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The COVID 19 Vaccine Booster Shots are recommended by the INSACOG (Indian SARS CoV 2 Genomics Consortium) for people above 40.

Highlights:

The advice arises to counterbalance the Omicron risks in the country. The Omicron is a COVID-19 variant that was later identified in South Africa.

The World Health Organisation declared it a “Variant of Concern”. According to INSACOG, it isn’t easy to identify the presence of the variant in the more initial stages of its entry into the country.

Booster shots

The booster shots are the supplementary use of the vaccine, given after the protection afforded by the original shots begin to decline.

The booster shots help keep the immunity levels in people, and all Vaccines have booster shots.

The booster shots are given after a person has completed his vaccine series to increase the protection against the virus.

This is because the protection against the virus decreases over some time.

The Davis Cup 2021 was won by the Russian Tennis Federation.

Highlights:

The Davis Cup finals happened between Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev of Russia.

And Daniit Medvedev won the match, taking victory to the Russian Tennis Federation.

The Davis Cup is also named the World Cup of Tennis as it is an international team competition in men’s tennis.

The Billie Jean King Cup is the Women‘s equivalent of the Davis Cup. The International Tennis Federation conducts it on hard courts.

It first happened in 1900 as a trial between the US and Britain, and by 2016, 135 countries were participating in the tournament.

The most victorious countries of the Davis cup are the USA, Australia, New Zealand, where the USA has won the Davis Title 32 times, Australia has won 28 times.

It is a single-elimination tournament, as each match’s loser is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

Indias first privately developed rocket Vikram-S is undergoing final launch preparations atIsros launch pad in Sriharikota and is expected to be launched in a suborbital mission.

The mission is named Prarambh meaning the beginning. The rocket is developed by startupSkyrootAerospace, which has the technical launch clearance from Space regulator IN-SPACe and is looking at a launch window between November 12 and 16.

Skyroots launch vehicles are named Vikram as a tribute to the founder of the Indian Space programmeVikram Sarabhai.

Vikram-S is a single-stage sub-orbital launch vehicle which would carry three customer payloads and help test and validate the majority of the technologies in theVikramseries of space launch vehicles.

State governments revenue through stamp duty (SD) and registration charges (RC) touched Rs 94,847 crore in H1FY23, showing a rise of 35% against the same period of the last financial year.

According to a study byMotilal Oswal Financial Services, Average monthly revenue collection in H1 of 2022-23 was Rs 15,807 crore as compared to Rs 11,687 crore in the same period of 202122.

Maharashtra,Uttar Pradeshand Naduled the revenue collection, accounting for more than 40% of the total income generated. The surge in revenue is attributedlargely to revival of residential real estate sector sinceCovid. Property consultants indicated sales of housing units have shot up across metros and housing finance companies said demand for Home loans in tier-2 and -3 cities and towns surged in past two quarters of this fiscal.

Only Bihar witnessed anegative Growth of -73% to Rs 620 crore in the first half of 2022-23 compared to the same period of last fiscal.

Aerial connectivity in theNortheasthas got a major boost with Prime MinisterNarendra Modi inaugurating the firstGreenfieldairport inArunachal PradeshDonyi PoloAirport at Hollangi, Itanagar.

He had laid the foundation stone for this airport in February 2019 and state-run Authority of India (AAI) completed the work in time despiteCovid. While the region had nine operational airports till 2014, seven more have been built since then taking the number up to 16 with pans for many more in coming years.
Northeast India is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the governments ambitious UDAN-regional connectivity scheme with several routes awarded for the region.
Airports in five northeastern states, namely, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland have seen flights take off for the first time in 75 years. Aircraft movement in the North-East has also witnessed an increase of 113% since 2014, from 852 per week in 2014 to 1817 per week in 2022.

Airports in five northeastern states Mizoram, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland have seen flights take off for the first time in 75 years.

MANGROVES are one of the most productive Ecosystems of the world. This tidal forest serves as a nursery ground for several organisms, protects the coastal erosion, sequestering the carbon and providing livelihood for millions of people besides harbouring array of faunal Elements in its habitat.

Mangroves are distributed in the tropical and sub-tropical region of the world and are found in 123 countries.

Mangroves are among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics. They account for 3% of carbon sequestered by the worlds tropical forests.

Mangroves are the economic foundations of many tropical coastal regions. To sustain the blue economy, it is imperative to ensure the sustainability of coastal habitats, particularly mangroves for tropical nations, at the local, regional, and international levels.

With notable adaptive features, mangroves are natural armed forces of tropical and subtropical nations. They are the best option to fight against https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change consequences like sea levels rise and increasing frequency of natural calamities like Cyclones and storm surges.

India has committed in its NDC to create an additional Carbon Sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO₂equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030.

Over half the homes sanctioned under the BJP-led Centres flagship Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U) housing scheme have been delivered and the rest are under various stages of completion, Union Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said.

Mr. Puris comments came on the sidelines of the PMAY-U Awards 2021 scheduled annually to recognise the contribution of States, Union Territories and with regard to the implementation of the scheme in Rajkot.

In the awards, Uttar Pradesh bagged the first position followed by Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu at second and third place, respectively.

Amid the continued debates over the imposition of Hindi across the country, the Union Government on Thursday announced a month-long programme to strengthen and rekindle the cultural and civilisational bond between Nadu and Varanasi. Named the Kashi-Tamil Sangamam, the programme would be held from November 16 to December 16 this year.

The period will cover the Tamil month of Karthikeya during which all Tamil households go pray to Lord Shiva. This programme, which would be a part of the Ek Bharat Sreshtha Bharat initiative, is aimed at rekindling the civilisational link between the new Kashi and Tamil Nadu both deep centres of knowledge, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. He added that building a heritage bridge for the new generation was a key feature of the National Education Policy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 7, 2022 said India has the potential to lead the fourth Industrial revolution and the government has worked on reforms to make the country a manufacturing hub of the world.

He said that the fourth industrial revolution is as much about new technology, as it is about innovative thinking.

Due to various factors, India may have missed being a part of earlier industrial revolutions. But India has the potential to lead 4.0, because, for the first time in recent HISTORY, we have many different factors like demography, demand and decisive Governance coming together.

The production-linked incentive scheme for advanced chemistry cell (ACC) battery storage will help India in cutting down its imports and become an exporter in the coming years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres launched Mission LiFE, a global plan of action aimed at saving the planet from the disastrous consequences of https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change.

The action plan – a list of ideas on lifestyle changes that can be taken up as climate-friendly behaviour – along with the logo and tagline for Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) were jointly launched by PM Modi and Mr. Guterres.

This includes nudging individuals to practice simple yet effective environment-friendly actions in their daily lives (demand), enabling industries and markets to respond swiftly to the changing demand (supply), and to influence government and Industrial Policy to support both sustainable consumption and production (policy).