Current affairs 02 September 2023

Government to celebrate 6th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2023 in September.

• The Central Government is celebrating the sixth Rashtriya Poshan Maah in September 2023.
• Objective: To comprehensively tackle malnutrition through a life-cycle approach and to cultivate widespread awareness concerning critical human life stages comprising pregnancy and adolescence.
• Aim: To foster nutritional understanding across India through a theme centered on Suposhit Bharat, Sakshar Bharat, Sashakt Bharat (Nutrition-rich India, Educated India, Empowered India).

Neeraj Chopra bagged silver in javelin event in Zurich Diamond League 2023.

• Neeraj Chopra finished second with a final round throw in the men's javelin event of the Diamond League 2023 in Zurich.
• He finished behind Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic, who had won a bronze in the World Championships.
• The Indian superstar, who was unbeaten this season qualified for the Diamond League finals to be held on the 17th of September in Eugene, He had won the Diamond League trophy in 2022.

Savart Launched First Fully Automated Investment Fund, "The Ad Astra Fund".

• Savart launched its world's First Fully Automated Investment Fund,The Ad Astra Fund in Hyderabad.
• Aim: To transform the traditional human-led investment research processes and increase the probability of achieving a superior return on investment.
• The fund features end-to-end research automation, from investment opportunity discovery until exit i.e., the entire research and investment decision-making is driven by their AI research system APART.

NPCI Launches India’s Own Blockchain-Backed Open-Source Project "Falcon".

• The National Payments Corporation of India announced the launch of Falcon, an open-source project that aims to simplify the management and use of blockchains based on Hyperledger Fabric and supported on Kubernetes clusters.
• Objective: To help blockchain developers use distributed ledger technology to facilitate efficient, reliable, and automated deployment of network as well as Web3 solutions.
• Hyperledger fabric is an enterprise-level permission blockchain network.

Nagaland becomes 1st state to launch Aadhaar linked birth registration.

• Nagaland became the first state in the northeastern region to initiate Aadhaar-linked birth registration (ALBR).
• Objective: To enable children's access to various social welfare schemes designed for their welfare.
• Aim: To streamline birth registration by integrating it with Aadhaar enrolment for children in the age group of 0 to 5.
• Directorate of Economics, Nagaland has collaborated with UIDAI as a Registrar cum Enrolment Agency for Child Enrolment via the ALBR process.