{"id":54620,"date":"2020-02-17T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=54620"},"modified":"2020-02-27T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T04:15:29","slug":"9-pm-current-affairs-brief-february-17th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-february-17th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 February 17th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/society\/this-little-telangana-village-hosts-one-of-the-biggest-festivals-sammakka-saralamma-jatara\/article30819378.ece?homepage=true\"><strong>Sammakka\nSaralamma Jatara<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Sammakka Saralamma Jatara is being celebrated in the State of\nTelangana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nthe festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sammakka Saralamma Jataraalso known as Medaram Jatara is a\ntribal festival held biennially in the state of Telangana.It is a State\nFestival of Telangana.<\/li><li>The festival commemorates the\nfight of a mother and daughter, Sammakka and Saralamma, with the reigning\nrulers against an unjust law.<\/li><li>It is believed that after Kumbh\nMela,the Medaram jatara attracts the largest number of devotees in the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>Medaram is a remote place in the Eturnagaram Wildlife Sanctuary, a part\nof Dandakaranya, the largest surviving forest belt in the Mulugu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biospectrumindia.com\/news\/66\/15770\/bioasia-2020-announces-genome-valley-excellence-award.html\"><strong>BioAsia Summit\n2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Government of Telangana is hosting the Bio-Asia Summit 2020 in\nHyderabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nthe summit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Aim:<\/strong>To create business paradigms for the\never-evolving needs of the Life Sciences industry.<\/li><li><strong>Theme:<\/strong>Today for Tomorrow<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Genome\nExcellence Award:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Genome Valley Excellence Award was\nconstituted in 2004 by the Government of Telangana.<\/li><li>The award aims to recognize and\nhonour eminent individuals and organizations for their exceptional contribution\nto the Life Sciences research and public health. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/countrys-first-darknet-narcotics-operative-held\/article30778534.ece\"><strong>India\u2019s first\n\u2018darknet\u2019 narcotics operative held<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) has arrested the country\u2019s first\n\u2018darknet\u2019 narcotics operative under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic\nSubstances(NDPS) Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nDarknet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Darknet refers to the deep hidden\ninternet platform that is used for narcotics sale and other illegal activities\nby using the secret alleys of the onion router(ToR) to stay away from the\nsurveillance of law enforcement agencies.<\/li><li>Owing to its end-to-end\nencryption, darknet is considered very tough to crack when it comes to\ninvestigating criminal activities being rendered over it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deep\nweb:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The dark net is part of the\ngreater deep web.The deep web encompasses all unindexed sites that don&#8217;t pop up\nwhen you do an Internet search.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nNarcotics Control Bureau(NCB):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NCB was constituted by the\nGovernment of India in 1986 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic\nSubstances Act,1985.<\/li><li>It is the apex coordinating agency\nunder the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/radio-aids-revival-of-dying-tribal-language\/article30831074.ece\"><strong>Asur Tribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Asur tribe has been using mobile radio to transmit local news and\nsongs which is helping them revive the dying tribal language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nthe tribe:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Asur Tribe are an Austroasiatic\nethnic group living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand.<\/li><li>They are included in the list of\nParticularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups(PVTG\u2019s).<\/li><li>They speak the Asuri language\nwhich is on the verge of extinction with less than 8,000 people speaking it.<\/li><li>The main festival of the tribe\nincludes Sarhul, Phagua, Navakhans among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/kolkata\/new-species-of-urban-lizard-found-in-guwahati\/article30837686.ece\"><strong>New species of\nurban lizard found in Guwahati<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to the research paper published in Zootaxa,researchers have\ndiscovered a new species of lizard \u2013 the urban bent-toed gecko in Guwahati,\nAssam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nthe species:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The zoological name of the news\nspecies of Lizard is Cyrtodactylus urbanus.It is the 12th recorded gecko from\nthe Northeast.<\/li><li>The species falls within the\nkhasiensis group.However, it differs from other members of this group in\nmitochondrial sequence data as well as aspects of morphology.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nGecko:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Geckos are more than 1,000 species\nof lizards making up 6 families of the suborder Gekkota.They are mostly small,\nusually nocturnal reptiles with soft skin.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammakka Saralamma Jatara News:Sammakka Saralamma Jatara is being celebrated in the State of Telangana. Facts: About the festival: Sammakka Saralamma Jataraalso known as Medaram Jatara is a tribal festival held biennially in the state of Telangana.It is a State Festival of Telangana. The festival commemorates the fight of a mother and daughter, Sammakka and Saralamma,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-february-17th-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 February 17th, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":48116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-brief","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9-PM-Brief.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704940956},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}