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- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Support and Outreach Programme in New Delhi.
- On the occasion, various announcements and deliverables focussing on access to credit, access to market, hand-holding and facilitation support to the sector are likely to be announced
- The MSME Outreach Programme will run for 100 days covering 100 Districts throughout the country.
- Central Ministers are likely to visit these districts to appraise the entrepreneurs about various facilities being extended to MSME sector by the Government and financial institutions.
- It is expected that the programme will help in further boosting the MSME since this sector is one of the major generators of employment opportunities and making a significant contribution to the overall growth of the country's economy
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- Using advanced genomic techniques, a team of researchers led by Dr Hua (Emily) Ying of The Australian National University (ANU) and Prof David Miller of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University (JCU), have found that the group of corals classified as "robust,"
- which includes a number of the brain corals and mushroom corals, have a key physiological advantage over "complex" corals, including common branching corals such as the staghorn coral.
- In a new paper published today in the journal Genome Biology, researchers report that "robust" corals possess a unique capacity to generate an "essential" amino acid.
- "Amino acids are the building blocks of life," said lead author Dr Emily Ying of ANU Research School of Biology.
- "Amino acids are crucial, for example, in repairing tissue or growing new tissue. But, generating amino acids is energetically costly for animals, so they usually only generate 11 of the 20 required for life.
- The remaining nine amino acids are called the 'essential' amino acids because they must be supplied by the animal's diet. For corals, this includes tiny drifting animals known as 'zooplankton.'"
- "Symbiodinium also supplies the coral with some of the 'essential' amino acids, making them less dependent on their diet than other animals," said senior author Prof David Miller of Coral CoE at JCU.
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- With this, the judicial strength in the top court rose to 28, just three short of the sanctioned 31 judges
Justices Hemant Gupta, R.Subhash Reddy, M.R. Shah and Ajay Rastogi were Friday sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court, taking its strength to 28.
- The swearing-in ceremony started at 10:30 am in court number 1 of the apex court and Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi administered oath of office to the four judges.
- The President had on 1 Nov. gave his assent to the recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium for elevating Mr. Gupta, Mr. Reddy, Mr. Shah and Mr. Rastogi, who were chief justices of different High Courts, as apex court judges.
- While Justice Gupta was the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Justice Reddy was the Gujarat High Court’s chief justice.
- Justice Shah was the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court and Justice Rastogi was the Chief Justice of the Tripura High Court.
- The apex court has a sanctioned strength of 31.
- With the elevation of these four new judges, the strength has risen from 24 to 28.
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- The government is considering paying a part of the agriculture power subsidy directly to farmers, instead of free or cheap electricity, as part of a move to rationalise farm sector subsidies
- Coming ahead of general elections next year, the proposal, if it goes through, is expected to put more money into the hands of farmers, enabling more investments in the industry and higher consumption to boost the overall economy, officials familiar with the development said.
- A high-level committee, chaired by NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand, has recommended that more than half-a-dozen subsidies to agriculture, amounting to over Rs 2.2 lakh crore, or Rs 11,340 crore per hectare, should be reconsidered to ensure that there is no over utilisation or wastage of subsidised power and urea, they said.
- “One of the key recommendations of the committee is to let farmers pay for the power used as per metre and this subsidy will be reimbursed under direct benefit transfer (DBT),” one of the officials told ET on condition of anonymity.
- The committee’s recommendations are being considered by NITI Aayog’s top brass, following which the report will be submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office and the agriculture ministry, the sources said.
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