Anti-defection Law

Anti-defection Law For: Preliminary & Mains Topics covered: Anti-defecation law (10th schedule) News Flash The Supreme Court has stayed proceedings initiated by Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker for disqualification of some MLAs for “anti-party activities”. Anti-Defecation Law Tenth Schedule of the Constitution (better known as the anti-defection law) was inserted in the Constitution in 1985. Articles 102 (2) and 191 (2) deals with anti-defection. The law applies to both Parliament and state assemblies. It…

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Bisphenol A – toxic chemical

Bisphenol A For: Preliminary & Mains Topics Covered: BPA, associated health issues, BIS rules News Flash A study conducted by ‘Toxic Link’ found that, traces of banned toxic chemical “Bisphenol A (BPA)” found in some bottles and cups for babies sold in the Indian market. BPA BPA is an endocrine-disrupting chemical. It has been accepted as the “chemical of concern” globally. Countries have taken action to phase it out from products. The toxic…

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Arctic Council

Arctic Council For: Preliminary & Mains Topics covered: Arctic Council, Relations with India, Objectives, Working of council, Indian Research stations News Flash India was re-elected as an ‘observer’ to intergovernmental forum Arctic Council. The decision is taken at the 11th Arctic Council ministerial meeting held at Rovaniemi in Finland. India was given observer status in 2013 which was renewed. Indian and the Council Indian researchers have been studying whether there is a co-relation…

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Karnataka limits weight of schoolbags

Karnataka limits weight of schoolbags For: Preliminary News Flash The Karnataka government issued an order directing all schools in the State, including government, aided and unaided institutions, to ensure that the weight of a schoolbag is not more than 10% of the child’s weight. As per the circular, bags of students of Class I and II can only weigh around 1.5kg to 2kg while those of Class III, IV and V can weigh 2kg…

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Kalasa-Banduri project

Kalasa-Banduri Project For: Preliminary & Mains Topics Covered: Environment impact assessment, Project’s objective & aims, K-B Project, Issues involved News Flash After delay and lengthy process of getting clearances from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), finally, the mahadayi Water Disputes Tribunal (MWDT) greenlighted the completion of the Kalasa-Banduri project. (The project was planned in 2001 though the talks have been on since 1976). Issue The project ran into trouble when the…

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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) For: Preliminary & Mains Topics covered: DART, Objectives & Possible out-comings, Didymos News Flash NASA will launch a spacecraft that will collide with an asteroid in 2022 to demonstrate a planetary defense technique. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will get one chance to hit its target, a small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos. NASA also said that the asteroid poses no threat to Earth. SpaceX Falcon…

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Purple frog – a unique species

Purple Frog For: Preliminary Topics covered: About Purple Frog, Related Myth, Western Ghats, Supercontinent Gondwana News Flash Purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) is set to be crowned Kerala’s state amphibian. It is also believed that Purple frog have co-existed with dinosaurs. The proposal for this is being mooted by Kerela’s leading Herpetologists (a specialist in study of reptiles and amphibians). Purple Frog Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, which lives almost its entire life in underground tunnels, comes…

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Zero Pendency Courts Project

Zero Pendency Courts Project For: Preliminary & Mains Topics Covered: Aim & Objectives, Reasons for delay News Flash Delhi High Court has recently released a report that talks about the problem of increasing backlog and pendency of cases. Aim The ‘Zero Pendency Courts Project’ is a one-of-its-kind project in India aimed to study the life cycle of cases to come up with optimal timelines for cases. Objectives of the Zero Pendency Courts…

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Genetic study on people of Lakshadweep Islands

Genetic study on people of Lakshadweep Islands For: Preliminary & Mains Topics Covered: Genetic Study, Outcomes of study, SCIR, CCMB News Flash Genetic study done on the people of the archipelago (an extensive group of islands) or Lakshadweep islands, by a team at CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), for the first time. It has shown that a majority of human ancestry in Lakshadweep is largely derived from South Asia with minor influences…

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Global Assessment Report

GLOBAL ASSESSMENT REPORT ON BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES For: Preliminary & Mains Topics covered: Reports findings, Reasons for the loss of species, Risks possessed, Impacts, IPBES News Flash In a latest report known as ‘Global Assessment‘ on the ‘damage done by modern civilisation to the natural world’, found that up to one million of Earth’s plant, insect and animal species is at risk of extinction, many within decades. It took three years for a…

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