{"id":1053,"date":"2018-06-11T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T05:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2018-06-11T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T05:28:59","slug":"current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/current\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs Plus-(11th June 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Coral fertility treatment<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6884ff31-f7c1-4e0c-aa8d-40660e7c0cf7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1054\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6884ff31-f7c1-4e0c-aa8d-40660e7c0cf7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6884ff31-f7c1-4e0c-aa8d-40660e7c0cf7.png 762w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6884ff31-f7c1-4e0c-aa8d-40660e7c0cf7-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6884ff31-f7c1-4e0c-aa8d-40660e7c0cf7-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">A coral fertility treatment designed to help heal damaged parts of Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef is showing signs of success.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The experimental process known as \u201ccoral IVF\u201d is working on a small scale that showed the result.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The program is one of a number of experimental projects underway in Australia to try to find ways to save what\u2019s left of one of the seven natural wonders of the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>World Oceans Day 2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Celebrate-World-Oceans-Day.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1055\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Celebrate-World-Oceans-Day-1024x725.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Celebrate-World-Oceans-Day-1024x725.png 1024w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Celebrate-World-Oceans-Day-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Celebrate-World-Oceans-Day-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Celebrate-World-Oceans-Day-768x544.png 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Celebrate-World-Oceans-Day.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The UN General Assembly designated 8 June as World Oceans Day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">On World Oceans Day, people around our blue planet celebrate and honor the ocean, which connects us all.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The concept of a &#8216;World Oceans Day&#8217; was first proposed in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro as a way to celebrate our world\u2019s shared ocean and our personal connection to the sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is to raise awareness about the crucial role the ocean plays in our lives and the important ways people can help protect it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea is actively coordinating different activities of he World Oceans Day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">UNESCO&#8217;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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">This year\u2019s theme for World Oceans Day will be preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pre-Columbian Chimu culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5e49d612fd9d3f949648e14267a5d280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1056\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5e49d612fd9d3f949648e14267a5d280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5e49d612fd9d3f949648e14267a5d280.jpg 400w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5e49d612fd9d3f949648e14267a5d280-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5e49d612fd9d3f949648e14267a5d280-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Chim\u00fa 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<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The culture arose about 900 AD, succeeding the Moche culture<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Chim\u00fa people are best known for their distinctive monochromatic pottery and fine metal working of copper, gold, silver, bronze, and tumbaga (copper and gold)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The pottery is often in the shape of a creature or has a human figure sitting or standing on a cuboid bottle<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It was started to incentivise employers for generation of new employment wherein the Government of India pays the employer\u2019s contribution of <strong>Employees\u2019 Pension Scheme (EPS)<\/strong> for the new employment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Under the scheme, the government was paying the employers\u2019 contribution of 8.33 percent of wages to the Employees\u2019 Pension Scheme (EPS) for new employees having a new <strong>Universal Account Number (UAN)<\/strong> and who joined on or after April 1, 2016 with salary up to Rs 15,000 per month \u2014 for first three years<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The PMRPY scheme was started in August 2016<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0The 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<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Paraben Levels in Water<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">A project is initiated to identify parabens and triclosan in water bodies to help develop measures to correct their harmful effects.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Parabens are a group of organic compounds used as preservatives in cosmetics and hygiene products.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Use of cosmetics with parabens could pose a risk of breast cancer in women.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Multiple studies have linked chlorinated parabens to endocrine disrupting functions, specifically mimicking the effects of Estrogen.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>G7- bloc<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"> <b>Group of Seven<\/b> (<b>G7<\/b>) 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\u00a0trillion). 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">44th annual G7 Summit is being held in Quebec, Canada.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral fertility treatment A coral fertility treatment designed to help heal damaged parts of Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef is showing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[575,577,572,573,574,576],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-miscellaneous","tag-chimu-culture","tag-coral-fertility-treatment","tag-g7-bloc","tag-paraben","tag-pradhan-mantri-rojgar-protsahan-yojana-pmrpy","tag-world-oceans-da"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}