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Current Affairs: Culture, Environment, Tech

The document covers various topics including cultural sites like the Kamakhya Devi temple and Ajanta and Ellora Caves, as well as environmental issues such as invasive species and biodiversity metrics. It also discusses advancements in science and technology, highlighting India's first genomics-based test and a solar-powered pseudo satellite. Additionally, it touches on international relations, specifically the Gulf Cooperation Council and the ESIWA initiative.

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Current Affairs: Culture, Environment, Tech

The document covers various topics including cultural sites like the Kamakhya Devi temple and Ajanta and Ellora Caves, as well as environmental issues such as invasive species and biodiversity metrics. It also discusses advancements in science and technology, highlighting India's first genomics-based test and a solar-powered pseudo satellite. Additionally, it touches on international relations, specifically the Gulf Cooperation Council and the ESIWA initiative.

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Current Affairs

Art & Culture


●​ Kamakhya Devi temple
○​ Located in Nilachal hills
○​ Ambubachi Mela
○​ Celebrates the goddess’s menstruation
●​ Ajanta and Ellora Caves

Ajanta Caves Ellora Caves

●​ Rock-cut in Sahyadri ranges on ●​ 100 km away from Ajanta


Waghora river

●​ 29 caves (all Buddhist) ●​ 34 caves


○​ 25 Viharas ○​ 17 Brahmanical
○​ 4 Chaitya ○​ 12 Buddhist
○​ 5 Jain

●​ Period - 200 BC to 650 AD ●​ 5th and 11th AD


○​ Vakataka king - Harisena ○​ By guilds from Vidarbha,
○​ Travel accounts of Fa Karnataka, & TN
Hien and Hieun Tsang

●​ Morodharo
○​ New Harappan site, similar to Dholavira
○​ Date back to 4,500 years

Environment

●​ Nematodes
○​ New species - Steinernema adamsi
○​ Family - phylum
○​ Found on every Continent
●​ Cuscuta Dodder
○​ An invasive weed, native of North America
○​ Threats Chengalpet forests and Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary in Chennai
○​ Vedanthangal BS:
■​ Oldest in the country
■​ Esb: 1789
●​ Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) Metric
○​ Introduced by IUCN
○​ Aim: to quantify actions aimed at halting biodiversity loss in oceans

●​ Venomous Snakes in India


○​ Russell’s viper
○​ Spectacled cobra
○​ Common krait
○​ Saw-scaled viper
○​ Other Venomous but less than above four
■​ Salazar’s pit viper
■​ Hump-nosed pit viper
■​ Sind krait
■​ Mountain pit viper

Science & Tech

INFEXNTM - India’s first genimics-based test


Genomics Genetics
●​ Study of an organism’s complete set ●​ The study of heredity
of genetic information ●​ The study of the function and
●​ The genome includes both genes composition of single genes
(coding) and non-coding DNA ●​ ‘Gene’: specific sequence of DNA
●​ ‘Genome’: the complete genetic that codes for a functional molecule
information of an organism.

●​ The High - Altitude Pseudo Satellite Vehicle (HAPS)


○​ Conducted by - National Aerospace Laboratory
○​ First test of a solar-powered “pseudo satellite” called HAPS
○​ A type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

International Relations
●​ Gulf Cooperation Council
○​ Political and economic alliance
○​ Genesis: in 1981, in response to regional tensions, particularly Iranian
revolution (1979) and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88)
●​ Enhancing Security Cooperation in and with Asia (ESIWA) initiative
○​ Partners: EU + Asian (India, S. Koria, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia)

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