28th
June-Affairs
L 98-59b :
Ø NASA’s
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a new planet named
L 98-59b.
Ø Size: L 98-59b is around 80% Earth’s size.
It is between the sizes of Mars and Earth. It is the tiniest of Transiting
Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finds so far.
Ø Location: It orbits a bright, cool, nearby
star named L 98-59. The host star, is about one-third the mass of the Sun and
lies about 35 light-years away.
Ø NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky survey mission that
will discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars. TESS was
launched in April 2018 aboard a SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket.
One Nation One Ration Card
:
Ø The national portability of Ration
cards will ensure all beneficiaries especially the migrants in getting access
to Public Distribution System (PDS) across the nation from any PDS shop of
their own choice.
Ø This will provide freedom to the
beneficiaries as they will not be tied to any one PDS shop and reduce their
dependence on shop owners and curtail instances of corruption.
Ø Integrated Management of PDS (IMPDS) is a system
that is already operational in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand,
Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana and Tripura wherein a
beneficiary can avail his share of food grain from any district in the State.
Ø
There will also be creation of a Central
Repository of all Ration Cards to help national level de-duplication.
Maratha Reservation
:
Ø The Bombay High Court upheld the
Maharashtra government’s decision to provide reservation to the Maratha
community under the SEBC Act, 2018.
Ø However, the court ruled that the 16
% quota granted by the state is not “justifiable” and reduced it to 12
% in education and 13 % in government jobs, as recommended by the
Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission (MSBCC).
Ø The addition of 12-13 % Maratha quota will
take the total reservation in the state to 64-65 %. In the Indra Sawhney case, a nine-judge bench
of the Supreme Court had ruled that total reservation for backward classes
could not go beyond 50 %.
75 student
satellite mission 2022 :
Ø Under its ‘75
Student Satellites Mission 2022’, Up to 75 tiny satellites built by students of
Indian universities could fly to the skies between late next year and 2022 in
batches.
Ø The ITCA Indian Technology Congress Association) has
roped in around 40 engineering colleges to form a consortium. It is also in the
midst of discussing launch contracts with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Ø A student satellite,
depending on its payload, can cost between ₹30 and ₹50 lakh and ₹5 and ₹6
crore.
Ø ITCA is a technology promotion body based in Bengaluru.
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