{"id":150505,"date":"2025-01-07T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=current-affairs&#038;p=150505"},"modified":"2025-01-07T19:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:38:02","slug":"news-in-shorts-07-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/news-in-shorts-07-january-2025","title":{"rendered":"News in Shorts: 07 January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Net-Zero Banking Alliance<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Context: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading banks like Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and possibly JPMorgan Chase have withdrawn from NZBA within a month.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><b>About Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is <\/span><b>a global initiative<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> supported by <\/span><b>the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NZBA is a<\/span><b> part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which brings together various financial coalitions working toward<\/span><b> net-zero goals.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It aims to align<\/span><b> the financial activities of banks <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the goal of achieving <\/span><b>net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encourages<\/span><b> sustainable investments <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and prioritizes<\/span><b> financial activities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that align with net-zero targets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Launched<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in April 2021.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Founded<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by 43 major global financial institutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Membership of Indian bank:\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Indian bank is a member of the NZBA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"vc_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw.live\/batches\/upsc?utm_source=seo+upsc+batch&#038;utm_medium=seo+upsc&#038;utm_campaign=seo&#038;utm_id=upsc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enroll now for UPSC Online Course<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Twigstats<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Context: <\/b><b>Twigstats, a new method has been developed to infer genome-wide genealogies\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>study was published in the journal Nature<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conducted by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The study is a collaboration led by the<\/span><b> Francis Crick Institute in the UK <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and other research groups across the UK, Japan, and Sweden\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><b>About Twigstats<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Experiment: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twigstats was applied to the task of <\/span><b>reconstructing the genetic history of 1,556 aDNA (ancient DNA) samples from northern and central Europe from 500 BC to 1000 AD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the European continent.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Method: It uses time-stratified ancestry analysis\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Importance:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new method <\/span><b>boosted the statistical power of existing methods <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by a magnitude and reduced the statistical errors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twigstats is <\/span><b>able to take into account the coalescence of populations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in recent times.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><b>reconstruct new high-resolution genetic histories<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around the world<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Nuanced Picture of Cultural History: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can enable combining genetic data with archaeological and historical evidence and proving that cultural shifts are often associated with genetic changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Insights into the Genetic Legacy:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reconstruction of fine population movements and admixture events that coincided with key cultural transitions, offering new insights into the genetic legacy of groups\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Findings:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twigstats has determined with more precision<\/span><b> individual-level ancestry at a very high resolution.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><b>Examples:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Twigstats models provided <\/span><b>direct evidence and high-resolution maps of the migration of individuals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who spoke Germanic languages and had Scandinavian-like ancestry across Europe in the first century AD.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Bidirectional Flow of Genes: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers reported evidence of ancestry related to continental Europe and the British Isles in pre-Viking Age Scandinavian individuals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Indonesia Free Meal Programme<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Context: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indonesia has <\/span><b>launched an ambitious $4.3 billion free meal programme <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to combat stunted growth due to malnutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><b>About the Free Meal Programme<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> nationwide nutrition programme for toddlers, students, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Budget<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The programme has a <\/span><b>budget of 71 trillion rupiah ($4.3 billion) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the 2025 fiscal year<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has<\/span><b> allocated 10,000 rupiahs per meal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with\u00a0 at least<\/span><b> 5,000 kitchens set up across the country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> preparing rice, protein, vegetables and fruit for students.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Target: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim to deliver<\/span><b> meals to almost 83 million people by 2029.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The free-meal programme is<\/span><b> designed to tackle stunting, which affects 21.5 per cent of children<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> younger than 5<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indonesia <\/span><b>aims to reduce the rate to 5pc by 2045.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"vc_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.pw.live\/govt-entrance-exams\/upsc-books?utm_source=SEO&#038;utm_medium=PW+Live&#038;utm_campaign=UPSC+CSE+Books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check Out UPSC CSE Books From PW Store<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><b>About the Republic of Indonesia<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indonesia is a <\/span><b>presidential republic with an elected legislature.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Indonesia is a country<\/span><b> in Southeast Asia and Oceania<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated <\/span><b>between the Indian and Pacific oceans.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Capital City: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jakarta is the<\/span><b> present capital city of Indonesia<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Nusantara is the future capital city of Indonesia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, located in <\/span><b>East Kalimantan,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the island of <\/span><b>Borneo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Archipelago: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indonesia is the <\/span><b>world&#8217;s largest archipelagic state consisting of over 17,000 islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including the islands of<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Neighbours<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Indonesia shares<\/span><b> land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Maritime Border:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and <\/span><b>India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><b>Sumatra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is closest to<\/span><b> Great Nicobar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1,192 kms).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Population: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indonesia is the <\/span><b>world&#8217;s fourth-most-populous country with over 280 million people a<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd the mos<\/span><b>t populous Muslim-majority country.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Java Island:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is the world&#8217;s most populous island and is home to more than half of the country&#8217;s population.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"vc_table_green\"><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.6375%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 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