CHHATTISGARH

Crime against women in Chhattisgarh registered an overall 15% hike with 7,996 cases reported in 2017 compared to the previous year. While there has been a significant drop in dowry deaths in the state no case of acid attack was reported from the state.
According to the crime statistics released by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) report for 2017 rate of crime in ‘dowry deaths’ category has been reported as 0.6% with 74 ‘cases reported’ (CR).

While the three year rate of crime against children in Chhattisgarh were reported as 4,469, 4,746 and 6,518 from 2015 to 2017 respectively.

INTERNATIONAL

Google has officially announced that it has achieved quantum supremacy with its advanced processor that was able to surpass the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

Google says that its 54-bit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years.

The search giant has made the details of its research public for the scientific community to fully scrutinize its achievement.

India has jumped 14 places to take the 63rd position on the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking.

In its Doing Business 2020 report, the World Bank commended the reform efforts undertaken by the country.

India has improved its rank in 7 out of 10 indicators and has moved closer to international best practices.

· White bellbird is the worlds loudest bird

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts in the U.S. have found that the White Bellbirdsare theloudest bird in the world. They also found that the mating songs by the white male bellbird cause sound of thrice the decibels (dB) than the Screaming Piha during the mating period. The screaming Piha held the record by making the loudest call of around 125 dB.

The white bellbird or Procnia albus is a bird species in the familyCotingidae. The bird is found in Guianas forest, Venezeula, Pará of Brazil. The male birdis white in colour, and the female is olive with yellowish streaks in colour.

NATIONAL

The fourth Ayurveda Day is being organised on October 25 at National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA) in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India decided to celebrate Ayurveda Day every year on the day of Dhanvantari Jayanti (Dhanteras) since 2016.

On this occasion, Ministry also facilitates 3-4 Ayurveda experts with ‘National Dhanwantari Ayurveda Award’ comprising of citation, trophy (Dhanwantari Statue) and a cash reward of rupees five lakh.

National Unity Day will be celebrated on 31st of this month to mark the birth anniversary of Ironman Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kevadia in Gujarat to pay homage to the great leader at the Statue of Unity.

To celebrate the spirit of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, celebrations will be held in more than 600 districts of the country.

· Centre launched the 1st National Protocol on Snow Leopard Population Assessment

Centre launched the First National Protocol on Snow Leopard Population Assessmentin India on 23 October. It was launched by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Shri Prakash Javadekar on the International Snow Leopard Day at the inaugural session of the 4th steering committee meeting of the GSLEP Program – Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program.

The government is conducting the Snow Leopard enumeration of the Nation for the first time

The protocol was developed by scientific experts in association with the Snow Leopard States/ Union Territories (UTs) namely, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunanchal Pradesh.

The Mission has been scheduled to be launched on31 October by the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the Pulse Polio Program.

Under Mission Indradhanush 2.0, the Union Health Ministry will carry out a massive immunization program in the areas that are identified as low immunization pockets.

The Ministry has identified 271 districts across the nation and 652 blockslocated in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

The total vaccination program is dedicated for children up to 2 years of age and for all pregnant women.

Vaccines of 12 various kinds are included under the mission. 10 out of the 12 vaccine categories will be used nationwide, and the other two vaccines will be put under sub-vaccination levels.

The two vaccines that are placed under the sub-vaccination level are for diseases like Japanese Encephalitisand the Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, which occurs in high-end endemic areas.