Child Abuse Prevention and Investigation Unit
- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has set up an Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (OCSAE) Prevention/Investigation Unit at its headquarter in New Delhi.
- The unit will function under the CBI’s Special Crime Zone.
- The unit's territorial jurisdiction would be throughout the country.
- It will probe offences covered under various provisions of the
- Indian Penal Code (IPC),
- Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act
- Information Technology (IT) Act, apart from other relevant laws.
- It will collect and disseminate information on online child sexual abuse and exploitation.
Winter-Grade Diesel
- Motorists in high-altitude sectors like Ladakh, Kargil, Kaza and Keylong face the problem of freezing of diesel in their vehicles when winter temperatures drop to as low as -30o Celsius.
- Indian Oil has come up with an innovative solution to this problem by introducing a special winter-grade diesel with a low pour-point of -33 degree Celsius, which does not lose its fluidity function even in extreme winter conditions.
- Winter diesel fuel is also known as winter diesel, alpine diesel, or winterized diesel (AE).
- It refers to diesel fuel enhanced to prevent it from gelling in cold weather conditions.
- In general, it is achieved by treatment with additives that change the low temperature characteristics of the fuel.
- Winter-Grade Diesel will smoothen the travel and transportation in high alpine region and will help in overall economic development.
Ain-i-Akbari
- Ain-i-Akbari is a 16th century document written by Akbar’s court historian Abu'l Fazl in Persian language.
- It deals with the administration of Mughal Emperor Akbar.
- The Akbar Nama is divided into three books:
- The first book dealt with Akbar’s ancestors.
- The second recorded the events of Akbar’s reign.
- The third is the Ain-i Akbari.deals with Akbar’s administration, household, army, the revenues and geography of his empire.
- It provides rich details about the traditions and culture of the people living in India.
- It also got statistical details about crops, yields, prices, wages, and revenues.
- In the early twentieth century, the Akbar Nama was translated into English by Henry Beveridge.
Other Literary Work during Akbar’s Reign
- Muntakhab ul-Tawarikh (also known as Tarikh-i-Bidauni) written by Abdul Qadir Badaoni
- Tabakat-i-Akbari written by Nizamuddin
- Takmila-i-Akbarnama written by Inayatulla
- Sursagar (written in Brij Bhasha) by Sur Das
- Ramcharitmanas (written in Awadhi- eastern hindi dialect) by Sant Tulsi Das
ADMM-Plus
- ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting, ADMM-Plus comprises total 18 nations, it comprises of 10 countries of ASEAN, and eight other countries such as Japan, the US, China, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Russia, and India.
- ADMM-Plus is the only official framework of Defense Minister's meetings in the Asia-Pacific Region.
- The ADMM-Plus has become an effective platform for practical cooperation among the participating countries’ defence establishments.
Border Area Development Programme (BADP)
- BADP was started in the year 1986-87 for balanced development of border areas of states bordering Pakistan, namely, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat, and Rajasthan.
- It was subsequently extended to all the land borders.
- The programme is administered by the Department of Border Management of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
- States are provided a 100% non-lapsable Special Central Assistance fund under BADP to meet the special developmental needs and well being of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the international border.
- The programme was amended in 2015 to provide the provision for third party inspection and quality control mechanism under MHA for random inspections of the BADP schemes.
- Recently sisseri River Bridge located at lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh was innagurated by Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
- The bridge was under ‘Project Brahmank’, which is a part of Border Area Development Programme (BADP).
SeeTB
- Indian researchers have developed a small device named SeeTB, to detect Tuberculosis .
- The device can be attached to a simple optical microscope to convert it into a fluorescence microscope, thus enabling better TB diagnosis at the point-of-care.
- It is a battery-operated device and allows quick identification of the bacteria.
- When the performance was compared against GeneXpert, another diagnosis tool that looks for DNA markers of TB bacteria, SeeTB showed improved sensitivity.
- Also, while GeneXpert method takes about two hours, SeeTB can help find the bacteria in about 30 minutes.
Source: PIB, the Hindu
