The Centre and the state governments of Tripura and Mizoram has recently signed an agreement for repatriation of Bru community from Tripura to Mizoram.
The central government will provide financial assistance for rehabilitation of Bru community members in Mizoram.
The Bru militancy was a reactionary movement against Mizo nationalist groups.
Mizo nationalists had demanded in the mid-1990s that the Brus be left out of the state's electoral rolls, contending that the tribe was not indigenous to Mizoram.
In 1997, the murder of a Mizo forest guard at the Dampa Tiger Reserve in Mizoram allegedly by Bru militants led to a violent backlash against the community.
It forced several thousand people belonging to Bru community to flee to neighbouring Tripura.
The displaced Bru people from Mizoram have been living in various camps in Tripura since 1997.
MOVE: Global Mobility Summit
India’s first ever mobility summit will be organised by NITI Aayog, in collaboration with various ministries and industry partners.
It will be held in New Delhi in the month of September, 2018.
The summit will give impetus for vehicle electrification, renewable energy integration, job growth and speed up India’s transition to a clean energy economy.
It will see participation from major global players offering first-hand perspective on automotive solutions, upcoming trends in the logistics sector.
The conclave would include panel discussions featuring global CEOs and transport ministers from across the world.
It will see participation from countries like Netherlands, Slovakia, USA, UK, Netherlands, China, South Korea, Australia etc.
NITI Aayog has also been working towards evolving a National Strategy for Transforming Mobility.
Behdienkhlam
It is Meghalaya’s annual cultural festival.
It is celebrated in the month of July all over the Jaintia hills for good health, property and bumper harvest.
The main spectacle happens at the small peripheral town of Jowai, 64 km away from Shillong, Meghalaya.
The non-Christian ‘Pnar’ people who believe either in the traditional faith of ‘Niamtre’ or Hinduism observe this festival.
cVIGIL
cVIGIL is a mobile app launched by Election Commission of India.
It enables citizens to report on violation of code of conduct during elections.
The application will be active only in States where elections have been announced.
The moment a citizen exits an election-bound State, the app will become inactive.
To prevent any misuse, the app will not allow uploading of the pre-recorded or old images and videos.
The app will be made available for general use by all, from the forthcoming Assembly elections in the States of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Rajasthan.
Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) 2018
The conference is to be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in the month of July.
Theme of the AMCDRR 2018 is ‘Preventing Disaster Risk: Protecting Sustainable Development’.
It will enable governments and stakeholders to review progress made against the commitments at the AMCDRR 2016, i.e. the New Delhi Declaration, the Asia Regional Plan.
It will provide a unique forum for those countries and cities that have not yet developed and/or updated their Disaster Risk Reduction strategies under the Sendai framework.
India will participate in this conference and also organize a side event on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Management.
Koala bear
Recently, an international team of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole genome of Koala bear.
It is a tree-dwelling marsupial of coastal eastern Australia.
They have exceptional parental care and strange eating habits that they enjoy the leaves of eucalyptus that would be toxic or even fatal to most mammals.
They are born after just 34-36 days of gestation without an immune system and spend almost six months developing in the pouch.
It is listed as “Vulnerable” under IUCN’s Red Data Book.
