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National Teachers Award 2021 was awarded through President Ram Nath Kovind, September 5, 2021. President Kovind gave the Awards to forty-four finest teachers in the country for their devoted contribution.

Highlights:

The award contributes to those who enhance the niceness of schooling for students and inspire and enrich their lives. This year, the Ministry of Education launched the name of 44 teachers who would be conferred the National Teachers Award. Out of the complete forty-four teachers, 9 of the awardees are Women.

The Manda buffalo has been regarded as the nineteenth unique breed of buffalo found in India by the NBAGR (National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources).

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According to research done recently, around 30% of the 557 raptor species around the world are threatened by extinction to some degree. It is an evaluation by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature () and BirdLife International (a international PARTNERSHIP of conservation organisations (NGOs)).

A raptor is a bird of prey. A bird of prey is a carnivore (meat-eater) that kills and eats mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, rodents, and other birds.

All raptors have a hooked beak, robust feet with sharp talons, keen eyesight, and a carnivorous diet.

Raptors prey on a large variety of vertebrates & thus, facilitate long-distance seed dispersal. This indirectly increases seed production & pest control.

India is a signatory to Raptors MoU. India has also launched a Vulture Action Plan 2020-25 for the conservation of vultures. India is additionally a part of the SAVE – Saving Asias Vultures from Extinction consortium.

International Literacy Day is located globally on 8th September each and every year. The day spread awareness about the importance of literacy for individuals, communities, and societies and the want for intensified efforts closer to extra literate societies.

The fifty-fifth International Literacy Day theme is Literacy for a human-centred recovery: Narrowing the digital divide. The 8th of September was proclaimed International Literacy Day by UNESCO in 1966 to remind the global neighbourhood of the importance of literacy for individuals, communities and societies, and the need for intensified efforts towards extra literate societies. It was celebrated for the 1st time in 1967.

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched Vidyanjali Portal and several other initiatives in the https://exam.pscnotes.com/Education-sector”>Education sector.

These initiatives were launched while asserting that they will play a significant role in shaping Indias future.

Initiatives were launched while inaugurating the conclave of Shikshak Parv.

Vidyanjali portal was launched with the objective of facilitating education volunteers, donors or CSR contributors for school development.

Vidyanjali portal was launched to enable community or volunteers to contribute by connecting with the government and government-aided schools of their choice directly.

PRANA Portal will be used to track the progress of the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in order to comply with Indias commitment to ensure clean air and blue skies to everybody.

This portal was launched on the occasion of International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies in non-attainment cities (NAC).

Non-attainment cities are those cities that failed to meet the National air quality standards in a five-year period.

With Indias efforts, 86 cities showed a better air quality in 2019 and it increased to 104 cities in 2020.

PRANA portal will help in tracking physical and financial status of city air action plan implementation. It will also disseminate information on air quality to the public.

Smog tower was launched at Anand Vihar in Delhi.

Now, ministry would keep a close eye on the results to determine if India need more of such projects in the future.

A smog tower is a structure that are designed as a large or medium scale air purifier. It helps in reducing Air Pollution by forcing the air through filters.

Filtration system used in the smog tower has been designed by University of Minnesota. It has an expected efficiency of 90 per cent.

Prisoners in India are five times more at risk of developing Tuberculosis (TB) than the general Population, a first-of-its-kind study to assess prevalence of the communicable disease in prisons across the world has revealed.

According to the study, published in TheLancet Public Health, the incidence of TB in Indian prisons is 1,076 cases per 100,000 persons in prisons. In general population, TB incidence is 210 per 100,000 population, according to WHO TB report 2022.

A study published in theInternational Journal of Infectious Diseasesin 2017, in which researchers examined the availability of TB Services in countrys prisons, revealed diagnostic and treatment services for TB were available in 18% and 54% of the prisons respectively. Only half of the prisons screened inmates for TB on entry, while nearly 60% practised periodic screening of inmates, the study found.

In the latest study, which looked at the incidence of TB among prisoners in 193 out of 195 countries researchers found approximately 125,105 of the 11 million people incarcerated globally developed TB in 2019 a rate of 1,148 cases per 100,000 people per year; significantly higher than the global incidence rate among all persons 127 cases per 100,000 people per year.

With Isro’s most powerful rocket LVM-3 carrying the Chandrayaan-3 module on its tip standing tall on the launchpad inSriharikotaand the lunarcraft raring to begin itsMoonjourney next Friday, India is on the cusp of “becoming the fourth country after the US,Russiaand China to land on the Moon”, space ministerJitendra Singhsaid.

“After a quantum rise in our space expertise, India can no longer wait to be left behind in its march to the Moon,” he said.

After landing on Moon, the space minister said, the Chandrayaan-3 rover with six wheels will come out of the lander and is expected to work for 14 days on the lunar surface. “With the support of multiple cameras on the rover, we will be able to receive images,” Singh said.

The space minister said the primary objectives of the Chandrayaan-3 mission are threefold: to demonstrate safe and soft-landing on the lunar surface; to demonstrate rover roving on the Moon; and to conduct in-situ scientific experiments.

Singh said based on the current trajectory of Growth, India’s space sector could be a $1 trillion economy in the coming years. Currently, the space economy in India is very small accounting for about 2.1% of the global space economy in 2020 amounting to $9.6 billion, which is 0.4$ of the GDP of the country.

China on Friday insisted it is up to the US to create necessary conditions for anti-drugs cooperation, following complaints from Washington that Beijing has ignored its calls for a crackdown on precursor chemicals for the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl.

China takes an active part in international anti-narcotic cooperation and firmly opposes smears and unilateral sanctions on other countries under the pretext of the fight against drugs, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing.

China was also deeply angered by a decision late last month by the U.S. Department to file criminal charges against four Chinese companies and eight individuals for allegedly trafficking the chemicals used to make fentanyl in the United States and Mexico.

The indictments represented the first prosecutions to charge China-based chemical companies and Chinese nationals with illegally selling the chemicals used to make the drug, which has been blamed for a deadly overdose crisis.

The Chinese Embassy condemned the charges, accusing the U.S. government of seeking to shift the blame for its domestic drug problem.

China has also complained over sanctions leveled against the Ministry of Public Securitys Institution of Forensic Science over a lack of action on combating the production and sale of fentanyl precursor chemicals, and says U.S. claims of a pipeline of such substances from China to Mexico and into the US is a fallacy.

The Scottish government has proposed decriminalising possession of all drugs for personal use to tackle one of Europes highest overdose death rates.

The suggestion was almost instantly blocked by the Conservative UK government in London, which said it had no plans to soften drug laws.

The Scottish government has often taken more liberal positions on social issues than the Conservative administration in London. Last year a law passed by the Scottish parliament that would make it easier for people to officially change gender was blocked by Sunak’s government.

The governing SNP uses such disagreements to bolster its argument that Scotland would be better off leaving the United Kingdom and becoming an independent country.

The Environment Ministry proposes to soften the provisions of the Environment Protection Act (EPA) by replacing a clause that provides for imprisoning violators with one that only requires them to pay a fine. This, however, doesnt apply to violations that cause grave injury or loss of life. The proposed fines, in lieu of imprisonment, are also 5-500 times greater than those currently levied.

The Act currently says that violators will be punishable with imprisonment up to five years or with a fine up to 1 lakh, or with both. Were violations to continue, an additional fine of up to 5,000 for every day during which such failure or contravention continues after the conviction would be levied. Theres also a provision for jail terms to extend to seven years.

There should be a dedicated hour during the Rajya Sabha proceedings to discuss the import and implications of the reports finalised by Parliamentary , a panel headed by former General Secretary and advisor P. P. K. Ramacharyulu has recommended.

The panel was instituted by Chairman Venkaiah Naidu in January this year. The extensive report, that studied the working of the Rajya Sabha secretariat and other procedural issues, has made 130 recommendations.

This is the first ever comprehensive study of the Rajya Sabha secretariat. The study has suggested streamlining of the secretarial work, including disposing of 75% of the issues by lower and middle level in a ten-layer hierarchy that exists in the secretariat at present. The Rajya Sabha secretariat, that in 1952 had started out with 200 officers and staff, has 1,700 personnel at present.