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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
1. Context
Yellowstone National Park, which celebrated its 151st anniversary earlier this week, is widely considered to be the first national park in the world.
The first ...
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09-Mar 2023
MOON TIME ZONE
MOON TIME ZONE
1. Context
The moon may get its own time Zone. The European Space Agency said that a universal timekeeping system for the moon is needed, but that many details remain to be worked ...
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09-Mar 2023
KUNO NATIONAL PARK
KUNO NATIONAL PARK
1.Context
Wildlife officials in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National park are ecstatic about the birth of seven cheetah cubs in January this year.
Four cubs were born to the Namib...
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09-Mar 2023
SWAMIH INVESTMENT FUND
"SWAMIH" INVESTMENT FUND
1.Background
The Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) Investment Fund I has raised Rs 15,530 crore so far to provide priority debt financing f...
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08-Mar 2023
COMPENSATORY AFFORESTATION
COMPENSATORY AFFORESTATION
1. Context
As part of its international climate change commitments, India has promised to increase its forest and tree cover to ensure that it can absorb an additional a...
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08-Mar 2023
IRAN'S LITHIUM DEPOSITS
IRANS LITHIUM DEPOSITS
1. Context
Iranian officials claimed to have found a deposit containing 8.5 million metric tons of lithium ore in the country's Hamedan Province. Lithium is a crucial raw mate...
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08-Mar 2023
HEAT IN INDIA
HEAT IN INDIA
1. Context
This year the month of February was the hottest so far since 1901 in India.
According to a study in the Lancet, published in July 2021, with two decades of data (2000-2019)...
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08-Mar 2023
NAAC
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (NAAC)
1.Context
NAAC released a statement addressing the allegations, saying, “As per the mandate of NAAC, the entire process of accreditation a...
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08-Mar 2023
HIGH SEAS
HIGH SEAS
1. Context
The UN member states agreed on a historic treaty for protecting marine life in international waters that lie outside the jurisdiction of any country. The ‘breakthrough’ followed...
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08-Mar 2023
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2023
1.Context
International Women’s Day 2023 (IWD) will be commemorated on March 8 under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”
The Uni...
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08-Mar 2023
BRU REFUGEES AGREEMENT
BRU REFUGEES AGREEMENT
1. Context
Twenty-three years after ethnic clashes in Mizoram forced 37 000 people out of the Bru (or Reang) community to flee their homes to neighbouring Tripura, an agreemen...
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07-Mar 2023
SEAHORSE
SEAHORSE
1. Context
The great seahorse, one of the nine species found in the Indian coastal ecosystem, is among the eight species tagged ‘vulnerable’. Extensive fishing off the Coromandel coast coul...
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07-Mar 2023
LIGHTNING
LIGHTNING
1. Context
Soaring global temperatures could lead to more "hot lightning" strikes in many parts of the world, a new study has found. It added that this type of lightning is more likely to ...
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07-Mar 2023
JUDICIAL CUSTODY
JUDICIAL CUSTODY
1. Context
Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court sent former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to judicial custody till March 20 in connection with a corruption case related to alleg...
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07-Mar 2023
1857 REVOLT
1857 REVOLT
1. Context
The Delhi city once known for its resplendent culture of mushairas and poets would be reduced to one strewn with bodies of the dead. From a royal capital, its status was releg...
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07-Mar 2023