TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ID-ART. 3

E-SANJEEVANI OPD. 3

INDIA-UK VIRTUAL SUMMIT. 4

DDOS ATTACK. 5

ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH. 6

WORLD THALASSEMIA DAY. 6

OSTEOCYTES. 7

PESCO.. 8

SNIPPETS. 8

What : Mobile Application

By : Interpol

Why :

• Identify stolen cultural property
• Reduce smuggling
• Increase the possibility of recovering stolen works and artefacts

Features:

THE APP-

• Enables users — from law enforcement agencies to the general public — to get mobile access to the Interpol database of stolen works of art
• Create an inventory of private art collections Report cultural sites that are potentially at risk
• Users can immediately cross-check if an object is among the over 52,000 items registered as stolen in the Interpol’s “Stolen Works of Art” database
• Using international standards known as Object ID, museums and private collectors can capture images and record features of their works of art on the App to help keep track of their collections. In the event of a theft, these records can be provided to law enforcement, greatly enhancing the chances of recovery

What : Govt of India flagship telemedicine platform

Developed by: Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), Mohali

Features : It provides free consultations to any Indian citizen.

Recent News : The Medical Branch of HQ Integrated Defence Staff is providing telemedicine service for the serving and retired defence personnel and has coordinated with MoHFW and NIC to roll out this Ex-Defence OPD for civilian patients.

Recent news : The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed on a common vision of a new and transformational Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the UK and India, and adopted an ambitious India-UK Roadmap to 2030 to steer cooperation for the next 10 years.

Some of the key points to strengthen STI cooperation between two countries are:

1. Enhance cooperation between India and the UK on strengthening the role of women in STEMM at schools, universities, and research institutions and creating an enabling environment for equal participation of women in STEM disciplines through collaboration on new initiatives like Gender Advancement for Transforming Institutions (GATI) project.

2. Develop collaborations between Industry, Academia and the Government to foster innovation among school students by focusing on teacher training, mentoring and sharing of global best practices through initiatives like the India Innovation Competency Enhancement Program (IICEP).

3. Build on the two countries’ existing bilateral research, science and innovation infrastructure and governmental relationships to continue to support high-quality, high-impact research and innovation through joint processes. Position the UK and India as mutual partners of choice and a force for good in the world in areas of shared priority, including health, the circular economy, climate, clean energy, urban development and engineering healthier environments, waste-to-wealth, manufacturing, cyber physical systems, space and related research.

4. Forge partnership across the pipeline of research and innovation activity, from basic research to applied and interdisciplinary research and through to translation and commercialisation across government departments to optimise impact, utilize expertise and networks and minimise duplication.

5. Leverage and build on existing, long-standing bilateral partnerships such as on education, research and innovation, to stimulate a joint pipeline of talent, excellent researchers and early-career innovators and explore new opportunities for student and researchers exchanges by establishing joint centres and facilitating access to state-of-the-art facilities.

6. Work together to share knowledge and expertise regarding artificial intelligence, scientific support to policies and regulatory aspects including ethics, and promote a dialogue in research and innovation. Through Tech Summits, bring together tech innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs and policy makers to work together on challenges including the norms and governance of future tech under the cross-cutting theme of ‘data’.

7. Grow programmes such as the Fast Track Start-Up Fund to nurture innovation led, sustainable growth and jobs, and tech solutions that benefit both countries. Explore partnerships with joint investment to enable the growth of technology-enabled innovative businesses and increase the number of start-ups and MSMEs growing and scaling-up internationally, for example in relation to climate and the environment, med tech devices, industrial biotech and agriculture, and sustainable development, helping to achieve the Global Goals by 2030.

What : DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service. It is a cyber threat that seeks to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server. This is done by controlling a network of malware infected devices.

Recent news : The Belgian Government sites were recently knocked offline due to DDoS attack. Several government sites and Internet Service Providers of the public sector of the country were hit hard by DDoS.

How does DDOS work :

• The attack is carried out with a network of Internet connected devices.
• Malware is first sent to infect a network of computers and other devices.
• These infected devices and computers are called bots. A group of such bots in the DDoS are called Botnet. First a Botnet is established in DDoS attack.
• Now the attacker is able to send direct instructions to each bot in the Botnet.
• The Bots will then send requests to the targeted IP address.
• The server eventually becomes overwhelmed and results in denial of service to the normal traffic.

How to identify DDOS work :

• Suspicious amounts of traffic originating from a single IP address
• Unexplained surge in requests to a single page
• Odd traffic patterns; For instance, traffic spikes in odd hours of the day

 

What ?

• The month is celebrated to honour the contributions made by the Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans to the culture, history and achievements of United States.
• The Month of May was chosen to celebrate as it was the first time when the Japanese immigrants arrived to the US.
• In 2021, NASA has organised several events to celebrate the month in the following theme: Advancing Leaders Through Purpose-Drive Services

Who is Pacific Islander? Pacific Islanders, are people belonging to the Pacific Islands. It is a geographic term used to describe inhabitants of the three main sub regions namely Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. Micronesia is in the Northern hemisphere.

FACT: New Zealand has the largest population of Pacific Islanders in the world.

Where : May 8

Why : The day is celebrated to encourage the patients suffering from Thalassemia.

2021 THEME : Addressing Health Inequalities Across the Global Thalassemia Community

Thalassemia Disease:

• The disease is an inherited blood disorder that is passed from parents to children.
• When a person gets infected with the disease, the his or her body loses the ability to produce haemoglobin.
• Eventually the red blood cells count reduces.
• Red Blood Cells are the carriers of oxygen.
• The disease is most common in South Asian, African and Mediterranean countries.

Thalassemia Vaccine

• Beginning at the age of two months a seven valent Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine should be given.
• At the age of twenty-four months, a 23-valent Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine booster should be given.
• Later, Pnuemovax booster should be considered every five to ten years.

Thalassemia in India

• Every year around 10,000 children are born with Thalassemia.
• The Thalassemia gene varies from 3% to 15% in northern India, 1% to 3% in southern India.
• Certain communities such as Lingayat in Karnataka, Koli’s and Agri’s in Maharashtra, Punjabis and Sindhis have higher carrier rate.

Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana

• Was launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in October 2020
• It aims to provide one-time cure opportunity for Sickle cell disease and Thalassemia.

NOTE: The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation programme was launched in 2017. It is funded by Coal India CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility).

What is the news : The researchers from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have mapped the Osteocytes for the first time.

What?

OSTEOCYTES:

• Are oblate shaped bone cells, found in bone tissues.
• Live as long as the organism lives.
• More than 42 billion in human body.
• Do not divide & average half-life is twenty-five years.
• Are the most abundant cell present in bones.

 

Note:

• These osteocytes form a network similar to the neurons in the brain. There are more than 23 trillion connections between 42 billion osteocytes.
• This network is responsible for monitoring bone health. It responds to ageing. Also, they send signals to other cells in the bone to build or break down an old bone. The diseases such as osteoporosis is caused due to imbalance in these processes.

What is PESCO : It is a part of the European Union security and defence policy. It was introduced based on the Treaty of European Union introduced by Treaty of Lisbon in 2009.

What is the news :

• The European Union recently approved the requests of Norway, Canada and United States to participate in Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) defence initiative.
• This is the first time; the European bloc has allowed a third state to participate in the PESCO project.

Additional facts:

Around four-fifths of the PESCO members are also NATO members.

• In a concerted response to the second surge of COVID-19 infection in the country, Ministry of Ayush is launching a massive nationwide campaign today to distribute its proven poly herbal Ayurvadic drugs AYUSH 64 and Sidha drug Kabasura Kudineer for the benefit of the vast majority of out of hospital COVID patients. The efficacy of these drugs has been proved through robust multi-centre clinical trials and are successful in treating mild COVID-19 infections.
• Denmark has passed a law to allow the screening of foreign investments so that they do not pose any threats to the National Security.
• The Stop Tokyo Olympics is an online campaign that is wanting to stop the Tokyo Olympics Games.

 

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