Prelims-Environment.
According to a new research, climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 which may increase the risk of infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans,
Cross-species virus spread will happen over 4,000 times among mammals alone.
There is already evidence of deforestation, extinction and wildlife trade leading to animal-human disease spread.
The jumping of diseases from animals to humans may already be happening with greater frequency and in places near where many people live,
Source: The Hindu.
e-Shram.
Prelims-Miscellaneous.
The Ministry of Labour and employment is working on a mechanism to process accident insurance claims by unorganised workers registered on the e-Shram portal,
eSHRAM portal is a National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW), which will be seeded with Aadhaar.
It will have details of name, occupation, address, occupation type, educational qualification, skill types and family details etc. for optimum realisation of their employability and extend the benefits of the social security schemes to them.
It is the first-ever national database of unorganised workers including migrant workers, construction workers, gig and platform workers, etc.
Source: The Hindu & e-shram.
Charaka Samhitha.
Prelims- History, Art & Culture.
Recently, there has been a controversy over the Charak Shapath, drawn from Charaka Samhitha, which was administered to medical students in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
According to experts, Charaka Samhitha is unlikely to have been the work of a single individual, and not all of it is likely to have been written at the same time.
The Charak Samhita is a medical pharmacopoeia and collection of commentaries and discussions on medical practices that is historically dated to the 1st-2nd centuries AD.
Along with the compendium of Susruta (c. 4th century AD), which is about surgery, the Charak Samhita is considered the foundational text of ancient Indian medicine, which was an evolved system of understanding and treating disease that was in several ways ahead of the Greeks.
The Charak Samhita underlines the importance of the physician praying, “every day on rising and going to bed for the welfare of all beings”,
Source: The Indian Express.
Eid-ul-Fitr.
Prelims- History, Art & Culture.
This year, Eid-ul-Fitr is expected to begin on the evening of May 2, and continue till the evening of May 3.
Eid-ul-Fitr is one of the most important festivals for Muslims across the world which falls on the first day of Shawwal, which is the tenth month of the Islamic calendar.
The Islamic calendar( Hijri calendar) is based on the phases of the moon.
Eid-ul-Fitr marks the end of one month of fasting from dawn to dusk — known as roza — practised by Muslims across the world.
Eid-ul-Fitr translates to the “festival of breaking the fast” and is spent in prayer, charity and celebration with loved ones.
Muslims are required to donate to charity and offer food, clothing and money to the underprivileged. This practice of charity is known as ‘Zakat’ and is one of the tenets of Islam.
Source: NDTV.
National Open Access Registry (NOAR).
Prelims-Miscellaneous.
National Open Access Registry (NOAR), an initiative of the Ministry of Power has successfully gone live from 1st May 2022.
NOAR has been designed as an integrated single window electronic platform accessible to all stakeholders including open access participants, traders, power exchanges, national/regional/state load despatch centres for electronic processing of short-term open access application thereby automating the administration of the short-term open access in inter-state transmission system.
The NOAR platform shall act as a repository of information related to short term open access in inter-state transmission including standing clearance issued by Regional Load Despatch Centres or State Load Despatc Centres and short-term open access granted to the open access customers etc
Payment gateway provided for making payments and integrated with NOAR shall facilitate financial accounting and tracking of short-term open access transactions.