MAINS QUESTIONS FOR THE DAY:-
I)What are BS-Norms?? What are the Difficulties in initiating the BS-VI in India??
II)Define:- Biomagnification
Bioaccumulation
Bioremediation
1)India's Health Status and Health Divide:-
Background:- A first of its kind report on the ‘India StateLevel Disease Burden,’ released on Tuesday, has revealed severe inequalities in the disease burden in different States.
Life expectancy at birth in the country improved significantly during 1990 to 2016 — from 59.7 years and 58.3 years for females and males respectively in 1990 to 70.3 years for females and 66.9 years for males in 2016.
But in a measure of the continuing inequalities, life expectancy for females in Uttar Pradesh was 66.8 years — below the national average and 12 years less than in Kerala, where it was 78.7 years. Again, men in Kerala enjoyed a life expectancy of 73.8 years, but the corresponding figure for men in Assam was 63.6 years.
The study found that while under 5 mortality was improving in every State, there was a fourfold difference in the rate of improvement among States, which again indicated health inequalities.
Malnutrition continues to be the single largest risk for health loss in India, which is higher among females and is particularly severe in the empowered action group States [Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand] and Assam.
Lancet is a british Medical Journal which Published these findings.
2)Rajasthan's First Transgender Police officer :- Ganga Kumari.
NOTE:- In the Newspaper you might get confused and think that Ganga is India's Firt transgender cop but please read carefully she is Rajasthan's First and not India's.
India's First Transgender Cop is Prithika Yashini in Tamil Nadu.
Ganga Kumari is now Rajasthan's first, but India's third, transgender person to join a state police force
3)Chilika Lake: largest brackish water lagoon in India.
Nalbana sanctuary is in Odisha.
4)Transport Decarbonisation Alliance :-
• Declared in Bonn COP 23.
• Aims at achieving a shift to sustainable fuels
• Getting cities to commit to eco friendly mobility and delivering more walk able community.
5)World Diabetes Day: 14 November. India is diabetes capital of the world.
I)What are BS-Norms?? What are the Difficulties in initiating the BS-VI in India??
II)Define:- Biomagnification
Bioaccumulation
Bioremediation
1)India's Health Status and Health Divide:-
Background:- A first of its kind report on the ‘India StateLevel Disease Burden,’ released on Tuesday, has revealed severe inequalities in the disease burden in different States.
Life expectancy at birth in the country improved significantly during 1990 to 2016 — from 59.7 years and 58.3 years for females and males respectively in 1990 to 70.3 years for females and 66.9 years for males in 2016.
But in a measure of the continuing inequalities, life expectancy for females in Uttar Pradesh was 66.8 years — below the national average and 12 years less than in Kerala, where it was 78.7 years. Again, men in Kerala enjoyed a life expectancy of 73.8 years, but the corresponding figure for men in Assam was 63.6 years.
The study found that while under 5 mortality was improving in every State, there was a fourfold difference in the rate of improvement among States, which again indicated health inequalities.
Malnutrition continues to be the single largest risk for health loss in India, which is higher among females and is particularly severe in the empowered action group States [Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand] and Assam.
Lancet is a british Medical Journal which Published these findings.
2)Rajasthan's First Transgender Police officer :- Ganga Kumari.
NOTE:- In the Newspaper you might get confused and think that Ganga is India's Firt transgender cop but please read carefully she is Rajasthan's First and not India's.
India's First Transgender Cop is Prithika Yashini in Tamil Nadu.
Ganga Kumari is now Rajasthan's first, but India's third, transgender person to join a state police force
3)Chilika Lake: largest brackish water lagoon in India.
Nalbana sanctuary is in Odisha.
4)Transport Decarbonisation Alliance :-
• Declared in Bonn COP 23.
• Aims at achieving a shift to sustainable fuels
• Getting cities to commit to eco friendly mobility and delivering more walk able community.
6)Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team =
• Being organized by CERT-In under the aegis of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
• This is 15th conference of APCERT and first ever conference in India and South Asia and is expected to be attended by 21 economies.
• Theme is “Building Trust in the Digital Economy”.
7)Government launches National Power Portal:- The Union Ministry of Power launched National Power Portal (NPP), a Centralized Platform for Collation and Dissemination of Indian power sector information.
The system has been conceptualized, designed and developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC). It can be accessed at http://npp.gov.in. Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is nodal agency for implementation and operational control of NPP.
8)Cornelia Sorabji: Google’s Doodle honours India’s first woman advocate:- She was pioneer who helped open up higher education as well as the legal profession to women. She was first woman to graduate in law from India as early as 1892 and first Indian national to attend British University.
9)China launched world’s first fully electric cargo ship in Guangzhou.
10)The Petroleum Ministry in consultation with Public Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) has decided for preponement of BS-VI grade auto fuels in National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi from 1st April 2018 instead of 1st April 2020.
This decision was taken into account the serious pollution levels in Delhi and adjoining areas and as part of government’s concerted efforts to reduce vehicular emissions and improve fuel efficiency with an aim to reduce the carbon footprints and keep a healthy environment.
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