22-06-23 Daily-Gujarat-GPSC Current Affairs

More than 14,000 fruit-bearing trees and Plants over 53,000 hectares of land in the state have been destroyed in last weeks cyclone, according to the initial estimates.Gujarat Energy Transmission Company Ltdand other power distribution companies also suffered damages to the tune of Rs 783 crore.

spokespersonRushikesh Patelsaid that cash doles worth Rs 1.23 crore have been distributed to persons who were evacuated to safer places ahead of Cyclone Biparjoys landfall in Gujarat. Electricity supply was disrupted in 6,486 villages of the state, and it has been restored in 5,753 villages, the state Health minister said.

Patel said that initial estimates show that Horticulture crops have been destroyed over 53,000 hectares. It is estimated that 14,887 fruit bearing trees have been destroyed in the cyclone. Our teams have still been surveying the damage to crops, the minister said.

Recently, a former archaeologist ofArchaeological Survey of India (ASI)has discovered aMesolithic periodrock painting depicting a person tilling a piece of land in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.

It was found while surveying thelowerRiver KrishnaValleyto ascertain the architectural features of shrines.

Minister of State for Culture, Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi inaugurated the exhibition Hamari Bhasha, Hamari Virasat under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate 75th International Archives Day at , New Delhi.

On the occasion of 75th International Archives Day, National Archives of India has made available the Gilgit Manuscripts written between the 5 -6 centuries CE, which is the oldest surviving manuscript collection in India.

It contains documents written on pieces of inner layer of the bark of birch trees which were found in Kashmir region and contain both canonical and non-canonical Jain and Buddhist works that throw Light on the evolution of many religious-philosophical literature.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted by consensus a draft resolution piloted by India to establish a memorial wall in the UN headquarters here to honour fallen peacekeepers.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj introduced the draft resolution titled Memorial wall for fallen United Nations peacekeepers’ on Wednesday in the UN General Assembly Hall and it was adopted by consensus.

It welcomed the initiative of member states to establish at a suitable and prominent place at United Nations Headquarters in New York a memorial wall to honour the memory of fallen peacekeepers, giving due consideration to the modalities involved, including the recording of the names of those who have made the supreme sacrifice.”

India is currently the 3rd largest contributor of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping with more than 6,000 military and Police personnel deployed to Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, the Middle East and Western Sahara.