1st
July- Current Affairs
Mount Denali :
Ø Indo-Tibetan
Border Police (ITBP) Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Aparna Kumar has become the
first civil servant to scale Mount Denali, the highest peak in North America.
Ø Name: Mount Denali was once called Mount
McKinley. It was officially named Denali after protests by the native Koyukon Athabascan people who call the
mountain Denali, which is usually translated as "The Great One."
Ø Location: It is located in south-central
Alaska.
Ø Height: The mountain's peak is 20,310 feet
(6,190 meters) above sea level, thus making it the –
o
tallest mountain in North America.
o
third highest mountain of the Seven Summits — the highest
mountains on each of the seven continents — following Mount Everest in Nepal
and Aconcagua in Argentina.
ISALEX19 :
Ø Abu Dhabi is hosting International
Security Alliance (ISAs) first joint security exercise named ISALEX19.
Ø What is it? The International Security Alliance
(ISA) is an international working group to confront organised, transnational
and extremist crimes.
Ø History: it was launched in 2017 in Abu
Dhabi.
Ø Secretariat: Abu Dhabi.
Ø Members: The alliance now comprises nine
countries, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, France, Italy, Spain,
Senegal, Singapore, and the Slovak Republic.
Dastak Campaign
:
Ø Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the DASTAK campaign
to eradicate deadly Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis
(JE) disease.
Ø The campaign will run from 1st
to 31st July.
Ø Under this state-wide campaign,
teams will go door to door in every village of the 75 districts of the state to
create awareness about the communicable diseases as well as Acute
Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE).
Ø Similar campaign launched last year
also has improved the health conditions and the government claimed that
fatality rate due to AES and JE dripped.
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