1) Personality Rights: it refers to the right of a person to protect his/her personality under the right to privacy or property. it is necessary for renowned personalities/celebrities to register their names to save their personality rights like voice, name etc.
- Personality rights consist of two types of rights:
- Firstly, the right of publicity, or the right to keep one’s image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation, which is similar (but not identical) to the use of a trademark; and Secondly, the right to privacy or the right to not have one’s personality represented publicly without permission.
- However, under common law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the ‘tort of passing off’. Passing off takes place when someone intentionally or unintentionally passes off their goods or services as those belonging to another party.
- Publicity rights are governed by statutes like the Trade marks Act 1999 and the Copyright Act 1957.
2) Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA): it is a statutory body of Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India. CARA is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptions in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003.
- CARA primarily deals with adoption of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children through its associated /recognised adoption agencies.
3) UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage: Baguette (French loaf) makes it to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list.
- Intangible cultural heritage refers to “traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, etc.” This list is published by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- Members of the committee are elected by State Parties meeting in a General Assembly.
- In India, Sangeet Natak Akademi is the nodal body coordinating with UNESCO.
- 14 Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) elements from India.
4) Where did the Earth’s oxygen come from: A recent study has shown that a part of oxygen in primordial earth came from a tectonic source via the movement and destruction of the Earth’s crust.
- Currently, 21% of the atmosphere consists of Oxygen. But 2.8 to 2.5 billion years ago — this oxygen was almost absent.
- During subduction, magmas are formed when oxidised sediments and bottom waters — cold, dense water near the ocean floor — are introduced into the Earth’s mantle. This produces magma with high oxygen and water content.
5) Natovenator polydontus: World’s First Swimming Dinosaur was Discovered in Mongolia.
- A newly described dinosaur from Mongolia called Natovenator polydontus lived about 72 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. Built like a diving bird with a streamlined body while possessing a goose-like elongated neck and a long flattened snout with a mouth bearing more than 100 small teeth.
