DIGICOP

• It is an initiative by Chennai City Police
• It is an online tool to maintain database of lost/stolen mobile phones
• The app is developed by Think Infinity 

WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY (WEAAD)

• The United Nations (UN) has designated June 15 as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).
• Aims to focus global attention on the problem of physical, emotional, and financial abuse of elders by bringing together senior citizens, their caregivers, and governments.
• UN also observes an International Day of Older Persons on October 1 every year.

CONFLICT DIAMONDS

• Are those diamonds which are used to finance wars against governments around the world, also called as Blood Diamond.

 CYBERCHONDRIA

• Refers to severe anxiety that is fuelled by medical information found on the internet.
• People who try to self-diagnose their health condition by searching their symptoms on search engines usually suffer from cyberchondria as they often misdiagnose their condition.

PURSE SEINE FISHING

• Seine fishing is a method of fishing that employs a fishing net called seine that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held on by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats.

ANTHRAX VACCINE

• Anthrax is a deadly human disease caused by Bacterium Bacillus Anthracis that also infects animals like horses, sheep, cattle and goats.
• A group of Indian Scientists have developed a new vaccine against anthrax.
• It is claimed to be superior over existing vaccines as it can generate immune response to Anthrax toxin as well as its spores rather than the toxin alone.

KALESHWARAM PROJECT

• Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project starts at the confluence point of Pranahita River and Godavari River.
• Kaleshwaram Project is divided into ‘7’ links and ‘28’ packages covering about 500 km of  13 districts and a canal network of about 1,800 km.
• Pranahita River
• 8 Tributary of Godavari River.
• 8 flows on the border of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra and Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh
• UPSC  Question-  Project  connecting  Rivers  are  important-  Krishna  Godavari project 2017 Question was asked.

 

EASTERN RAJASTHAN CANAL PROJECT

• Project by Rajasthan Government
• Eastern Rajasthan Canal Projects (ERCP) is planned to harvest surplus yield available in the Southern Rajasthan rivers and transfer to deficit basins in South-Eastern Rajasthan.
• This scheme is planned to meet the Drinking / Irrigation and Industrial water needs of the Thirteen districts of Southern & South Eastern Rajasthan.

OPERATION SUNSHINE-2

• In a coordinated military operation conducted by the armies of India and Myanmar on their respective sides of the border, several camps of NE-based militant groups inside Myanmar territory were destroyed.
• Called  ‘Operation  Sunshine-2’,  the  military  action  that  took  place  between  May  16  and June 8, is expected to give a debilitating jolt to insurgencies in the North-eastern states.At least seven to eight camps of the NSCN-K, NDFB, ULFA(I), KLO and NEFT in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region were destroyed by the Myanmar Army in mortar firing.
• Majority  of  these  camps  were  in  Hokayat,  and  were  predominantly  of  the  Naga  rebel group, NSCN-K, which had abrogated its ceasefire with the Indian government in 2015.
• The operation included blocks by two battalions of the Indian Army — along with Special Forces, Assam Rifles and infantry Ghataks — on the Indian side of the border.
• This was a follow-up to ‘Operation Sunshine-1’ from February 22 to 26, when the Indian Army had acted against suspected Arakanese rebel camps inside Indian Territory.