• Bharati is a simple and unified script which can be used to write most major Indian languages.
• It is designed using simplest shapes, often borrowing simple characters from various Indian languages/scripts and English.
• Scripts supported are - Hindi/Marathi (Devanagari), Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Bengali, Oriya, Kannada and Malayalam.
• A method for reading documents in Bharati script has been developed using a multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scheme.

Essential Commodites act

• Maintaining an uninterrupted supply of essential commodities in the country.
• The central government also fixes the maximum retail price for such goods. 
• Preventing unnecessary storage of essential commodities.
• Stop black marketing of essential commodities.

• The Abraham Accords are a joint statement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, reached on August 13, 2020.
• The statement marked the first normalization of relations between an Arab country and Israel.

• The Telugu Cholas of Renadu (also called as Renati Cholas) ruled over Renadu region, the present day kadappa district.
• They were the feudatories of the Chola dynasty.
• The earliest of this family was Nandivarman (500 AD).
• They are said to be the first kingdom to use Telugu in administration and inscriptions instead of Sanskrit.

• Arsenic is a natural component of the earth’s crust and is widely distributed throughout the environment in the air, water and land.
• It is highly toxic in its inorganic form.
• People are exposed to elevated levels of inorganic arsenic through drinking contaminated water, using contaminated water in food preparation and irrigation of food crops, industrial processes, eating contaminated food and smoking tobacco.
• Inorganic arsenic is a confirmed carcinogen and is the most significant chemical contaminant in drinking-water globally.
• Arsenic can also occur in an organic form.
• Inorganic arsenic compounds (such as those found in water) are highly toxic while organic arsenic compounds (such as those found in seafood) are less harmful to health.
• Long-term exposure to arsenic from drinking-water and food can cause cancer and skin lesions.
• It has also been associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
• In utero and early childhood exposure has been linked to negative impacts on cognitive development and increased deaths in young adults.

• The Leuser Ecosystem is an area of forest land located in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
• Its diverse landscape includes lowland and montane rainforests, nine rivers, three lakes, and over 185,000 hectares of carbon-rich peatlands. 
• It is a hotspot for biological diversity, a carbon storage powerhouse and the source of drinking water and agricultural livelihood for millions.
• This rainforest is said to be the only place left on Earth where tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinosstill coexist in the wild.
• The primary threat to this unique ecosystem is illegal palm oil expansion.
• The Leuser Ecosystem has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger.

• The Ministry of Textiles is implementing the Samarth-Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector.
• It is a placement-oriented programme targeting skill development of 10 lakh youth in the entire value chain of textiles, excluding Spinning & Weaving in the organized Sector.

• Kaziranga National Park’s area has recently been expanded by the state government to enable animals to move to the nearby hills of KarbiAnglong District especially during annual floods.

• The Pesticides Management Bill, 2020 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on March to replace the Insecticides Act, 1968.
• The Insecticides Act, 1968 currently governs the registration, manufacturing, export, sale and use of pesticides in India.
• Under this Act, Insecticide includes fungicides and weedicides.
• The PMB, 2020 would not allow the manufacture and export of pesticides not registered for use in India even if these are approved in other countries.