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Haryana Police Launches ‘Abhedya’ App
Why in News?
Haryana Police has introduced a first‑of‑its‑kind mobile application called ‘Abhedya’ to prevent threatening and extortion calls and messages from ever reaching citizens, strengthening public safety against digital harassment and cybercrime.
Key Points
- About: Abhedya has been introduced to proactively counter extortion, stalking, cyber harassment, and other threatening communications before they reach the user.
- Functioning: The application monitors incoming calls and WhatsApp messages from unknown numbers, identifies suspicious international, virtual, or masked numbers, and automatically blocks or rejects them before users see them.
- It also deletes threatening messages, voice notes, and notifications to prevent exposure and distress.
- Even when calls are blocked, the system retains data on blocked numbers at the backend, enabling the police to analyse patterns and strengthen investigations into evolving cyber threats.
- Impact Seen in the Trial Phase: The Haryana Police noted that overall crime has reduced by about 8% in the first two months of 2026 compared to last year, with extortion calls dropping by around 40%, indicating early positive outcomes of proactive tech‑driven measures.
| Read More: Cybercrime, Digital harassment |
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Indus River Green Corridor Initiative in Ladakh
Why in News?
Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena launched the Indus River Green Corridor Eco‑Restoration Plantation project at Spituk Pharka in Leh, Ladakh.
Key Points
- About: The Indus River Green Corridor is a one-of-a-kind cold desert river bank restoration project in India that seeks to build green buffers along the Indus River in the fragile high‑altitude landscape of Ladakh’s Leh region.
- Nearly 1000 saplings of indigenous species like Oleaster, Sea buckthorn were planted on the riverbank through collaborative efforts of civil administration, military, police, and local communities.
- 1000 saplings of Cherry Blossom and Apricot were also planted along the roadside in Leh city, aimed at enhancing the green aesthetics of the city.
- Objectives:
- To restore the ecological integrity of the Indus riverbanks and enhance biodiversity in Ladakh’s cold desert ecosystem.
- To address pressing ecological challenges like soil erosion, desertification, and low green cover.
- To develop Ladakh as a sustainable and resilient environment while improving the region’s aesthetic appeal.
- Irrigation Techniques: Adopting gravity-based solar submersible strip irrigation and drip irrigation systems, to optimise water usage in plantation and afforestation activities.
- Ecological Benefits: Strategic plantation efforts will help reduce wind speed through shelter belts, prevent soil erosion along riverbanks, improve micro‑climatic stability, enhance oxygen levels, and support biodiversity conservation in a challenging environment.
- Significance: Ladakh’s current forest cover stands at less than 1%. The Lieutenant Governor set an ambitious target to raise forest cover to 5% in the coming two years.
- It will help attain the national goal of restoring 2.6 crore hectares of degraded land by 2030.
- Indus River:
- Indus (In Tibetan called Sengge Chu/‘Lion River’) is a major river in South Asia, originating in Tibet near Mansarovar Lake in the Trans-Himalaya.
- The river flows through Tibet, India and Pakistan and about 200 million people live in the area of its drainage basin.
- The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan, with the support of the World Bank
| Read More: Indus Waters Treaty |
