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Posted 24 Feb 2024

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Portals for a ‘Modernized Media Landscape’

  • The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launched 4 new media-related portals to streamline media-related services under its umbrella.

 

  • The four new portals are
    • Press Sewa Portal: for automation of the process for newspaper registration. 
    • NaViGate Bharat Portal: single platform with an interactive user interface for government videos
    • National Register for Local Cable Operators: To streamline regulatory processes in the cable television sector in the future.
    • Transparent Empanelment Media Planning and eBilling System for Central Bureau of Communication: to enhance transparency and efficiency in media planning processes.
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  • Press Seva Portal
  • media-related portals

Energy Charter Treaty

  • The UK to leave 'Outdated' Fossil Fuel Friendly Treaty ie. The Energy Charter Treaty. 

 

  • About Energy Charter Treaty
    • It provides a multilateral framework for energy cooperation that is unique under international law. 
    • It entered into legal force in April 1998. 
    • It is designed to promote energy security through the operation of more open and competitive energy markets while respecting the principles of sustainable development and sovereignty over energy resources.
    • Currently, there are 53 Signatories and Contracting Parties to the Treaty.
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  • Energy Charter Treaty
  • Energy cooperation

Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) Scheme

  • State Government of Odisha extends KALIA scheme by 3 years.

 

  • About KALIA Scheme
    • Objective: To provide financial assistance to small and marginal farmers (SMF) including sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and landless agricultural households (LAH) in the state.
    • Comprehensive welfare solution conceived as a Direct Income Transfer (DIT).
    • Excludes medium and large farmers.
    • Other benefits: Scholarship for Children of KALIA beneficiaries, Livelihood packages for landless households, etc.
    • Synchronized with PM-KISAN to provide annual benefit of ₹10000 to SMF (₹6,000 from PM-KISAN and ₹4,000, from KALIA).
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  • KALIA Scheme
  • Farmer income

Grey – zone Warfare

  • At Raisina Dialogue 2024, India’s Chief of Defence Staff talked about Grey-zone warfare.

 

  • Grey – zone warfare
    • Involves military actions which are below a particular threshold to invite a response.
    • Seeks to exploit operational space between peace and war to change the status quo.

 

  • About Raisina Dialogue
    • India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics.
    • Hosted by Observer Research Foundation in partnership with Union Ministry of External Affairs.
    • Theme of 2024 editionChaturanga: Conflict, Contest, Cooperate, Create.
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  • Grey - zone Warfare
  • Raisina Dialogue