MAHARASHTRA

·       Hypertension, diabetes cases more in Maharashtra than national average

ð The effect of lifestyle and climate change are now visible in people with a significant change in the disease profile. instead of communicable diseases. Patients of lifestyle-based diseases like diabetes, hypertension, stroke and cancer are increasing, shows the national health profile 2019. Especially in Maharashtra, the number of hypertension and diabetes patients are more compared to the national average.

ð The health ministry released the National Health Profile 2019 in which Maharashtra is among the top three states to screen citizens for non-communicable diseases. In all, 5,883,915 people were screened for non-communicable diseases between January-December 2018 in the state, second only after Tamil Nadu. Out of these, 1.55 lakh were diagnosed with diabetes, 2.50 lakh with hypertension, nearly 1 lakh with both hypertension and diabetes, and 14,000 with different cancers.

ð It is observed that the disease burden due to communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases dropped from 61% to 33% between 1990 and 2016. In the same period, the disease burden from non-communicable diseases increased from 30% to 55%.

ð The data released by the central bureau of health intelligence (CBHI) has many interesting observations in Maharashtra’s point of view. The state has made a significant progress in reducing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). Against the national average of 130 deaths per 100,000 births, Maharashtra has recorded 61 deaths. Only Kerala (46) is the better performer than Maharashtra in the country.

INTERNATIONAL

• World’s first blockchain-based carbon trading exchange in Singapore
• Singapore-based AirCarbon Pte launched the worlds’ first blockchain-based carbon trading exchange.

 

• This will allow airlines and other corporate buyers to buy as well sell tokens backed by carbon offset credits approved by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

 

• The company is applying to the Monetary Authority of Singapore for a recognized market operator license and targets for the exchange to be fully operational in 2020.

 

• The AirCarbon Exchange will finance the registration costs of some carbon-mitigation projects at no charge to developers to help generate credits to trade.

 

·       World Bank to fund USD 6 bn annual lending support to India

 

• World Bank, the multi-lateral funding agency, has announced that it is to continue providing a $6 billionannual lending target for Indiato support infrastructure development and alleviate poverty. The announcement was made by President of World Bank David Malpass during his visit in the backdrop of the recently released World Bank report on Ease of Doing Business 2020.
• As of now, around 97 projects are being currently executed in India with loan assistance from the World Bank. For the 97 projects,it has provided $24 billion. It is expected that the program will continue and reflect on the projects and reforms that were going on in India.

 

NATIONAL

·       Rajnath Singh to represent India at SCO heads of state meeting

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singhwill represent India at theShanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) heads of state meeting, which is to be held in Uzbekistan on 2 November. Mr. Singh is to embark on a three-day visit to Uzbekistan from 1-3 November.

 

• Exercise Dustlik-2019, a joint military exercise between India and Uzbekistan, is to be carried out from 4-13 November at Chirchiq training area in Uzbekistan. The exercise will focus on counter-insurgency and counter-terrorist operations in mountainous, rural, and urban areas.

 

• Disabled, people over 80 can vote through postal ballot

 

• The people over 80 years of age and Persons with Disability can now cast their votes through postal ballot.

 

• However, such voters will have both the choices available either voting through postal ballot by following due procedure or going to the polling station on polling day for voting.

 

• On the recommendations of the Election Commission, the Ministry of Law and Justice has amended the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, allowing senior citizens and person with disabilities in the absentee voter list.

 

• Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde appointed as 47th CJI

 

• Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde was appointed as the 47th Chief Justice of India.

 

• Justice Bobde will take oath as the CJI on November 18th, a day after incumbent Ranjan Gogoi demits office.

 

• He will have a tenure of 17 months and would demit office on April 23rd, 2021.

 

• He was appointed as the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on October 2012.

 

• In April 2013, he was elevated to the Supreme Court.

 

• The first femalejustice in the court was Fatima Beevi 

 

• Leila Seth was the firstwoman judge on the Delhi High Court and she became the first woman tobecome Chief Justice of a state High Court.

 

• Justice  H J Kaniawas the first Chief Justice of India from 1950 to 1951.

 

• National Workshops on Pradhan Mantri Van Dhan scheme began

 

• The National Workshop onPradhan Mantri Van Dhan Yojana (PMVDY)began on 30 October. The workshop will be held on 30-31 October. The workshop was addressed by Shri Pravin Krishna, MD, TRIFED.

 

• The workshop was organized with an aim to take stock of all the activities under the program and to plan future steps. Participants: Candidates from 25 States are participating in the workshop, along with the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED)

 

• TRIFED has requested the State Nodal Departments or State Implementing agencies to nominate a nodal person and a teamfrom their end. It is expected that they could coordinate and update the Van Dhan Dashboard on a regular basis.

 

·       Ladakh Literature Festival began on 29 October in Leh

• Ladakh Literature Festivalbegan on 29 October inLeh for the first time ever. The three-day fest will conclude on 31 October 2019. It will culminate on the day when Ladakh would formally become a Union Territory (UT) on 31 October. The festival will mark the official separation of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

 

• Local artists, historians, musicians, poets, literary personalities, and writers from various parts of the country are participating in the event.

 

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