A new weapon under test in bio-warfare

A mosquito like injection! :)

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🚨 17 March 2024 | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Thenmala Kullan

• dwarf cow found in KL; indigenous breed
• Reared by tribes: Arippa & Thenmala

2. Manganese Pollution

• Near defunct site of Union Carbide India Ltd, Bhopal
• Report by CGWA to NGT
• BIS Permissible limits: 0.3 mg/L
• high levels of Strontium found

3. 1st Indigenous Sickle Cell anaemia drug

• By Akmus Drugs & Pharma Ltd
• Sickle cell Anaemia: Genetic disorder in which RBCs contort into Sickle shape & die early.

4. Starlet Sea Anemone

• Found along East coast of North America
• Secretes specific neurotoxin in venom which acts as defence against predator (grass shrimp)

5. Places in News

Azhagar Siddhar Temple, TN
• 300 years old
• dedicated to miracle performing stranger
• dolls as offerings


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Indian team uses repurposed drug to treat oral cancer subtype
(GS3, Health, New treatments in oral cancer)

2. How women in India have fared
(GS1, Society, Women in STEM & Related fields)

3. With Agni V Test, India makes the MIRV Leap
(GS3, S&T, Defence technology, MIRV)

🚨 18 March 2024 | Monday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Mt Hagafell

• Active volcano erupted for the 4th time since Dec 2023; in Iceland

2. SIMA

• Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
• Google Deepmind's new AI gaming agent
• generalist AI

3. Lisu & Singpho communities

• in Assam & Arunachal Pradesh
• Children named as per their order of birth, using numbers

4. IceCube

• It is a Neutrino observatory( a device at earth's South Pole )
• Neutrinos are light particles that rarely interact with matter; aka Ghost particles


Stats 📈

1. 10.13 Cr Diabetics in India, 17% of World: Study
• 13.6 Cr Pre diabetic
• Over 35% suffer from hypertension
• 40% from abdominal obesity



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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Diversify the basket
(GS3, Eco, agricultural practices, issues & way forward )

2. Myths about Simultaneous elections
(GS2, Polity, Simultaneous elections, myths)

3. How US Plans to deliver Gaza aid
(GS2, IR, Gaza Aid by US, JLOTS project, floating dock)


TH

1. The Myanmar conflict is regional problem
(GS2, IR, Myanmar conflict, ASEAN role)

2. The problem of Equity in IPCC Reports
(GS3, Environment, IPCC report, issues)

3. What is HbA1C test & why it is used to check Diabetes?
(GS3, Health, Diabetes & HbA1C test working, results, pros & cons)

4. Scientists build a camera to 'show' how animals see moving things
(GS3, S&T, new Camera tech, challenges, animal vision)

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🚨 19 March 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. SAKHI App

• The Space borne assistant & knowledge hub for crew interaction
• To assist Gaganyaan crew by ISRO

2. Captive Elephant (transfer or transport) Rules, 2024

• Conditions: When owner can't maintain elephant
• Chief Wildlife warden approves/rejects transfer
• For outside state, Genetic profile is registered with MoEFCC
• Veterinarian checkup & Deputy conservator of forests checks new habitat


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Oceans have a fever, here's why
(GS1, Geography, Ocean warming, Factors, consequences, way forward)

2. Heat, aridity, clear skies: Why forests are already ablaze in the Nilgiris
(GS3, Environment, Forest fires, reasons)

3. A bank account of her own
(GS3, Economy, financial inclusion, NFHS data )


TH

1. Violence, hopelessness & women's mental health
(GS1, Society, Women's mental health, issued & way forward)

2. The MIRV leap that fires up India's nuclear detterence
(GS3, S&T, Defence, MIRV, Upcoming projects)

3. On FTAs with European countries
(GS3, Economy, FTA, features)

4. Geologist can't agree when the Anthropocene began, but it did
(GS1, Geography, Anthropocene, Epoch, post industrial era significance)

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Gives you extra 3 weeks 🥰

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🚨 20 March 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. 3D RLVD

• 3D Radar based Red Light Violation Detection System
• To detect violations of traffic rules & initiate e challan without human contact.

2. FSSAI's food testing lab

• 34 labs in 24 states
• To test for 10 pathogens

3. Vechur Cow

• Bos taurus indicus
• rare breed, named after Village Vechur, Vaikom, KL
• smallest cattle breed in world
• Saved by Prof Sossamma Iype.
• in Critical maintained Breeds list of FAO

Stats 📈

1. 27.6 M people engaged in forced labour in 2021: ILO


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Quotes 💭

"The best way to predict the future is it create it." -Billie Jean King


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Time for a tech manifesto
(GS2, Elections, Digitalisation pros & cons)

2. The judges glass ceiling
(GS2, Polity, Trial court Judges issues & way forward)

3. Behind and beyond the water crisis in Bangalore
(GS1, Society, Urbanisation, Bangalore water crisis causes & solutions )

4. Pouring billions into public housing, Paris tries to make room for all.
(Pg2, GS1, Society, Urban housing, global practices)

TH

1. Ties that epitomise India's neighbourhood first policy
(GS2, IR, India-Bhutan relations, Gelephu Project & measures)

2. Guaranteed MSP is an ethical imperative
(GS3, Economy, MSP, Produce & Perish trap & way forward)

3. Changing cancer nomenclature can improve treatment outcomes: doctors
(GS3, S&T, Cancer treatment)

4. How cooling a car is a drag on mileage
(GS3, S&T, Car Technology)