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UPSC Daily Current Affairs| One Liners 18-08-2025

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August 18, 2025

One Liners 18-08-2025

History, Art and Culture

3rd International Conference of Young Buddhist Scholars

  • Held in – Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.
  • Organized by – International Buddhist Confederation.
  • Aim – To foster engagement between young scholars and the enduring teachings of the Buddha.
  • Theme –
    • 2023 – Exploration of “Buddhist Pilgrimage”.
    • 2024 – Integration of “Buddha Dhamma in Education, Research, Healthcare, and Well-being”.
    • 2025 – “Wisdom Transmission in Buddha Dhamma in the 21st Century.”

International Buddhist Confederation

  • It is the world’s largest umbrella organization of Buddhist communities.
  • Started in – 2011.
  • Headquarter in – New Delhi.
  • Motto – “Collective Wisdom, United Voice.”
  • Objectives – To address and engage in issues of common global concern.
  • To plays a role in policy advocacy, cultural preservation, Dhamma dialogue, and youth engagement.
  • To conserve Buddhist traditions and heritage worldwide.
  • Key initiatives – Global Buddhist Summit (2023), Asian Buddhist Summit (2024), and International Abhidhamma Divas (2024).

Social Issues

Vigyan Jyoti Programme

  • Initiated in – 2019 by Department of Science & Technology.
  • Implementing partners - Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) / Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS).
  • Objectives – To establish gender parity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields that are underrepresented by women.
  • To encourage meritorious girls to pursue higher education and careers in STEM fields.

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS)

  • It is an autonomous body under Ministry of Education.
  • Started in – 1985-86 as a co-educational and fully residential schools’ system, from Class-VI to Class-XII, affiliated with CBSE.
  • Headquarter – Noida
  • 8 Regional Offices – Bhopal, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Pune, and Shillong.
  • Objectives – To provide free education to talented children predominantly from rural areas in every district. 
  • To give quality education, including culture, inculcation of values and awareness of the environment.

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS)

  • It is an autonomous body under Ministry of Education.
  • Started in – 1963.
  • Registered in – Societies Registration Act, 1860.
  • Objectives – To provide uninterrupted education to the wards of transferable Central Government employees.
  • To provide, establish, endow, maintain, control and manage the central schools located all over India and abroad.

Department of Science & Technology (DST)

  • Established in – 1971 by Ministry of science & technology.
  • Objectives – To promote new areas of Science & Technology.
  • To organise, coordinate and promote S&T activities.

Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan (NMBA)

  • Launched in – 2020, by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MoSJE).
  • Aim – To tackle the issue of substance abuse and a vision to make India drug free.
  • 3-pronged approach –
    • Supply curb by Narcotics Control Bureau.
    • Outreach and Awareness and Demand Reduction effort.
    • Treatment through Health Department.
  • 4 Implementing structure –
    • Central level by MoSJE.
    • State Level Abhiyaan Committees.
    • District Level Nasha Mukt Committees.
    • Municipalities Nasha Mukt Committees.

Polity & Governance

SabhaSaar

  • An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered meeting summarization tool designed to automatically generate structured Minutes of Meeting (MoM) from Gram Sabha meetings’ audio and video recordings.
  • Launched by – Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
  • Features – It uses advanced AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to transcribe spoken discussions, identify key decisions and action points, and produce well-formatted meeting minutes.
  • Integrated with – Bhashini.
  • Objectives – To strengthen participatory democracy & enhance efficiency in local governance.
  • To reduce the time and effort required for manual documentation while ensuring transparency and accountability.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies

  • NLP – It is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers to comprehend, generate, and manipulate human language.
  • It has the ability to interrogate the data with natural language text or voice, also called “language in.”
  • For example, it is the core technology behind virtual assistants, such as Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA), Siri, Cortana, or Alexa.

International Relations and Issues

Medical and Ayush Visa Portal

  • It is designed for foreign nationals (except Pakistani nationals) seeking medical treatment in India through Ayush or other traditional Indian systems of medicine.
  • Launched in – 2o23, by Ministry of Ayush.
  • Objectives – To streamline and regulate entry of genuine foreigners.
  • To ensure that only genuine hospitals are inviting the genuine patient for treatment by pre-validating Medical Visa.
  • Significance – It enables hospitals, to generate Medical Visa invitation Letter and Medical Visa Extension Letter for Medical Visa/Medical Attendant Visa/Ayush Attendant Visa.
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