{"id":4860,"date":"2019-11-07T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:40:04","slug":"daily-current-affairs-prelims-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/daily-current-affairs-prelims-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily current Affairs: Prelims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Star formation in jellyfish galaxies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Observations of a jelly fish galaxy, JW100, by Astrosat using its Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) have thrown up interesting puzzles.<\/li>\n<li>These puzzles involve star formation in hostile environments containing X-ray-emitting hot plasma. JW100 is located far away in the galaxy cluster Abell 2626.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>All about<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A jellyfish galaxy is a type of galaxy found in galaxy clusters.<\/li>\n<li>Jellyfish galaxies are called so because they are shaped like discs that have many tentacle-like arms streaming away from the disc.<\/li>\n<li>They are formed when a disc-shaped galaxy rams into a galaxy cluster, which is a dense region containing many hundreds or thousands of galaxies packed into a small region. This can happen when the galaxy is attracted by the gravitational attraction of the cluster.<\/li>\n<li>The European Southern Observatory has an international programme to observe 100 such gas-stripping jellyfish candidates using the MUSE Integral Field Spectrograph Chile. This programme is called GASP (Gas Stripping Phenomena in galaxies with MUSE).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>India among top nations with most conducive environment for financial inclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released a report titled the 2019 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Methodology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Global Microscope for Financial Inclusion, now in its 12th year, is a benchmarking index that assesses the enabling environment for financial access in 55 countries.<\/li>\n<li>The EIU\u2019s analysis takes four basic parameters into account: (1) Whether non-banks can issue e-money, (2) the presence of financial service agents, (3) proportionate customer due diligence and (4) effective financial consumer protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the 55 countries assessed, only 4 countries \u2013 Colombia, India, Jamaica and Uruguay \u2013 scored perfectly across all four parameters.<\/li>\n<li>India has the fifth most conducive environment among emerging countries for inclusive finance. Only Columbia, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico are ahead of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Botswana is humanity\u2019s ancestral home<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists claim to have traced the ancestral home region of all living humans to a vast wetland that sprawled over much of modern day Botswana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers suggest that a prehistoric wetland called Makgadikgadi-Okavango, south of the Great Zambezi River, became a thriving home to Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago, and sustained an isolated, founder population of modern humans for at least 70,000 years.<\/li>\n<li>The so-called L0 lineage remained in the region until a shift in the climate, driven by changes in the Earth\u2019s tilt and orbit, brought rains to the north-east and south-west, producing lush green corridors that allowed the early humans to spread into new territories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ICEDASH, ATITHI for improved customs clearance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today unveiled two new IT Initiatives \u2013 ICEDASH and ATITHI for improved monitoring and pace of customs clearance of imported goods and facilitating arriving international passengers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News in detail<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ICEDASH is an Ease of Doing Business monitoring dashboard of the Indian Customs helping the public see the daily Customs clearance times of import cargo at various ports and airports.<\/li>\n<li>The ATITHI app will facilitate hassle-free and faster clearance by Customs at the airports and enhance the experience of international tourists and other visitors at the airports.<\/li>\n<li>Both these initiatives will be key drivers for further improvement especially as they reduce interface and increase the transparency of Customs functioning.<\/li>\n<li>ATITHI will create a tech-savvy image of India Customs and would encourage tourism and business travel to India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star formation in jellyfish galaxies Why in news? 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