Daily Current Affairs Quiz: December 20 2022

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• The Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set up 200 health ATMs at different locations across the state and has provided experts to run them.
• The state government intends to install health ATMs at all 4,600 wellness centres in the state.
• Efforts are also afoot to provide the facility of tele-consultation at all health centres of the state. Accordingly, health workers are being trained.
• The first health ATM of the state was inaugurated in September this year to upgrade health services. A health ATM can conduct tests for more than 30 diseases immediately.
• Health ATMs will be very effective in making health facilities accessible to the general public.
• Through expert health workers, reports of 30 types of tests will be made available to the patients in a very short time through printout, WhatsApp, e-mail and SMS. Simultaneously, the results of the test will be shared by the doctors on the telemedicine hub.
• There is also a provision to provide medical consultation through telemedicine if there is no doctor at places where health ATMs have been set up.
• Provision of video consultation has already started after the prescribed tests at 200 places.

 What is Health ATM? 

• Similar to a bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM), a health ATM is a touch-screen kiosk hardware built for managing health-related information. This enables consumers to access their personal health information from any internet-connected web browser.
• It empowers patients and allows them to actively participate in managing their health requirements by providing access to world-class medical facilities.
• Health ATM addresses the issue of primary health care in rural and distant places. It is a sophisticated, modern, simple, accurate, and automated healthcare kiosk.
• A one-stop digital touch-point integrated equipment developed to diagnose all chronic diseases while also providing primary care and diagnostics in rural places.
• ATMs for healthcare are outfitted with cutting-edge diagnostic equipment for basic vitals, cardiology, neurology, pulmonary tests, gynecology, clinical diagnostic and life-saving equipment, and emergency services.

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• INSV Tarini has set sail for an expedition to Cape Town, South Africa for participating in the 50th edition of Cape to Rio Race 2023. This ocean sailing race will be flagged off from Cape Town on 2nd January, 2023 and will culminate at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• The race is one of the most prestigious Trans-Atlantic ocean races. The expedition is being undertaken by an Indian Navy crew of five officers including two women officers.
• During the expedition while transiting from Goa to Rio de Janeiro via Cape Town and back, INSV Tarini would be covering a distance of almost 17000 nautical miles.
• The crew, over a period of 5-6 months in this trans-oceanic voyage is expected to face extreme weather and rough sea conditions of the Indian, Atlantic and the Southern oceans.
• The expedition aims to train the crew onboard, in essential seamanship skills including Navigation, Communication, Technical and Planning. The expedition is an important milestone in training of the two women officers onboard for undertaking solo circumnavigation sailing expedition of the globe.
• INSV Tarini is known for circumnavigating the globe with an all-women officer crew in the historic expedition titled ‘Navika Sagar Parikrama’ in 2017.

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• Ministry of Culture in collaboration with Prasiddha Foundation inaugurated Delhi International Arts Festival at Kartavya Path with the tag-line – ‘Where Bharat Meets India.

Aim of This Festival:

• The festival aims to celebrate the great Epics, the Warriors Who Fought for Our Freedom, and the many policy decisions and schemes instituted by our Government towards ‘Women Empowerment’, towards ‘Cleaning Our Holy Rivers‘, towards keeping our Country ‘Clean and Free from Dirt and Disease’.

More About This:

• In the festival dance performances such as Kathak, Odissi along with theatre, classical musical performances and other cultural performances will be organised. A series of events and performances  will be organised at various venues like Kartavya Path India Gate Lawns, Central Vista, Samvet Auditorium Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts Janpath, Amphitheatre Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts Janpath, etc in Delhi.

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• India has jumped from 7th to 3rd global ranking in scientific publications.
• According to the report of National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Science & Engineering Indicators 2022 of the United States, India’s scholarly output has increased from 60,555 papers in 2010 to 1,49,213 papers in 2020.
• India now ranks 3rd in terms of number of PhDs in science and
• The number of patents granted to Indian scientists at India Patent Office (IPO) during the last three years has also increased from 2511 in 2018-19 to 4003 in 2019-20 and 5629 in 2020-21.
• The National Science Foundation is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

About Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks

• The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM) is located at Mumbai.
• The Head Office of the Patent office is at Kolkata and its Branch offices are located at Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai.
• The Trade Marks registry is at Mumbai and its Branches are located in Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad and New Delhi.
• The Design Office is located at Kolkata in the Patent Office. The Offices of The Patent Information System (PIS) and National Institute of Intellectual Property Management (NIIPM) are at Nagpur.
• The Controller General supervises the working of the Patents Act, 1970, as amended, the Designs Act, 2000 and the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and also renders advice to the Government on matters relating to these subjects.
• In order to protect the Geographical Indications of goods a Geographical Indications Registry has been established in Chennai to administer the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registrationand Protection) Act, 1999 under the CGPDTM.

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About Hanukkah:

• Hanukkah is also known as Chanukah.
• It is aJewish Festival of Lights that lasts for eight days and nights in honor of a 2,000-year-old miracle in which light won out over darkness.
• It marks the rededication during the second century BC of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, where according to legend, Jews had risen up against their Greek-Syrian oppressors in the Maccabean Revolt.
• According to the Jewish religious calendar, Hanukkah begins on the 25th day of the month of Kislev and continues until the second day of the month of Teslev — a date known as Zos Chanukah that is particularly holy.

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• Indian and Greek scholars will collaborate to trace common threads between the two countries through a detailed research in India, especially in Malana (a cluster of villages in Kullu district) where men from the Army of ‘Alexander the Great’ are believed to have settled after the war with Porus in 326 BC.

Villagers have greek features

• Experts say that the people of Malana have facial and physical features resembling Greeks.
• A folklore suggests that while Alexander returned home, some of his soldiers settled down in Malana, as they were very tired.
• This was among the issues discussed at the first international conference of ‘Greek World and India’ in the JNU.
• In 2009, a Swedish University had held talks with the Institute of Tribal Studies of Himachal Pradesh University for joint research on the people of Malana, who claim to be the descendants of Alexander’s soldiers, trace their genetics and the origin of their dialect.
• While there is no real scientific backing the hypothesis, some reports suggest the discovery of artifacts belonging the Alexander period from the area.

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• Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri said that efforts would be made to bring about a radical change in the transport sector and gradually switch over to electric vehicles to reduce pollution in Himachal.
• He said that a new electric vehicle policy was being implemented in the state and the Transport Department would soon get a fleet of electric vehicles.
• Initially, the use of electric vehicles will be promoted in the Secretariat. Thereafter, their use in public transport services will also be encouraged.
• The government would take appropriate steps for setting up of charging stations for electric vehicles.
• In the initial phase, the charging facilities will be provided in various government institutions, including the Secretariat and Himachal sadans and bhavans outside the state.
• The Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) has about 1,000 vehicles of zero book value and these will be replaced with electric vehicles in a phased manner.
• Electric buses will also be included in the HRTC fleet. The electric vehicle policy will prove fruitful in reducing financial losses, besides reducing the daily expenditure of about Rs 1.5 crore.

Himachal Pradesh EV Policy 2021                                     

• Himachal Pradesh EV Policy 2021 Notification Date: December 2021 (Cabinet Approval on 30-11-2021)
• Validity: HP EV Policy 2021 is valid for a period of FIVE yearsfrom the date of issue Gazette Notification of this
• As per the Himachal EV Policy 2021, the subsidies & incentives offered by Himachal Pradesh Government will be in addition to incentives available in FAME II incentives of Government of India
• As per Himachal Electric Vehicle Policy 2021, Registration fees & Green Tax will be exempted.
• Annual Permit fee for Electric Commercial Vehicles will be waived-off.
• Electric Vehicles registered in the state of Himachal Pradesh (HP) will be exempted from State Toll Taxes.

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