Masood Azhar was listed as a designated terrorist Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was listed as a designated terrorist. The listing is a victory for India in a decade-old diplomatic battle waged primarily by it and supported by its friends at the UNSC, as it would mean a travel ban, arms embargo and asset freeze on Azhar. The P-3 or group of three permanent UNSC members, the U.S., the U.K. and France, had co-sponsored a…
Continue readingU.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM For: Preliminary & Mains News Flash The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan, independent federal government commission, the first of its kind in the world, dedicated to defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad, has said there is an “overall deterioration of religious freedom conditions in 2018” in India, in its 2019 report. India continues to remain a Tier 2 country,…
Continue readingScheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act of 2018 For: Preliminary & Mains Topics Covered: March 20 Judgment, Dalit Protection Law, PoA Act 1989 News Flash Recently, Apex court of India reserved for judgment a batch of petitions challenging the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act of 2018, which nullified a controversial March 20 Supreme Court judgment diluting the stringent provisions of the Dalit protection…
Continue readingInternational Centre for Automotive Technology For: Preliminary Topics covered: ICAT, NuGen Mobility Summit 2019, Aim & Objectives, NATRiP News Flash The International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) will be organizing a NuGen Mobility Summit, 2019, at Manesar, NCR, from 27th to 29th November 2019. NuGen Summit The objective of the Summit is to share new ideas, learnings, global experiences, innovations and future technology trends for faster adoption, assimilation and development of advanced automotive…
Continue readingInternational Labour Day May Day or International Labour Day is celebrated in many countries across the world to remember the labour movement. May Day is marked in countries such as India, People’s Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union. The theme of Labour Day 2019 is ‘Uniting Workers for Social and Economic Advancement’. The first celebration of May Day in India was organised in Madras (now Chennai) by the Labour Kisan…
Continue readingThe expanding Universe For: Mains News Flash A newly published paper in ‘The Astrophysical Journal’ is suggesting that the universe is expanding faster than it was believed, by about 9%. When scientists talk about the expanding universe, they mean that it has been growing ever since its beginning with the Big Bang. Our universe is Expanding The expansion of the universe is the increase of the distance between two distant parts of…
Continue readingGenes for Heat and drought tolerance For: Preliminary & Mains News Flash An international team led by the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has identified in chickpea four important genes for heat tolerance and three important genes for drought tolerance. With rising temperatures and increasing climatic fluctuations due to climate change, the identification of these climate-resistant genes will help in developing newer chickpea varieties which can tolerate temperatures up…
Continue readingFani Cyclone and Global Warming For: Preliminary & Mains Topics Covered: Tropical Cyclone, IMD, Cyclone’s Impacts, INCOIS News Flash This is a cyclone that’s forming due to the warming of the Bay of Bengal. Cyclone defined as generating maximum wind speeds of 89-117 kmph can form any time, they tend to be concentrated in November — after the monsoon — or around May, when the monsoon prepares to arrive in Kerala in June. Tropical…
Continue readingBharati Script – One nation, One script For: Preliminary Topics covered: Bharti Script, why needed, importance News Flash Srinivasa Chakravathy’s team at IIT Madras has, over the last decade, developed a unified script for nine Indian languages, named the Bharati script. Why Bharti Script needed? The idea behind Bharati is just this; the script should be undemanding, logical and easy to learn. India has 22 languages and approximately 1,652 dialects written using 11…
Continue readingUltra-sensitive quantum thermometer For: Preliminary Topics covered: Quantum thermometer, its applications, Quantum dots, Graphene News Flash Researchers at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, have developed an ultra-sensitive quantum thermometer using graphene quantum dots. The thermometer can precisely measure a wide range of temperature: 27 degree C to –196 degree C. The thermometer has high sensitivity when measuring different temperatures and can measure very minute (micro Kelvin) changes in temperature. Widespread applications in different projects In…
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