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The Government of India has constituted a 12-member National Steering Committee, under the chairmanship of K Kasturirangan, for formulating guidelines for changes in the CBSE / NCERT curriculum. The Committee has a term of three years. The document, called as the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), was last prepared in 2005.
Kasturirangan is the former Chief of ISRO and has also headed the committee that drafted the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

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Lake Tanganyika, located in Africa is shared by four countries namely Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Zambia. This is the second-oldest, second deepest and the longest freshwater lake in the world.
The lake is recently in news, as “Save the Children” an independent organisation for children has stated that significant rise of Lake Tanganyika due to climate shocks has led to 84% internal migration in Burundi. In Burundi, most people live along the shores of this lake.

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The state assembly of Karnataka has recently passed Karnataka Religious Structures (Protection) Bill, 2021. The bill was introduced by the state Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, with an aim to protect the religious constructions on public places.
As per the bill, a religious structure is defined as a “temple, church, mosque, gurudwara, Budh Vihar, Majar etc, constructed on a public place without authority of law”

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The forest department of Odisha has proposed to fit radio collars on 7 Elephants of the state, to track their movement and prevent them from entering the human settlements. It aims to eliminate animal – human conflict.
Three elephants of Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary and four elephants of the Similipal Tiger Reserve have been selected for this purpose. The device is fitted with a GPS device and the location can be tracked real time.

 

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“Transforming Food Systems for Rural Prosperity” report has been released by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) which is an international financial institution and an UN specialised agency. The organization is headquartered at Rome, Italy.
The report has laid emphasis on government investment in farming as well as in small and medium enterprises which support farm activities.