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A woman from the Apatani Tribe with her granddaughter. Photo – The Hindu
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PM Modi to skip 80th session of UNGA
- The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is scheduled for September 9-30, 2025 → 80th Anniversary of the UN is on September 22.
- The theme of the 80th session of UNGA is ‘Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights’.
- The General Debate will take place from September 23-29, with Brazil as the traditional first speaker.
- India will be represented by the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
Supreme Court’s National Task Force on mental health gets nodal officers
- The Supreme Court of India constituted a National Task Force (NTF) under the Chairpersonship of Justice S. Ravindra Bhat in March 2025 to look into the issue of student suicides and mental health across higher education institutes.
- Now, the 12-member NTF will have a nodal officer in each State/UT to help with its work.
Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR)
- BTR is an autonomous region in Assam → governed under the 6th Schedule of Indian Constitution
- Three Bodo Accords
- 1st Bodo Accord, 1993: created Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC)
- 2nd Bodo Accord, 2003: created Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) and Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC)
- 3rd Bodo Accord, 2020: renamed BTAD as Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR)
- Currently, BTR is governed by BTC → BTR spans the north bank of Brahmaputra, and has 40 constituencies across 5 districts bordering Bhutan.
What is a blood moon?
- A Blood Moon happens during a total lunar eclipse when the Earth blocks direct sunlight from reaching the Moon → looks dark red or coppery.
- It looks red due to Rayleigh scattering. Earth’s atmosphere acts like a filter. Blue light (short wavelength) gets scattered away or absorbed. Red light (long wavelength) bends around Earth and reaches the Moon, which makes the Moon glow reddish-orange.
- A Blood Moon is safe to watch with the naked eye.
- A blood moon event can be observed in many parts of the world on 7/8 September 2025.
Miscellaneous
- Women constitute more than 50% of the workforce for MGNREGS projects.
- Apatani Tribe: Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh.
- Katchatheevu Island: an uninhabited Sri Lankan island in Palk Strait → India recognised it as Sri Lankan territory in 1974 → In 1976, India got sovereign rights over Wadge Bank (near Kanyakumari, NOT in Palk Strait).
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