17.06.21 Daily [Uttarakhand] UKPSC Current Affairs

This helpline number is especially for swift assistance in cases of financial cyber crimes.

Speaking on the occasion, Rawat said that cyber crime is an emerging challenge to fight against which the Uttarakhand Police have made a good effort. Wide publicity should be done to ensure that all citizens know about this helpline number. He also stressed on the need for raising public awareness to check cyber crimes in this digital era.

Speaking on the occasion, <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture minister Subodh Uniyal congratulated Uttarakhand police while also stating that cyber crime is rising at an alarming rate. Stressing on the need for effective measures to tackle cyber crime, he said that Uttarakhand has become the third State to launch a helpline number for this purpose.

It was stated on the occasion that there has been a consistent rise in financial and non-financial cyber crimes in recent years.

Recently the Ministry of Home Affairs issued the cyber helpline number 155260. Uttarakhand is the third Indian state to get permission from the Ministry of Home Affairs to operate the said helpline number.

A citizen can call this helpline to inform about any financial cyber crime. An e-Suraksha control room has also been set up in the cyber crime police station for this purpose.

The Centre on Monday told theSupreme Courtthat its notification of May 28 delegating powers to collectors of some of districts to grant to members of the minority community from Afghanistan,Pakistanand Bangladesh was not related to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and that such exercise had been done earlier too since 2006.

By the notification, the Centre has delegated power to grant citizenship in such cases to the collectors of 13 more districts Morbi, Rajkot, Patan and Vadodara in Gujarat; Jalore, Udaipur, Pali, Barmer and Sirohi in Rajasthan; Durg and Balodabazar in Chhattisgarh; Faridabad in Haryana; and Jalandhar inPunjaband to the Home secretaries ofHaryanaand Punjab. Now, district collectors of 29 districts and home secretaries of 9 states can exercise such powers.

A Chinese spacecraft “Shenzhou XII” with three crew members docked with China’s new space station module Tianhe 1. This follows the launch of the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft, which delivered critical supplies to the space station.

Highlights:

About six hours after taking off from the Jiuquan launch centre in the Gobi Desert, the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft connected with the Tianhe space station module.

The three-man crew will spend three months on the Tianhe module, which will orbit the Earth at 340km to 380km altitude.

This is the first of two manned space missions scheduled for this year, as part of a intense launch schedule aimed at completing the Chinese space station by 2022.

The three astronauts are the first to live in the main living module, where they will conduct experiments, test equipment, perform maintenance, and prepare the station for the arrival of two laboratory modules next year.

The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the risk that children working in informal processing face as a result of discarded electronic devices, or E-Waste, in its report Children and Digital Dumpsites. It is the world’s first WHO report on electronic waste and child health.

Approximately 12.9 million Women work in the informal waste sector, exposing them to toxic e-waste (such as nickel, lead, and mercury) and putting themselves and their unborn children at risk.

Children are especially vulnerable to the toxic chemicals found in e waste because of their smaller size, less developed organs, and rapid rate of Growth and development.