04.08.21 Daily [bihar] BPSC Current Affairs

Bihar Affairs

In the midst of fears of a third Covid wave by September/October, there is good news for Bihar as 75.9 per cent of its population has antibodies against the coronavirusThis has been revealed in the report of sero survey conducted by the Indian council of Medical Research (ICMR) last month.The Sero survey report further says that the highest number of antibodies across the country have been found in the people of Madhya Pradesh, which is around 79 per cent of the population. Rajasthan comes second after Madhya Pradesh. Similarly, the lowest antibody count has been found in Kerala which is just 44 per cent.

According to the report, Madhya Pradesh leads the chart with 79 per cent of its Population having antibodies, while Rajasthan comes second with 76.2 per cent sero prevalence. Bihar has 75.9 per cent, Gujarat 75.3 per cent, Chhattisgarh 74.6 per cent, Uttarakhand 73.1 per cent, Uttar Pradesh 71 per cent and Andhra Pradesh 70.2 per cent sero prevalence.

Similarly in Karnataka, it is 69.8 per cent, Nadu 69.2 per cent, Odisha 68.1 per cent, Punjab 66.5 per cent, Telangana 63.1 per cent, Jammu and Kashmir 63 per cent, Himachal Pradesh 62 per cent, Jharkhand 61.2 per cent, West Bengal 60.9 per cent, Haryana 60.1 per cent, Maharashtra 58 per cent, Assam 50.3 per cent and Kerala 44.4 per cent. Kerala has the least antibodies among the states.

National and International Affairs

Implementation:Through implementing agencies like NGOs, National Institutes beneath the Ministry of Social Justice & authorisation and ALIMCO (a PSU that manufactures artificial limbs).

Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana:

Coverage: Senior voters, happiness to BPL class and full of any of the age-related disability/infirmity Low vision, disability, Loss of teeth and locomotive incapacity.

Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana by Government of India

A Samajik Adhikarita Shivir for distribution of aids and helpful devices to Divyangjan beneath the ADIP theme and to Senior voters beneath the Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana was unionized by the Ministry of Social and authorisation, Government of India.

Key Points:

Operation Blue Freedom – Team CLAW

The Government of India has accorded sanctions to Team CLAW to steer a team of individuals with disabilities to scale Siachen ice mass and make a replacement record for the most important team of individuals with disabilities.

This is the land record expedition a part of Operation Blue Freedom Triple World Records being undertaken.

Triple Elemental World Records could be a series of world records being tried by the team in 2021 of collectives of individuals with disabilities achieving nice feats toward land, in air and underwater.

First Indian Women to Win Two Olympic Medals

PV Sindhu, a 26-year-old badminton player, has turned out to be the first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals after defeating ‘He Bingjiao’ of China.

Highlights:

Sindhu defeated ‘He Bingjiao’ via 21-13, 21-15 in the Women‘s singles bronze medal match at Tokyo Olympics 2020.

She is the 1st Indian girl to win Olympic silver and the first Indian girl to finish on the podium two instances at the Olympics.

At the Rio Olympics, Sindhu had won women’s singles badminton silver in her Olympics debut.

NISER – Joint Mission of ISRO and NASA

The ISRO-NASA joint mission NISER (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, aimed at making international dimension of land floor adjustments using superior radar imaging, is proposed to be launched in early 2023.

dual-band (L-band and S-band) radar imaging mission with the functionality of full polarimetric and interferometric modes of operation to have a look at minor adjustments inland, vegetation and cryosphere.

NASA is creating L-band SAR and related structures, whilst ISRO is creating S-band SAR, spacecraft bus, the launch automobile and associated launch Services. The essential scientific goals of the mission are to enhance the perception of the influence of local weather trade on Earth’s altering Ecosystems, land and coastal processes, land deformations and cryosphere. NISER is one of the integral collaborations of the ISRO and NASA. India and the U.S. had agreed upon this mission in then-President Barack Obama’s go-to India in 2015.

World Breastfeeding Week – 1st Week of August

The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is marked once a year within the initial week of August, between one to seven August, to lift awareness on the importance of breastfeeding for mothers and infants.

Highlights:

The theme of the planet Breastfeeding Week 2021 is “Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility”. The annual week is organized by WABA, the UN agency and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund since 1991. Breastfeeding provides each kid with the most effective potential to begin in life. It delivers Health, biological process and emotional advantages to each youngster and mother. And it forms a part of a property food system. However, whereas breastfeeding could be an action, it’s not continually simple. Mothers would like support each to urge started and to sustain breastfeeding.

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