🔆Thilawa Port
📍In news?
✅India delivered 442 metric tonnes of food aid to Myanmar, including rice, cooking oil, noodles, and biscuits, through the Thilawa Port, as part of "Operation Brahma" after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28th.
✅Thilawa Port is the largest port terminal in Myanmar and, alongside the Port of Yangon, is one of the two main ports of Yangon
📍Yangon river :
✅The Yangon River, also known as the Rangoon River, is a marine estuary in southern Myanmar formed by the confluence of the Pegu and Myitmaka rivers, emptying into the Gulf of Martaban of the Andaman Sea, and is navigable by ocean-going vessels
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📍In news?
✅India delivered 442 metric tonnes of food aid to Myanmar, including rice, cooking oil, noodles, and biscuits, through the Thilawa Port, as part of "Operation Brahma" after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28th.
✅Thilawa Port is the largest port terminal in Myanmar and, alongside the Port of Yangon, is one of the two main ports of Yangon
📍Yangon river :
✅The Yangon River, also known as the Rangoon River, is a marine estuary in southern Myanmar formed by the confluence of the Pegu and Myitmaka rivers, emptying into the Gulf of Martaban of the Andaman Sea, and is navigable by ocean-going vessels
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#prelims
#mapping
#Places_in_news
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🔆 Sushruta Samhita: Ancient Text on Surgery
📍 Overview
✅ Relates to the school of surgery, providing essential principles for medical and surgical practices.
✅ Contains descriptions of over 100 surgical instruments, operative procedures, 650 drugs, and key aspects of anatomy, embryology, toxicology, and therapeutics.
📍 Sections of the Sushruta Samhita
✅ Sutrasthana: Deals with the primary principles of medical sciences and pharmacology.
✅ Nidana: Focuses on pathological concepts.
✅ Sarirasthana: Describes human anatomy.
✅ Chikitsasthanam: Covers medical and surgical management.
✅ Kalpasthanam: Provides insights on toxicology.
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📍 Overview
✅ Relates to the school of surgery, providing essential principles for medical and surgical practices.
✅ Contains descriptions of over 100 surgical instruments, operative procedures, 650 drugs, and key aspects of anatomy, embryology, toxicology, and therapeutics.
📍 Sections of the Sushruta Samhita
✅ Sutrasthana: Deals with the primary principles of medical sciences and pharmacology.
✅ Nidana: Focuses on pathological concepts.
✅ Sarirasthana: Describes human anatomy.
✅ Chikitsasthanam: Covers medical and surgical management.
✅ Kalpasthanam: Provides insights on toxicology.
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🌊 Main Tributaries of the Yamuna River:
✍️It has four main tributaries in the Himalayan region: Rishi Ganga, Hanuman Ganga, Tons and Giri.
✍️In the plains, the main tributaries are Hindon, Chambal, Sind, Betwa and Ken.
✍️ Tons, being the major tributary, contributes to about 60 percent flow of the Yamuna.
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✍️It has four main tributaries in the Himalayan region: Rishi Ganga, Hanuman Ganga, Tons and Giri.
✍️In the plains, the main tributaries are Hindon, Chambal, Sind, Betwa and Ken.
✍️ Tons, being the major tributary, contributes to about 60 percent flow of the Yamuna.
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🔆 Silambam (Tamil Nadu - Staff Fencing)
✅ Martial Art Details:
- Ancient weapon-based martial art
- Silam stands for ‘mountain’ and bam stands for bamboo, the main weapon used in this form of martial arts.
- Closely linked to the Kerala martial art Kalaripayattu.
✅ Key Elements:
- Foot movement is a key element to Silambam and Kutta Varisai (empty hand version).
- Sixteen movements needed to master foot movement to keep pace with the stick's movement.
✅ Goal of Training:
- To defend the user against multiple armed opponents
✅ Martial Art Details:
- Ancient weapon-based martial art
- Silam stands for ‘mountain’ and bam stands for bamboo, the main weapon used in this form of martial arts.
- Closely linked to the Kerala martial art Kalaripayattu.
✅ Key Elements:
- Foot movement is a key element to Silambam and Kutta Varisai (empty hand version).
- Sixteen movements needed to master foot movement to keep pace with the stick's movement.
✅ Goal of Training:
- To defend the user against multiple armed opponents
🔆 UTTAR POORVA TRANSFORMATIVE INDUSTRIALIZATION SCHEME (UNNATI)
📍 Key Information
✅ Launched: 2024
✅ Till: 2034
✅ Corpus: ₹10,037 crore
✅ Type of Scheme: Central sector scheme
📍 Aim
✅ Objective: To generate gainful employment and development of industries in the states of Northeast Region, which will lead to the area’s overall socio-economic development.
📍 Implementing Agency
✅ Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
📍 Target
✅ Direct Employment: 83,000
✅ Indirect Employment.
📍 Key Features
✅ All eligible Industrial Units will commence their production or operation within 4 years from the grant of registration.
✅ Districts categorised into two zones:
- Zone A (Industrially Advanced Districts)
- Zone B* (Industrially Backward Districts)
✅ **Funding Distribution:
- 60% of the outlay of Part A is earmarked to 8 NE states and 40% on a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) basis.
✅ Eligibility:
- All new industrial units and expanding units will be eligible for the respective incentives.
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📍 Key Information
✅ Launched: 2024
✅ Till: 2034
✅ Corpus: ₹10,037 crore
✅ Type of Scheme: Central sector scheme
📍 Aim
✅ Objective: To generate gainful employment and development of industries in the states of Northeast Region, which will lead to the area’s overall socio-economic development.
📍 Implementing Agency
✅ Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
📍 Target
✅ Direct Employment: 83,000
✅ Indirect Employment.
📍 Key Features
✅ All eligible Industrial Units will commence their production or operation within 4 years from the grant of registration.
✅ Districts categorised into two zones:
- Zone A (Industrially Advanced Districts)
- Zone B* (Industrially Backward Districts)
✅ **Funding Distribution:
- 60% of the outlay of Part A is earmarked to 8 NE states and 40% on a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) basis.
✅ Eligibility:
- All new industrial units and expanding units will be eligible for the respective incentives.
#GovernmentSchemes