CURRENT AFFAIRS 01 AUGUST 2024

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National Minority Donor Awareness Day

National Minority Donor Awareness Day was first established to spotlight the critical need for organ donors within minority communities and to encourage members from these groups to register as donors.
It emerged from the broader scope of National Minority Donor Awareness Week, initiated in 1996 by the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP), to address the significant disparities in organ donation and transplantation within multicultural communities.

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Early detection of lung cancer can save lives

The insidious nature of lung cancer has made it one of the most formidable public health challenges of our time. Lung cancer was first discovered in the early 1900s in autopsies. Later advances in imaging technologies, bronchosopy, and molecular diagnostics helped diagnose it more frequently and reliably in the 20th century. As we confront this growing epidemic on August 1, observed as World Lung Cancer Day, understanding the multifaceted aspects of lung cancer — from its risk factors to the critical importance of early detection — becomes paramount.

Unnatural disaster

Climate change can encourage unprecedented weather, precipitating natural disasters of magnitudes that may surprise local responders. The calamitous landslides in Wayanad district in Kerala on July 30 are not necessarily such disasters. Parts of Kerala have been bearing the brunt of heavy rains during the southwest monsoon and landslides are a yearly affair. But deadly landslides are new. This week, heavy rains triggered multiple landslides that have killed 200 people and laid waste to a few villages. The region is a tourist destination and incentivises infrastructure development to maximise revenue potential.

IAF’s largest multilateral exercise to begin this month

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is all set to host its largest multilateral exercise, Tarang Shakti, in two phases in August and September. Eighteen countries, 10 of them with air assets, will join the exercise, which will see a total of 150 aircraft, both foreign and IAF, soar into the skies over Sulur and Jodhpur. The exercise will be a landmark event and has no particular nation or theme “in mind”, Air Marshal A.P. Singh, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, said on Wednesday.
“Invitations have been extended to 51 countries. Ten countries will be participating with assets and 18 as observers with one more country likely to join,” Air Marshal Singh said while briefing the media. “The aim is to foster interoperability and share best practices and also to showcase indigenous defence industry.”

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In 3 years, power cuts in India will rise, says report

India’s rising electricity needs will likely be accompanied by increasing evening power cuts by 2027 because of insufficient renewable energy-powered back-up, says a research report from the India Energy and Climate Centre, University of California (Berkley).
This scenario is likely even if all the planned coal plants and thermal power assets were to be fully functional by that year.
India has an installed electric capacity of 446 GW, with 211 GW coming in from coal, 195 GW from renewable energy sources, and the rest from gas and nuclear energy.
However not all of this capacity is available all the time. Therefore, a heatwave that lasts all day and whose impact can linger through the night will elicit high electricity demand even at night from air conditioners.

Preeti Sudan appointed Chairperson of UPSC

Former Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan was appointed Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) after Manoj Soni resigned from the post earlier this month, according to an official order. She would take the oath of office on Thursday.
Ms. Sudan, currently a member of the UPSC, will take charge on Thursday and will have a tenure till April 29, 2025 or till further orders. She will turn 65 in April next year.
Ms. Sudan is only the second woman to head the UPSC since R.M. Bathew served as the chairperson from 1992 to 1996.
“The President has approved the appointment of Preeti Sudan, Member, UPSC for performing the duties of Chairman, UPSC with effect from August 1, 2024,” a July 29 letter said.