WITH CURRENT AFFAIRS Edusoft IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. KD- 231, Pitampura, Delhi- 110088. Ph: +91-11-27043431, info@eduitspl.com, www.eduitspl.comMy What is Corona Virus? Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was declared pandemic by World Health Organisation (WHO) in early 2020. Symptoms People infected with Covid-19 virus experienced Shortness of breath, Mild fever, Sore throat and Loss of taste or smell. But older people, children, people with weak immunity and people with underlying medical problems like diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease etc., were likely to develop serious illness. World Health Organization COVID-19 in India & World Vaccination in India & World + India's total COVID-19 vaccination doses has exceeded 123 Crores as on November 30, 2021 in which 33% of population got fully vaccinated. + According to WHO, more than 781 crores of world population have received single dose of COVID-19 vacci vaccinated. 100 Crore Vaccination Mark On Octobi 21, India achieved ye in its battel “19 as cumul nin the country cfossed the@0-crore mark in just 2 in which 43% of population have fully Booster Dose A booster dose is an additional dose of vaccine administered to a vaccinated population that has completed a primary vaccination series to provide extra layer of protection.WHO Approved Vaccines for Covid- 19 Following are the seven vaccines approved for use by World Health Organization (WHO) against Covid- 19 virus. 1, Moderna 2. Pfizer/BioNTech 3. Janssen johnson & Johnson) 4, Oxford/AstraZeneca 5. Serum Institute of India- Covishield 6. Sinopharm 7. Sinovac CoronaVac Omicron Variant The World Health Organization (WHO) classified a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, currently circulating in South Africa, as a ‘variant of concern’ and also named it Omicron. The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) had first detected the new strain, which belongs to a lineage named B.1.1.529. Early indications are that this variant is possibly even more transmissible than the highly infectious Delta variant. Other Viruses 1. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease caused by a SARS-associated coronavirus. It was first identified at the end of February 2003, during an outbreak that emerged in China. It is an airborne virus and. can spread through small droplets of saliva in a similar way to the cold and influenza. 2. Swine flu, also known as the HIN1 virus, is a relatively new strain of an influenza virus that causes symptoms similar to the regular flu. It originated in pigs but is spread primarily from person to person. Swine flu made headlines in 2009 when it was first discovered in humans and became a pandemi Diseases Due To Po! © Air pollution continues to be a significant concern to public health, according to the (WHO) report, 1.3 million deaths were estimated to be related to ambient air pollution globally. Air pollutants can induce and aggravate diseases like cardio cerebral vascular disease, ischemia heart disease. @ Water pollution can transmit diseases such diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. According to the (WHO) report, contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause 4,85,000 diarrhoea deaths each year. ~*My Re CAA & NRC The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) It is an act that allows Indian citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian religious minorities who fled from the neighboring Muslim majority countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan j before December 2014, due to "religious persecution or fear of religious persecution". The migrants will be granted fast track Indian citizenship in six years. The amendment also relaxed the residence requirement for naturalization of these migrants from eleven years to five. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) The proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be an official record of all legal citizens of India. It is a register of all Indian citizens whose creation is mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955. In simple words, it is a count of legitimate Indian citizens. Individuals would need to provide a prescribed set of documents before a specified cut off date to be included in NRC. ; Ram Mandir The five-judge Constitution Bench of the apex court, led by the Chief Justice of India, on November 9, 2019, in an unanimous verdict, gave the ownership of the disputed 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya to the Ram Janmabhoomi trust. Besides, it also directed the government to allot a five-acre land to Sunni Waaqf Board for construction ofa mosque. Triple Talaq The Triple Talaq law, enforced by the government on August 1, 2019, classified giving ‘instant divorce’ by Muslim men to their wives as a criminal offence. The law Woes prescribes a three-year jail term for a man divorcing his TALAQ wife through triple talaq. The act also entitles woman to demand a maintenance for her dependent children.“5 Article 370 & 35A Article 370 - Special Status to Jammu and Kashmir Article 370 of the Indian constitution gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir conferring it with the power to have a separate constitution, a state flag, and autonomy over the internal administration of the state. It is the first article of Part XXI of the Constitution. The heading of this part is ‘Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions’. Article 370 could be interpreted as temporary in the sense that the J&K Constituent Assembly had a right to modify/delete/retain it; it decided to retain it. Article 35A - Defining Permanent Resident Article 35A of the Indian Constitution is an article that allows the Jammu and Kashmir state's legislature to define “permanent resident” of the state. When the J&K Constitution was adopted in 1956, it defined a permanent resident as someone who was a state subject on May 14, 1954, or who has been a resident of the state , the President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind issued a evoking the 1954 order, and making all the provisions of the Applicable to Jammu and Kashmir. The order rendered the © The former state of Jammu and Kashmir is now divided into two Union Territories. Jammu and Kashmir; Ladakh, w.e.f 31/10/2019. Jammu and Kashmir has an Assembly and Ladakh without one. @ Two Union Territories; Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, were merged into one Union Territory, w.e.f 26/01/2020. © As on January 2021, India has 28 states and 8 Union Territories. of). a» 7eo Re Tokyo Olympic-2020 @29 The 2020 Summer Olympics was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. 11,000 athletes from 205 countries had participated in this Olympics. The USA topped the medal count with 39 gold medals. Neeraj Chopra is the first Indian to win Olympic gold in athletics. Paralympics-2020 The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was an ~ international multi-sport parasports event held from 24" August to 5" September, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16" Summer Paralympic Games organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). India ended up winning its best ever haul at Paralympics with 19 medals in all, including 5 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze. Important Highlights Tokyo Olympic-2020 Paralympics-2020 1. Four new sports have been added to the 1. For the first time two new sports Para- 2020 Olympics: which are Karate, Sports Badminton and Para-Taekwondo have Climbing, Skateboarding and Surfing. been added to the Tokyo Paralympic. 2. Australian swimmer Emma McKeon won 2. The mascot of Tokyo Paralympic is called seven medals at Tokyo Olympic 2020, the — Someity, which is a popular cherry ‘most among all athletes. blossom variety. 3. US athlete Caeleb Dressel has earned himself 3. Avani Lekhara is a rifle shooter and the 5 medals and taking home the most gold first Indian ferale Paralympian to win medals. pazalumpics history. 4. Japanese skateboarder Momiji Nishiya is just 13 years old and has won gold at Tokyo Olympics 2020.5 Farmer's Protest: Three Farm Laws The Indian Parliament passed three agriculture g acts—Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment and | Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance, Farm Services (¥/ Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020—during its monsoon session culminating on “@ September 23, 2020. Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, had been camping mainly at Tikri border, Singhu border and Ghazipur border since November 26, 2020, against the three farm laws and also demanded a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for their crops. PM Narendra Modi, in his address on the birth anniversary of Sikhism's revered founder, Sri Guru Nanak Ji, on November 19, 2021, announced that the central government will repeal all the three farm laws in the Winter Session of Parliament. He also requested farmers who are protesting, to return back to their homes. The decision to repeal the farm laws was taken one year after farmers started their protest against it, across the country. In his address PM also noted that the central government has decided to implement Zero Budget Natural Farming and make MSP more efficient and set up a committee, comprising of Centre, State representatives, scientists, economists and farmers. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), welcomed the move and said that the battle is only half won. Afghanistan Crisis What is Taliban The Taliban, or "students" in the Pashto language, emerged in the carly 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The United States and the Taliban signed an agreement and on April 14, 2021, US. President Joe Biden announced that US and NATO forces would be withdrawn, in return Taliban has pledged to prevent any group or individual from using Afghan soil to threaten the United States and its allies. Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani fled the country after Taliban fighters entered Kabul and sought the surrender of the government. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban took over Kabul and took over the presidential palace. ~*eo My Re Important Events Awards President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, presented Bharat Ratna Awards 2019 to Nanaji Deshmukh (posthumously), Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (posthumously) and Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan. “Edusoft” the only company awarded in 2021 for excellence in book publishing for IT/Computer books under school textbook Category by The Federation of Indian Publishers 2021. Education The Union Cabinet has approved the National Education Policy 2020 that has the objective of ensuring universal education to all levels of students in the schools around the country. The 10+2 school curricula will be placed by 54+3+344 curricular structure corresponding to the ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14 and 14-18 years respectively. Space & Defence NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on Mars planet on April 19, 2021. The first batch of the Rafale fighter jets has landed at the Ambala Air Base Station and was greeted with a special water cannon salute op General Bipin Rawat was appointed the as the cé¢ Chief of Defence Staff. post of Chief of Defégce Staff in the general and act as the military advisor to the GoWeaiigjentoCind Obituary The forremPresident of India, Bharata Ratna awardee, Dr. Pranab Mukherjee, an of all seasons of Indian politics has died at 84 on August of four star minister and Bharat Ratna Awardee, Atal Bihari Vajpayee , 2018, at the age of 93. Demise of several key faces in Indian politics such as Manohar Parrikar, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Sheila Dikshit, etc. in the recent years, left an irreparable void in the political landscape of India.