Friday Factly 11 December 2020

General Studies-1

Between September 2019 and January 2020, 25,000 instances of child pornography being uploaded online
In 2017, a staggering 68% of 1.04 million deaths of children under five years in India was attributable to malnutrition, reckoned a Lancet study last year.

Greenhouse Gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius as per a UN report

Over 75% districts in India (home to 63.8 crore people) are hotspots of extreme climatic events like cyclone, drought, flood, heat and cold waves.
While 250 such extreme events between 1970 and 2005, it has been more than 350 15 years since 2005.
Frequency of flood events increased by 8 times in last 50 years.

According to UN estimate in 2019 number of poor in 2019 stand at 364 million (28%).

According to a UNICEF report, closure of 1.5 million schools means that 247 million children enrolled in elementary and secondary education as well as 28 million children who are attending pre-school education in Anganwadis (day-care) centres are affected.

About 60 per cent of known infectious diseases in humans and 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, according to a new report published recently by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

The U.S. arms industry accounted for 61% of sales by the world’s “Top 25” manufacturers last year, ahead of China’s 15.7%, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

A recent report by Accenture estimated that in India transactions worth $270.7 billion are expected to shift from cash to cards and digital payments by 2023 and to $856.6 billion by 2030.
Value of transactions through UPI increased 89 per cent between April and November this year, while amount transacted through Bharat Bill Pay was 90 per cent higher.
Over 320 million learners have been affected and more than 5 million young people are likely to have lost their jobs.
According to National Sample Survey data for 2019, only 20% of urban women in the age group of 15-59 years spend time in “employment and related activities” on an average day.
Data from the terrorism monitoring portal, satp.org, show that there were 382 incidents related to terrorism and 302 fatalities in 2020 so far in J&K compared to 369 and 283 in 2019, respectively.
According to Department of Telecommunication the use of internet increased by 13% after lockdown was announced.
NASSCOM says that data and AI will contribute $450 billion-$500 billion to India’s GDP by 2025, which is around 10% of the government’s aspiration of a $5 trillion economy.
Data from the terrorism monitoring portal, satp.org, show that there were 382 incidents related to terrorism and 302 fatalities in 2020 so far in J&K compared to 369 and 283 in 2019, respectively.
India ranked 9th in the Climate Change Performance Index released in Madrid. The top position was bagged by Sweden while China ranked 30th.