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Prelim Bits 14-05-2017

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May 14, 2017

SAMADHAN

  • The solution to the  Left Wing Extremism problem is not possible with any silver bullet. There is no short-cut for it.
  • For this short term, medium term and long term policies need to be formulated at different levels.
  • There is need to find a solution for this problem and the strategy is available and encompassed in the word ‘SAMADHAN’ which means.
    • S- Smart Leadership
    • A- Aggressive Strategy
    • M- Motivation and Training
    • A- Actionable Intelligence
    • D- Dashboard Based KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and KRAs (Key Result Areas)
    • H- Harnessing Technology
    • A- Action plan for each Theatre
    • N- No access to Financing

e-Krishi Samvad

  • e-Krishi Samvad is internet-based interface and is a unique platform that will provide direct and effective solutions to the problems faced by farmers and stakeholders in the agriculture sector.
  • It is also useful to get information pertaining to welfare and development of agricultural stakeholders.

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

  • Pneumococcal disease is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable deaths in children under five years of age globally and in India.
  • India accounts for nearly 20% of global pneumonia deaths in this age group.
  • The three-dose pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) will be rolled out in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, six districts of Uttar Pradesh and 17 districts of Bihar as a part of the first phase.
  • This will be followed by introduction in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan next year, and eventually across the country.
  • The vaccine will give protection against 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria which cause pneumonia disease.
  • India on May 13 2017, rolled out the long-awaited anti-pneumonia vaccine as part of the government’s Universal Immunisation Programme.

Ransomware

  • It is malware that encrypts the files on an infected system and then demands a ransom to decrypt them, with escalation in the demand over time.
  • The ransom demand is in Bitcoins, the cyber cryptocurrency that is hard to trace.
  • The WannaCryptor 2.0 ‘ransomware’, aka WannaCry, spreads using a flaw in older Microsoft Windows systems, which was made public when documents and cyber tools of the U.S. National Security Agency were leaked online.
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