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The ‘Modernisation’ of Ayurveda
What can India do for the modernization of Ayurveda?
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- Institutionalization of Ayurvedic training.
- Pharmaceuticalisation of drug production.
- Professionalisation of medical practice as well as biomedicalisation.
- Creolisation of Ayurvedic knowledge and therapeutics.
- There is a need to study various traditional medical practices prevalent in different regions so that the system can make a significant contribution.
- Indian traditions related to medicine have distinct regional and socio-cultural histories which have produced distinct regional Ayurvedic practices.
Data gives us power but it creates vulnerabilities.
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- Cyberspace has been called the fifth domain after land, air, water and space. India has no single rule for protection from cyber-attacks in all five domains across all activities -military, economic, commercial, political and cultural.
- Recently a cyber-attack shutdown the electric grid of Mumbai. The New York Times reported it was China’s cyber-attack. China could not only fight with India in the Himalayan region but across all our activities, viz. geopolitical, economic, commercial, military, political, cultural and social also.
- Rogue nations and well organised digital terrorist hacker groups steal data, IP, R&D and innovation work and pry into diplomatic and strategic plans.
- To strengthen cyberspace operations, India needs to technologically advance with 5G technology and the Internet of Things (IoT).
2-DG drug developed by DRDO lab for COVID-19
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- 2-DG drug and its functionality, about the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) and its previous research.
With respect to the second wave of COVID-19 in India, the Indian Coronavirus strain has become a 'variant of concern at global level'.
You need to study the following points for the above topic:
- What is mutation and how the process of mutation works.
- Mechanism in RNA viruses.
- Coronavirus spike protein.
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