21-12-21 Daily-Karnataka-KPSC Current Affairs

Incidents of rape against minors and child marriages have surged exponentially from 2018 to 2021 in the state, setting alarm bells ringing about the safety of kids. Rapes against Women have also gone up.

According to data tabled in the legislative council during the , cases of rape against children have increased from 1,410 to 1,761 (25%) from 2018 to this year. Activists say the actual number is more as many cases go unreported in rural areas. Cases of child marriage have jumped 200% (from 74 to 223) in the state in the corresponding period, raising questions about functioning of child protection units in districts and the women and child welfare department.

Activists say kids became more vulnerable during the pandemic due to the lockdown assaults (other than rape) against kids increased by 8%. Rapes against women saw a 4% rise, going up from 486 in 2018 to 507 in 2021.

Child marriage incidents have been on the rise since 2018 with 74 cases registered that year, 108 in 2019, 180 in 2020 and 223 in 2021. The increase during the pandemic has not been addressed. The data also shows that cases underJuvenile Justice Actincreased from 50 in 2018 to 67 in 2021.

To Link Adhaar with the Electoral roll, The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, will be introduced in Lok Sabha.

Highlights:

When the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021 is approved, electoral registration officers will ask for the Aadhaar number of persons who want to register as voters.

To verify your identification, they will want your Aadhaar number. The bill also proposes allowing electoral registration officers to request Aadhaar numbers from people already on the electoral record.

This will be done to verify the entries in the electoral roll and to identify the registration of the same person’s name in the electoral roll of more than one constituency or the registration of the same name in the same constituency more than once.

The bill will amend several provisions of the and 1951.

The 1950 Act will be changed to enable the linkage of electoral roll data with the Aadhaar ecosystem. This modification will mitigate the threat of multiple enrolments of the same person in different areas.

Department for Promotion of and Internal Trade (DPIIT) launched the Unified Logistics Interface Platforms (ULIP) Hackathon called LogiXtics for crowdsourcing more ideas for the benefit of logistics industry.

ULIP is designed for enhancing efficiency and reducing logistics cost across India. This objective will be reduced by creating a transparent platform which will provide real time information to all the stakeholders and remove all asymmetry information.

ULIP Hackathon LogiXtics is being organised by NITI Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission.

It is also supported by NICDC Logistics Data Bank Services Limited (NLDSL) and National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC).

ULIP was conceptualised as a technology platform in logistics sector.

ULIP is being developed as technology platform to provide real time information to all the stakeholders.

It will converge visibility of multi-modal transport across existing systems of several Ministries or Departments working in silos.

ULIP will transform the logistic sector by lowering down the logistics cost and enhancing Indias competitiveness in international trade.

An experiment called MicroAge is set to be launched to International Space Station on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

MicroAge Experiment will help people in living a longer and healthier life.

As the part of this experiment, human cells will be launched to space.

Human cells have been put into small 3Dholders. These cells will be electrically stimulated, once they reach to space. The electrical stimulation will help in inducing contractions in muscle tissue. This experiment will help scientists in examining the cells closely.

These cells will be analysed by Researchers from University of Liverpool. Research will be funded by the UK Space Agency. UK Space Agency has provided 1.2 million in funds to conduct the experiment.

After spending 12 days aboard the International Space Station, a Japanese tycoon, his producer, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on 20 December.

Since 2009, Maezawa and Hirano have been the first self-paying guests to visit the space station.

Misurkin, on the other hand, was on his third space trip.Before them, in October 2021, Russian actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko spent 12 days on the space station to make the world’s first movie in space. Roscosmos, Russia’s space corporation, financed this project.

Seven space tourists flew to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft between 2001 and 2009.