Warli Painting

Maharashtra is known for its Warli folk paintings

roots may be traced to as early as the 10th century A.D

resemblance to the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka.

Theme of the painting-hunting, fishing and farming, festivals and dances, trees and animals 

Women are mainly engaged 

circle, a triangle and a square are used in wall paintings which are monosyllabic in nature.

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National Green Tribunal (NGT) that banned the use of reverse osmosis (RO) systems where drinking water supply had total dissolved solids (TDS) less than 500 mg per litre

Osmosis involves ‘a solvent (such as water) naturally moving from an area of low solute concentration, through a membrane, to an area of high solute concentration.

A reverse osmosis system applies an external pressure to reverse the natural flow of solvent and so seawater or brackish water is pressurised against one surface of the membrane, causing salt-depleted water to move across the membrane, releasing clean water from the low-pressure side’.


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Green Credit scheme.

Public-private participation

By Forest Advisory Committee
It allows “forests” to be traded as a commodity

It allows the Forest Department to outsource one of its responsibilities of reforesting to non-government agencies

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Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)

Function under Department of Culture (Ministry of Culture)

ASI was founded in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham who became its first Director-General.

It regulates all archaeological activities as per the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958.


Post Independence, it’s a Statutory body that now works under Ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains act (AMASR Act), 1958

Hq-New Delhi.

Program
1.Adopt a Heritage’ project
2.Project mausam

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Indian breeds that PM talked about:

(1)Mudhol hounds Karnataka and Maharashtra.
(2)Himachali hounds -locally known as the 'Gaddi' dog and come from the Himalayan region.
(3)Rajapalayam -originated from Tamil Nadu
(4) Kanni and Chippiparai
another breed from Tamil Nadu, and its name translates to "pure
(5)Combai-originate from Tamil Nadu. 

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Honey Mission

Launched by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in 2017.

It is aimed at creating employment for the Adivasis, farmers, unemployed youth, and women by roping them in beekeeping while also increasing India’s honey production.

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INS Viraat:

Originally commissioned by the British Navy as HMS Hermes on November 18, 1959,as aircrafts Carrier

India bought the British carrier in 1986 and rechristened it as INS Viraat.

INS Viraat is the Guinness record holder for being the longest-serving warship of the world.

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Places in News- Crete Island:

the largest and most populous of the Greek islands.

It is located in the southern part of the Aegean Seaseparating the Aegean from the Libyan Sea.

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National Security Act

●Stringent law that allows preventive detention for months, if authorities are satisfied that a person is a threat to national security or law and order.

●Person does not need to be charged during this period of detention.

●Promulgated on September , 1980, during the Indira Gandhi government.

 ●The National Security Act, an individual can be detained without a charge for up to 12 months

●The detained person can appeal before a high court advisory board but they are not allowed a lawyer during the trial.

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Mahatma Ayyankali

●Born on Aug 1863 in the princely state of Travancore

●The caste discrimination he faced as a child turned him into a leader of an anti-caste movement 

●Mahatma Gandhi called Ayyankali as ‘Pulaya king’. Indira Gandhi described him as ‘India’s greatest son

●Inspired by Sree Narayana Guru, a social reformer from Ezhava caste, Ayyankali started Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham (association for the protection of the poor) which later raised funds to start their own schools.

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Green Term Ahead Market (GTAM)

alternative new model introduced for selling off the power by the renewable developers in the open market without getting into long term PPAs.

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Chunauti”- Next Generation Startup Challenge Contest

Launched by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Aim
◆To further boost startups and software products with special focus on Tier-II towns of India.
◆Identify around 300 startups working in identified areas and provide them seed fund of upto Rs. 25 Lakh and other facilities.

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Africa declared free of wild polio

Now only the vaccine-derived polio virus remains in Africa

A region is certified as free of wild polio after three years have passed without the virus being detected in any of its countries.

Nigeria is the last African country to be declared free from wild polio

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Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

◆The Dhebar Commission created Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) as a separate category
◆Total of 75 PVTGs,
◆The highest number are found in Odisha (13), followed by Andhra Pradesh (12)
◆Ministry of Tribal Affairs implements the Scheme of “Development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

The criteria PVTGs
◆A pre-agriculture level of technology.
◆A stagnant or declining population.
◆Extremely low literacy.
◆A subsistence level of economy


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National Population Register (NPR)

◆Register of usual residents of the country.

◆It is being prepared at the local (Village/sub-Town), sub-District, District, State and National level under provisions of the Citizenship Act 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.

◆It is mandatory for every usual resident of India to register in the NPR.

Objectives: To create a comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country.

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Triple E Strategy

Initiative of FSSAI

First ‘E’ in the ‘Triple E Strategy’ is ‘Education’ i.e, educating both the consumers and food businesses about public health consequences of spoiled ‘Used Cooking Oil’.

Second ‘E’ is ‘Enforcement’, particularly amongst large food processing plants, restaurants and fast-food joints that are frying food in large quantities; and

Third ‘E’ is developing an ‘Ecosystem’ for collection of Used Cooking Oil and producing biodiesel from it.

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Stranded in India’ Portal

Launched by The Ministry of Tourism

◆The portal contains numbers for the COVID-19 helpline, the Bureau of Immigration, as well as information about the control centres set up by state and Union Territory administrations, which tourists can contact for assistance

◆It will help in controlling the Fake News and enable smooth evacuation of stranded tourists in coordination with their respective Governments.

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TEMPLATES’ programme

◆It’s an acronym for Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and Their Extended Star Formation.

◆Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as a sort of time machine, a team of researchers intends to look billions of years into the past.

◆The four galaxies will be studied under this programme. The gravitational lenses to study how those galaxies are forming their stars, and how that star formation is distributed across the galaxies.

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Priority Sector Lending

◆The RBI mandates banks to lend a certain portion of their funds to specified sectors, like 
1.Agriculture, 
2.Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs),
3.Export credit,
4.Education,
5.Housing,
6.Social infrastructure,
7.Renewable energy 

◆All scheduled commercial banks and foreign banks (with a sizable presence in India) are mandated to set aside 40% of their Adjusted Net Bank Credit (ANDC) for lending to these sectors.

◆Regional rural banks, and small finance banks have to allocate 75% of ANDC to PSL.

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Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA)

◆By NITI Ayog

◆which aims to promote greater user control on data sharing.

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