✅Data Pointers =>
👉🏻Only 68% Municipal solid waste is processed => HP top WB worst
👉🏻87% of Biomedical waste is treated => Bihar and Chhattisgarh
✅Note that no report after 2010 was passed to parliament from here but in Oct. 2022 latest report has been passed now
⚡️This is why it is a topic in discussion
✅Dozee, a contactless remote vital parameter monitoring (RPM) device which can convert any normal bed into a step-down ICU, will be deployed in six states
👉🏻Around 400 units of Dozee which has been developed by a city-based start-up, Turtle Shell Technologies Private Limited, will be deployed in public healthcare systems across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim
👉🏻This device is being deployed under the Aarogya Daksh scheme which is a joint initiative between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) and SBI Foundation
👉🏻Dozee has been developed by a Bengaluru-based start-up, Turtle Shell Technologies Private Limited
👉🏻Dozee is India’s first contactless RPM device
👉🏻According to the World Bank, hospital beds per 1,000 people in India was reported at only 0.53 in 2017 and the latest news reports state that ICU beds stand at only 125,000 for a population of 1.4 billion
✅What is Jalikattu? =
👉🏻Jallikattu (or sallikkattu), also known as eru thazhuvuthal and mañcuvirattu is a traditional event in which a bull, such as the Pulikulam or Kangayam breeds is released into a crowd of people, and multiple human participants attempt to grab the large hump on the bull's back with both arms and hang on to it while the bull attempts to escape
👉🏻Participants hold the hump for as long as possible, attempting to bring the bull to a stop
👉🏻In some cases, participants must ride long enough to remove flags on the bull's horns
👉🏻Jallikattu is typically practised in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu as a part of Pongal celebrations on Mattu Pongal day, which occurs annually in January
👉🏻Incidents of injury and death associated with the sport, both to the participants and to the animals forced into it, resulted in the court banning it several times over the past years
🌕However, with protests from the people against the ban, a new ordinance was made in 2017 to continue the sport
✅Doubling court strength won’t end pendency: Supreme Court
👉🏻Judiciary is overburdened because of the system, says Chief Justice of India Chandrachud; he points out that it is already difficult to find good lawyers to fill judicial vacancies in High Courts
👉🏻The Supreme Court on November 29, 2022 said that increasing the number of judges will not demolish the perennial problem of pendency, noting that it is already difficult finding good lawyers to accept the call to the Bench in High Courts
👉🏻The judge-population ratio in developed countries is 50 for every million
👉🏻Chief Justices of several High Courts had complained about lawyers being unwilling to accept invitations to the Bench because of the uncertainty posed by the government’s inaction
👉🏻The Justice Kaul Bench on Monday had criticised the government for holding up Collegium recommendations for months together
✅Nostro and vostro (from Italian, nostro and vostro; English, 'ours' and 'yours') are accounting terms used to distinguish an account held for another entity from an account another entity holds
👉🏻The terms nostro and vostro are used, mainly by banks, when one bank keeps money at another bank (in a correspondent account often called a nostro or vostro account). Both banks need to keep records of how much money is being kept by one bank on behalf of the other
👉🏻In order to distinguish between the two sets of records of the same balance and set of transactions, banks refer to the accounts as nostro and vostro
👉🏻Speaking from the point of view of the bank whose money is being held at another bank
👉🏻A nostro is our account of our money (in which country you are staying), held by the other bank or "Foreign Bank"
✅GS-1
☀️Fujiwhara Effect
👉🏻When two ocean storms form in the same region, their wind circulations start meeting each other at the mid and higher levels
👉🏻This meeting of winds makes a bond between the two storms like a connecting limb through which they start influencing each other
✅Appointment
👉🏻Post = India's foreign secretory
👉🏻Who? = Vinay Kwatra
👉🏻News? = 16 Months extension in tenure
👉🏻Kwatra, a 1988 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service, has been playing a crucial role in the government’s response to several key issues, including the Ukraine crisis and the standoff with China on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), as well as in preparations for India’s G20 presidency during 2023
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☀️Science and Tech.
👉🏻What? = SARAS 3 Telescope
👉🏻SARAS 3, a radio telescope designed and built at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) has provided clues to the nature of the Universe’s first stars and galaxies
👉🏻Using data from the telescope researchers have been able to determine properties of radio luminous galaxies formed just 200 million years post the Big Bang, a period known as the Cosmic Dawn
👉🏻“The results from the SARAS 3 telescope are the first time that radio observations of the averaged 21-centimetre line have been able to provide an insight into the properties of the earliest radio loud galaxies that are usually powered by supermassive black holes
✅Bluetooth was first introduced by Ericsson in 1994
🌕What is Bluebugging? =>
👉🏻It is a form of hacking that lets attackers access a device through its discoverable Bluetooth connection. Once a device or phone is bluebugged, a hacker can listen to the calls, read and send messages and steal and modify contacts
👉🏻It started out as a threat for laptops with Bluetooth capability. Later hackers used the technique to target mobile phones and other devices
👉🏻Independent security researcher Martin Herfurt blogged about the threat of bluebugging as early as 2004
👉🏻He noted that the bug exploited a loophole in Bluetooth protocol, enabling it to download phone books and call lists from the attacked user’s phone
✅A section of the Saini community from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has hit the roads to protest against the government’s decision to include them in the list of other castes which are entitled to 4 per cent reservation in jobs and professional educational institutions in the Union Territory
👉🏻Many community youth held protest at the J&K Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission’s office in Jammu, which recommended to the government to include Sainis in the list of other quota-entitled backward communities
👉🏻Accepting the Commission’s recommendations, the J&K government had on October 19 issued an order including the Saini community along with over a dozen others in the list of the “Socially and Educationally Backward” communities, increasing their total number to 42 in the UT
👉🏻All these communities together are entitled to 4 per cent reservation in government jobs and admissions to professional colleges
✅Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will launch the Har Ghar Gangajal project in Rajgir and Gaya, a unique and ambitious initiative to provide Ganga water on tap in parched areas of the state
🌕The scheme will harvest the excess water in the Ganga during the monsoon flooding season, to be treated, stored, and piped to Rajgir, Gaya, and Bodhgaya
🌕Har Ghar Gangajal is part of the Bihar government’s Jal, Jeevan, Hariyali scheme
🌕The area around Rajgir (in Nalanda district), which was the nucleus of the ancient kingdom of Magadh and is associated with the founders of both Buddhism and Jainism, is rocky and water-deficient
🌕Over the years, unplanned and indiscriminate use of groundwater has depleted subterranean reservoirs, lowered the water table, and affected the quality of the water in Gaya and Rajgir
🌕The bulk of the urban water supply continues to be through tube wells
✅The Khalanga Mela – in remembrance of the Gorkha warriors who fought bravely against the British in the battle of Nalapani on the outskirts of Dehradun in 1814 – was held at the Khalanga War Memorial on Sahastradhar, Dehradun
✅The battle in which the British 3rd Infantry division comprising 3500 soldiers with heavy artillery under the command of Major General Robert Gillespie faced stiff resistance from Gorkha general Balbhadra Singh Thapa and his band of 600 soldiers who defended the Khalanga fort for over six weeks without food or water was an important landmark in Gorkha history which the community celebrates through the mela
✅Is National language mentioned in constitution? DPSP or FD?
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✅Article 345
✅Article 348
✅Eighth schedule
✅Official languages act of 1963 - last amendment 2011
✅Title = Personhood for Animals
👉🏻Are animals entitled to personhood right now? = No
👉🏻Law = In the Indian law, the animals are seen as property
🌕As they are categorized as property they cannot become the bearer of rights, this is because the legal personality is precondition for having and enforcing legal rights
🌕Without any legal rights even the trivial legal rights of human can easily manage to outweigh the rights of the animals
🌕Over last three decades, many countries like Germany, Switzerland and Austria have amended their respective Civil Codes for changing the legal status of the animals, these countries have declared that the animals are not objects and are not to be the subjects of the laws relating to the objects
✅Betting for exotic meat, gambling dens in Manipur descend further into illegality
👉🏻Which animal is in picture? = Binturong (also known as bearcat) is among the several offerings of exotic meat at Ukhrul’s gambling dens
🐝Issue? = Betting in Manipur
⚡️Connection with animals? = reports of wild animals – dead or alive – being offered as prizes for raffle draws
⚡️There have been instances of people buying raffle draw tickets ranging from ₹100 to ₹500 to try their luck to win exotic meat
⚡️The larger or rarer the bird or animal or body part, the higher the price of the ticket
⚡️Animals at danger? = Wild boars and deer, binturong (an arboreal mammal also known as bearcat), squirrels and flying foxes (bats)
⚡️Birds such as the grey-sided thrush and tragopans (often called horned pheasants)
⚡️The Blyth’s tragopan is the State bird of adjoining Nagaland
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Agr Answer nhi sahi pta chl rha toh Explanation dekh lo
👉🏻A vostro is our account of other bank / "Foreign Bank's" money, held by us (by your country's bank)
👉🏻A vostro account is a record of money held by a bank or owed to a bank by a third party (an individual, company or bank)
👉🏻The nostro account is a way of keeping track of how much of the bank’s money is being held by the other bank
👉🏻There is also the notion of a loro account ("theirs"), which is a record of an account held by a second bank on behalf of a third party; that is, my record of their account with you
✅Mumbai Measles outbreak
☀️The ongoing measles outbreak in Mumbai is a reflection of the lower immunisation coverage due to disruption in vaccination services and hesitancy by parents to get their children vaccinated
☀️As of November 24, there have been 233 measles infections and 13 deaths in Mumbai
☀️As per recent data, 538 confirmed measles cases have been reported in Maharashtra this year, as of October
👉🏻There have also been increased number of measles cases in Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, and Kerala
👉🏻Measles is a childhood infection caused by a virus. Once quite common, measles can now almost always be prevented with a vaccine
👉🏻Also called rubeola, measles spreads easily and can be serious and even fatal for small children
👉🏻While death rates have been falling worldwide as more children receive the measles vaccine, the disease still kills more than 200,000 people a year, mostly children
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☀️Art and Culture
👉🏻What? = Folk Dance
👉🏻Name? = Kolkali
👉🏻Region = Kerala
👉🏻About: Kolkali is a folk art performed in Malabar region of Kerala, India. The dance performers move in a circle, striking small sticks and keeping rhythm with special steps. The circle expands and contracts as the dance progress. The accompanying music gradually rises in pitch and the dance reaches its climax. Kolkali is now a popular event in Kerala School Kalolsavam, which is considered as the biggest cultural event of Asia.
👉🏻The origin of the art can be traced back to ancient days when Kalarippayattu, a martial art of Kerala, was in vogue
✅What? = ‘Unhappiness’ over NJAC behind govt delay on Collegium recommendations
👉🏻What is NJAC? = National Judicial Appointments Commission
👉🏻SC's move on NJAC? = Supreme Court had struck down the NJAC, which gave the government an equal say in judicial appointments to the constitutional courts, in 2015
👉🏻Present system = Collegium system
👉🏻Current issues = Scuffle between govt. and top judges related to continuation of Collegium system + Vacant posts of Judges + Non-communication from the govt.
✅Sardar Sarovar Dam project
About:
👉🏻The Sardar Sarovar dam project on Narmada river for which Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone on April 5, 1961, had a full reservoir level (FRL) height of 49.08 metres
👉🏻In 1965, a higher dam with an FRL of 152.45 metres was recommended by a committee. Madhya Pradesh did not agree to its recommendations, leading to the setting up of the Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal in October 1969.
👉🏻This tribunal gave its final award in 1979, fixing the FRL at 138.68 metres, as well as the share of the water and hyrdo power between the riparian states — Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra
👉🏻This award was to neither be changed nor reviewed till 2025. The aim of this dam was to provide water for irrigation in at least 15 districts of Gujarat and some parts of Rajasthan and Maharashtra and to share the hydroelectric generated between Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
✅Nearly 300 Kuki-Chin-Mizo immigrants who fled the recent conflict between the military and ethnic insurgents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of neighbouring Bangladesh, have taken shelter in Lawngtlai district of Mizoram
👉🏻272 Bangladesh nationals fled armed conflict earlier and sought shelter in Mizoram, 21 more came
👉🏻Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) sprawl across 13,000 sq km area in Khagrachari, Rangamati, and Bandarban districts of Bangladesh and share boundaries with Mizoram on its eastern side, Tripura on the northern side, and with Myanmar on the south and south-eastern front
👉🏻Mizoram shares a 318 km-long international border with Bangladesh.
👉🏻Mizoram is already sheltering over 30,000 refugees from Myanmar who sought refuge in the state after a military coup in the Southeast Asian nation in February last year
✅Shakya Gasan, chief monk of the World Buddhist Pope Association of South Korea, will lay the foundation stone for the International Buddhist University at Manu Bankul in Sabroom of South Tripura district
👉🏻The Dhamma Dipa International Buddhist University (DDIBU) is expected to become the first Buddhist-run university in India to offer Buddhist education along with courses in other disciplines of modern education as well
👉🏻The Dalai Lama has sent best wishes for the international Buddhist university
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👉🏻What? = 2023 Republic day guest
👉🏻Who? = Abdel Fattah Al Sisi
👉🏻Who? = President of Egypt
🌕Note that => COP 27 also took place in Sharm Al sheikh, Egypt recently
⚡️Mr. Sisi will be the first such guest since 2020, as plans for guests in 2021 and 2022 were cancelled due to COVID-19
👉🏻"This is the first time that the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt will be the Chief Guest at our Republic Day,"
👉🏻Both countries are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year
👉🏻Leaders of friendly nations have graced the Republic Day celebrations since 1950, when the then Indonesian President Sukarno was invited as the chief guest
