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Red Panda

Red panda was recently captured on camera in the Eaglenest
Wildlife Sanctuary (EWS) located in the Singchung subdivision
of the West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh.
About Red Panda:

•It is primarily an herbivore species.
•They use their long, bushy tails for balance and to cover
themselves in winter, presumably for warmth.
•It is a shy, solitary and arboreal animals and considered

an indicator species for ecological change.

•Appearance:
•It is of the size of a house cat, the red panda is famous for its cute
face and adorable defense stance.
•Distribution:
•It lives in the mountainous forests of Bhutan, China, India,
Myanmar, and Nepal. Almost 50% of their habitat is in the Eastern
Himalayas.
•Threats:
•Red panda habitat is in decline. The loss of nesting trees and
bamboo in the Eastern Himalayas—the location of almost 50% of
the red panda’s habitat—is causing a decline in red panda
populations across much of their range.
•Conservation status
• IUCN Red list: Endangered
• CITES: Appendix I
• The Wildlife Protection Act 1972: Schedule I.
Key facts about Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary

•It is a protected area of India in the Himalayan foothills of West
Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh.
•It conjoins Sessa Orchid Sanctuaryto the northeast and Pakhui

Tiger Reserve across the Kameng river to the east.

•It is situated in the biodiversity hotspot of Eastern Himalayas and
home to over 500 bird species.
•Altitude ranges are extreme: from 500 metres (1,640 ft) to 3,250
metres (10,663 ft).
•It is also a part of the Kameng Elephant Reserve.

Project Astra

Recently, Google at the company’s annual developer
conference, presented an early version of Project Astra.
About Project Astra:

•It is a new multimodal AI agent developed by Google.
•It is capable of answering real-time questions fed to it through

text, video, images and speech by pulling up the relevant
information.
•It can see the world, remember where one has left a thing and
even answer if a computer code is correct by looking at it through
the phone’s camera.

•It is more straight-forward, there is no range of emotional
diversity in its voice.
•It is not limited to smartphones. Google also showed it being

used with a pair of smart glasses.
•Project Astra can learn about the world, making it as close as

possible to a human-assistant-like experience.
What is multimodal model AI?

•A multimodal model is a ML (machine learning) model that
is capable of processing information from different modalities,
including images, videos and text.
• For example, Google's multimodal model, Gemini, can receive
a photo of a plate of cookies and generate a written recipe
as a response and vice versa.
•This model expands on generative capabilities, processing

information from multiple modalities, including images, videos,
and text. Multimodality can be thought of as giving AI the ability
to process and understand different sensory modes.

Godavari River

Three youths from Konaseema district, Andhra Pradesh,
tragically drowned to death in the Godavari River recently.
About Godavari River:

•It is India's second-longest river after the Ganga and the third-
largest in India drains about 10% of India's total geographical
area.
•It is also called `Dakshina Ganga`, which translates into the South
Ganges River.
•Course:
•The origin of the Godavari River is in Brahmagiri Mountain
at Trimbakeshwar in Nashik district of
•It runs for a length of about 1,465 kilometers.
•It finally empties itself into the Bay of Bengal at Narasapuram

in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh.
•The river mainstem, travels through three states: Maharashtra,

Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh, while its basin includes
Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, parts of Chattisgarh, and Odisha.
•It has a drainage basin of some 121,000 square miles (313,000

square km)

•The basin is bounded by the Satmala hills, the Ajanta range, and
the Mahadeo hills on the north, by the Eastern Ghats on the south
and the east and by the Western Ghats on the west.
•The Godavari basin receives its maximum rainfall during the

Southwest monsoon.
•Tributaries:
•The principal tributaries of the river are the Pravara, the Purna,
the Manjra, the Penganga, the Wardha,
the Wainganga, the Pranhita(combined flow of Wainganga,
Penganga, Wardha), the Indravati, the Maner, and the Sabri.

Generalized System of Preferences

It is accepted wisdom that GSP renewal would offer an avenue
for wide-ranging U.S.-India trade negotiations that can help in
vaulting the bilateral trade relationship.
About Generalized System of Preferences (GSP):

•It was instituted in 1971 under the aegis of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
•It is a voluntary trade measure implemented by developed

countries that provides an advantageous, or “preferential”, tariff
treatment to imports from developing countries.

•The preferences are in the form of either elimination or
reduction in customs duty when the list of eligible products from
the beneficiary developing country (BDC) is exported to the
developed country.
•However, an exporter under the GSP is required to fulfil the rules

of origin under the GSP scheme. The rules of origin are the criteria
required to ensure that the product exported originates from the
country of export and is not being diverted from another country.
•The GSP is a unilateral customs duty preference scheme i.e.

there is no need for India or other BDCs to provide reciprocal
customs duty preferences for the developed country.
•The major countries that grant GSP preferences to developing
countries are Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Canada,
European Union (EU), Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, New
Zealand, Norway, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Turkey, United Kingdom (UK), United States (US),
and Uzbekistan.
•Each of these developed countries has its own regulatory

framework under which it provides the GSP tariff preferences.
•The GSP provided also varies in terms of the products on which

preferences are provided and the developing countries' exports
to which the tariff preferences are granted.
•In terms of trade volumes, the GSPs granted by the EU and the
US are the most comprehensive and hence, the most important
for developing countries.
•Some of the GSP schemes also provide additional tariff

preferences to a specified class of developing countries, with
most providing the largest coverage of GSP customs duty
preferences to exports from Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
•India is one of the primary beneficiaries in terms of export

volume realized under the GSP. Around 40% of India’s exports to
the EU are under the EU GSP, while prior to the US GSP withdrawal,
around 10% of India’s total exports to the US were under the GSP.
New Caledonia

French security forces are stepping up efforts to regain control
of New Caledonia amid ongoing and deadly unrest.
About New Caledonia:

•It is a French overseas collectivity with significant autonomy
under the terms of the 1998 Nouméa Accord.
•It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles

(1,500 km) east of Australia.
•Unlike many Pacific islands that are of relatively recent volcanic

origin, New Caledonia is an ancient fragment of
the Gondwana supercontinent.
•It comprises the main island of Grande Terre, the four Loyalty
Islands (Ouvéa, Lifou, Tiga, and Maré), the Belep archipelago,
the Isle of Pines, and some remote islands.
•Capital:
• Nouméa (located on Grande Terre)
•Population:
•Just over 270,000 people live in New Caledonia (2019).
Approximately 39 percent are indigenous ('Kanak’).
•The remainder are Caledonians of European, Polynesian, and

other (including Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Algerian) origins.
•New Caledonians are French and European citizens with the right
to live anywhere in France. They are entitled to vote in territorial
and French national elections.
•The President of the French Republic is New Caledonia's Head of

State and is represented in New Caledonia by a High
Commissioner.
•It is one of the European Union’s (EU) Overseas Countries and

Territories (OCTs) but is not part of the EU, the Euro, or Schengen
zones.

Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX)

The India-Japan partnership for their joint moon mission, Lunar
Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX), is likely to take flight in a few
years, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in
an interview recently.
About Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX):
•It is a collaborative endeavor between Indian Space Research

Organization (ISRO) and Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA).
•The mission is scheduled to launch in 2025.
•This mission will take off aboard Japan’s H3 rocket.

Primary Goal:
•To explore the moon’s southern polar region, investigating the
presence of water and other elements, potentially in the form of
surface ice.
•It aims to showcase innovative surface exploration technologies.

The special focus is on vehicular transport and lunar night
survival.
•It features both a lander and a rover. JAXA is responsible for

developing and operating the rover, and ISRO for
developing and operating the lander that will carry the rover.

• The rover will drive on its own to search for areas where
water is likely to be present and sample the soil by digging
into the ground with a drill.
• The plan is to acquire data by analyzing

the collected samples in detail with observation equipment
mounted on the rover.
• The rover will be equipped with instruments for measuring

the water content of regolith (lunar sand), drilling, and
sampling, as well as with other world-first and world-leading
technologies for the driving system and batteries.

• The rover will carry not only the instruments of ISRO and
JAXA but also those of the US space agency NASA and the
European Space Agency (ESA).

Commission on Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ)

After five days of discussions to strengthen crime prevention,
criminal justice responses and cooperation, the 33rd session of
the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice,
came to a conclusion recently.
About Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

(CCPCJ):
•CCPCJ is a commission of the United Nations Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC).
•It acts as the principal policymaking body of the United Nations

(UN) in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice.

•Membership:
•The CCPCJ has 40 member states that are elected by
ECOSOC and is chaired by a Bureau.
•ECOSOC provided for CCPCJ mandates and priorities in

resolution 1992/22, which includes the following:
• International action to combat national and transnational
crime, such as organized crime, economic crime, and
money-laundering
• Promoting the role of criminal law in protecting the
environment
• Crime prevention in urban areas, including juvenile crime
and violence
• Improving the efficiency and fairness of criminal justice
administration systems
•CCPCJ also offers Member States a forum for exchanging

expertise, experience and information in order to develop
national and international strategies and to identify priorities for
combating crime.
•It also acts as a preparatory body and as an implementing

body for the quinquennial United Nations Congress on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice.

• In 2006, the General Assembly adopted resolution 61/252,
which further expanded the mandates of CCPCJ to enable it to
function as a governing body of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and to approve the budget of the
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Fund,
which provides resources for technical assistance in the field
of crime prevention and criminal justice worldwide.
•The Commission maintains close links with the research

institutes belonging to the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice Programme Network (PNI).
• The network has been developed to assist the international
community in strengthening cooperation in the area of crime
prevention and criminal justice.
Prelims Rapid Fire
Consider the following statements with reference to the Commission on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ):
1. It is a commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC).
2. It functions as a governing body of the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC).
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A. 1 Only
B. 2 Only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. Neither 1and 2
Prelims Rapid Fire
Consider the following statements with reference to the Commission on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ):
1. It is a commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC).
2. It functions as a governing body of the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC).
A. 1 Only
B. 2 Only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. Neither 1and 2
About Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ):
•CCPCJ is a commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
•It acts as the principal policy making body of the United Nations (UN) in the fields of crime prevention
and criminal justice.
•Membership: The CCPCJ has 40 member states that are elected by ECOSOC and is chaired by a
Bureau.
•ECOSOC provided for CCPCJ mandates and priorities in resolution 1992/22, which includes the following:
•International action tocombat national and transnational crime, such as organized crime, economic
crime and money-laundering
•Promoting the role of criminal lawin protecting the environment
•Crime prevention in urban areas, including juvenile crime and violence
•Improving the efficiency and fairness of criminal justice administration systems
•CCPCJ also offers Member States a forum for exchanging expertise, experience,and information in
order to develop national and international strategies and to identify priorities for combating crime.
•It also acts as preparatory bodyand as implementing body for the quinquennial United Nations
Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
•In 2006, the General Assembly adopted resolution 61/252, which further expanded the mandates of
CCPCJ to enable it to function as a governing body of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), and to approve the budget of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Fund, which provides resources for technical assistance in the field of crime prevention and criminal
justice worldwide.
•The Commission maintains close linkswith the research institutes belonging to the UN Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network (PNI).
•The network has been developed to assist the international community in strengthening cooperation in
the area of crime prevention and criminal justice.
Prelims Rapid Fire
Consider the following statements with reference to the Lunar
Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX):
1. It is a collaborative endeavor between ISRO and NASA.
2. It aims to explore the moon’s southern polar region and
investigate the presence of water and other elements.
A. 1 Only
B. 2 Only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. Neither 1and 2
Prelims Rapid Fire
Consider the following statements with reference to the Lunar
Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX):
1. It is a collaborative endeavor between ISRO and NASA.
2. It aims to explore the moon’s southern polar region and
investigate the presence of water and other elements.
A. 1 Only
B. 2 Only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. Neither 1and 2
About Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX):
•It is a collaborative endeavor between ISRO and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
•The mission is scheduled to launch in 2025.
•This mission will take off aboard Japan’s H3 rocket.
•Primary Goal: To explore the moon’s southern polar region, investigating the presence of water and
other elements, potentially in the form of surface ice.
•It aims to showcase innovative surface exploration technologies. The special focus is on vehicular
transport and lunar night survival.
•It features both a lander and a rover. JAXA is responsible for developing and operating the rover,
and ISRO for developing and operating the lander that will carry the rover.
•The rover will drive on its own to search for areas where water is likely to be present and sample the
soil by digging into the ground with a drill.
•The plan is to acquire data by analyzing the collected samples in detail with observation equipment
mounted on the rover.
•The rover will be equipped with instruments for measuring the water content ofregolith (lunar
sand), drilling, and sampling, as well as with other world-first and world-leading technologies for the
driving system and batteries.
•The roverwill carry not only the instruments of ISRO and JAXA but also those
Prelims Rapid Fire
Project Astra, a multimodal AI agent, recently in
news is developed by:
A. Google
B. OpenAI
C.C-DAC
D. IndiaAI
Prelims Rapid Fire
Project Astra, a multimodal AI agent, recently in
news is developed by:
A. Google
B. OpenAI
C.C-DAC
D. IndiaAI
Explanation :
Recently, Google at the company’s annual developer conference, presented an early version of
Project Astra.
•It is a new multimodal AI agent developed by Google.
•It is capable of answering real-time questions fed to it through text, video, images, and speech by
pulling up the relevant information.
•It can see the world, remember where one has left a thing and even answer if a computer code is
correct by looking at it through the phone’s camera.
•It even answers if a computer code is correct by looking at it through the phone’s camera.
•It is more straight-forward, there is no range of emotional diversity in its voice.
•It is not limited to smartphones. Google also showed it being used with a pair of smart glasses.
•Project Astra can learn about the world, making it as close as possible to a human-assistant-like
experience.
What is multimodal model AI?
•A multimodal model is a ML (machine learning) model that is capable of processing information
from different modalities, including images, videos, and text.
•For example, Google's multimodal model, Gemini, can receive a photo of a plate of cookies and
generate a written recipe as a response and vice versa.
•This model expands on generative capabilities, processing information from multiple modalities,
including images, videos, and text. Multimodality can be thought of as giving AI the ability to process
and understand different sensory modes.
Prelims Rapid Fire
Consider the following statements with reference to the
Godavari River:
1. It is India's second-longest river after the Ganga.
2. It finally empties itself into the Bay of Bengal in Odisha.
A. 1 Only
B. 2 Only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. Neither 1and 2
Prelims Rapid Fire
Consider the following statements with reference to the
Godavari River:
1. It is India's second-longest river after the Ganga.
2. It finally empties itself into the Bay of Bengal in Odisha.
A. 1 Only
B. 2 Only
C. Both 1 and 2
D. Neither 1and 2
About Godavari River:
•It is India's second-longest river after the Ganga and the third-largest in India, drains about 10% of
India's total geographical area.
•It is also called `Dakshina Ganga`, which translates into South Ganges River.
•Course:
•The origin of the Godavari River is in Brahmagiri Mountain at Trimbakeshwar in Nashik
district of Maharashtra.
•It runs for a length of about 1,465 kilometers.
•It finally empties itself into the Bay of Bengal at Narasapuram in West Godavari district, Andhra
Pradesh.
•The river mainstem, travels through three states:Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra
Pradesh, while its basin includes Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, parts of Chattisgarh, and Odisha.
•It has a drainage basin of some 121,000 square miles (313,000 square km)
•The basin is bounded by theSatmala hills, the Ajanta range, and the Mahadeo hills on the north, by
the Eastern Ghats on the south and the east and by the Western Ghats on the west.
•The Godavari basin receives its maximum rainfallduring the Southwest monsoon.
•Tributaries: The principal tributaries of the river are the Pravara, the Purna, the Manjra,
the Penganga, the Wardha, the Wainganga, the Pranhita (combined flow of Wainganga,
Penganga, Wardha), the Indravati, the Maner, and the Sabri.

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Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

About Red Panda:

•It is a shy, solitary and arboreal animals and considered

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

Key facts about Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary

•It conjoins Sessa Orchid Sanctuaryto the northeast and Pakhui

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

•It is also a part of the Kameng Elephant Reserve.

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

About Project Astra:

•It is capable of answering real-time questions fed to it through

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

•It is not limited to smartphones. Google also showed it being

•Project Astra can learn about the world, making it as close as

What is multimodal model AI?

•This model expands on generative capabilities, processing

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

About Godavari River:

•It finally empties itself into the Bay of Bengal at Narasapuram

•The river mainstem, travels through three states: Maharashtra,

•It has a drainage basin of some 121,000 square miles (313,000

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

•The Godavari basin receives its maximum rainfall during the

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

About Generalized System of Preferences (GSP):

•It is a voluntary trade measure implemented by developed

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

•However, an exporter under the GSP is required to fulfil the rules

•The GSP is a unilateral customs duty preference scheme i.e.

•Each of these developed countries has its own regulatory

•The GSP provided also varies in terms of the products on which

•Some of the GSP schemes also provide additional tariff

•India is one of the primary beneficiaries in terms of export

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

About New Caledonia:

•It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles

•Unlike many Pacific islands that are of relatively recent volcanic

•The remainder are Caledonians of European, Polynesian, and

•The President of the French Republic is New Caledonia's Head of

•It is one of the European Union’s (EU) Overseas Countries and

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

About Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX):

•It is a collaborative endeavor between Indian Space Research

•The mission is scheduled to launch in 2025.

•This mission will take off aboard Japan’s H3 rocket.

•It aims to showcase innovative surface exploration technologies.

•It features both a lander and a rover. JAXA is responsible for

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

• The plan is to acquire data by analyzing

• The rover will be equipped with instruments for measuring

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

Current Affairs for All Exam Mail- deepakyadav20389@gmail.com

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About Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

•It acts as the principal policymaking body of the United Nations