First Homeopathy International Health summit:

• The first Homeopathy International Health summit hosted by Dubai aimed to teach and promote a homeopathic system of medicine, medications, and practices.
• Burnett Homeopathy Pvt Limited, a company that deals with homeopathic dilutions, mother tincture, lower trituration tablets, unique medicines including drops, syrups, skincare, hair care, and other homeopathic remedies, organised the summit.
• Homeopathy is one of the greatest techniques to treat any sickness or ailment because its negative effects are so minimal in comparison to others.
• The first global homeopathy health summit was also attended by a large number of top doctors from both India and throughout the world.
• One of the largest health risks to people worldwide is climate change.
• By 2030, it is predicted that the health industry will need to spend between 200 and 400 crore rupees annually due to climate change, as discussed in the first global homeopathy health summit.
• The issue poses a threat to reverse the fifty years of progress made in reducing poverty and improving global health, as well as to exacerbate already-existing health disparities across and within communities.
• The government of India is also taking initiatives to advance homeopathic medical practices.

 HISTORY:

• Homeopathy was introduced in India the early 19th century. It flourished in Bengal at first, and then spread all over India.
• In the beginning, the system was extensively practised by amateurs in the civil and military services and others.
• Mahendra Lal Sircar was the first Indian who became a homeopathic physician.
• A number of allopathic doctors started homeopathic practice following Sircar’s lead.
• The ‘Calcutta Homeopathic Medical College’, the first homeopathic medical college was established in 1881. This institution took on a major role in popularising homeopathy in India.
• In 1973, the Government of India recognised homeopathy as one of the national systems of medicine and set up the Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH) to regulate its education and practice.

• Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has launched the ‘Rural Backyard Piggery Scheme’ to ensure the farmers earn a sustainable livelihood through different livestock farming activities.
• The Chief Minister said that the government through different welfare schemes is successfully providing income generation opportunities and economic prosperity to the farmers.

Under Rural Backyard Piggery Scheme – phase 1:

• The government has earmarked Rs 15.18 crore under which four high-yielding improved varieties will be distributed to 6000 families.
• Rs 25 crore will be earmarked to roll out the second phase of the programme.
• To make the state self-sufficient in pork, the government is implementing one of the largest piggery development programmes the ‘Meghalaya Piggery Mission’.
• Under this mission, zero interest loan is provided for setting up fattening and pig breeding.
• So far 250 piggery cooperative societies have availed loans amounting to Rs 43.67 crore.

• UK Foreign Minister Liz Truss has been elected as the next Prime Minister of Britain and leader of the governing Conservative Party.
• With the win, she becomes the third female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher.
• Liz defeated her rival, former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399, after over a six-week-long grueling campaign.
• The two contenders have gone through a postal ballot of all the Conservative members, numbering around one lakh sixty thousand Tory electorate to replace the UK’s outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
• Truss takes over at a time when the UK is saddled with rising inflation and its worst cost-of-living crisis.
• Following the announcement, Mr Johnson will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth to officially tender his resignation. His successor will follow him and be asked to form a government.

• On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a new initiative – the development and upgradation of 14 thousand 500 schools across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PM-SHRI) Yojana.
• These PM-SHRI schools will become model schools which will encapsulate the full spirit of National Education Policy.
• The PM-SHRI schools will have a modern, transformational and holistic method of imparting education.
• The emphasis will be given on a discovery oriented, learning centric way of teaching.
• Prime Minister said, the focus will also be on modern infrastructure including latest technology, smart classrooms, sports and more.
• The centrally sponsored scheme will be implemented by strengthening existing schools selected from amongst those managed by the Central government, states, Union Territories and local bodies.

• A photo exhibition by Dr Madhumeet Singh, entitled “The Spiti valley”, depicting various hues of the tough terrain of the Spiti valley of Lahaul and Spiti district was inaugurated at Artist Residency at Sobha Singh Art Gallery at Andretta.
• Prof Dhara Pathania and Bibi Gurcharan Kaur, daughter of artist Sobha Singh, jointly inaugurated the exhibition.
• They said the services of such artists depicting the beauty of the state should be utilised by the agencies concerned as brand ambassadors of the state.
• Organised on the eve of Teachers’ Day, the exhibition has been dedicated to his teacher parents by photo artist Dr Madhumeet.
• He said the 30 exhibited photographs depicted geography, flora and fauna, art and culture and life of the Spiti valley.

Sobha Singh Art Gallery– Andretta

• Andretta is a village located near Palampur in the Kangra District.
• The Sobha Singh Art Gallery is a very significant art center and an integral part of Punjab’s history.
• The majority of the paintings here are influenced by the Kangra School of art and have been executed in western classical oil painting techniques.
• Sculptures and busts of M.S. Randhawa, Prithviraj Kapoor, and Nirmal Chandra can be found in the art gallery.
• Sobha Singh has created portraits of many Indian national heroes such as Bhagat Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Mahatma Gandhi, and Lal Bahadur Shastri in addition to that of the Sikh Gurus.

About S.Sobha Singh

• Sobha Singh, regarded as one of India’s best painters of the twentieth century, was born on November 29, 1901, in Sri Hargobindpur (Gurdaspur), Punjab, India.
• He learned and perfected painting by self-study. As a draughtsman, S.Sobha Singh joined the British Indian Army and was stationed in Iraq.
• He was much inspired by the works of English painters and studied European paintings.
• He left the army in 1923 and returned to Amritsar, where he established an art studio. On the auspicious day of Baisakhi of the same year, he married Bibi Inder Kaur.
• He had studios in Amritsar, Lahore (1926), and Delhi (1931).
• Sobha Singh had the opportunity to participate in art shows in Delhi, where he received accolades and medals.
• Being a portrait painter, he was commissioned to paint portraits of various Indian Emperors.
• S Sobha Singh painted hundreds of paintings during his 38-year residence at Andretta. Sikh Gurus, their lives and work, where his main emphasis.
• His dedication to the spiritual souls was manifested in his depiction of Gurus. He used to say, “ I have painted Gurus to inspire people.”  Guru Nanak, he believed, was a manifestation of his meditation.
• He also painted powerful portraits of various national heroes such as Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Mahatma Gandhi, and others, as well as many Indian army war heroes.
• Sobha Singh, popularly known as people’s painter passed away on 22 August 1986 at Chandigarh and was cremated with full state honors.

• Himachal has not only attained the top position in the Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) ranking in the country, but has also managed to bring down crime against women.
• The ICJS ranking for July was released recently by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The ICJS is an initiative of the e-Committee of the Supreme Court to enable seamless transfer of data and information among different pillars of the criminal justice system like courts, police, jails and forensic science laboratories.
• The ICJS was implemented in Himachal in December 2020.
• This platform is backed by Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) and Investigation Tracking System for Sexual Offences (ITSSO).
• The state has also topped among the hilly states in the CCTNS ranking and stands fourth overall.
• The compliance rate under ITSSO has increased from 22.9 per cent in 2018 to 82.6 per cent in 2022 due to weekly monitoring.
• The ITSSO is an online module that helps monitor the investigation into sexual offences. There are 3,927 sexual offenders in the state.
• As a result of several initiatives aimed at checking crime against women, the number of cases from January to July had declined marginally from 960 in 2021 to 936 in 2022.

• In Leh, all is set to host the first-ever Mountain Bicycle, MTB, World Cup- the ‘UCI MTB Eliminator World Cup’ in India.
• Ladakh Police in collaboration with the Administration of Union Territory of Ladakh and Cycling Association of India is organizing this International Cycling event on Sunday.
• Ladakh leg of Eliminator world cup is part of series of ten professional races held in various cities across the world.
• UCI MTB Eliminator World Cup is a short track race with Cross Country Eliminator, XCE, format of five hundred meters with natural and artificial obstacles.
• Twenty international, 55 national and local cyclists are participating in the event.
• Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, Leh CEC Tashi Gyaltson and Ladakh ADGP SS Khandare will flag off time tials for men and women, Kids joy ride and Cross Country Eliminator, XCE, for men respectively.
• Ladakh Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur will flag off the Cross-Country Eliminator Heats and Finals at Leh main bazaar.

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the mascot and the anthem for the 36th National Games at Trans Stadia in Ahmedabad.
• The mascot is named as Savaj which means cub in Gujarati.
• The theme of the anthem is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.
• The National Games will be organised between September 29 to October 12 at six cities in the state namely Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar.
• Addressing the gathering, the minister said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left no stone unturned to promote sports in the country.
• He said the budget allocated for sports in the year 2014 was 866 crore which was increased to 2 thousand crores in 2022.
• The minister said be it Olympic or commonwealth games, number of India’s medal is increasing.
• The event also witnessed the closing of 11th Khel Mahakumbh.
• Winners of Khel Mahakumbh were given away prizes at the hands of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
• Four Parathletics from Gujarat were also felicitated with Khel Pratibha awards on the occasion.
• Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur as well as eminent dignitaries were present at the curtain raiser event.

• A State Bank of India report said India will surpass Germany in 2027 and most likely Japan by 2029 at the current rate of growth.
• The report said that the country has undergone a large structural shift since 2014 and is now the 5th largest economy overtaking the United Kingdom.
• The path taken by India since 2014 reveals the country is likely to get the tag of 3rd largest economy in 2029, a movement of 7 places upwards since 2014 when India was ranked 10th.
• The report is authored by Soumya Kanti Ghosh, group chief economic adviser, SBI.
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, the International Monetary Fund’s own forecasts show India overtaking the UK in dollar terms on an annual basis this year.
• This has put India, the Asian powerhouse, just behind the US, China, Japan and Germany.

• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully demonstrated a new technology with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD).
• Designed and developed by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), IAD is a game-changer with multiple applications for future missions including to Mars and Venus.
• The IAD was successfully test flown in a ‘Rohini’ sounding rocket from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. Rohini sounding rockets are routinely used for flight demonstration of new technologies being developed by ISRO as well as by scientists from India and abroad.
• The IAD was initially folded and kept inside the payload bay of the rocket.
• At around 84 km altitude, the IAD was inflated and it descended through the atmosphere with the payload part of a sounding rocket.
• The IAD has systematically reduced the velocity of the payload through aerodynamic drag and followed the predicted trajectory.
• After witnessing the launch, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said, this demonstration opens a gateway for cost-effective spent stage recovery using the Inflatable Aerodynamics Decelerator technology and this IAD technology can also be used in ISRO’s future missions to Venus and Mars.