UPSC Daily Current Affairs| One Liners 27-01-2025

One Liners 27-01-2025

History, Art and Culture

Mannan Community

Raman Rajamannan, the only tribal king of Mannan community participated in the Republic Day parade.

• Located in – Idukki’s dense forests, Kerala.
• Origin – Tamil Nadu, where their ancestors fled centuries ago during the Chola-Pandya wars.
• Governance – Led by the king, Rajamannan, supported by a council of 50 ministers called Kaanis.
• Occupation – Forest dwellers, farmers, daily wage labourers or employees in the Forest Department.

Geography

South Lhonak Glacial Lake

• Located in – North Sikkim, at an altitude of 5,200 m.
• Formation – Due to the melting of the Lhonak glacier.
• It is one of the largest and fastest growing glacial lakes in Sikkim.

• Disaster – In 2023, it caused a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) which washed away the 1,200 MW Teesta-III Chungthang Dam.
• It triggered a landslide about 30 km downstream of the lake.
• It remains a potential hazard due to its size and the melting glacier.

Polity & Governance

Mukhyamnatri Yuva Udyami Vikas Abhiyan (MYUVA)

• Launched in – 2024.
• Launched by – Uttar Pradesh.
• Aim – To make the youth self-reliant and entrepreneurial by providing interest-free loans.
• Eligibility – Aged 21-40 years.
• Loan amount – Up to Rs 10 lakh.

International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System

• Launched in – 2024.
• Launched by
  • Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
  • Telecom Service Providers (TSPs).
• It identifies and blocks the incoming international calls posing as Indian phone numbers.
• It is a tool that blocked 90% of all the incoming international calls which were identified as spoofed calls.
• Spoofing – It is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity.

Sanchar Saathi App & Portal

• Concept – It reporting fraudulent calls at the fingertips of the citizens.
• Features – It immensely enhances the ease of reporting any suspected fraud communications.
• It allowing citizens to report such incidents directly from their mobile phone call logs.

National Co-operative Organic Limited (NCOL)

• Established in – 2023, under the Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002.
• Vision – Sahakar se Samriddhi (Prosperity through Cooperation).
• NCOL – It is an umbrella organization for aggregation, procurement, certification, testing, branding and marketing of organic products.
• Purposes – It directly transfer profits from the sale of certified organic produce to farmers' bank accounts.
• It purchases all certified organic produce from farmers, sells it in the market.

Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS)

• Established in – 1904, under the Cooperative Credit Societies Act, 1904.
• Aim – To improve the overall state of agriculture, uplift rural communities and promote inclusive economic growth.
• PACS – It is the grass root level arms of the short-term co-operative credit structure.
• Features – It deals directly with the,
  • Rural (agricultural) borrowers.
  • Give those loans and collect repayments of loans.
  • Undertake distribution and marketing functions.
• It serves as the final link between the ultimate borrowers and the higher financing agencies.

National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC)

• Established in – 1963, by an Act of Parliament in 1963.
• Functions – Planning, promoting and financing programmes for production, processing, marketing, storage, export and import of agricultural produce, food stuffs and other notified commodities.
• Able to finance projects in the rural industrial cooperative sectors and for certain services.
• Advanced loans and grants to State Governments for financing primary and secondary level cooperative societies.

Agriculture

Tableau of Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD)

• Theme – Honouring India’s Indigenous Cattle Breeds as Icons of Sustainable Rural Growth.
• Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
• It is the 1^st time participation of the ministry in the Republic Day parade.
• It depicting India’s dominance as the highest milk-producing nation in the world.

Miscellaneous

Gaurav Samman

6 individuals were honoured with Uttar Pradesh Gaurav Samman on UP Foundation Day.

• It is one of the highest civilian award of the States.
• It includes Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarkhand, Jharkhand and Odisha.
• Awarded to – A person for their extraordinary contribution in any field of human endeavour.
• Significance – Contributions across diverse fields such as entrepreneurship, science and technology, arts and culture, social development and more.