Current Affairs: 30th July

Current Affairs(rajras.in) 30^th July                                                                                                              

• BRICS: first Employment Working Group meeting held in Hyderabad
  • Consensus between BRICS countries achieved on employment generation, social security agreement and networking of labour institutes.
  • Agenda was set to promote decent work and promote job creation between BRICS countries.

• After the Parliament passed the Bill banning employment of children below 14 years of age, India will be able to ratify two International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions, 138 & 182, on the abolition of all forms of child labour.
  • ILO Convention 138: says that the minimum age for employment should not be less than the age of completion of compulsory schooling (14 years of age in India’s case).
  • ILO Convention 182: calls for the need to formulate legislation for prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour.

• 29 July: International Tiger Day

• Noted Tabla maestro Pandit Lachu Maharaj (Lakshmi Narayan Singh) passed away in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

• Colachel no threat to Vizhinjam: Prime Minister
• Remember:
  • Colachel: New Enayam Port is coming up near Colachel in Tamil Naidu.
  • Vizhinjam: New Vizhinjam International deep sea port is coming up near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala

• Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor to be delayed
  • India’s first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is coming up at Kalpakkam, Tamil Naidu
  • Capacity: 500 Mw
  • This is 2^nd Stage reactor of India’s 3 Stage nuclear programme.
  • What is 1^st Stage: The 1^st stage reactors are used currently for electricity production in various nuclear plants.
  • Hence, the R & D is going on 2^nd
  • FBR: fuel – The Kalpakkam PFBR is using uranium-238 not thorium, to breed new fissile material, in a sodium-cooled fast reactor design.
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