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Essay Paper

1. Patanjali’s - Corona Kit, discrediting Ayurvedic Medicine………..03

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Environment

1. 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report of UNESCO………...06

Snippets

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International Relations 1. North & South Korea’s 70 years of war…………………..…..………04

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Economic Development

1. Exports may dip 10-12% in 2020-21………………………..…..…….04

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Essay Paper

Editorial

Q – How are Ramdev Baba’s so called tall claims regarding Patanjali’s -

Corona Kit, discrediting Ayurvedic Medicine?

INTRO = With the country’s COVID graph surging past the 4.5 lakh

mark and nearly 15,000 people succumbing to the disease, any

claim of a “100 per cent cure” is bound to generate hope. But in

such difficult times, it’s also important to regulate and guard

against the propagation of a false sense of security. The Ministry

of AYUSH has, therefore, done well to ask Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali

Ayurved to stop advertising that it has found a cure for the

contagion, until it examines the matter. Because –

1) As a report in this paper has brought to light, the company did not follow due processes before launching the “Corona Kit”.

2) The Uttarakhand government has said its licensing authority did not grant approval to the Haridwar-based Divya Pharmacy, Patanjali’s medicine unit, to manufacture the “Corona Kit”.

3) The Rajasthan government has disclaimed any knowledge of clinical trials of the drug at the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Jaipur.

4) The litany of Patanjali’s unethical practices doesn’t end here - When mildly symptomatic patients developed fever during the trials, they were administered allopathic medicines. Laws regarding the Ayurvedic Medicine

The advertising of Ayurvedic drugs is governed by a law that dates

back to 1954 — the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable

Advertisements) Act.

a) The Act does talk about “false claims” and “directly or indirectly giving a false impression regarding the true character of the drug”.

b) But serious diseases such as AIDS or encephalitis, which have emerged in the past 40 years, are not listed under the law.

Given that an Amendment to the law, has been stalled due to the

Pandemic spiraling out. We now can use the ordinance route to

amend the 123-year old Epidemic Diseases Act, to curb violence

against doctors, could be instructive for the purpose.

How is Patanjali discrediting Ayurveda –

Patanjali, reportedly, sought regulatory approval for individual

medicines, that it later included in the “Corona Kit”, as “immunity

boosters” and as remedies for “cough and breathlessness”. In

claiming that these medicines cure COVID, Ramdev’s company is

guilty of flouting medical — and business — ethics, while also

discrediting Ayurveda.

Still this is not to undermine the role of Ayurvedic remedies for

people’s health and well-being, especially during the pandemic. Some

herbs are known to be immunity boosters and healing – which are

now stressed to be used in their right spirit rather than with the

purpose of making profits off false marketing.

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Environment Q – Why do we see a spike in the ozone pollution despite the

Lockdow?

BACKGROUND = While particulate matter and nitrous oxide levels fell

during the lockdown, ozone — also a harmful pollutant — increased

in several cities, according to an analysis by the Centre for Science

and Environment (CSE).

Ozone is primarily a “sunny weather problem” in India. Ozone is not

directly emitted by any source but is formed by photochemical

reactions between oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and other volatile organic

compounds (VOCs) and gases in the air under the influence of

sunlight and heat. It can be curtailed only if gases from all sources are

controlled.

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https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/pandemic-explained-who-novel-coronavirus-covid19-what-is-a-pandemic-6309727/



It is a highly reactive gas; even short-term exposure of an hour is

dangerous for those with respiratory conditions and asthma and

that’s why an eight-hour average is considered for ozone instead

of the 24-hour average for other pollutants.

a) It emerged that more than two-thirds of the lockdown days in Delhi-NCR cities and Ahmedabad had at least one observation station that exceeded the standard. In Ahmedabad, the city-wide maximum eight-hour average of ozone exceeded the standard on 43 days; in Ujjain, it exceeded on 38 days.

b) The city-wide maximum average of ozone in Gurugram exceeded the standard on 26 days — at least one observation station exceeded the standard on 57 days.

c) The city-wide eight-hour maximum average in Ghaziabad exceeded the standard on 15 days, with at least one station exceeding on 56 days.

d) In Noida, Uttar Pradesh, the city-wide maximum average exceeded the standard on 12 days; at least one station exceeded on 42 days.

e) In Delhi, the maximum eight-hour average exceeded the standard on four days, and at least one station exceeded the standard on 67 days.

f) In Kolkata,the city-wide average of ozone was exceeded on eight days; at least in one station the standard was exceeded on 17 days.

g) Chennai and Mumbai did not register a single day of excess ozone at the city-wide level, but at least one station in both exceeded the standard on 61 days and five days This pandemic-led change in air quality has helped us understand

summer pollution. Normally, every year, winter pollution is what

draws our attention. The characteristics of summer pollution are

different: there are high winds, intermittent rains and

thunderstorms, and high temperature and heat waves.

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International Relations North & South Korea’s 70 years of war

North and South Korea on Thursday separately marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, a conflict that killed millions of people and has technically yet to end.

Communist North Korea invaded the U.S.-backed South on June 25, 1950, as it sought to reunify by force the peninsula Moscow and Washington had divided at the end of the Second World War.

The fighting ended with an armistice that was never replaced by a

peace treaty.

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Economic Development Exports may dip 10-12% in 2020-21: FIEO

due to contraction in global demand on account of the COVID-19, said the Federation of Indian Export Organisations.

However, in case of a second wave of the pandemic, the contraction in exports may reach 20%.

Before any further contraction, the president of FIEO urged the Centre to focus on concluding free trade pacts with the likes of the European Union, Australia and New Zealand.

As an exception, Pharma exports grew more than 17% in May, over the year earlier period, emerging as a silver lining when most other commodities remained in the negative zone amid the raging COVID-19.

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How about this today!?

Assertion: Centre’s steps over the last few years to curb black money in the economy and following the setting up of new framework in 2016 that allowed exchange of information between Switzerland and India to help check the black money menace.

Reason: Following which Indian money in Swiss banks falls 5.8%

a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

b. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c. A is true but R is false.

d. A is false but R is true.

Hey from yesterday….

The proposed Indian National Space Promotion and

Authorisation Centre, or IN-SPACe approved by the cabinet

is to?

a. Act as a single point interface between ISRO and global

Space Research Organizations.

b. Provide a level playing field for private participants to use

Indian space infrastructure.

c. Train and launch Indian astronauts in to space

d. All of the above

Answer: b

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