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GS1: Geography
- Cyclone Tauktae to form today, strengthen to very severe on May 17 The rapidly intensifying system shall cause extremely heavy rainfall (more than 204 mm) over Lakshadweep, Kerala, ghats of Tamil Nadu, coastal Karnataka, while Goa and South Konkan regions will receive moderate intensity rain, particularly up to May 17, the IMD has stated.
GS1: Population related issues
- 21 member of vulnerable tribes infected / Covid reaches interiors schedule tribes in Odisha's Niyamgiri hills affected The administration had initiated a door-to-door survey in villages specifically falling under the Kalyansinghpur block following reports of tribe members showing members.
GS2: Health
- Asha workers struggle with pandemic surveillance in rural Uttar Pradesh Asha workers lack both protective gear and testing tools in the State’s drive to identify symptomatic persons
- Left out of CoWin In the absence of the internet and without knowledge of how CoWin functions, the majority of India’s rural population is being left out of Covid inoculation effort
GS2: Social issues
- Lend a helping hand to children the right way Following the COVID surge, the laws and procedures for the care and protection of orphaned children must be noted
GS2: Schemes
- Department of Science and Technology sets up Sophisticated Analytical and technical help Institute Three such centers set up at IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi and BHU Varanasi, are being operated with a transparent, open access policy. These centers initiated under the ‘Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI)’ scheme of Department of Science and Technology, will address the need for building shared, professionally managed, and strong science and technology infrastructure in the country which is readily accessible to academia, start-ups, manufacturing, industry and R&D labs.
GS3: Cybersecurity
- Amid Cyber crisis no data storage on cloud services; action of leakage: DOT to staff If any official and classified information is stored on private cloud services, the employee storing such data may be liable for penal action in case of a data breach, the DoT said in a communication to all its staff.
GS3: Defence and security
- Defence production policy to be issued soon The second negative import list, which has been now rechristened as the positive list, has been delayed due to the ongoing pandemic
GS3: Environment
- US slider turtles pose a threat in Northeast Herpetologists have warned that the invasive red-eared slider, released in natural water bodies by people who keep them as ‘cute’ pets, could turn nasty for 29 native species of turtles and tortoises.
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