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LIFESTYLE FOR ENVIRONMENT (LiFE)
LIFESTYLE FOR ENVIRONMENT(LiFE)
Source: Indianexpress
In November 2021, at the Cop 26 in Glasgow Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in addition to announcing the panchamrit, or five climate-relat...
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05-Aug 2022
RARE EARTH ELEMENTS
RARE EARTH ELEMENTS
Source: The Indian Express
Key points
A World 'China-Plus-One' approach used to be adopted after the Covid-19 pandemic that precipitated big supply-chain disruptions.
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05-Aug 2022
HASDEO ARANYA REGION
HASDEO ARANYA REGION
Source:The Hindu
Context
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a private member resolution urging the Centre to cancel the allocation of all coal mining bl...
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05-Aug 2022
CHINA TAIWAN USA
CHINA-TAIWAN-USA
Source: indianexpress
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan as a show of American solidarity with the island, defying repeate...
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04-Aug 2022
WORLD POPULATION PROSPECTS 2022
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
Source: Hindu
Context:
The UN report, world population prospects 2022 forecasts that the world’s population will touch eight billion this year and rise to 9.8 billion in 2...
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04-Aug 2022
SPY SHIP
SPY SHIP
Source: The Indian Express
Context
India is closely monitoring the movement of a Chinese "Spy ship" that is on its way to Sri Lanka and will dock at Hambantota port around August 11.
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04-Aug 2022
COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES
COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES
Source: The Indian Express
Key points
Article 53 of the Constitution states that the executive power of the Union shall be vested in the President of India.
A...
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04-Aug 2022
Hellfire R9X
Hellfire R9X
Context:
Weapon CIA used to Kill Al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. No warhead explosives just blades swing out to kill one guy
1. About
Hellfire R9X missile is a modified version o...
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03-Aug 2022
US-TAIWAN
US-TAIWAN
1.Context
The recent February 16 update of the U.S. State Department factsheet on Taiwan calls for a revisit of U.S.-Taiwan relations. The factsheet now does not assert that “we do not su...
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03-Aug 2022
TOKENISM
TOKENISM
Source- The Hindu
What is Tokenism?
It is an act of doing something to show that a person/company is including people from minority or marginalized groups, but without sincerity & wit...
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03-Aug 2022
FREEBIES
FREEBIES
Source: The Hindu
Context
The Chief Justice of India asked the Central Government to take a stand on the need to control the announcement of "freebies" by political parties duri...
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03-Aug 2022
ASTROBEE
ASTROBEE
Source: indianexpress NASA
Why in News?
For the first time ever, two astrobee robots have begun working independently on the International Space Station, side by side with humans
What...
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03-Aug 2022
SOYABEAN
Soya bean-Madya Pradesh
Source: indianexpress
1. About
Soybean called golden beans are belongs to the legume family.
It is native to East Asia. It is a rich source of Protein and also an exc...
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02-Aug 2022
ALPHA FOLD
ALPHA FOLD
Source: Hindu
1. About
AlphaFold is an artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by Alphabet's/Google's DeepMind which performs predictions of protein structure.
The program is d...
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02-Aug 2022
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA
1.Context:
Dozens of US states have sued Instagram and Facebook’s parent company Meta, accusing the tech giant of contributing to the youth mental health crisis through the...
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02-Aug 2022