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SECURITY AND DEFENCE 44 • Hybrid model of ‘smart’ fence being tested along the LoC 44 • NAG
Missile 44 • Rudram Missile 44 • Secure Application for Internet (SAI) 45 • Supersonic Missile
Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) 45 • Dormant but waiting to strike 46 • WhatsApp & leaks 47 •
Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP), 2020 48 7. ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY 50 • ENFUSER
(Environmental information Fusion Service) 50 • Himalayan brown bears 50 • Kumki Elephant 50 •
Lesser Flamingos 51 • Madhuca diplostemon 51 • Pipeworts 51 • Project Snow Leopard (PSL) 52 •
Sustainable Processing of Municipal Solid Waste: ‘Waste to Wealth’ 52 • Tree Transplantation Policy
53 • Wildlife Week 54 • China’s climate commitment: How significant is it for the planet, and India?
54 • Air pollution now biggest health risk in India, says report 55 • India needs a rainbow recovery
plan 55 • Scientists welcome these winged ‘infiltrators’ 56 • How global warming might affect food
security 57 • Pusa Decomposer 58 • Blue Flag Certification 58 • Stockholm Convention 59 8. HEALTH
ISSUES 61 • Adjuvant 61 • Ayush Grid 61 • CAWACH 61 • COVIRAP 61 • Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna
62 • Many gains in fighting HIV 62 • Saving lives under the long shadow of the pandemic 63 • Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine 64 9. SOCIAL ISSUES 66 • Malnourishment 66 • Tribal
Entrepreneurship Development Programme 67 • Witch-hunting 68 • Crimes against Scheduled
Tribes saw 26% rise in 2019: NCRB report 68 • Tribals can now build houses near forest areas 68 •
The manacles of caste in sanitation work 69 • Section 29 of POCSO Act applicable only after trial
begins: HC 69 • No penal provision to protect Transgenders from assault: plea 70 • ‘76% of rural
Indians can’t afford nutritious diet’ 70 • National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
71 • National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) 71 10. GEOGRAPHY 73 • Science of monsoons 73 • Indian
astronomers uncover mystery behind decline of star formation rate after its peak 8-10 billion years
ago 73 11. EDUCATION 75 • STARS Project 75 12. HISTORY 76 • Mohammad Ali Jauhar 76 13.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT 77 • Flash Flood Guidance Services for South Asia 77 • ‘India is much safer
against tsunami threat’ 77 • Hyderabad Floods 77 • Sponge Cities