• The RailTel Corporation of India Ltd had designed and established a “Health Cloud” at Visakhapatnam premises of Andhra Pradesh Med Tech Zone (AMTZ).
• The “Health Cloud” at AMTZ has been inaugurated by Louise Agersnap, Head of WHO Innovation Hub, WHO-Geneva.
• RailTel has provided complete technological support for teleconsultation solutions for the Mobile Container Hospital which has been designed and built-in AMTZ with all the necessary Hospital setup for ready-to-operationalise in remote areas.
• All the initiatives under this partnership will facilitate empowering of hospitals in rural areas with hi-tech digital healthcare facilities and thereby making universal health care access a reality.

• Odisha is planning to create India’s only observatory, which will house data on the state’s indigenous population’s health.
• The ST and SC Development Department and the RMRC, a regional institution of the Indian Council of Medical Research, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard.
• The Tribal Health Observatory (TriHOb) is the “first in the nation,” which is aimed to be an effective, evidence-based, and policy-oriented centre.
• It will monitor illness burden, health-seeking behaviour, and the healthcare delivery system in relation to tribal health in the state in a systematic and continuing manner.

Recently, a commission set up by the Centre Government submitted its final report for the delimitation of Assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir.

About Delimitation Commission:

• Delimitation is the act of fixing or redrawing the limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies (Assembly or Lok Sabha seat) in a country or a province having a legislative body, as per the Election Commission.
• The Delimitation Commission is appointed by the President of India and works in collaboration with the Election Commission of India.

Composition:

• Retired Supreme Court judge
• Chief Election Commissioner
• Respective State Election Commissioners.

Articles in Constitution of India:

• Under Article 82, the Parliament enacts a Delimitation Act after every Census.
• Under Article 170, States also get divided into territorial constituencies as per Delimitation Act after every Census.
• Once the Act is in force, the Union government sets up a Delimitation Commission.
• The delimitation commission is an independent body constituted under Article 82 after the Parliament enacted a Delimitation Act after every census.

Some linguists feel pushing the standardised Hindi as a compulsory subject in school could affect Haflong Hindi speaking communities in the state.

• Haflong Hindi is the bridge language of Dima Hasao district of Assam.
• It stemmed from Hindi and includes vocabulary from several other languages, such as Assamese, Bengali, Dimasa and Zeme Naga.
• It is named after Haflong, which is the headquarters of Dima Hasao district.
• Haflong Hindi follows the Tibeto-Burman grammar, not the Hindi grammar, and has lexical additions from Nepali and Bengali.
• It has a generic plural marker and does not use numbers as in Hindi.

• Eighteen years old Harshada Sharad Garud has become India’s first weightlifter to have won a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships that is being organized in Heraklion, Greece from 2nd to 10th May 2022.
• She has secured the gold medal in the women’s 45 kg category
• She won the gold with a total effort of 153kg i.e. 70kg+83kg. Along with her Gyaneshwari Yadav and V Rithika have also won medals in the 49 kg category.
• Till now only six Indians have won medals at the Junior World Championships for the country.
• The Junior World Championships is organized by the International Weightlifting Federation. The first tournament was held in the year 1975 in Marseille, France.
• International Weightlifting Federation was founded in the year 1905 and its headquarter is located in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Key points:

• It is the first time the Marché du Film has an official Country of Honour and India is chosen as the first country.
• The Marché du Film (Film Market) is the business counterpart of the Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival) and one of the largest film markets in the world. It was established in 1959 and it is held annually in conjunction with the Cannes Film Festival.
• It will ensure India’s presence as Focus Country at the Opening Night of Marche Du Films. There will be a spotlight on India’s cinema and its rich cultural heritage.
• There will be special performances by Indian Choir bands along with Folk Music. Indian Cuisine will also be served at the event, along with French cuisine.

About Cannes film festival

The Cannes Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films from all around the world. It was founded in 1946.

Key Points:

• The exhibition will be held from February 1 to February 5, 2023, at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
• It will attract international plastic players to India.
• It will provide opportunities for the exchange of best practices and technologies among industry players.
• It will provide opportunities for employment generation, facilitate the growth of the Indian plastic industry and make India a hub for sourcing plastic for global needs.

Important Fact:

• The domestic production and consumption of plastic is estimated at 25 million tonnes (MT) currently, which will touch 30 million tonnes (MT) by 2030.

Context: Recently, the United States and 60 other partner countries signed a political declaration called the “Declaration for the Future of the Internet”.

About Declaration for the Future of the Internet

• The Declaration aims to foster “an interconnected communications system for all humanity.”
• It is an inclusive initiative, and the partners under the declaration will continue to reach other governments to involve them in the Declaration.
• All partners will reach out to the private sector, international organizations, the technical community, academia, and civil society, and other relevant stakeholders worldwide to work in partnership to achieve the vision of an open, free, global, interoperable, reliable and secure Internet.
• The Declaration and its guiding principles are not legally binding.

Aim:

• The Internet must reinforce core democratic principles, fundamental freedoms and human rights  as reflected in the  Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Internet should operate as a single, decentralized network of networks, where digital technologies are used in a trustworthy way, avoiding unfair discrimination between individuals and allowing for contestability of online platforms, and for fair competition among businesses.
• The aim is to protect human rights, promote a single global internet, promote trust and inclusivity, and protect a multistakeholder approach to internet development.

Important Fact

• India, China and Russiaare among the large nations that are not part of this declaration.
• India also did not sign the Budapest Convention on cybercrime, 2001.

Key points:

• According to the recently released annual report on Vital Statistics based on the 2020 Civil Registration System Report (CRS), the Union Territory of Ladakh recorded the highest sex ratio at birth in the country in 2020.
• The report was published by the Registrar General of India.

Findings:

• The Union Territory of Ladakh (1104) recorded the highest sex ratio at birth in the country in 2020, followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tripura and Kerala.
• Lowest sex ratio at birth was reported by Manipur (880), followed by Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (898), Gujarat (909), Haryana (916) and Madhya Pradesh (921).
• In 2019, the highest sex ratio at birth was reported by Arunachal Pradesh (1024), followed by Nagaland (1001).

What is Sex Ratio at birth?

Sex ratio at birth is the number of females born per thousand males. It is an important indicator to map the gender gap of a population

About State of the World’s Forests Report 2022

• Released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
• The report is published bi-annually and is widely regarded as one of the most important stock takes on forest ecosystems.

Highlights of the report

• The 420 million hectares (mha) of forests have been lost between 1990 and 2020, due to deforestation, though forests cover 4.06 billion ha of the earth’s geographical area.
• 15% of 250 emerging infectious diseases have been linked to forests.
• Example: Covid-19, Drug-resistant infections (Antimicrobials), Zika Virus, etc.

The world population is projected to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, which will increase competition for land, as the demand for food for this large population will rise by 35 to 56% by the 2050s