Tiananmen Square Massacre Statue Subject – IR Context – Hong Kong University ordered removal of Tiananmen Square massacre statue Concept – What is the Pillar of Shame statue? The Pillar of Shame statue was made in remembrance of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, which is referred to as the June 4 […]
Grey Hydrogen Subject – Environment Context – IOC plans to use grey hydrogen to make aviation fuel Concept – Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will put up a ‘demo plant’ within the next two years to convert ethanol into a biogas that would be used to run aircraft. The ‘alcohol-to-jet’ fuel (ATJ) plant will […]
Carbon Footprint Tracker And Satellite Imagery Suite Subject – Environment Context – Carbon footprint tracker and satellite imagery suite unveiled by Google Cloud Concept – Alphabet Inc’s Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the first time for environmental analysis, […]
Bioethanol blending in aviation fuel Subject – Environment Context – ‘Bioethanol can be reliable aviation fuel’ Concept – Bioethanol can be a sustainable fuel for the aviation sector. It can provide 80% savings on greenhouse gas emissions and be blended up to 50% with conventional jet fuels without any modification. It has already […]
Sea Rise Subject – Environment Context – ‘Seas will rise for centuries to come’ Concept – Even if humanity beats the odds and caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, seas will rise for centuries to come and swamp cities currently home to half-a-billion people, researchers warned. In a world […]
Biodiversity Fund Subject – Environment Context – China launches biodiversity fund Concept – China pledged to inject $233 million into a new fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries during a key UN conservation summit, despite disagreements among major donors on the initiative. Beijing — the world’s biggest polluter — has sought to […]
Anticipatory bail Subject – Polity Context – Anticipatory bail can be set aside: SC Concept – The Supreme Court has held that a superior court can set aside an anticipatory bail order if there was enough material to suggest that factors like gravity of the offence and the role of the accused in the crime were not considered by […]
Plastic Waste Recycling Targets Subject – Environment Context – Govt. announces plastic waste recycling targets Concept – The Environment Ministry has issued draft rules that mandate producers of plastic packaging material to collect all of their produce by 2024 and ensure that a minimum percentage of it be recycled as well as used in subsequent supply. It […]
Veer Savarkar Subject – History Context – Veer Savarkar an icon of Indian history, will remain so: Rajnath Concept – To know about VD Savarkar, please click here.
Fertiliser Subsidy Subject – Agriculture Context – Govt. nod for fertilizer subsidy Concept – The Centre has approved an additional fertilizer subsidy of ₹28,655 crore for the rabi or winter planting season, which runs from October 2021 to March 2022. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the new nutrient-based subsidy rates for […]