CURRENT AFFAIRS 05 AUGUST 2024

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Blogger Day

So, let’s delve a bit into the history of Blogger. Blogger was launched on the 23rd of August, in 1999, by Pyra Labs. it is one of the earliest tools that was dedicated purely to publishing blogs. A lot of people credit Blogger with helping to popularize the blog format. A few years later, in 2003, Google purchased Blogger under terms that have not been disclosed. One of the most significant changes in this switch was that Google made the premium features of Blogger free of charge. Google then purchased Picasa a year later, in 2004, and made a move to integrate Picasa into Blogger. The significance of this was that it gave Blogger users the ability to post photos to their blogs.

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97 killed, hundreds injured as protests sweep Bangladesh

At least 97 people, 14 of them policemen, were killed and hundreds injured across Bangladesh on Sunday as clashes erupted between protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and the ruling party supporters.

Authorities shut down mobile Internet and enforced a nationwide curfew for an indefinite period.

The clashes broke out in the morning when protesters attending a non-cooperation programme under the banner of the Students Against Discrimination with the one-point demand of the government’s resignation over a job quota system faced opposition from the supporters of the Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League activists.

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Stalked by polio, Gaza faces another siege

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs describes biological weapons as those that “disseminate disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals or plants”.
War itself is a nasty thing during which humans, animals, and plants are killed en masse. We often contend today with the death of animals and plants in the context of climate change — mindful of the role of animals in maintaining ecosystem services and the carbon sequestration potential of plants — and know that the remains of incendiary explosives and building debris drive toxic effects, often entrenched enough for their effects to last for generations.

Inflation remains a concern as price pressures broaden beyond food

Production in India’s eight core infrastructure sectors remained largely dampened by the impact of a slowdown in state spending on public works in June, when the general election ended in the early part of the month leading to the formation of a new government at the Centre. The heatwaves that had impacted a wide range of economic activity in the country’s northern and western parts in May, extended into June, adding to the overall slowdown in industrial production. Provisional data on the Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry on July 31 show output in five of the sectors suffered either sharp decelerations in growth or contracted from the year-earlier period, resulting in overall core sector growth slowing to a 20-month low of 4%.

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Balancing competition and sustainability for India

Markets are the centre of the economy, evolving from the barter system to today’s digital marketplaces. The forces of supply and demand are primarily responsible for price determination and consumer preferences. Climate change disturbs the supply side of the market leading to a mismatch between supply and demand, which in turn impacts consumer demand and the overall economy.
In 2023, the Securities and Exchange Board of India introduced a framework for reporting actions towards sustainability by corporates. The revised framework for the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report requires companies to account for their value chain’s environmental impact, enhancing transparency, combating greenwashing, and ensuring that sustainability benefits permeate through the value chain.

MGNREGS: States fall behind in paying unemployment aid

Going against one of the key objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), only ₹90,000 was released by various States in 2023-24 as “unemployment allowance”, which is provided to workers in case of unmet work demand. The corresponding figure was ₹7.8 lakh in 2022-23.
The Economic Survey, 2024, tabled in Parliament on July 22, pointed out that these figures were clearly deficient and did not reflect the correct picture with regard to unmet work demand. The survey noted that work was often unavailable for beneficiaries and that block-level functionaries may not register demand for work in real time. “Consequently, formal data showing MGNREGA work demand may not reflect the true demand and current rural economic distress,” it said