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deepak_yadav_education ~ 14 5,780 6 Posts Followers Following Deepak Yadav Education Deepak yadav Passionate Teacher YouTube “>@> www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOxbVk64eDMUbkkILW7E... Mullaperiyar: panel to ready Emergency Action Plan A shvmember technical committee constituted by the Kerala government is expected to submit un within three months: the EAP is for the downstream part of the dam in Idukki district ‘he ind Borean tember for dating the EAP The committee re ‘quired to submit the EAP ‘within three montis ‘The panel has a its members the Che Eng hee, Iigation Design. Research Boatd UDB, who ig aso coca the he Kerala govern ‘ent as om ‘ela ecnlel con mittee for preparing, an Emergency “Action Plan TEAPH or the dowrsteeam Patt of the Mllperiyar ‘hier Engineer, cu, bam "ink det, SSS Safety and Dam Rehabil ‘ended by the Chef En nopestentntion: The spenian/omnstesnttdpejor ton and Inprovement ‘ner dnterstate Waters), farerecedKenleandTordNadstupiethetaPorthedam Drv, Kerala Sate Bee Inigaton department, the tray Board: the Neber Scmembertecnicalcon update the EAP for the i ine withthe provisions Sseetary othe Kerala Init Is expected to draft dan foftheDam Safey Ac, 2021 Sate Disster Management andsubmitthe EAP within Bari this mont, the and_ guidelines issued by Authority, the uperin three months. The court Water Resouces Depart’ theCentral Water Commis- tending Engineer Aor I ppointed siperitory ment ised orders creat SonfordeveopingEAP for ration Cental Cle, Er fermmitecon he Mullape- ng the technical coma. dams"Thetecnical panel nakulam (convener of the Fhvar dim, nis nth ect tee for preparing the EAP asneenereatedon theta andthe Executive ingin june, had creted “downtresm ofte Stlln.is ofa request placed by Engineer, sor gation Netala and Tara Nadu to perv dam Gerla art) the Che Enghiet in Sep- Divison, inoue; Bird flu confirmed in Haripa thousands of ducks dead ‘An outbreak of bird flu was confirmed at ‘Vazhuthanam in the Haripad municipal area of Kerala on Wednesday. District Collector V.R. Krishna ‘Teja said the presence of the HSNI subtype of the Influenza virus was reported in the ducks. Two farmers who were raising around 20,000 ducks at the Vazhuthanam Padinjare and. ‘Vazhuthanam Vadakke paddy polders have lost around 1,500 birds in the past week. Space agency chief says plans afoot o give ita global reac TO ISRO to boost NavIC, widen user base of location system nerease the unber of satel add bandwidth most used for civilian navigational use; and strengghen the safety of signals he Inn space Reseach Onan tion ASH) swore tg on a sees of prove ‘ments to alc, o ns quale of the Clobal Basioning System (GPS) so that mare people are ‘motivated to snl and tee ans are aso afoot to,gve ita wobal reach, S| Somanath ISRO Chae nan, sion the sidelines tf the India space Confe Fence on Wednesday. ‘avlc Navigation with Indian. Constetion or the indian Regional Navi fern Salle Sytem [IRNSS, i a constellation nd syemisot wien Done notes of seven slits akin to {BeUS. GPs the European Galleo and the Russian GLONASS andeambe wed totacklocaton Though avalblefor use fn maltkod India and within 500 km around it, the system i no in wide regular ase nina prima Fly eeause mobile phones have. not bee nade compatible to pro" sis sia, The indian igernment as Deen Dressing manufctrers © dd compatibility and has fea deadline of nary 223, bat med reports Suugest hiss unlikely be fone 205. Me. Somanath told The ind that ing the U1 band into NaC wold be {major change. This band ‘widths part of the CPS tnd thems wsed for lan navigation we ‘Cumenty Nave oniy compatible Wich the 1S S'S bands ad hase sly peneated in thee vlan sector” he sid. ‘Guten ony pre ‘le shoet code, This has to become Long Code for these ofthe sate ec tor Tis prevents the sg nal rom being breached ‘This had been part of “orginal scheme for Nav, ‘utes workchas ge eo i headed, ‘There are ve more s5- tees inthe of to re Place defunce Nv satel Tes. that would be Ibunched in the coming months. However, o make isi rly “global, moze Sseltes would need to be Paced in an ort loser to {arth tun the current co ‘elation, sa Somanath, Ce SO ee ACR aed a MUU eae UL Pre ito mae Thanet ry Taira, ee see SEN: Ee 55 ty ERO ear ool) CeCe ol a Bares At LOWER | HIGHER SINGLE DUAL GLOBAL |REGIONAL Cd ad ‘llite Navigation Systems (Global Positioning System (GPS) Titiated in 1978 and achieved global coverage ‘in 1995 and is owned by the United States ‘government and operated by the United States Air Force. It consists of 24 to 32 medium Earth orbit satellites in six different orbital planes. (Global Navigation Satellite ‘System (GLONASS) Operated by Roscosmos,a sate corporation responsible forthe space light and Costnonautics program for the Russian Federation. Inbecame operatfonal in 1982 and achieved hal coverage 1006, al again in 2011 ie seers nd en ns acer Irhas fll global coverage with 24 satellites: (GALILEO Tt was initiated in 2005 by the European Space Ageney and projected to provide global coverage by 2020 with 30 satellites. (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System ((Qzss) tis operated by the Japanese government. It is a four-satellite regional time transfer system and enhancement for GPS covering Japan and the Asia-Oceania regions, Its services have been available on a trial basis since January 2018, No side should resort to nuclear option, Rajnath tells Shoigu rating GEAC gives its nod for commercial cultivation of GM mustard yet again © ‘The Hindu Bureau, {GEAC aso set certain con dons fre dlearance Includes tha the approval Js fora limited pened of four years and i renews be fortwo years at fe based on compliance re port. External experts wil Mist the growing sts of the crop at east once dur Ing each season. ‘The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Commitee (GEAO that functions un ‘der the Union Environ ment Ministry has yet ‘ara cleared the proposal {or commerealcatation ‘of genetically modified {Gan mustard. Though the “The applicant shoulda (CEAC eared ihe proposal Second thought The palit cred te pops fr sodevelop and depesi the in 2017, the Ministry ye conmarialeutnaton ofGtmustad n201-mscrsvooma DNA fingerprints the ap toed it and suggested that proved varieties. to the the panel hold more str can be commercaly cul (CAR). “The environmen ICAR Ades the GM crop. Tvatedin the county now. tal release of mustard hy- Activists questioned the "The GEAC had. gone" AGEACmeetingheldon feidDhara MustardHybrid decsion ofthe GEAC. Ki ‘rough the detassubmit- October 18 allowed the en- (DMIF) for Is seed pro- _ itha Kuru ofthe Cow ted "by. the applicant, vironmental release of wo duction and testing as per ion fora CMbFree India CCntrefor Genetic Manipu- varieties of genetically en- existing ICAR guidelines warned the Centre against Jaton of Crop Plants gineered mustard, so that and other extant rulesireg. any such approval Shee (CcMCP), and gave neces ecanbe sed for develop: ulations prior to commer- minded Union Environ- Sry approvals forthe cal gnew parental lies and cal eleaver the minutes ment Atnister Bhupender ‘vation of GME mustard. hybrids under the super ofthe meeting said Yada that he hse had ‘This willbe the second GM son ofthe Indian Council" Conseringtheapplea- writen agalnst GM crops cop after GM coton that of Agrleulture Research tion of the GNP, the eater What isa GMCROPSIN INDIA When did uke APRIMER India get its A crop which has a first GM crop? gene artificially Inserted into it from The first GM crop another species, even variety approved unrelated, to give it some for commercialisation desired properties. GM crops are mostly either pest- resistant or herbicide-tolerant ‘was Bt cotton. Bollgard-1, which provided immunity against the pink bollworm and developed by Monsanto, was given the go ahead in 2002. Monsanto released Bollgard-Il in 2006. India has become the world’s largest Producer of cotton partly due to Bt cotton, which accounts for over 90% of the total cotton acreage in the country Are there other GM crops in India? No, the government has not approved commercial cultivation of other GM crops, though efforts have been made for brinjal and mustard ~~ THRseoe HIND Bats evicted from Manipur cave for tourism, says study Rahul Karmakar A colony of bats was evi fem a Manpur cave ‘yetem with a Palaeolke past to make it tours fend zecogiel study that recorded ne unin the'Siate has The Khang locally «called hang tango, ‘Eanaurl imestone cove about 15 km from Ukr, the headquarters of Uk nut distri, Excavations cared ut by Manipur achieologiss had re vealed the eve was home to Stone Age commutes, The eve was abo ed asashelr ty the local pe ple uring the Second loa War ter the Jape nese forces acento ‘Manipur and de adjoining ayabnd:Noreimportant Jy eonservaiorsts the ve housed large roasting populonsofbatsbelons Ing to the Rhiolopiidee and ipposiderdze fant Tes, ‘Astuy published inthe Jourmalof Threatened Tax by researchers from the a 2 Na toa apr ‘oological Survey of nda (25) ete Incl guides 28 Saying tha the Dats were le and evited fo the Khangul eave ater 2016 17 purportedly to make it “more toarsenendy” “The researchers — Ut tamSalkiaand AB Meet, both fom 2s NorthEast Research Cente in SB long — recorded Bly htteshoe bat in the Kangkhui_ cave during two exemive eld saves covering nine districts of ‘Manipur in 2019 and 2021 “Ts bat was one of 12 new species added o Ma ‘ipurs mammalian funa, ‘The others Incied ashy rounleat bat dhe i ‘ermediats horseshoe bat the nortecn wooly ho feshoe at, the greser fase vampire bat, the ha ryfaced. bat, Hodgson's Bay Huon tubesoded bat and the rond-eared theese bt, ‘Shanngam Shalivo, D- visional Forest Ofer de ‘ed any planned extern halon of the yng ‘mammal, "Nosuch Kling Dc bats has been repeted Inoue ofc, he told The Hinds. He aid the cave has been steeped inthe Folore of the dominant Tanghdul ‘community, shove ancestors belived Teas he abode ofa pro- restive dy, “The sty mentions places in Manipur where bats are eaten for "sup posed minal. proper Sescor as aaupplmentary Senter procs’ "in Walou vilage ia chanel diser we were Informed that people do ‘eeastonally nt bana ve theugh hs practice ot widespread’ trough ‘tthe State. Another ‘Hous threat we noticed fhe death of bats a unin fended victims of lel Tat raps the tay sa Paleolithic vs. Mesolithic vs. Neolithic (2.1-3) Pre-historic peoples | era | Paleolithic (2.1) Time period Major Characteristics Up to 10,000 years ago Old Stone Age “Used stone tools: + at first very basic - then sharper with flint ~ add wooden handle (2x) ~addeda shaft & make a spear= hunting (men) ~ gathered plants, seeds, fruits, etc. (women) - cooked with fire *Formed societies *art=Cave paintings (celigious?) “created oral language *migration of people over land bridge (nomads) “livein caves but begin ee Mesolithic (2.2) About 10,000 to 5,000 years ago Middle Stone Age “Ice age ends *More migration New tools: hooks, fishing spears, bow & arrow, “Better above ground houses *canoes=travelon rivers & lakes “pottery *pets Neolithic (2.3) About 10,000 to 3,000 years ago New Stone Age *begin to use metal “change from food gathering to food production (farming & herding)= domestication Beginning in Southwest Asia *stayin one place *developmentof towns *developmentof religion (ex. 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