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Tainted by uranium The groundwater contamination across India must be probed, and safe sources identified

Reports of widespread uranium contamination(संदूषण) in groundwater across India demand an urgent response.

A study, published in Environmental Science and Technology has found over30 micrograms per litre (mcg/l) of the heavy metal in parts of

Sorthwestern, Southern and Southeastern India

Drinking such water can damage one’s kidneys, and the World Health Organization prescribes 30 mcg/l as an upper limit - Unfortunately, the residents of the regions surveyed were using the contaminated wells as their main source of drinking water.

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Continue These findings highlight a major gap in India’s water quality monitoring

As the Bureau of Indian Standards does not specify a norm for uranium level, water is not tested regularly for it.

This is despite the fact that evidence of uranium contamination has accumulated fromacross India over the last decade.

A 2015 Bangalore study, for example, found uranium levels of over 2000 mcg/l in the southern part of the city.

Other studies found levels of over 500 mcg/l in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

The Environmental Science paper adds new data to this body of evidence by sampling wells in Rajasthan and Gujarat


Continue The studies indicate that this is a chemical effect, rather than a radiological one, even though u

ranium is radioactive- But the chronic effects of uranium consumption are still unknown.

Could there be, for example, a link between the high rates of chronic kidneydisease (CKD) in India

Survey conducted between 2005 and 2010, an Indian registry found 8,385 CKD cases with noknown cause.

When groundwater is over-extracted from soils, the researchers suggest, the uranium is exposed to air

Research across India’s uranium hotspots can uncover who is at risk and how to protect them.


Transplanting best practices Heart transplantation has always been in public eye right from the time Christiaan Barnard

performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967, in Cape Town, Africa.

Therefore, controversy in India over a large percentage of foreign nationals receiving cardiac transplants from deceased donors in India is not surprising.

Leaked WhatsApp message from the head of the National Organ and Tissue TransplantOrganisation.

However, the debate around it is vital because it is a marker of the fault lines intransplantation policy in India that need immediate correction.

We will have to demonstrate(ददखाना) that organs will go to those who need them the most rather than to those who can pay for them


Continue The length of time donated organs and tissues can be kept outside the body, before transplantation is to occur, vary: Heart(ददल): 4-6 hours Liver(दिगर): 12-24 hours Kidney(गुदाा): 48-72 hours Lung(फेफडा): 4-6 hours Heart-Lung: 4-6 hours

India’s first successful cardiac transplant in 1994 (by P. Venugopal at the All India Instituteof Medical Sciences, Delhi) were performed in public institutions

Along the way, organ transplantation in India (this includes Tamil Nadu) largely became a private sector activity- hospitals, the costs in India are well beyond a large majorityof the local population.

This is where foreigner nationals who are often able to pay such sums fit in.


Saving Delhi’s trees The government could heed(सावधान रहना) residents’ voices on redesigning the city

Over the last few days, Delhi residents have been protesting against the government’s approval for felling over 14,000 trees in south Delhi

Redeveloping half a dozen south Delhi colonies, on Monday assured the Delhi HighCourt that no trees would be cut for the project till July 4- which is temporary relief.

Many of the trees proposed to be felled are mature, local, fruit-bearing ones that provide clean air, shade and water recharge to humans and are homes to many birds.

These areas of Delhi have served as the “lungs” of the city- However, the project reportsoverlook these qualities.

Projects, involving huge investments and wealthy, influential contractors


Continue Were designed by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and approved by

the Union Cabinet in 2017.

Following the orders of the National Green Tribunal in September 2017 in a case challengingthese projects, at least five of the seven projects received environment clearances between November and June

From 2006, most construction projects have been approved based on an applicationform instead of detailed assessment reports.

In 2014, schools, colleges and hostels for educational institutions were exempted from taking environment clearances as long as they followed specific sustainability parameters

In 2016, projects with areas of less than 20,000 sq m were permitted to proceed as long as they submitted a self-declaration ensuring adherence to environmental norms.


Continue As a result of these privileges, construction projects contribute significantly to urban

air and noise pollution and high water consumption in cities

Projects is a failure due to poor survival rates of saplings and no monitoring

The residents are now appealing to the government to embrace inclusive waysof redesigning the city.

The governments join hands by committing to review these projects.


Erdoğa’smix of nationalism and Sunni internationalism


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- After aid for defence buys,

India gifts plane to SeychellesMaritime aircraft will increase island’s surveillance capability

$100 million credit for Seychelles to buymilitary hardware from India.


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- U.S. top court upholds(की पुदि की) travel ban The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump’s controversial

ban on travellers from five mostly Muslim countries, in a major victory forthe Republican leader after a tortuous legal battle.

Administration claims is justified by national security concerns, was valid.

Cong. has not changed since Emergency: PM Constitution, country will not be safe under it, says Modi


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- Naveen backs PM for joint elections This will serve the country well: CM Odisha Chief Minister and

Biju Janata Dal chief NaveenPantaik on Tuesday supportedPrime Minister Narendra Modi’scall for holding simultaneousLok Sabha and Assembly polls in thecountry


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Candidate may have to disclose health condition to contest poll The Centre on Tuesday informed the Madras High

Court that the Law Commission was considering thepossibility of making it a statutory obligation forthose wanting to contest in elections to disclose full particulars regarding their health condition at the timeof filing nominations.

India most unsafe for women: poll India has been ranked as the most dangerous country out of the world’s 10 worst countries

for women, behind Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia, according to a pollconducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The same poll conducted in 2011 had placed India at the fourth place. The findings are based on perceptions of experts on women’s issues.


Map Practice


Last Day- Q’s- Answers… The Special Category States in India(11 States): Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and Nagaland

from 1969, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura, in 2010 Uttarakhand

AND “special assistance” to Andhra Pradesh for five years(2015-2016 to 2019-2020)

Planning Commission:- formed: 15th March 1950- Dissolve: 17 August 2014 Replaced by NITI Aayog Set up by a Resolution of the Government of India in March 1950 i.e. Created by ' Executive

resolution ' of GoI (i.e. Union Cabinet).



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