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Health Index 2021 has been released by NITI Aayog The report named as HEALTHY STATES, PROGRESSIVE INDIA : HEALTH INDEX ROUND IV (2019-20) has been released by NITI Aayog, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and World Bank.  The report is fourth edition and for the fourth time Kerela has topped the list ranking among states on various health indicators. The report was conceptualized in 2017 by NITI Aayog, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and World Bank to track the progress on health outcomes and health system performance, develop healthy competition and encourage cross learning among states and union territories of India. Index is based on 3 domains and 24 indicators covering weighted composite score on key aspects of performance. 3 domains are  A. Health outcomes 1. Neo Natal mortality rate 2. Under5 mortality rate 3. Sex ratio at birth B. Governance and informations 1. Institutional deliveries 2. Average occupancy of senior officer in key posts earmarked for heal...

Yellow Alert in Delhi under Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Due to rise in covid19 positive rate above 0.5% in past week, alert has been imposed by government. Yellow alert will call for certain restrictions (mentioned below) to be imposed to counter further spread of Covid19 and prevent social gatherings during end of year 2021.  Delhi has been reported with 496 new cases of covid19 in a single day which is 50% higher than the preceding day. Even in Mumbai new cases of 1,377 was recorded in last 24 hours. World wide many nations and prime cities are impacted with OMICRON variant of Covid19, which may not be deadly yet but is spreading at alarming rate.  Looking at the timeline of global wave', 1st wave of covid19 was hit during june 2020 to march 2021, 2nd wave was during April to June 2021, 3rd mild wave was from August to November 2021, presently 4th wave is due to OMICRON variant is rapidly rising with positive cases and is predicted to hit like 1st wave.  Cases in...

Vaccination for children for Covid19 Prime Minister of India, Mr. Modi has announced that children within age group of 15-18 years will be vaccinated from 3rd January 2022. A senior doctor from AIIMS epidemiology department has stated that government decision on vaccinating childrens for Covid19 vaccine is unscientific. As the doctor himself was one among the team members to look after the trials of vaccine in adults and children, the decision of government needs to examined. Government of India has planned to start booster dose for senior citizens from 10th January 2022 and vaccination for children of 15-18 age group from 3rd January 2022, keeping in view the spread of new OMICRON variant. The vaccination of children for certain age group was planned to normalise the teaching facilities in schools and colleges and reduce the worries of parents sending their children's out of home. Recently, the drug regulatory body of India has approved Covaxin for emergency use as covid19 vaccine...

James Webb Space Telescope launched by NASA, World's most expensive and powerful space telescope. The idea of launching telescope into space was to know more about universe and its happening, this was proposed by a German Scientists Hermann Oberth. Placing a telescope in space or above earth' turbulent atmosphere will definitely help in studying the occurrence of X-ray, Gamma Ray and Ultra violet rays; which gets blocked by earth atmosphere. Space telescope will help in studying black holes, impact of star's collision, visible lights efficacy, etc. Their are different type of telescope based on their function and utility purpose can be grouped by frequency ranges like Gamma rays, X rays, ultraviolet rays, visible light, infrared and microwave & radiowave. India has also launched multi wave length space telescope called ASTROSAT in 2015. The objective of telescope was to study far ultra violet rays to hard X-ray. It also focus on Black Hole. After successful outcome from...

DELMICRON of Covid19 After rapid rise of OMICRON cases in Europe, America, Asia and other parts of world. Now, India is also reported to have cases of OMICRON in various states. Many reports suggest that new DELMICRON has emerged at some places.  Maharashtra Covid19 Taskforce Member has said that possibilities of Western nations with impact of twin spike of Delta and Omicron variant of Covid19. OMICRON variant which is highly contagious variant of covid19 was first detected at African region has already spread to 106 nations within few months according to World Health Organization. What is DELMICRON ? Delmicron is not a new variant of covid19 but a fuelling of Delta Variant and OMICRON. OMICRON has high possibility of spreading and Delta variant is deadly. The mixture of both may be challenging for many nations. It is prevalent that both the variants are present in many nations and OMICRON is spreading at a faster pace than predicted. Doctors consider that person with weak immune s...

What is an IPO ? IPO stands for Initial Public Offering. It is basically a company raising funds from market or public.  IPO is basically a starting process or we can say, when for the first time a company is about to ask money from public inorder to execute its own business plans or to grow.  How do Company raise funds? A company can ask for funds from market or public by selling its share to public. When a new company sells it's shares for the first time to raise funds, we call it as IPO or Initial Public Offering of shares by X, Y, Z company to accumulate funds from market or public. Why do company need this ? Basically, a company need this tool to raise funds inorder to expand business or the services it offers or inorder to pay back it's long standing expenses. Many companies sells shares to public to monetize their current shareholders investment to accumulate funds. This process brings back required funds to company and they can execute their plans or expand business. H...

Assam Manohari Gold Tea sold at One Lakh per Kilo Tea is used as a common drink for refreshment or minor celebration of gathering. India is second largest producer of tea in world and largest consumer of tea, consuming 30% of global output.  Even Ayurveda has tradition of herbal teas made using plant leaves or spices. The popularity was seen with British East India company making it as a trade item.  Assam is considered to be one among best tea producing state in India along with states like West Bengal, Tamilnadu and Kerela. Manohari Gold Tea, considered to be a rare variety of tea found in Assam has broken its own record during an auction at Guwahati Tea Auction Centre.  In the year 2020, the tea was sold at Rs 75,000 per kilogram and in this year auction the Manohari Gold tea was sold at Rs 99,999 per kilogram; just about rupees one lakh per kilogram. Thus becoming most expensive tea sold at auction in India. Suntok tea company, which owns the tea estate gives the uniq...

Booster Covid Dose or Additional Dose OMICRON variant of Covid19 has already been spread to different parts of World. After the cases from S. Africa and Botswana, the omicron variant was seen in Europe and parts of American continent. And now the variant is also present in Asia and all other corners of World. After concerns of WHO on potentiality of high spread and precautions on containment. Many nations have stopped the international moment of people. Even many nations are in need of booster shots or additional doses to counter and spread of pandemic. In India, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization was formed to discuss the issue of giving additional shots of Covid19 vaccine to enhance immunity and vaccine for child immunisation.  It was also acertain that the experts group will formulate comprehensive policy on the matter, which will be guidance for detail plan. Yet now, green signal on giving booster doses to population has not been given by expert group and they al...

Stealth Version OMICRON hard to track - Scientists 26th November 2021, World Health Organization declared B.1.1529 variant of Covid19 as a "Variant of Concern" and named it as " OMICRON ".  The new variant detected and observed at South Africa and Botswana was predicted to be more deadly and with high transmission potentialities. After detail genome sequencing of new variant OMICRON, scientists have found that the variant B.1.1529 which was reported from S. Africa has further split into new lineage "BA.2", which means OMICRON has a new type of its own. In simple terms we can say that OMICRON can be divided into two types "BA.1" & "BA.2". BA.1 is original OMICRON, whereas BA.2 is having some new mutations and seperating some old mutations. "BA" is an alias for B.1.1529 with new mutations type coming ahead. Earlier, it was reported that OMICRON has high transmission potential than Covid19 delta variant and high mutations in ...

Uranium in groundwater 50 above villages found to have higher uranium presence ground water in Eastern Karnataka region. The concentration level of uranium is at 78% making it difficult to be used for drinking and household purposes. Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive element present in certain types of rocks and soil like granite in a very low concentrations. Whenever we use it for nuclear power or any other purpose, it is purified and enriched. But higher concentration of uranium leads to pollution and also affect the living creatures. The higher concentration of uranium presence in groundwater leads to Nephritis (kidney damage), impact on bones and lungs, cancer to liver over a long period of exposure to such polluted ground water. Even many immediate effect can also be seen like fever, vomiting, headache, etc. Although Bureau of Indian Standard has not prescribed any limit for uranium presence in drinking water. But, WHO has set drinking water standards for presence of ur...

Indian Space Station  In the path of development, India is going to prove its capabilities in space and space exploration. After receiving praise from the world for projects like Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan. India is now getting ready to have it's own Space Station "ISS Indian Space Station" by 2030. In a recent tweet, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister has confirmed that India will start making its own space station by 2030 and will be a very costly project. World's first space station was Salyut 1 by USSR in 1970s. Again in 1986 USSR launched the MIR space station which was must bigger than Salyut and was also fully equipped with laboratories and research facilities. In the year 1998, International Space Station was jointly funded by many nations like Western, European and even Russia & Japan. This International space station is considered to be most expensive man made object in history. NASA has decided to close International Space Station by 2030 and convert it...

End of Korean War 2021 June 25, 1950 was the day when North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and near about 75,000 soldiers entered the South Korean region. This was considered to be an invasion through military action during cold war. Ideologically, North Korea was backed by USSR (communist and single party) whereas South Korea was pro western (democracy). USA entered the war on behalf of South Korea by July 1950 against the forces of communism. Both the cold war powers USA and USSR saw the Korean region as an opportunity to establish ideology. Dating back to history, Korean region which was earlier ruled by Japan got its freedom from japanese empire post WWII and came to ideological conflict of global power post war. In 1945, Korean peninsula was divided into two half with 38th parallel as boundary. Then the respective government cornered with ideological powers. N.Korea with dictator and communist party and S. Korean with democracy and people welfare.  Things went wrong in ...

Miss Universe title to Indian Miss Universe is an annual international event by US based organisation started in the year 1952 with its headquarter at New York. The winner is selected among all participants over many nations. The event has wide acceptance among the nation's and involved stakeholders. It's a platform to showcase the beauty along with talent of youth of 21st century. From India this award has been won by 3 personalities 3. Harnaaz Sandhu 2021 Indian beauty model pageant titleholder who previously been crowned Miss Diva 2021, and became the third Indian to win the title of miss universe. A Sikh community girl who made the nation proud after 21 years and at an early age of 21.  2. Lara Dutta 2000 An Indian model who got recognition of world in the year 2000 by winning the Miss Universe title and made the nation proud with her success.  She was also made UNFPA Good Will ambassador in 2001 1. Susmita Sen 1994 A Bengali girl who made the nation proud and won the firs...

Young water professional India Rising water crisis in india is going to be a major problem for world's second largest population nation in coming decades. India is 7th largest nation in the world with 2.45% of world's land area and 18% of world's population, it holds only 4% of freshwater resources leading to all time water crisis at many places. Data from various sources shows that 70% of water available is contaminated. More than 75% of household don't have proper drinking water. 50% of India is dealing with high water stress with heavy impact at North & Northwestern region and Southern India.  Government of India has taken many steps and formed many schemes and initiatives to address the water problem. But the matter of concern is proper implementation of those initiatives. Inorder to have proper implementation of these schemes we require proper professionals. Therefore, to create specific professionals on water, India has launched its first edition of Young Wate...

China aggressive foreign policy In the last few years, world has seen the aggressive policy and diplomacy of China. China has presented the world with aggressive economic and military policies not only in land but also in space and water bodies.  Though the use of military power in Asia trying to prove the supremacy and use of back channel diplomacy and economic acts beyond Asia to showcase the rising power.  From Artic Ocean to Indian Ocean and Pacific, mark of presence can be clearly seen. Talking about landmass from Africa to many small islands, China holds grip among most. Thus challenging the west. Why is China getting more involved ? Ideologically China communist behaviour as a challange to liberal west. Some experts suggest that the aggressive behaviour is due to socioeconomic and political crisis which the nation has seen in past and in order to overcome that humiliation, the nation is behaving like wounded tiger. China had old pragmatic policies which shaped and stren...

SRESHTA Scheme for upliftment of Schedule Caste meritorious students. On 6th December 2021, Government of India to mark the death anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar has launched the SRESHTA Scheme.  SRESHTA SCHEME  Dr. Ambedkar is known as morden manu and architect of Indian Constitution. He has done many notable works and gave efforts towards upliftment of Schedule caste society and it's people by bringing them towards main stream of developing society. His death anniversary is also known as "Mahaparinirvana Divas" in india The scheme is specially designed for schedule caste meritorious students in providing them best education at residential private schools in targeted areas. Under the scheme, drop-out students from class 9 to 12 would be given emphasis and selected meritorious students would be admitted to identified private residencial schools. The scheme would be implemented by Ministry of Social Justice and empowerment with guidance of NITI Aayog. Scheme would highlig...

O SMART Scheme (Ocean Services, Modelling, Application, Resources & Technology) by Government of India. Government of India started the scheme in relation to explore more about the blue economy possibilities around the nation and also adherence to the UN Sustainable Development Goal -14. The scheme was launched by the central government in the year 2018 under the Ministry of Earth Science. With vital guidelines and objectives defined the scheme resulted into an successful project. PM Modi ji has approved the extension of scheme with cost of 2,177 crores for future enhancement and to be continuing achieving more mile stones like phase 1 as mentioned below. Objective of scheme The primary aim of the scheme is research about ocean and it's behaviour. The scheme will also deal with services in connection with ocean resources (bio & non-bio) and all possible scientific observation and forcast related to sustainable exploration of ocean biome. The umbrella scheme has 7 sub scheme...

How long is India Russia Friendship ? Post Independence, India has friendly relation with Russia (former USSR). Even the inspiration can be seen that India's five years plan concept was in reference to Russian way of economic and developmental planning. In 1971, both nations formalised the friendship through Treaty of Peace and Friendship under which Russia gave War assistance to India to counter USA, UK and allies military during Indo-Pak war of 1971 to liberate East Pakistan and formation of Bangladesh. In the year 2000, a step ahead was seen with India Russia Strategic Partnership Agreement marking the friendship into close allies.  This further got enhanced and strengthen during 2010 with signing of Special & Privileged Strategic Partnership of 21st Century. India Russia Cooperation works under the following: 1. Intergovernmental commission for Technical and Economic Co-operation 2. Intergovernmental commission for Military Cooperation 3. Nuclear Cooperation 4. Space Progra...

Australia based Lowy Institute latest report on Asia Power Index 2021  The index ranks 26 nations in terms of resources and influence in global power. These nations have either a larger influencing capabilities or a resource domination which makes them a rising power among others. The index of 2021 is based on data of past four years which shows the changing pattern and distribution of power.  Institute categories the report on multidimensional approach to rank nations as per their ownership of resources and influence. Based on 2 pillars, 8 categories and 131 indicators as mentioned 1. Resources Economic capabilities to hold long term warfare Military capabilities at time of need Resilience Future resources 2. Influence  Economic relations Defence network Diplomatic influence Cultural influence Based on the categories and subcategories, 2021 index has ranked following nations  1. United States of America 2. China 3. Japan 4. India 5. Russia 6. Australia 7. South Kore...

What is Greater Tipraland ?  Demand of indigenous communities of Tripura to carve a seperate state for their well-being from present day Tripura, Assam and Mizoram and to be called as Greater Tipraland (New State of India) Why is the demand in News ? The tribal people have staged a protest at National Capital to mark the request of demand to Central Government. They were also promised by some political parties like AAP and Congress for taking up their demand discussion with central government. What are provisions under Constitution  Central Government can bring proposal for ammendment of constitution to form a new state under Article 2 and Article 3 of Indian Constitution. Article 2- Parliament can establish new states Article 3- Parliament can alter area's, name's or boundaries of existing States. Why a new state of needed  During independence of India, the Mankiya dynasty which was ruling the land under British Regime signed the Instrument of Accession with newly Indepe...

SWADESH Project Human beings are one among the most intelligent creatures on earth. Brain is the part which makes human beings intelligent. It is centre of nervous system and responsible for every process of human. Brain is considered to be highly complex organ of out body. It controls every aspect in scheduled manner. It's made up of 1000 million neurones communicating every moment to process data and deal with actions. Such a highly depending organ needs to be working appropriately for sustaining life and doing every day things.  In India, out of all diseases Neuro impacted disorders holds 10% of problem.  In coming few decades, India would be entering the aging population category and majority of problems can be seen rising from neurological disorders. Although, this is non communicable category but a massive population may suffer from it.  Government of India has launched a project named SWADESH . It would be world's first Multimodal Brain Imaging Data and Analytics f...

What is Privatisation ? The transfer of publicly owned or operated means of production to private ownership or operation towards effective management subject to the discipline of the market and it's efficiency. After successful sale of loss making airline Air India, Government of India has also agreed to sale of Central Electronics LTD (CEL) which was a government owned engineering company in the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells. Now, the government is about the close the deals of privatisation for Bharat Earth Movers Ltd, Neelanchal Ispat, Pawan Hans and Shipping Corporation of India. As stated by officials DIPAM (Department of Investment & Public Assets Management) is working on many prospective proposals and transactions to close the deals. Even the banks like Central Bank of Inda and Indian Overseas are opted for privatisation but for that government needs to have legislative changes in the parliament which is waiting. Whereas many other companies and banks are in queue ...

Samhati Project by Odisha to uplift tribal language National Education Policy 2020 gave emphasis on teaching in Mother tongue for primary classes (upto class 5) based on particular states.  The policy also emphasis the new students enrolling for primary school to be taught with home language for easy acceptance towards education. In relation to NEP 2020, Odisha govt took Pro active step for teaching and bringing more tribal students under schooling education program.  The project Samhati will impart education in various tribal languages and also bring the tribal languages under the educational ambit.  Odisha has near about 21 tribal languages of which only Santhali language is added under eighth schedule of Indian Constitution.  Odisha has diversified indigenous communities of people which comprises of 13 PVTG communities and over-all of 62 tribal communities out of which only Kui, Ho, Santhali, Sora, Munda communities have written scripts of their own and other trib...

VISA Inc complain about India  Credit and debit cards have already gained popularity all over world as easy payment procedures. In India, the Card acceptance has seen a wide growth in last few years when Government of India came up with the scheme of Jan Dhan Yojana. The scheme made every person owner of a bank account where no minimum balance was mandate and gave debit card in hands of people to use money wisely and effectively. Cards are that are issued by various banks like SBI, HDFC, PNB, ICICI, etc uses the services of network providers like VISA, MasterCard, RuPay, etc. Banks are known as Card Issuer whereas card network is controlled by many players of network providers. They act as a bridge between bank's and the merchant's.  Network carries the customer information from the point of sale machine to bank servers, which validates and approves the request of specified account holder to pass the payment of every individual customer. As a result the transaction between ban...

Cyclone Jawad Odisha meteorological department along with Indian meteorological department has given warning for cyclone to many districts of Odisha. As per the estimated route of low pressure area formed at South Andaman sea, it is calculated that the low pressure would convert to cyclone and progress towards coast of Odisha. State government has asked all District Collectors and officials to be on alert in response to the cyclonic storm on December 4th, 2021. As present, 13 district of Odisha are studied to be impacted by cyclone with low to moderate rainfall and wind. As a part of post cyclone efforts, administration has been planning with National Disaster Response Force, Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force and Fire Department. Teams are deployed at all possible spots of impact. Special Relief Commissioner has said in an advisory that the wind speed may reach upto 45-55 km/hr and gusting speed upto 65 km/hr on 3rd December. He has also advised fishermen and local people not to go ne...