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The Kadar are a tribal community or indigenous community in India, a designated Scheduled Tribe in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala. They are an aboriginal tribe whose traditional way of life has been based on hunting and gathering. They specialized in collecting honey, wax, sago, arrowroot, cardamom, ginger, and umbrella sticks for trade with merchants from the plains. The People of Paraiyar Community claims that Kadar is part of Paraiyar who lives and take care of forest and forest lives. In the early twentieth century, the Kadars used to work with forest officials to take care of forest and guide royal hunting parties in the princely state of Cochin. Currently, many of the tribe members have moved to areas closer to the plains and urban areas. Recently, Tamil Nadu reported a death of Kadar tribesman in  elephant attack in  Anamalai Tiger Reserve. It is a cause of concern because this community is known t o-exist with wild elephants for ages.   This man a...

CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) is a new robotic technology designed to demonstrate collaborative, autonomous exploration and formation sensing by navigating, communicating, computing, perceiving and decision-making without human interaction. To demonstrate the CADRE technology, NASA/JPL is developing multiple small rovers, capable of surviving the daytime Lunar environment and carrying a micro-payload. The systems is designed so that agents (Rovers and a Basestation) share data among the team and make cooperative decisions about the execution of tasks in the workspace. The rovers will autonomously travel in formation and cooperatively explore the local Lunar surface, generate a digital elevation map and perform a distributed measurement with the micro-payload. NASA

It is a  $134-million initiative launched to eliminate mercury-containing medical devices. Members:  Governments of Albania, Burkina Faso, India , Montenegro and Uganda. Initiative was led by the  United Nations Environment Programme  (UNEP), with funding from the  Global Environment Facility  (GEF) and executed by the  World Health Organization  (WHO). Aims of Project: Project will  develop and implement nation-wide strategies to stop the import, export and manufacture of thermometers and sphygmomanometers,  Project will  encourage the adoption of accurate, affordable and safe mercury-free alternatives, while improving the management of mercury-containing medical waste. UNEP

The World Health Organization (WHO) is launching a new initiative, SPECS 2030, to assist countries in achieving the global eye care target of a 40% increase in the proportion of people with access to appropriate spectacles. The launch will be held during a 2-day meeting in Geneva, Switzerland with over 100 participants including Member States representatives, UN agencies, academia and nongovernmental organizations. The SPECS 2030 initiative calls for coordinated action across 5 key pillars: improve access to refractive  services build capacity of  personnel  to provide refractive services improve population  education reduce the  cost  of refractive error services strengthen  surveillance  and research. WHO News

XRISM (pronounced “crism”) is led by  JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)  in collaboration with NASA, along with contributions from  ESA (European Space Agency) . It  launched  Sept. 6, 2023. NASA and JAXA developed Resolve, the mission’s  microcalorimeter spectrometer . The objective of the mission is to investigate celestial X-ray objects in the Universe with high-throughput imaging and high-resolution spectroscopy. XRISM was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8:42 a.m on September 7, 2023 JST in Japan  " X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)" -  NASA " NASA, JAXA XRISM Spots Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Active Galaxy" -  NASA