It is an initiative by the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
It is organised by Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), marketing arm of Ministry of Rural Development.
Its objective is to bring the rural women SHGs formed with support of DAY-NRLM, under one platform to show-case their skills, sell their products and help them build linkages with bulk buyers.
Through this mela, rural SHG women get vital national level exposure to understand the demand and taste of urban customers.
Dharma Guardian – 2019
It is a joint military exercise between India and Japan.
It covers joint training on counter terrorism operations in jungle and urban scenario.
Typhoon Hagibis
A hurricane is a storm that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and north eastern Pacific Ocean, a typhoon occurs in the north western Pacific Ocean, a cyclone occurs in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, a willy-willy in south-west Australia.
Hagibis, which means "speed" in the Philippine language, is a super typhoon swirling around Japan.
It made landfall in Izu Peninsula, south-west of Tokyo and moved up the east coast.
It led to Chikuma river breaching their banks inundating residential neighbourhoods and the torrential rain triggered landslides.
After it made its landfall, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook Tokyo shortly after.
International Cooperatives Trade Fair
The first ever International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) was organised in New Delhi.
It was organised by the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), APEDA and NAFED with the support of Agriculture and Commerce ministries.
About 35 countries and 150 cooperatives participated in the fair.
It is conceived as the major platform to promote export of Indian cooperative produce.
It is a part of its effort to boost farm exports and double the income of farmers by 2022.
NCDC, APEDA and NAFED
NCDC, with mandate under the NCDC Act, 1963 has been focusing on agri-exports also, in line with the recommendations of the Ashok Dalwai Committee on Doubling the Farmers Income.
National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED)is registered under the Multi State Co-operative Societies Act and was established in 1958.
Its objective to promote co-operative marketing of agricultural produce to benefit farmers.
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is an export promotion body under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
It is mandated with the responsibility of development of the scheduled products and monitor the import of sugar.
“Scheduled products” means any of the agricultural or processed food products included in the First Schedule of APEDA Act.
It includes products of fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, dairy, honey, jaggery and sugar, cocoa, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, cereal, groundnuts, peanuts and walnuts, floriculture, guar gum, herbal and medicinal plants.
Ganges River Dolphin Census
The annual Ganges River Dolphin census is being undertaken by World Wide Fund for Nature-India in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department.
The census started in 2015, is taken along about 250-km-long riverine stretch of Upper Ganga between Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary and Narora Ramsar site.
Unlike previous years, when direct counting method was used, this year the tandem boat survey method is being used.
The survey method uses inflated boats which move in tandem with dolphins and provides a more accurate count of the endangered species.
The animal is known to make strange sounds when it breathes, earning it the sobriquet 'Susu'.
Being a mammal, it has to come to the surface to breathe.
It is also called a blind dolphin because it doesn’t have a crystalline eye lens and uses echolocation to navigate and hunt.
Like bats, they produce high-frequency sounds which helps them ‘see’ objects when the sound waves bounce off them.
