INDIA bloc to hold rally against Kejriwal’s arrest
The opposition INDIA bloc will hold a ‘ Maha Rally ‘ at Delhi’s
Ram Leela Maidan on March 31 against arrest of Arvind Kejriwal and arrest of
other political leaders .
Meanwhile , Mr. Kejriwal issued his first
order from jail as CM of Delhi . In his order he instructed Delhi’s Water Minister Atishi tontake action
to curb sewage problem .
Kangana , Maneka , Arun Govil in BJP fifth list for LS election ; Varun dropped
BJP has released its fifth list of candidates
for Lok Sabha Polls . Candidates from total of 111 seats were announced .
Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut , television
actors Arun Govil are in the list .
Kangana Ranaut has been fielded from Mandi.
Arun
Govil has been fielded from Meerut .
Former Union Minister Maenka Gandhi wass given
ticket from SultanPur .
Varun Gandhi has been dropped from Pilibhit
this time . He was a critic of BJP on several occasions .
It’s official :
‘Statio Shiv Shakti ‘ approved as Chandrayan landing site
The International Astronomical Unit ( IAU )
working group on Planet system
Nomenclature have approved the name “ Statio Shiv Shakti “ for the landing site
of Chandrayaan’s Vikram’s landing site .
The IAU’s gazetteer for the name reads : “
compound word from Indian Mythology that depicts the masculine and feminine
duality of nature “ .
IAU is internationally recognised community
for authority for assigning names of Planetary surface features .
Pakistan to mull revival of trade ties with India
Pakistan’s newly appointed Foreign Minister ,
Mohammad Ishaq Dar has said that Pakistan will
“ seriously examine “ whether to start trade with India .
He was saying this responding to a question
during a Press Meet in London .
Meanwhile , S. jaishankar has said that in
India “ the mood is not to overlook terrorism “.
In
February 2019 , After Pulwama attack
India had withdrawn Most Favored Nation ( MFN ) status of Pakistan . And
raised tariffs of all trade multi fold .
After
Abrogation of Article 370 from J&K Pakistan had suspended all direct trade
ties with India .
Most of
the trade between the two nations used to be through Attari Waghah border
crossing .
Bharat Biotech
commences clinical trial of Spanish Tuberculosis vaccine in India
Clinical trial
of the Spanish Tuberculosis ( TB
) vaccine MTBVAC have begun in India .
Vaccine maker Bharat. Biotech is conducting
trial in Partnership with Spanish Biofarmaceutical Company Biofabri .
BCG is the
available vaccine for the TB but it does not contain and the newly
developed strains.
MTBVAC is only vaccine against Tubereculosis
undergoing clinical trials based on based on genetically modified form of Micobacterium Tuberculosis , the
pathogen that causes the disease .
MTBVAC will effective for all TB related cases where BCG is not effective .
Anti Piracy Act , enacted in 2022 has been a great enabler ,
says Navy Chief
The
maritime Anti Piracy Act , enacted in 2022 , has been a “ great enabler “ said
Indian Navy Admiral Chief R. Hari Kumar
.
The Anti
Piracy Act empowers Indian Navy and Indian Coastgurd to board , seize and
arrest pirates operating in high seas , and in the Exclusive Economic Zone (
EEZ ) .
For past
100 days , Indian Navy was operating under Operation Sankalp to capture pirates in high seas .
Indian
Navy reduced several vessels from pirates under the Operation . The Most recent
was MV Ruez where 35 pirates were
arrested and handed to Mumbai Police .
World.
Poland scrambles F 16s amid Russia air strike at Ukrine
On Sunday , Russia launched heavy missile
strike on Ukraine .
One of its missiles violated airspace of
Poland resulting in violation of Polish
airspace .
This prompted Poland , a NATO member to
activate F 16 fighter jets .
Russia has used Tu 95 MS strategic bombers .
Polish Command center in a statement said that
the object entered near Oserdow village , a village near the agricultural
region near the border with
The object
entered near Oswrdow , a village near agriculturual region near the
border with Ukraine , and stayed there for 39 seconds.
Ukraine says it struck two Russian ships near Crimea
Ukrainian military said that it hit two large
landing ships in attack on annexed
Crimiean Peninsula early on Sunday .
Communtion systems and other
infrastructure used by Russian Navy in
Black Sea was also damaged .
However , Russian Governor of Sebastopol has
said that Ukraine targetted more than 10 missiles over the Crimean part of
Sevastopol .
Israel beseized hospital in Gaza , demands evacuations
Srilanka Foreign Minister Marhripala Srisena
will face Police questioning on Monday
onbisnrefent remarks that he was “ aware “ of the 2019 Easter Bimbinfg attacks
that killed 279 people , including 11 Indians .
On Aprile 21 , 2014 nine suicide bombers
belonging to the group National Tawheed
Jamat ( TMJ ) carried out a series of blast that tore through three churches
and as many as luxury hotels in Srilanka .
Text and Context
Resurgence of mumps in Kerala
Mumps is an acute viral disease , which
historically affects children , has been spreading like a wildfire in Kerala ,
for the past few months . The case started in Malappuram and Kozhikode ,
districts of Kerala . The case tally by
March 22 crossed 15,000 .
Despite being a vaccine preventable diseases ,
mumps has never been a part of Universal Immunisation Programme ( UIP ) .
Other states that got affected by the Disease
is
