INDUS-X Summit:

✅It was launched in 2023 during the state visit of the Prime Minister of India to the USA.
✅Objective: To expand strategic technology partnerships and defense industrial cooperation between governments, businesses, and academic institutions in India and the US. 
✅INDUS X will be a defence innovation bridge, which will inter-alia, include Joint Challenges, Joint Innovation Fund, Academia engagement, Industry-startup connect, investment by private entities in defence projects, mentoring by experts and niche technology projects etc.
✅It will focus on advancing high-tech cooperation and fostering joint research, development and production opportunities in the defence sector. 
✅The initiative aims to explore possibilities for co-producing jet engines, long-range artillery and infantry vehicles.
✅The INDUS-X initiative is being steered by Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) on behalf of Ministry of Defence and Defence Innovation Unit (DIU) under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). 

🔆Tribal Art in India:

Diverse array of expressions reflecting lives, beliefs, and customs.
• Examples:
✅ Warli Art (Maharashtra) : Simple geometric shapes depicting harmony with nature.
✅ Gond Art (Central India) : Vibrant hues, intricate patterns, rich mythology.
✅ Madhubani Painting (Bihar) : Intricate motifs, bold colors, scenes from mythology.
✅ Pattachitra Art (Odisha) : Mythological narratives on cloth or palm leaves.
✅ Santhal Art (Eastern India) : Earthy tones, tribal motifs using natural materials.
✅ Saura Painting (Odisha) : Vibrant colors, geometric patterns, depicting deities and myths.
✅ Bhil Art (Rajasthan & Madhya Pradesh) : Folkore, rituals, nature, animals, deities.
✅ Phad Painting (Rajasthan) : Stories of deities, heroes, and legends on large scrolls.
✅ Pithora Painting (Gujarat & Madhya Pradesh) : Ritualistic art for blessings.
✅ Toda Embroidery (Tamil Nadu) : Geometric patterns using natural materials.

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🔆Sarpanch Patis

✅Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development and Panchayati Raj has recommended for empowering elected women to remove ‘Sarpanch Patis’.
✅ World Economic Forum (WEF) will consider the participation of women at panchayat level to rank countries in its future global gender gap reports
✅ Women & men in India report 2022- 46% elected representatives at panchayat level are women.

▪️Problems faced by Women ERs :

✅ Low financial and digital literacy.
✅ Lack of adequate information about their rights and responsibilities.
✅ Inadequate managerial experience.
✅ Social barriers placed by traditional orthodox and parochial society etc.
✅Key recommendations
🔸 Training and capacity building to curb prevalent concepts like Sarpanch Pati or Pradhan Pati (husbands )
🔸 Financially empower women
🔸 Bring attitudinal change in both men and women.

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Rapa Nui:

✅Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a Chilean dependency in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
✅It is the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world.
✅It is situated about 3,540 km to the west of Chile and about 1,900 km to the east of Pitcairn Island.
✅Covering a total area of 163.6 sq.km., it is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
✅It is a small, triangular-shaped volcanic island. It is about 24 km in length and has a maximum width of about 12 km at its widest point.
✅It faces a tropical rainforest climate.
✅UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site on March 22, 1996, and major parts of the island have been protected under the Rapa Nui National Park.

What are Moai Statues?

✅Rapa Nui is famous for its large statues called moai.
✅They are shaped like large human heads and erected on stone pedestals.
✅They are famous for their carved heads and "Pukao," a hat-like covering made from a soft red stone.
✅Some moai stand 40 feet tall and weigh 75 tonnes.
✅They were carved in volcanic stone at quarries and then moved to their current locations across the island.
✅Scholars believe the Rapa Nui people built the moai between the 13th and the 16th centuries and represented their revered ancestors.
✅Over 900 moai have been found on the island to date.

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