 2014-15 to 79.4 per cent in 2021-22.
➢ Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme: It was launched on January 22, 2015, as a collaborative effort
by the Ministry of Women & Child Development with the Ministry of Education, and Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare.
➢ It focuses on preventing gender-biased sex-selective practices, ensuring survival and protection of the girl
child and promoting her education.
➢ BBBP is a centrally sponsored scheme with 100% funding by the Central Government in all the districts
of the country under Sambal vertical of Mission Shakti.
➢ The government of West Bengal is not implementing BBBP.
SPORTS
❖ India hockey team won the Men's Junior Asia Cup 2024
➢ The Indian junior men's hockey team won their fifth title by defeating
Pakistan 5-3 in the final of the Men's Junior Asia Cup 2024 in Muscat, Oman.
➢ On this occasion, Hockey India announced cash rewards of Rs 2 lakh to each
player and Rs 1 lakh to each support staff member for their stellar performance
and title defense in the Men's Junior Asia Cup.
➢ In 2004, India won the Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup title for the first time.
➢ So far, India has won the tournament a record five times, including their previous wins in 2023, 2015, 2008
and 2004.
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❖ BR Ambedkar’s death anniversary 6th December
➢ The Mahaparinirvan Diwas, to observe the 69th Death Anniversary of
Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, is being commemorated by the Dr. Ambedkar
Foundation (DAF) on behalf of the Union Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment, at Prerna Sthal, Parliament House Complex, on 6th December
2024.
➢ Birth: 14th April 1891 in Mhow, Central Province (now Madhya Pradesh).
➢ Dr. Ambedkar was a social reformer, jurist, economist, author, polyglot orator and a scholar of comparative
religions.
➢ In 1916, he received a doctorate degree from Columbia University, becoming the first Indian to do so.
➢ He is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution and was India's first law minister.
➢ He founded Bahishkrit Hitkarini Sabha (1923).
➢ He participated in all three round-table conferences.
➢ In 1947, he was appointed Chairman of the Drafting Committee for the new Constitution.

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