Madiga Community
Prime Minister to set up a committee on sub-categorisation of the Madiga community within the Scheduled Castes.
- A Telugu Dalit community
- States – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
- Occupation – tannery, leatherwork, small handicrafts, agricultural labourers.
Rare Diseases
Generic drugs to treat four rare diseases launched.
- 4 diseases include Tyrosinemia-Type 1, Gauchers Disease, Wilson’s Disease, and the Dravet-Lennox Gastaut Syndrome.
- A rare disease is a health condition of particularly low prevalence that affects a small number of people.
- Commonly reported rare diseases in India – Haemophilia, Thalassemia, Sickle-cell Anaemia and Primary Immuno Deficiency in children, auto-immune diseases, Lysosomal storage disorders such as Pompe disease, Hirschsprung disease, Gaucher’s disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Hemangiomas and certain forms of muscular dystrophies.
Kambala Festival
Bengaluru to host maiden Kambala.
- An annual buffalo race
- Observed by – Farming community of coastal Karnataka
- Region – Tulu-speaking regions in South Canara districts (Karnataka)
- Observed to commemorate Lord Kadri Manjunatha, a manifestation of Lord Shiva.
National Waterway-1
Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and e-commerce company Amazon signed an MoU for customer shipments via inland waterways using the river Ganga (National Waterway 1).
- Ganga (National Waterway 1) stretch from Haldia (Sagar) and Prayagraj (1620 km)
- Declared as National Waterway-1 (NW-1) in 1986.