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The Indian national blind cricket team won the T20 World Cup for the Blind for the third time ina row. They defeated Bangladesh at Bengalurus M Chinnaswamy Stadium by a commanding score of 120 runs. The Indian captain, Ajay Kumar Reddy elected to bat after winning the toss,and his side eventually set a challenging total of 277 runs for Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi teamcould only muster 157 runs for three in return.

Damon Galgut, a South African playwright and writer, has won the 2021 Booker Prize.

Highlights:

He is honored with the award for “The Promise,” his third shortlisted novel about a family in his nation from the end of apartheid to the election of Jacob Zuma.

The book spans several decades and depicts the family’s gradual disintegration as the country transitions to Democracy.

Mr. Galgut won his third medal as a finalist for a novel that the judges described as a “tour de force.”

He had previously been nominated for “The Good Doctor” in 2003 and “In a Strange Room” in 2010, but both times he was unsuccessful.

The indigenously-developed smart anti-airfield weapon (SAAW), which is a precision-guided bomb designed to destroy enemy runways, bunkers, aircraft hangers, radars and other reinforced structures at a maximum range of 100-km, has been tested twice byDRDOandIAFin recent days.

The electro-optical configuration of the system is equipped with imaging infra-red (IIR) seeker technology to enhance the precision strike capability of the weapon. In both the tests, the intended target was hit with high accuracy.

Around 15,000 students have enrolled for coaching classes in the year 2021, under the Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana Scheme.

Highlights:

The Delhi government initiated this scheme. It was started at a few private facilities for a variety of competitive tests.

It is for children from economically disadvantaged families and marginalized communities.

In addition to free coaching, the Delhi government would offer students a Rs 2,500 travel allowance.

It allows bright students from the SC, ST, OBC, and EWS groups to receive free competitive test preparation from private coaching institutes.

The scheme is available to families with annual earnings of less than Rs.8 lakh.

Students can benefit from free coaching classes at 46 different coaching centers.

An MoU was signed between MoRD and Flipkart for The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY-NRLM).

Highlights:

By bringing local companies and self-help groups (SHGs) into the E-Commerce fold, the government and Flipkart hope to empower them.

The DAY-goal NRLM’s of increasing rural communities’ self-EMPLOYMENT and Entrepreneurship capabilities are aligned with this PARTNERSHIP.

As a result, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of an Atma Nirbhar Bharat gains more traction.

The Memorandum of Understanding is part of Flipkart’s Samarth program.

It was struck with the goal of providing national market access to skilled and underserved communities of weavers, craftspeople, and artisans through the Flipkart marketplace.

At Israel’s Ovda Airbase, 84 Indian Air Force (IAF) soldiers and a Mirage 2000 aircraft squadron took part in the international multilateral combat exercise Blue Flag 2021.

Highlights:

Integration of fourth and fifth-generation aircraft in complicated operational circumstances is the focus of Blue Flag 2021.

Air Force missions from eight countries are participating in the exercise.

This aims to share information and battle experience in order to strengthen operational capabilities.

The US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and Israel are the other seven countries that took part in the exercise.

States with the least per capita spend Bihar, MP and Assam in that order have very poor Health indices, which underlines that spending is necessary, but Bihar does better on most indices than many states with higher levels of spending, showing that spending alone is not sufficient. This data was culled out of the recently-releasedNational Health Accountsfor 2018-19.

It shows that often where total health expenditure is high, the bulk is borne by people out of their own pockets, as in Kerala and Maharashtra. However, in Himachal and J&K, the government accounts for more than half the total spending on health and 47% in Nadu too.

The governments share in total health spending was highest in Uttarakhand at 61% and Assam at over 55%. It was lowest in UP and Kerala at about 25%. In 2004-05, the government accounted for just 9.7% of the spending in Kerala and 13% in UP. While those Shares have risen significantly, people in these states, as also in West Bengal, continue to shoulder most of the burden of healthcare. This has been the case since 2004-05, the earliest year for which the National Health Accounts (NHA) are available.

Maharashtra, the third biggest spender on health after Kerala and Himachal Pradesh in per capita terms, also had the government accounting for barely 27% of this expenditure. Interestingly, Tamil Nadu, which has health indices similar to Maharashtra, spends much less per capita. Moreover, the government share of the total health spend expanded from just 18% in 2004-05 to almost 47% in 2018-19, thus reducing the burden on the people.

Almost all states have increased public spending on health from abysmal levels in 2004-05, with a significant jump between NHA of 2014-15 and 2018-19. Assam had the highest jump in share of public spending in the total health expenditure between 2004-05 and 2018. J&K saw the lowest increase in this period. Jharkhand and Karnataka too showed increases of 2.5 Percentage points and six percentage points, respectively.
The total health expenditure has three componentsgovernment spending, people spending out of pocket and the third is a combination of private health Insurance, expenditures by enterprises, not-for-profit institutions or NGOs and external sources or funds from outside India.

Indias maternal deaths to district-level precision, and found 70% of the 640 districts are hot spots reporting higher pregnancy-related deaths than the UN development goals.

Researchers from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Deonar, analysed 61.98 million live births and 61,169 maternal deaths reported between 2017 and 2020, said a paper published in PLOS Global Public Health on Tuesday. (As Census 2011 data was used, only 640 districts were considered against 773 in 2022).

Maternal mortality rate refers to deaths due to complications from childbirth or pregnancy per 1 lakh live births. TheMMRunder UNs Goals (SDG) for 2030 is 70.

The IIPS study found Arunachal Pradesh and notAssamas per the government surveys has the countrys highest MMR of 284, whileMaharashtrareported the lowest (40). Five states have MMR greater than or equal to 210. Tirap district in Arunachal has the highest MMR, while Kinnaur in Himachal has the lowest.

To promote wood inUttar Pradesh, senior officials of State Government along with cabinet minister (industrial development) Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi on Tuesday conducted a meeting with key stakeholders.

Pointing out the massive Growth achieved by Chinese government in medium-density fibrebroad (MDF), the stakeholders highlighted that China has cornered 43% of global business while India is under 0.5% at present.
The private industry stakeholders urged the government to promote agro Forestry in the state to increase the income of the farmers.

American Space Agency, NASA, is set to send its Psyche Mission to visit a giant asteroid called Psyche, which could be the frozen remains of molten core of a bygone world.

Psyche asteroid orbits around the Sun in main asteroid belt, in betweenMarsandJupiter.

According to data gathered through Earth-based radar and optical telescopes, Psyche is made largely of Metal.

Psyche could be part or all of the iron-rich interior of any earlier planetary building block which got stripped of its outer rocky shell because of repeated collision with other large bodies during the initiation phases of formation of https://exam.pscnotes.com/the-solar-system”>The Solar System.

The asteroid is about 280 kilometres at its widest point.

NASA will send its Psyche Mission in August 2022 launch. This spacecraft will orbit around the asteroid for two years. In two years, it will take pictures, map the surface, and look for evidence of an ancient Magnetic Field. Aircraft will also study the neutrons and gamma rays coming from the asteroids surface in order to determine its elemental composition.

The missile, named Zircon missile, was launched from the Severodvinsk. submarine. Zircon hit a designated target in the Barents Sea.

It was Zircons first launch from a submarine.

Missile has been repeatedly test-fired from a navy frigate in the past.

Missile would be commissioned in to Russian Navy in 2022.

Zircon missile has been developed to arm Russian cruisers, frigates and submarines. It is one among several hypersonic missiles being developed in Russia.

Zircon Missile have the capability to fly at nine times the speed of Sound. It has a range of 1000 kilometres. Missile is believed to be a maneuvering, winged hypersonic cruise missile.

Ministry of Textiles has approved the continuation of Comprehensive Handicrafts Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS) on October 5, 2021.

CHCDS scheme was approved with a total outlay of Rs 160 crore.

Scheme will continue up to March 2026 now.

Under the scheme, infrastructural support, design & technology upgradation, market access etc will be provided to handicrafts artisans.

CHCDS schemes was launched to create world-class Infrastructure which will caters to the business needs of local artisans & SMEs in order to boost production and export. These clusters have been set with the objective of assisting the artisans & entrepreneurs in setting up world-class units with modern infrastructure, adequate training, latest technology, and Human resource development inputs. It is also coupled with market linkages and production diversification.

Under CHCDS, interventions such as Baseline Survey & Activity Mapping, Skill Training, Marketing events, Improved Tool Kits, Publicity, Seminars, capacity building, Design workshops, etc will be provided. Scheme will also provide for Emporiums, Common Facility Centres, Raw Material Banks, Trade Common Production Centres, Facilitation Centres, Design & Resource Centres.

These products will focus on integration of scattered artisans, building grass root level enterprises for them and linking them to SMEs in the handicrafts sector in order to ensure economies of scale. Mega handicraft clusters comprising of 10,000 artisans will be selected for overall development under the scheme.

As per NOAAs National Center for Environmental Information analysis, August 2021 was the 6^thhottest month on the Earth, despite the fact that, Central Texas went through a cooler than Average month.

August 2021 was the 6th warmest month in 142 years.

While analysing the Augusts heat, scientists found that the average global land & ocean surface temperature was 1.62 degrees F more than the average of 20th-century.

North America witnessed its top-10 warmest August.

Asia had its 2nd warmest August while Africa had 3rd warmest August.

Since 2009, 9 out of 10 warmest Augusts on Earth have happened.

Year 2021 was also the 2nd hottest summer on record in Northern Hemisphere. Year 2020 witnessed the hottest summer on record in the Northern Hemisphere. August end also wrapped up meteorological summer, a summer which was tied with 2019 as second hottest summer on record in the Northern Hemisphere.

June-August is known as meteorological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. June-August was the 4th warmest on record for Earth while Southern Hemisphere was going through winter. Global temperatures were recorded as 1.62 degrees F above the 20th Century.

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is planning to find a customer relationship management (CRM) as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions on the basis of Free and open-source Software (FOSS).

These solutions would be planned in such a way that it could deploy on its own platform and use it in future for developing other citizen-facing interfaces like Aarogya Setu app or a COWIN platform.

Primary goal of coming up with the solution is to create an open-source software repository which can be accessed and used across the departments, States and countries.

Currently, Indian government is working on using FOSS in order to find solutions in agritech, Governance, healthcare and Education segments.

Under National Health Mission (NHM), the Allocation of funds for Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is done as a part of the RCH Flexible Pool.

Highlights:

Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a secure motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NHM).

It is being carried out with the goal of reducing maternal and child mortality by promoting institutional delivery among pregnant Women.

Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) was launched in April 2005 to enhance the National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS).

Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a centrally sponsored scheme, which integrates assistance with post-delivery care.

The scheme focuses on the terrible pregnant females with a special dispensation for states that have low institutional delivery rates.

The scheme also gives performance-based incentives to women health volunteers acknowledged as ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) to promote institutional delivery among pregnant women.

Grants Under Kala Sanskriti Vikas Yojana

No grant under the Kala Sanskriti Vikas Yojana has been cancelled due to prevailing COVID-19. The information is by the Ministry of Culture.

The Culture Ministry issues guidelines for conserving cultural events/activities in virtual/online mode under quite a number of scheme aspects of the Central Sector Scheme Kala Sanskriti Vikas Yojana (KSVY).

Kala Sanskriti Vikas Yojana (KSVY) is an umbrella scheme of the Culture Ministry under which cultural businesses are given financial assistance for the promoting of artwork and culture.