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INDIA'S EXTREME RAINFALL CORRIDOR

INDIA'S EXTREME RAINFALL CORRIDOR 1. Context The Indian monsoon has well-known features, such as the onset of the monsoon, the withdrawal, the active and break periods, and the low-pressure...

13-Dec 2023

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS 1. Context Recently, The Supreme Court asked the Centre and Assam government to provide details on the “estimated inflow of illegal migrants” to Assam and other N...

12-Dec 2023

ARTICLE 99 OF THE UN CHARTER

ARTICLE 99 OF THE UN CHARTER 1. Context Amid Israel’s ongoing military attacks on the Gaza Strip, particularly in its southern region, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has ...

12-Dec 2023

WEB BROWSERS 1. Context Web browsers are our digital passports to the vast universe of the internet. Their simplicity is deceptive as beneath their user-friendly interfaces lies a world of int...

12-Dec 2023

INDIA - ITALY 1. Context Hashtag #Melodi trended widely on social media, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded to a post on X by his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni. Meloni had poste...

11-Dec 2023

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 1. Context Recently, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrated its 75th anniversary, it received approval from the UN General Assembly...

11-Dec 2023

ADVOCATES ACT OF 1961

ADVOCATES ACT OF 1961 1. Context On the first day of the Parliament’s Winter Session on Monday (December 4 2023) the Advocates Amendment Bill, 2023, was passed in the Lok Sabha. Introduced i...

11-Dec 2023

CLIMATE FINANCE

CLIMATE FINANCE 1. Context Recently, while hosting the ongoing COP28 climate summit, the United Arab Emirates declared its commitment to allocate $30 billion to a novel fund geared towards ch...

11-Dec 2023

FRACTAL DIMENSIONS

FRACTAL DIMENSIONS 1. Context Quantum physics is too weird for many people to understand, and part of the weirdness is due to some of its counter-intuitive features. For example, many quantum ...

11-Dec 2023

INDIAN POST OFFICE BILL 2023

INDIAN POST OFFICE BILL 2023 1. Context Recently, The Rajya Sabha passed the Post Office Bill which repeals and replaces the Post Office Act of 1898. The Bill, the government said, will e...

09-Dec 2023

POMPE DISEASE 1. Context Recently, Nidhi Shirol, India’s first Pompe disease patient, passed away at the age of 24 years after battling the disease. She spent the last six years in a semicoma...

08-Dec 2023

SECTION 6A OF CITIZENSHIP ACT

SECTION 6A OF CITIZENSHIP ACT 1. Context Defending the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, the Centre has told the Supreme Court that the provision “is a part...

08-Dec 2023

SPECIAL ENQUIRY COMMITTEES OF PARLIAMENT

SPECIAL ENQUIRY COMMITTEES OF PARLIAMENT 1. Context The ethics committee of the Lok Sabha is believed to have recommended the expulsion of Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Mah...

07-Dec 2023

COASTAL EROSION

COASTAL EROSION 1. Context Over one-third of India’s coastline is vulnerable to erosion, Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey told Lok Sabha on Monday, citing a study by the National Centre...

07-Dec 2023

NET ZERO 1. Context In a bid to attain a net-zero emissions status, more than 20 countries have pledged to triple the global nuclear installed capacity by 2050, at the COP28 climate meeting. J...

07-Dec 2023