Bihar Affairs
Increasing cases of OCD and hypochondria worry experts
City residents are grappling with a troubling surge in hypochondriacal fear, anticipatory anxiety,obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD), and other psychological fears. Experts have raised concerns about this alarming trend and suggested individuals to seek help and take preventive measures.
OCD, characterized by intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, has become a common manifestation of anxiety disorders among the citys residents. Hypochondria, also known as Health anxiety or illness anxiety disorder, induces persistent worry about severe illnesses despite minimal evidence. Anticipatory anxiety, which revolves around an individuals fear of future events and potential failure, has also been prevalent in recent cases.
National and International Affairs
Power ministry establishes UTPRERAK
Centre of Excellence to Accelerate Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies in Indian
The Ministry of Power, Government of India has set up a dedicated Centre of Excellence to accelerate industry adoption of clean technologies and thus scale up Indias contribution to the global energy transition. Named UTPRERAK, short for Unnat Takniki Pradarshan Kendra, the Centre of Excellence to Accelerate Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies seeks to play a catalytic role in improving Energy Efficiency of Indian Industry. The Centre, named otherwise as Advanced Industrial Technology Demonstration Centre (AITDC), has been set up bythe Bureau of Energy efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, at the Badarpur, New Delhi campus ofthe National Power Training Institute (NPTI), Ministry of Power.
UTPRERAK will also serve as a strategic capacity-building institution and seeks to be a one-stop solution provider for energy professionals from across India for trainings and Education in energy efficiency. It is expected to provide intensive training to more than 10,000 energy professionals from the industry and other potential sectors over the next five years.
E Sewa Kendras – Bridging the digital divide & ensuring justice for All
815 eSewa Kendras have been made under 25 High Courts, benefiting all the stakeholders to avail citizen-centric Services of courts and case-related information conveniently.
About eSewa Kendras: eSewa Kendras have been rolled out to bridge the digital divide by providing e filing services to lawyers and litigants. Covering all High Courts and one District Court as pilot project, it is being expanded to cover all court complexes. The eSewa Kendras are being set up at the entry point of the court complexes with the intention of facilitating the lawyer or litigant who needs any kind of assistance ranging from information to facilitation and e filing.
On 30 October 2020, Indias first e-Resource Center was inaugurated at Nagpur in Maharashtra. The e-Resource Centre Nyay Kaushal will facilitate e-filing of cases in Supreme Court India, High Courts and District Courts across the country. It will also assist the lawyers and litigants in access online e-Courts services and shall be the saviour for those who cannot afford the technology. It will provide benefits in saving time, avoidance of exertion, travelling long distances, and saving cost by offering facilities of e-filing of cases across the country, to conduct the hearing virtually, Scanning, Accessing e-Courts services etc.
The stage is all set for the 8th edition of worlds largest urban swachhata survey,Swachh Survekshan 2023 Mera Shehar, Meri Pehchan. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the Field Assessment forSwachh Survekshan (SS) 2023. Under SS 2023, around 3,000 assessors will take the field for assessment from 1 July, 2023. The assessors will study performances of 4500+ cities across 46 indicators and it is expected to be completed within a month. Rolled out on 24 May, 2022, Swachh Survekshan 2023 championsWaste to Wealthand is curated towards processing and scientific management of waste.
Originally designed as a competitive monitoring tool, Swachh Survekshan was introduced under the aegis of MoHUA in 2016, with an objective to sanitation, helping cities to achieve the goal of sustainable sanitation and Waste Management in a fast-track competitive manner. Swachh Survekshan has enthused cities with a healthy spirit of competitiveness to improve urban sanitation and ensure best service delivery to their citizens. It is expected to engage with a whopping 10 Cr citizens during this years assessment making it indisputably the worlds largest annual urban cleanliness survey. Conducted over four quarters, the first three quarters of assessment have already been completed successfully.
A new third quarter for Swachh Survekshan 2023 was introduced this year and the States/ cities geared up for the survey enhancing their activities and level of preparedness. Avoiding the acute heat wave conditions across the nation in the last two months, the fourth quarter is now being launched from 1 July, 2023.
India, Egypt upgrade ties to ‘strategic partnership’
PM Narendra Modi and President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi signed a pact to elevate the bilateral relationship between the two countries to a strategic PARTNERSHIP.
In a special ceremony, Sisi conferred PM Modi with the Order of the Nile, the highest civilian award of Egypt. This was the 13th state honour to have been conferred on PM Modi.
The two sides also signed three MoUs in the fields of <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, archaeology and antiquities and competition law.