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 UPSC/TNPSC GLOSSARY - HISTORY Burgeoning : to grow rapidly Penance : the act of doing something in order to show repentance. Circumnavigate : to sail, fly or travel completely around the Earth. Ammunition : a supply of bullets or cartridges to be fired from guns. Tumultuous : something that involves a lot of change and confusion. Hello  guys  !! This is Navina here. Visit my  blog  to get crisp contents on various stuffs!!

 UPSC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Swami Dayanand Saraswati Swami Dayanand Saraswati was one of the greatest social reformers of India. He established the Arya Samaj in 1875.  Contributions: The Arya Samaj provided equal status to all its members and there was no place for distinction based on caste within its ranks. Dayanand Saraswati believed that knowledge was only in the Vedas and therefore, true religion was only the religion of the Vedas. He believed in one god and advocated that it was wrong to worship idols and perform meaningless rituals. The Arya Samaj helped in the educational development of Indians. It carried the work of women's reform further. The Arya Samaj established Kanya Gurukuls for the education of women and encouraged emancipation of women in different fields. After his death, his followers established the Dayanand Anglo Vedic (DAV) schools at various places in India. These schools taught traditional Indian learning along with western scientific subjects. Hello  guys  !!

 TNPSC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Veeramamunivar  (November 8, 1680 – February 4, 1747)  was born in Casthigilion , Italy .  His real name – kanctantain cocappu pecki ( Constantine Joseph Beschi ). He is the pastor of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .  He has done excellent work for the development and progress of the Tamil language. He is credited with writing 23 books in Tamil and composing events related to the life of Jesus Christ and the history of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, as an epic in Tamil culture called ” Thembavani ” as a testament to his Tamil scholarship. He received his scholarship in Tamil through Subradeepak Kavirayar . In TamilNadu He stayed in Goa for a few days, planned to go to Tamil Nadu, came to Kochi and from there came to Ambalakkad as a herdsman;  Kamanayakkanpatti came and joined in Madurai . He has built Christian churches in many districts of Tamil Nadu . In particular, St. Periyanayaki has made her mother famous and famous all over th

 UPSC INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS One belt and One Road Policy(OBOR) and India's Counter. The OBOR initiative was announced in 2013 by China’s President Xi Jinping. The ‘Belt’ refers to the ‘ Silk Road Economic Belt ’, which is a series of overland routes reminiscent of the Silk Road of antiquity and the late middle ages, while the ‘Road’ refers to the sea routes, which is also referred to as the  21st Century Maritime Silk Road . The OBOR has been referred to as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since 2016 due to the Chinese government’s consideration of the word ‘one’ is prone to misinterpretation. The Chinese media however still refers to it as the One Belt One Road to this day. The objectives of the OBOR are as follows: Creation of a unified large market that makes use of both international and domestic markets. Facilitate cultural exchange and integration Enhance mutual understanding and trust of member nations that will foster an innovative environment with capital inflows, talent

 UPSC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ZORAM MEGA FOOD PARK- MIZORAM Zoram Mega Food Park is an integrated project which provides infrastructure and services for food processing across the value chain to maximize value addition and minimize wastage.  On July 20, 2020, the Union Minister of Food Processing Industries in the Government of India, Smt Harsimrat Kaur Badal, inaugurated the Zoram Mega Food Park Ltd at Kolasib in Mizoram. It is the first of its kind in Mizoram and aims at nurturing a sustainable food processing industry in the north-eastern state.  OBJECTIVES: The project aims to ensure remunerative prices to the farmers and value for money for the consumers by providing requisite channels for forwarding linkages so as to minimize the length of the supply chain, eliminate middlemen and reduce risk.  The Zoram MFP, Mizoram also aims to stimulate direct and indirect income generation in the food processing and its ancillary sectors in the state.  It is also a platform for establishment and gr

 UPSC/TNPSC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Violence against women has an age-old history. Women worldwide have been forced to suffer abuses, harassment, torture, humiliation and exploitation since the inception of the society. In India, rape is a serious issue. The problem involves diverse dimensions including: Treating Women as Inferior :  Our society is still finding it difficult to accept even the basics of gender equality. We still have very high rates of child marriage, teenage pregnancy, and domestic violence including marital rape. The notion that women are less important is deeply rooted in the minds of common people. This proves to be endemic because it leads to male superiority in the sense that women are there to serve men. So, the need is to bring down the idea of gender equality from the unheard articles of the Constitution to homes, schools, workplaces and everyday life because like everything else, change starts at the grass-root level. Low Representation of Women:  Research shows th

 UPSC GS MAINS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS What are the challenges to our cultural practices in name of secularism. An equally important dimension of secularism is its opposition to intra-religious domination. As secularism is opposed to all forms of institutionalized religious domination, its challenges are not merely interreligious but also intrareligious domination. It is often argued that secularism in anti-religious. Secularism is against institutionalized religious domination. This is not the same as being anti-religious. Similarly it has been argued by some that it threatens religious identity. Secularism provides religious freedom and equality. Hence, it clearly protects religious identity rather than to threatens it. Of course, it does undermine some form of religious identity: those who are dogmatic, violent, fanatical, exclusivist and those who foster hatred of other religions. Our political leaders have become helpless prisoners of electoral politics and vote arithmetic. Their fast

 UPSC/TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS Kerala reported the death of a 47-year-old man due to West Nile Fever on May 29, 2022. The individual belonged to Panchcheri in the Thrissur district. The West Nile Fever in Kerala had claimed one life earlier in 2019 as well. The death has led Kerala health department to go on full alert. So what is West Nile Fever? The West Nile Virus is a  flavivirus related to the viruses  that are also  responsible for causing St. Louis encephalitis, Japanese Elephantiasis, and yellow fever.  It is a  mosquito-borne, single-stranded RNA Virus. Along all major bird migratory routes, WNV outbreak sites are found. Origin :  WNV was first isolated in a woman in the  West Nile district of Uganda in 1937. It was  identified in birds  in the Nile delta region  in 1953 .  Before 1997, WNV was not considered pathogenic for birds.  Human infections attributable to WNV have been  reported in many countries for over 50 years. Symptoms: In 80% of the infected people, the disease is 

 UPSC/TNPSC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE MONKEYPOX VIRUS: Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name ‘monkeypox.’ Monkeypox is a rare disease that is caused by infection with monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus belongs to the  Orthopoxvirus  genus in the family  Poxviridae . The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox. The natural reservoir of monkeypox remains unknown. However, African rodents and non-human primates (like monkeys) may harbor the virus and infect people. Initial symptoms include fever, headaches, swellings, back pain, aching muscles and rashes. The rash, which can be extremely itchy or painful, changes and goes through different stages before finally forming a scab, which later falls off. The lesions can cause scarring. Monkeypox can be spread when someone is in clos