{"id":52576,"date":"2019-09-25T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=52576"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:21:09","slug":"9-pm-current-affairs-brief-september-25th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-september-25th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 September 25th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=193353\">UMMID\ninitiative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Union Minister for Science &amp; Technology\nhas launched the UMMID initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About UMMID:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>UMMID stands for Unique Methods of\n Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders.<\/li><li>The initiative aims at creating awareness\n about genetic disorders amongst clinicians and establish molecular\n diagnostics in hospitals so that the benefits of developments in medical\n genetics could reach patients.<\/li><li>The initiative will be implemented by the\n Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the Ministry of Science and\n Technology.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features of UMMID:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Establish NIDAN (National Inherited Diseases Administration) Kendras to provide counselling, prenatal testing and diagnosis, management, and multidisciplinary care in Government Hospitals wherein the influx of patients is more.<\/li><li>The initiative aims to produce skilled clinicians in Human Genetics.<\/li><li>It also aims to undertake screening of pregnant women and newborn babies for inherited genetic diseases in hospitals at aspirational districts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"328\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ummid.jpg?resize=328%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52578\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=193378\">National\nService Scheme (NSS)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>President of India has presented the National\nService Scheme(NSS) Awards for 2017-18 to universities, NSS units and NSS\nvolunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About NSS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>National Service scheme is a Central\n sector scheme implemented by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of\n the Government of India.<\/li><li>The scheme was launched in 1969.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The scheme aims to develop the personality\n and character of the student youth through voluntary community service.<\/li><li>NSS volunteers play an important role in\n spreading awareness about government initiatives such as Swachh Bharat\n Mission activities and yoga program.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objectives of the\nscheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Understand the community in which they\n work.<\/li><li>Understand themselves in relation to their\n community.<\/li><li>Identify the needs and problems of the\n community and involve them in problem solving process.<\/li><li>Develop competence required for group\n living and sharing of responsibilities.<\/li><li>Gain skills in mobilizing community\n participation.<\/li><li>Develop capacity to meet emergencies and\n natural disasters.<\/li><li>Practice national integration and social\n harmony.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-how-coal-gasification-can-help-india-bring-down-its-urea-import-6025114\/\">Explained:\nHow coal gasification can help India reduce its energy import<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Odisha\u2019s Talcher fertiliser plant has been\nawarded a contract for starting a coal gasification unit for the production of\nurea and Ammonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is coal\ngasification?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Coal gasification is the process of\n converting coal into synthesis gas (also called syngas) which is a mixture\n of hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2).&nbsp;<\/li><li>The syngas can be used in a variety of\n applications such as in the production of electricity and making chemical\n products such as fertilisers.<\/li><li>According to the International Energy\n Agency report, the coal gasification process holds good potential in the\n future with coal being the most abundantly available fossil fuel across\n the world and that even low-grade coal can be used in the process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of\ncoal gasification:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to the Ministry of Chemicals and\n Fertilisers,urea is currently produced using pooled natural gas, which\n comprises of both domestic natural gas and imported LNG.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Hence,the usage of locally available coal\n for making fertilisers would help reduce the import of LNG.<\/li><li>Further,India currently imports 50 to 70\n lakh tonnes of urea every year, and the revival of the units would help\n increase the availability of domestically produced fertilisers.<\/li><li>The project would also generate direct and\n indirect employment of around 4,500 people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concerns:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Coal gasification is one of the more\n water-intensive forms of energy production.<\/li><li>There are concerns about water\n contamination, land subsidence and disposing of waste water safely.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2019\/sep\/23\/national-population-register-being-done-for-first-time-in-2021-census-amit-shah-2037854.html\">National\nPopulation Register<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Home Minister has said that the National\nPopulation register(NPR) is being prepared for the first time in the Census\n2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About National\npopulation register:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The National Population Register or NPR is\n a Register of the residents of the nation.&nbsp;<\/li><li>NPR is prepared at the local, District,\n State and National level under provisions of the Citizenship Act 1955 and\n the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity\n Cards) Rules, 2003.<\/li><li>The exercise is different from the Census\n 2021 and is not linked to the National Register of Citizens(NRC).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objective:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The objective of the NPR is to create a\n comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country.The\n database would contain demographic as well as biometric particulars.<\/li><li>It is mandatory for every usual resident\n of India to register in the NPR.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Definition of\nresident under NPR:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A usual resident is defined for the\n purposes of NPR as a person who has resided in a local area for the past 6\n months or more or a person who intends to reside in that area for the next\n 6 months or more.<\/li><li>The NPR database would also contain\n demographic as well as biometric details.<\/li><li>Under NPR,a resident identity card (RIC)\n will be issued to individuals over the age of 18.This will be a\n chip-embedded smart card containing the demographic and biometric\n attributes of each individual.The UID number will also be printed on the\n card.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/first-in-pollution-control-how-surat-industries-will-trade-particulate-matter-6022272\/\">Emissions\nTrading Scheme(ETS)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Gujarat government has launched the world\u2019s\nfirst Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for trading in Particulate Matter(PM)\nemissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features of the\nscheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The programme aims to reduce particulate\n air pollution and facilitate robust economic growth.<\/li><li>Under the programme,the government sets a\n cap on emissions and allow industries to buy and sell permits to stay\n below the cap.<\/li><li>The Gujarat state pollution control board\n (GPCB) will define the total mass of pollution that can be released into\n the air over a certain fixed period by all industrial units together.This\n will be equivalent to the cap.<\/li><li>The programme is the first market-based\n approach to regulate pollution emissions in India.Further,it is also the\n first in the world to regulate particulate air pollution.&nbsp;<\/li><li>At present,the programme is being launched\n in Surat to understand its impact on emissions, industry costs and\n regulatory costs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emission trading\nsystem(ETS):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Emission trading systems(ETS) is also\n referred to as the cap-and-trade system.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Under ETS, the government caps the total\n level of greenhouse gas emissions provided to the companies and allows\n those industries with low emissions to sell their extra allowances to\n larger emitters.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Particulate matter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Particulate Matter (PM) is small liquid\n droplets and solid particles whose hazardous nature increases with a\n decrease in their size as they become respirable.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It includes both organic and inorganic\n particles, such as dust, pollen, soot, smoke, and liquid droplets.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/shah-moots-1-card-for-all-utilities\/article29495777.ece\">Census\n2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Minister for Home Affairs has said that\nthe 2021 census exercise would be carried out digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Census:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The census provides information on size,\n distribution demographic, socio-economic and other characteristics of the\n country\u2019s population.<\/li><li>A systematic and modern population census\n in its present form was conducted non synchronously between 1865 and 1872\n in different parts of the country.<\/li><li>However,the first synchronous census in\n India was held in 1881.Since then,censuses have been undertaken\n uninterruptedly once every ten years.<\/li><li>Since 1949 the census has been conducted\n by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the\n Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.<\/li><li>India\u2019s last census was carried out in\n 2011 when the country\u2019s population stood at 121 crore.The Indian Census is\n one of the largest administrative exercises undertaken in the world.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Census 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The data collected by the Registrar\n General and Census Commissioner of India during the 2021 Census will be\n stored electronically.<\/li><li>The Census 2021 will be conducted in 18\n languages out of the 22 scheduled languages (under 8th schedule) and\n English.<\/li><li>The Census data would be available by the\n year 2024-25 as the entire process would be conducted digitally and data\n crunching would be quicker.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Registrar\nGeneral of India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Registrar General and Census Commissioner\n of India was founded in 1961 by Government of India Ministry of Home\n Affairs.<\/li><li>It was formed for arranging, conducting\n and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including\n Census of India and Linguistic Survey of India.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/arunachal-yields-a-new-frog-species\/article29494090.ece\">Microhyla\neos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Scientists have discovered a new discovered\nspecies of frog named Microhyla eos from Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Microhyla:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Microhyla are a group of narrow-mouthed\n frogs (subfamily Microhylinae) that is primarily and widely distributed in\n Asia.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They are commonly known as \u2018Rice Frogs\u2019 or\n \u2018Chorus Frogs\u2019, the genus currently comprises of 49 recognised species.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the new frog\nspecies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The new frog was discovered from riparian\n habitats in a primary evergreen forest in the Namdapha Tiger Reserve of\n the state.<\/li><li>The frog was confirmed to represent a\n distinct new species after detailed comparison of both, DNA and morphology\n with all the previously known members of the group found across South,\n Southeast, and East Asia.<\/li><li>Since Arunachal Pradesh is popularly known\n as \u2018the land of the rising sun\u2019 or \u2018the land of dawn-lit mountains\u2019,the\n new species has been named as eos after the mythological Greek goddess of\n dawn.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Namdapha National\nPark:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Namdapha National Park is a large\n protected area in Arunachal Pradesh<\/li><li>The area is located between Dapha Bum\n ridge of Mishmi Hills outspurs of North Eastern Himalayas and Patkai\n Ranges.<\/li><li>It is the fourth largest national park in\n India.<\/li><li>The Namdapha flying squirrel\n (Biswamoyopterus biswasi) was first sighted in this park.It is endemic to\n this park and critically endangered.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=193360\">Special\nExpenditure Observers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Election commission of India has appointed\nformer IRS officers as special expenditure observers for Maharashtra polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Special\nExpenditure observers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Special Expenditure Observers are\n appointed by the EC under the powers conferred under Article 324 of the\n Constitution and the Representation of the People Act, 1951.<\/li><li>The special observers will be supervising\n and monitoring the work being done by the electoral machinery.<\/li><li>The observers will also watch the conduct\n of Elections with special emphasis on controlling the abuse of money\n power, in consultation with the Chief Electoral Officer at respective\n constituencies.<\/li><li>They will also ensure stringent and\n effective enforcement action is undertaken based on intelligence inputs\n and complaints received through C-VIGIL and Voter Helpline.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About RPA Act,1951:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Representation of the People Act,1951\n is an act of Parliament of India.<\/li><li>The act provides (a)the conduct of\n elections of the Houses of Parliament and the House of the Legislature of\n each State (b)the qualifications and disqualifications for membership of\n those Houses and (c)the corrupt practices,decisions,doubts and disputes\n arising in connection with such elections.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Election\ncommission:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Election Commission of India is an\n autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering election\n processes in India.<\/li><li>The Election Commission operates under the\n authority of Constitution under Article 324 and subsequently enacted\n Representation of the People Act,1951.<\/li><li>The EC administers elections to the (a)Lok\n Sabha (b)Rajya Sabha (c)state Legislative Assemblies (d)state legislative\n Councils and the (e)offices of the President and Vice President of the\n country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C-VIGIL:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Election Commission of India had launched\n a mobile application named \u2018C-vigil.<\/li><li>The app allows citizens to report on\n violation of Model code of conduct.It is operational only where elections\n are announced.<\/li><li>Election observers will also be able to\n see all the complaints by citizens through C-vigil and take action in real\n time in their area of jurisdiction.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1586054\">India\nInternational Science Festival<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The 5th edition of India International Science\nFestival (IISF) 2019 will be held at Kolkata from 5th to 8th November, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About IISF:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>IISF is an annual event organised jointly\n by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences in\n association with Vijnana Bharati (Vibha).<\/li><li>IISF aims to encourage the young minds\n towards the field of science and to promote the networking of stakeholders\n working towards the propagation of science.<\/li><li>The festival celebrates the achievements\n of India\u2019s scientific and technological advancements with students,\n innovators, craftsmen, farmers, scientists and technocrats from India and\n abroad.<\/li><li>The theme for this year\u2019s festival is\n RISEN India \u2013 Research, Innovation, and Science Empowering the Nation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Student\nScience village:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Student Science Village is a part of the\n India International Science Festival 2019 at Kolkata, West Bengal.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The prime goal of Student ScienceVillage\n is to provide science exposure to the students from rural India and make\n them aware of India\u2019s achievements in frontier areas of Science &amp;\n Technology.<\/li><li>The programme is linked with Pradhan\n Mantri Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana where in every Member of Parliament has\n been asked to nominate five students each along with their teacher from\n their constituency for the village.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Pradhan\nMantri Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is a village\n development project under which each Member of Parliament will take the\n responsibility of developing physical and institutional infrastructure in\n three villages by 2019.<\/li><li>The goal is to develop three Adarsh Grams\n or model villages by March 2019, of which one would be achieved by\n 2016.Thereafter,five such Adarsh Grams (one per year) will be selected and\n developed by 2024.<\/li><li>The scheme is implemented through a\n village development plan that is prepared for every identified gram\n panchayat with special focus on enabling every poor household to come out\n of poverty.<\/li><li>The constituency fund, MPLADS fund would\n be available to fill critical financing gaps.<\/li><li>The planning process in each village will\n be a participatory exercise coordinated by the District Collector.The MP\n will play an active facilitating role in this exercise.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=371990\">Krishi Kisan\nApp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers\nWelfare has launched \u2018Krishi Kisan App for Geo Tagging\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the app:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Krishi Kisan App will provide farmers\n the information of best demonstration of high-yielding crops and seeds in\n their nearby area.<\/li><li>Any farmer with high quality of crops can\n utilise this platform to demonstrate best practices of cultivation to\n other farmers so that this will help other farmers also to adopt these\n methods.<\/li><li>The App will also help in geo-tagging and\n geo-fencing of crop and give weather forecast message to farmers.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/police-gear-up-to-scan-underworld-of-internet\/article29506092.ece\">Kerala\npolice gear up to scan underworld of Internet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Kerala police has launched a programme called\nCyberdome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Cyberdome:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cyberdome is Kerala police department\u2019s\n premier facility dedicated to prevent cybercrime and mitigate security\n threats to the State\u2019s critical information infrastructure.<\/li><li>The facility has state-of-the-art lab\n complete with enabling software to intervene and crack down on the rising\n criminal activities over the Darknet also known as the underworld of the\n Internet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Darknet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The darknet refers to networks that are\n not accessible by search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing.&nbsp;<\/li><li>These are networks that are only available\n to a select group of people and not to the general Internet public.It is\n only accessible via authorization, specific software and configurations.<\/li><li>The two typical types of darknet are\n friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a\n peer-to-peer connection) and privacy networks such as Tor (The Onion\n Router).<\/li><li>It is a major source to buy anything for\n drug dealers, arms traffickers, child pornography collectors and other\n criminals involved in financial and physical crimes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pm-pushes-to-strengthen-fatf-as-imran-calls-blacklist-part-of-indias-agenda\/article29502400.ece\">PM\npushes to strengthen FATF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>On the sidelines of the 74th UN General\nAssembly session,Indian Prime minister attended the Dialogue on Strategic\nResponses to Terrorist and Violent Extremist Narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The dialogue was organised by Jordan,\n France and New Zealand and attended by leaders of about 24 countries but\n did not include either China or Pakistan.<\/li><li>Addressing the session,Indian Prime\n minister said that institutional mechanism against terrorism like UN\n Security Council(UNSC) sanctions and the Financial Action Task Force\n (FATF) listings must not be politicised.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About FATF:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Financial Action Task Force(FATF) is\n an inter-governmental body established in 1989 on the initiative of the\n G7.<\/li><li>It is a policy-making body which works to\n generate the necessary political will to bring about national legislative\n and regulatory reforms in various areas.<\/li><li>The FATF Secretariat is housed at the OECD\n headquarters in Paris, France.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The objectives of the FATF are to (a) set\n standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and\n operational measures (b) for combating money laundering (c)terrorist\n financing and (d) other related threats to the integrity of the\n international financial system.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Listing by FATF:<\/strong>FATF maintains two different lists of\ncountries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Grey list:<\/strong>The grey list contains those countries\n that have deficiencies in their anti-money laundering (AML) and combating\n the financing of terrorism (CFT) regime.But they commit to an action plan\n to address these loopholes,&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Black list:<\/strong>These countries are those that do not end\n up doing enough even after having deficiencies in their anti-money\n laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regime.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which countries are\nlisted?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As of now there are only two countries in\n the blacklist which are Iran and North Korea.<\/li><li>Further,there are seven countries on the\n grey list which includes countries such as&nbsp; Pakistan, Syria , Yemen\n among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Implications of\nlisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Once a country is on grey list,the country\n is downgraded by institutions like IMF, World Bank, ADB, EU and also\n reduction in risk rating by Moody\u2019s, Fitch and S&amp;P.<\/li><li>Further,if the country is blacklisted,FATF\n calls on other countries to apply enhanced due diligence and counter\n measures,increasing the cost of doing business with the country and in\n some cases severing it altogether.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMMID initiative News:The Union Minister for Science &amp; Technology has launched the UMMID initiative. Facts: About UMMID: UMMID stands for Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders. The initiative aims at creating awareness about genetic disorders amongst clinicians and establish molecular diagnostics in hospitals so that the benefits of developments in medical genetics&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-september-25th-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 September 25th, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":48116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-brief","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9-PM-Brief.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704900969},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}