Daily Current Affairs 11 July 2023 – IAS Current Affairs

Current Affairs 11 July 2023 focuses on Prelims-Mains perspective. Major events are :

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Source : Live Mint
GS II : Health; GSIII: Science and Tech;

Overview

1. What is Guillain-Barre syndrome?

Why in News ?

Peru has declared a state of national emergency amid a surge in patient suffering from Guillain-Barre syndrome.

The neurological ailment prompts the body’s immune system to mistakenly attack nerves – sometimes leading to paralysis.

What is Guillain-Barre syndrome?

• The immune system of the body erroneously assaults the peripheral nerves in this uncommon

  

  autoimmune illness.

• Although it can affect persons of various ages, it is more frequently seen in adults and men.

What are the Symptoms?

• Weakness or tingling are some of the initial signs of Guillain-Barré syndrome. They frequently begin in the legs but can also affect the arms and face.
• These symptoms may cause paralysis of the legs, arms, or facial muscles in certain persons.

What are the causes of Guillain-Barre syndrome?

• An illness frequently comes before it.
• It can be a viral or bacterial illness.
• Campylobacter jejuni, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and the bacteria that cause pneumonia and urinary tract infections are the most often related illnesses.
• Additionally, surgery or the injection of a vaccination may cause it.

Cure for the disease

• This condition has no recognised treatment.
• Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), which is created from donor blood that has healthy antibodies, is the most often utilised therapy.
• This lessens the nerve onslaught by the immune system.

Shelf Cloud and Different Types of Cloud

Source : DNA
GS I : Geography

Overview

1. News in Brief
2. How it helps

Why in News ?

Formation of terrifying shelf cloud recently appeared in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar. 

What is Shelf Cloud

• The term “shelf cloud” or “Arcus cloud” are both used to describe this meteorological phenomenon.

  

• A shelf cloud is a particular kind of low-lying, horizontal cloud formation that has a distinct line of solid clouds running across it.
• For its unusual wedge-shaped structure, Arcus Cloud is well-known.
• It often occurs on the front edge of a storm and extends horizontally beneath the primary cloud base.
• When a mass of cold, dense air is driven by the wind into a warmer air mass, shelf clouds are formed.
• This occurrence occurs when cold air swiftly descends and dissipates during a thunderstorm’s downdraft, producing a powerful gust front.

What are the different types of cloud?

Clouds are classified based on

1. Height or Altitude
2. Shape or Formation

Based on the Height or Altitude

A. High Clouds

B. Middle Clouds

C. Low Clouds

A. High Clouds

• They may soar higher than 20,000 feet or 6000 meters.
• They go by the name Cirrus Clouds as well.
• They are often composed of ice and are thin.
• They frequently herald fine weather, therefore they don’t bring rain.

Types of High Clouds

1. Cirrus Clouds
   • Typically found at heights greater than 6,000 meters.
   • They are composed of ice crystals that originate from the freezing of supercooled water droplets.
   • The cirrus clouds are tiny and very thin.
2. Cirrostratus Cloud
   • When the cloud assumes the shape of a thin cirrostratus nebulosus, it can generate halos and is difficult to identify.
   • Cirrostratus are transparent high clouds, which cover large areas of the sky.
3. Cirrocumulus
   • They are tiny, spherical puffy clouds with long rows that often appear high in the sky.
   • Usually white, they can occasionally seem grey.

B. Middle Clouds

• Altitude : 2000 to 6000 metres
• This types of cloud shows the chance of storm.
• They are also called as Alto Clouds.

Types of Middle Clouds

1. Altostratus
   • It is made up of water droplets, ice crystals, or a mixture of the two.
   • Formation: Large quantities of warm, humid air ascend, forcing water vapour to condense, resulting in the formation of altostratus clouds.
   • Warm fronts are typically predicted by altostratus clouds.
2. Altocumulus
   • Clouds having globe shaped masses or can be viewed as rolls in layers.
   • Globes found to be darker than the the layer in a greyish sheet. 

C. Low Clouds

• Altitude: 2500 metres
• Also called as Stratus Clouds.
• Formation: Dense, dark, and rainy (or snowy)
• It is viewed as hump on a blue sky.

1. Strato Cumulus
   • Formation: Large dark, rounded or globular masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves.
2. Stratus
   • Low-level stratus clouds have a largely uniform grey or white tint.
   • Near the coast, stratus clouds form dense cloud cover.
3. Nimbostratus
   • Formation: Dark, Thick 
   • They forms precipitations, continous rain or snow.
   • These clouds appear frequently in the atmosphere.

Kui Language Odisha UPSC

Source : Indian Express
GS II : Polity; GS I: Culture;

Overview

1. News in Brief
2. How it helps

Why in News ?

The Odisha Cabinet recently recommended a proposal for inclusion of ‘Kui’ language in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution.

News in Brief

• Inclusion of Kui in the eighth schedule will help in the preservation, promotion and propagation of the language and culture.
• Publication, creation of content and recognition will get momentum.
• It will create an eco-system to facilitate research and studies.
• Also the preservation, promotion and propagation of the Kui language.

About Kui Language

• The Kandha people speaks Kui, a South-Eastern Dravidian language that is also known by the names Kandh, Khondi, Khond, and

  

  Khondo.

• State of Odisha is where it is most often spoken.
• It shares a close relationship with other Dravidian languages like Gondi and Kuvi.
• Throughout history, it was also known to as the Kuinga language.
• The 1991 Indian Census places it at number 29 with 941,988 native speakers.
• The Odia script, which is also used to write the Odia language, is used to historically write Kui.

How is a language included in Schedule Eight?

• Any language may be taken into consideration for inclusion in the Eighth Schedule without regard to any set standards.
• The evolution of dialects and languages is dynamic and impacted by socio-eco-political events.

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