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👉Nautanki

▪️Nautanki is popular in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It is an offshoot of Swang.
▪️It is mentioned in Abu Fazl’s Ain-e-Akbari.
▪️The theme is based on historical, social and folk tales, delivered through dance and music.
▪️Kanpur, Lucknow, and Hathras are the most popular centres of this theatre form.
▪️Dialogues are delivered in a lyrical fashion accompanied by drum beats called Nagara.

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Gharial (Gavial)

Habitat - Rivers with high sand banks, used for basking and building nests. 

Found in - Girwa River, Chambal River, Ken River, Son River, Mahanadi River, Ramganga River.

Threats: 

- Hunting for skins, trophies and indigenous medicine, and their eggs collected for consumption, 
- Decrease of riverine habitat as dams, barrages, irrigation canals and artificial embankments.
- siltation and sand-mining 

IUCN Red List - Critically Endangered

News - Gharials are released in Ghaghara river amid lockdown.

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GOAL Programme

- Launched by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Facebook.

- GOAL = Going Online As Leaders
- To provide mentorship to the tribal youth in digital mode

Focus is on three areas -

1. Life skills
2. digital literacy 
3. Leadership and Entrepreneurship 

- sectors targeted - agriculture, handicrafts and textiles, art and culture, nutrition, etc.

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✅ National Parks in West Bengal

1) Gorumara National Park

- Located in the Dooars region of the Himalayan foothills in jalpaiguri.
-  It is primarily known for its population of Indian rhinoceros.
- The major river of the park is the Jaldhaka river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra.
- Flora : Sal forests with common teak, rain tree and Bombax 
Bamboo groves etc.
- Fauna :  Indian rhinoceros, gaur, Asian elephant, sloth bear, chital, and sambar deer.
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2) Jaldapara National Park

- Situated at the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas in Alipurduar District.
- On the banks of Torsa river
- It has the largest population of the Indian one horned rhinoceros after Kaziranga.
- There is an elephant corridor between Jaldapara and the Buxa Tiger Reserve.
- The forest is mainly savannah covered with tall elephant grasses.
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📍📍Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS)

● It is an international certification scheme that regulates trade in rough diamonds.
- It aims to prevent the flow of conflict diamonds and protect legitimate trade in rough diamonds
● India is one of the founding members of the KPCS.
● It is not an organization. There are no offices or headquarters for KPCS. It cannot frame agreements. It simply relies on contributions of the participants, industries, governments, civil society observers
● The KPCS has been agreed by the United Nations and the World Diamond Council.

Conflict diamonds
Conflict diamonds are rough diamonds that are used by the rebel movements to finance wars, especially in the third world countries

✅National Investigation Agency (NIA)

- Formed-2009, with the enactment of the National Investigation Agency Act 2008.

- Headquarter - in New Delhi
- It acts as the Central Counter Terrorism Law Enforcement Agency.

- The agency is empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special permission from the states.

📌126th Constitution Amendment Bill 2019 (104 constitution amendment)

- Parliament has passed 126th Constitution Amendment Bill 2019.

- It seeks to extend the reservation provided to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes by 10 years.

- The reservation provided to the Anglo-Indian community, SC, ST was to end by January 25, 2020. The bill continues the reservation of seats for another 10 years that is till January, 25, 2030.

- The reservation has been included in Article 334 and therefore the bill seeks to amend the article.

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Bulk Drug Parks

- Launched in March 2020 by Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers

- Under it a Total of 4 medical devices parks and three Bulk Drug Parks (API) will be set up in the country.

- For encouraging the domestic production of Medical Devices and Active Pharmaceutical Products (API)

- It will be a production linked incentive scheme from the Central Government
- Central Funding - Rs 13760 crore

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PRAGYATA guidelines

- developed by Ministry of Human Resource and Development.

- focuses on digital education or online education.
- It will mainly help students who are presently at home due to COVID-19 Lockdown.

- It include eight steps of online learning. They are Plan, Review, Guide, Arrange, Talk, Assign, Track and Appreciate.

It provides suggestions to school heads, administrators, parents, teachers in the following
1. on planning digital education. This includes screen time, duration, inclusiveness, balanced online and offline activities.
2. Physical and mental health wellbeing during digital education.
3. Cyber safety

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✅Namami Gange Mission

Aims at providing comprehensive and sustainable solutions for a cleaner ecosystem along the stretch of 97 towns and 4,465 villages on the Ganga stem.
Namami Gange is being implemented by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), and its state counterparts—State Programme Management Groups.
The project covers eight states and seeks to fully connect all 1,632 Gram Panchayats along the Ganga to a sanitation system by 2022

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✅Humboldt Current (Peru Current)

• This cold water current moves from south to north along the coast of Chile and Peru
in the eastern parts of the South Pacific Ocean.
• It was identified for the first time by Alexander von Humboldt when he visited
Colombia and Ecuador in 1802.
• In recent years, the phenomenon of EI-Nino has been observed when this cold water
current becomes relatively warm.
• In the year of EI-Nino, the weather and climate are adversely affected.

Reports_

State of Food Security and Nutrition report.
- Released recently by UN
- prepared by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Health Organization (WHO), World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF.

- Report says that around 8.9% of the world population, that is 690 million went hungry in 2019.

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Difference between SAARC and BIMSTEC

SAARC

1. A regional organisation looking into South Asia
2. Established in 1985 during the cold war era.
3. Member countries suffer for mistrust and suspicion.
4. Suffers from regional politics.
5. Asymmetric power balance.
6. Intra-regional trade only 5 percent.

BIMSTEC

1. Interregional organisation connecting South Asia and South East Asia.
2. Established in 1997 in the post-Cold War.
3. Members maintain reasonably friendly relations.
4. Core objective is the improvement of economic cooperation among countries.
5. Balancing of power with the presence of Thailand and India on the block.
6. Intra-regional trade has increased around 6 precent in a decade

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🔰Herd immunity ( Herd effect/social immunity)

- It is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease 

- When a large percentage of a population becomes immune to an infection, through vaccination or previous infections, it breaks the chain of transmission.
Thus protects Non-immune individuals and stops the spread of a disease.

Herd immunity does not apply to all diseases, just those that are contagious

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🔰National Parks situated in Assam

1. Kaziranga National Park

2. Manas National Park

3. Nameri National Park,

4. Dibru-Saikhowa National Park

5. Orang National Park.