Current Affairs Plus-(11th June 2018)

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A coral fertility treatment designed to help heal damaged parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is showing signs of success.
The experimental process known as “coral IVF” is working on a small scale that showed the result.
The program is one of a number of experimental projects underway in Australia to try to find ways to save what’s left of one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
In April, the Australian government announced a funding package of nearly $400 million which will be spent on different projects working towards reef preservation and protection.

The UN General Assembly designated 8 June as World Oceans Day.
On World Oceans Day, people around our blue planet celebrate and honor the ocean, which connects us all.
The concept of a ‘World Oceans Day’ was first proposed in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro as a way to celebrate our world’s shared ocean and our personal connection to the sea.
It is to raise awareness about the crucial role the ocean plays in our lives and the important ways people can help protect it.
The UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea is actively coordinating different activities of he World Oceans Day.
UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) sponsors the World Ocean Network, which has since 2002 been instrumental in building support for ocean awareness events on 8 June.
This year’s theme for World Oceans Day will be preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean

The Chimú culture was centred on Chimor with the capital city of Chan Chan, a large adobe city in the Moche Valley of present-day Trujillo, Peru
The culture arose about 900 AD, succeeding the Moche culture
The Chimú people are best known for their distinctive monochromatic pottery and fine metal working of copper, gold, silver, bronze, and tumbaga (copper and gold)
The pottery is often in the shape of a creature or has a human figure sitting or standing on a cuboid bottle

It was started to incentivise employers for generation of new employment wherein the Government of India pays the employer’s contribution of Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) for the new employment
Under the scheme, the government was paying the employers’ contribution of 8.33 percent of wages to the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) for new employees having a new Universal Account Number (UAN) and who joined on or after April 1, 2016 with salary up to Rs 15,000 per month — for first three years
The PMRPY scheme was started in August 2016
The scheme is aimed at incentivizing increasing the employment base of workers in the establishments and facilitate access to social security benefits of the organized sector

A project is initiated to identify parabens and triclosan in water bodies to help develop measures to correct their harmful effects.
Parabens are a group of organic compounds used as preservatives in cosmetics and hygiene products.
They are harmful for human health and when they end up in water bodies with urban and hospital waste, they become a threat to corals and may cause hormonal disruptions in dolphins and other marine animals as well.
Use of cosmetics with parabens could pose a risk of breast cancer in women.
Multiple studies have linked chlorinated parabens to endocrine disrupting functions, specifically mimicking the effects of Estrogen.

Group of Seven (G7) is a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries, with the seven largest advanced economies in the world, represent more than 62% of the global net wealth ($280 trillion). The G7 countries also represent more than 46% of the global gross domestic product (GDP) based on nominal values, and more than 32% of the global GDP based on purchasing power parity.
G7 Summit is an event conducted annually where world leaders from seven powerful economies of the world, US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan and Italy come together to discuss burning issues happening around the globe. They, by mutual understanding, also form policies or figure out remedies for the concerned issue.
44th annual G7 Summit is being held in Quebec, Canada.