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Union Cabinet approves classical language status for Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Pali, and Prakrit
Union Cabinet approves classical language status for Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Pali, and Prakrit
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/union-cabinet-decisions-marathi-assamese-bengali-pali-prakrit-get-classical-language-status/article68714789.ece

Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali added as classical languages.

- 2004: Govt decided to create a new category of languages as “classical languages”
- Tamil (2004), Sanskrit (2005), Telugu and Kannada (2008), and Malayalam and Odia (2013-14)
- 2024: more languages added- Maharashtra (Marathi), Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh (Pali and Prakrit), West Bengal (Bengali), and Assam (Assamese)
- Criteria? (1) history over a period of 1500-2000 years (2) ancient literature/texts, (3) literary tradition be original and not borrowed from another speech community;
- Benefit? Govt fund for opening Central Institutes for the given language, more college courses & associated professor jobs.

🔆SARTHIE 1.0

✅Recently, the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment (DoSJE), Government of India, and the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) launched the SARTHIE 1.0.

✅It is an initiative intended to empower disadvantaged communities, including Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Senior Citizens, Transgender Persons, Victims of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, persons engaged in the act of Begging, Denotified and Nomadic Tribes and more.
✅It aligns with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly the goals focused on eradicating poverty, reducing inequality, and promoting social protection policies that ensure greater equality for all.
✅The collaboration aims to bridge the awareness gap and provide legal assistance to ensure the effective implementation of social welfare programmes.
✅It offers a synergy between the executive and the judiciary and ensures that social justice is further strengthened.

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🔆 The National Film Awards    :
✅ Established - 1954
✅ Three sections : Feature Films, Non-Feature Films, and Best Writing in Cinema.
✅ These awards have been administered by the Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.
✅ Award ceremony - New Delhi, where the President of India presents the awards.
✅ This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where award-winning films are screened for the public.
✅ The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest honor, given for outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian Cinema
✅ Renaming of Awards :
◽️The Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a director' will now be known simply as 'Best Debut Film of a Director
◽️The Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration' has been renamed as the 'Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social, and Environmental Values
✅ Based on Recommendations of a committee set up by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

🔆Marburg Viral Disease :

✅It is a severe, highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola belongs to the filovirus family.
✅The natural host of the Marburg virus is the African fruit bat, which carries the pathogen.
✅The virus can be transmitted from bats to primates, including humans.
✅The virus was first identified in 1967 in Marburg, Germany, after workers contracted it from infected green monkeys.
✅There are currently no approved vaccines or antiviral treatments.