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Mrunal's Daily Current Affairs:Mar-12-2021: Sindhu Sadhana, Microbe genome, Dandi March, Blockchain

Time Codes 00:00 - AI Issue 01:20 - Rashmi Sawant 03:14 - Vladimir Putin Quote 04:33 - History-Culture: Azadika Amrit Mahotsav 07:02 - Uttar Pradesh State Advertisement 08:49 - Sindhu Sadhana 11:32 - Sweden: V-Dem Institute 12:23 - World News 12:49 - European Union: LGBTQ (Freedom Zone) 13:39 - Economy: Blockchain Technology ⏩ Ethics GSM4☯️ → When artificial intelligence used for Monitoring social media: During the live broadcast of chess matches, commentators speak/write like "‘Black's attack on White is brutal’ or ‘Black should be able to block White’s advance’" etc. But it gets flagged as hate speech. Some YouTube accounts were suspended as a result. Therefore human intervention is required to check the context of the words. → Cancel culture /oversensitivity/cyber-bullying: Rashmi Sawant first Indian girl president to Oxford University student union forced to resign within a month-Due to constant cyber bullying for her past tweets 1) she had captioned a Malaysia photo with "Ching Chang", Which is termed as racist 2) she used the word "Trans woman", Instead of letting them as just "women" Which is termed as transphobic/homophobic 3) Her mother had posted a photo with Jay Shri Ram so a faculty member raised concern that Rashmi was within Islamophobic background. Her defense? Being a non-native English speaking teenager that posted some tweets 3 to 5 years ago, And has apologized, YET cyberbullies / cancel-culture people continue to harass her. Lessons? Intolerance is not associated only with a single religious group. It has many facets involving race and sexuality as well. → The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. — Vladimir Putin. But, in the age of populism honey preferred over bitter medicine e.g. 1) Gujarat state govt U turns helmet rule- First Made compulsory → public protest so made helmet Non compulsory→ then again by high court order made compulsory (2020) [2) USA Texas state government allowing all the bars and pubs to open at 100% capacity Despite Corona (2021). ⏩ History/Culture🗿 → PM to launch Azadika Amrit Mahotsav (75 years of independence) by flagging off a 386-km “Dandi March” from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to Dandi in Navsari district of South Gujarat ⏩ E-Gov🧔 → Roskomnadzor: Russia's Media regulator -Instead of doing outright ban on Twitter it has enforced "slowed down" = Twitter website will deliberately load slowly in Russia. With the hopes that eventually the activist will lose patience and scatter away. Russian authorities dislike Twitter for not deleting porn, drug, suicide, hate speech & Anti-government tweets in Timely fashion. ⏩ Environment🌿 → Uttar Pradesh is the first state to declare human wildlife conflict - a "natural disaster" ⏩ Science🧪 → Sindhu Sadhana -Research vessel, scientist from National Institute of Oceanography Panaji. It will collect samples of microorganisms from Indian ocean for genome mapping. It will help understand how microbes have adopted to different level of iron zinc cadmium, copper etc in various parts of ocean? → mining of polymetallic nodules. ⏩ Polity⚖️ → Punjab and Haryana High Court orders 1) to set up safe houses for run-away couples marrying against the family wishes. 2) Setup websites where such couples can file complaints without being physically present. → ⚾️📻⚾️🎓✋ Sweden’s V-Dem Institute described India as "electoral autocracy”: India is as “autocratic” as Pakistan, and worse than Bangladesh and Nepal. ⏩ IR/Defense🔫 → Chinese Parliament 14th five year plan (2021-25) : Approved building a dam in Medog county of Tibet over Brahmaputra river. It will affect the river flow in India 😰 → ⚾️📻⚾️🎓✋Online Quad summit: let them conclude, then we will see the outcome. → EU Parliament declared LGBT freedom zone. This is mainly because 1) Poland - where many municipalities passed resolutions against LGBT ideology. 2) Some EU nations forbid sex-change operation. ⏩ Economy💳 → Blockchain technology allows data storage in many servers in a decentralised manner and viewed nearly in real-time.- It will be be used in the government e Marketplace (GeM) portal to track purchase & Delivery of medicines. → Common themes in the state budgets 2021-1) ⏫Welfare / pension / money transfer schemes 2) ⏬Capital Expenditure (infrastructure). Reasons? 1) ⏬Tax collection 2) Upcoming elections - Cannot invest in long gestation projects Like Road building and dams. Populist measures are more useful to win elections. → ⚾️📻⚾️🎓✋ European Central Bank to print money at a faster pace to provide Corona relief packages. And then 500 ways in which it links with bond yield. → ⚾️📻⚾️🎓✋Insolvency bankruptcy code and Supreme Court mein 500 jaat ke judgements. ⏩ PIN-GK🏋️ → Hiraba: Prime Minister's mother got vaccinated against Corona.