TNPSC Current Affairs November 09, 2020

Topic: Profile of States

Warli Art

Artists in Hyderabad are using traditional Warli art (Maharashtra) form not just to beautify Hyderabad, but also to create awareness on important issues.

Key facts:

Warli is a traditional art form of Maharashtra. Its roots can be traced to as early as the 10th century A.D. These paintings are distinctive with their vivid contrast expressions. These paintings are mainly dominated by basic geometric shapes like circles, triangles and squares.

These geometric shapes stand as a symbol of natural elements in our environment. For example, the circles represent the sun and moon, the triangles represent the mountains and the squares are considered as the central motifs of the painting.

The central theme of the paintings are scenes portraying huntin, fishing, farming, festival and dances, trees and animals are used to surround the central theme.

Warli art form is being used by many artists to beautify cities and spread awareness through wall paintings. It is also being used to beautify bags, bed sheets and many other items.

Warli Tribe:

They are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in the Mountainous as well as coastal areas of Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas. They speak an unwritten Varli language which belongs to the southern zone of the Indo-Aryan languages.

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Topic: Awards and Honours

Stanford University’s list of top 2 per cent scientists

Stanford University has recently released a list that represents the top 2 per cent of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines. The exhaustive list has 1,59,683 persons.

1,492 Indians have found a place, with a majority of them being from IITs and IISc and other top institutes, representing fields like physics, material sciences, chemical engineering, plant biology, energy and others. There are two Indian in the field of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry: Prof Gautam Desiraju, (ranked 2) and CNR Rao (ranked 3) close to the top.

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Topic: Profile of States

Mobile Amma canteens

The CM of Tamilnadu started the mobile Amma canteens on wheels. It will visit parts of Greater Chennai Corporation and cater to the needs of daily wage labourers and workers on construction sites and other places.

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

Bull Strike exercise

India’s first and only geographical operational tri-service theater command Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) carried out this joint services exercise (Army, Navy and Air Force). It was held at the Teressa Island, in the Nicobar group of Islands.

It involved elements of Indian Army’s Parachute Brigade, MARCOS and Special Forces. In a theatre command all the assets of the army, air force and navy in a particular theatre of war are placed under the command of a three-star officer.