Editorials/Opinions Analysis For UPSC 05 July 2022
Contents
- Scaling up the Indian dietary Interventions
- LHC: New Answers to Old Fundamental Questions
Scaling Up the Indian Dietary Interventions
Context:
Priority should be given to preconception nutrition, maternal nutrition, and child feeding practises in the first 1,000 days of life.
Relevance:
GS Paper 2: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources
Mains Question:
(NFHS)-5 data shows the duality in the Public health infrastructure and policy making. Comment. (250 words)
Introduction:
As India begins its 75th-anniversary celebrations, there is plenty to be proud of; tremendous developments in science, technology, and medicine have added to the country’s ancient, traditional, and civilizational knowledge base, wisdom, and wealth.
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LHC: New Answers to Old Fundamental Questions
Context:
The world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will begin smashing protons into each other at unprecedented levels of energy beginning July 5.
Scientists will record and analyse the data, which are expected to throw up evidence of “new physics” — or physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces.
Relevance:
GS Paper3: Science and Technology (Recent developments and their applications and effects in everyday life, Achievements of Indians in science & technology.)
Mains Questions:
The third run of the Large Hadron Collider, which discovered an elementary particle earlier in investigations, has begun. In 2013, the scientist who predicted this particle in 1964 was given the Nobel Prize. What exactly is this discovery?
Dimension of the article:
- The extent of Particle Physics
- Existence of God’s Particle
- Mechanism of LHC
- India’s presence in Global S&T Projects
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