Daily prelims Notes 7 July 2022 Table Of Contents ED seeks to declare Devas Multimedia CEO fugitive economic offender in PMLA case Why are temperatures within a city’s neighbourhoods different? EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy to brand gas and nuclear plants as ‘green’ A short history of the demand for ‘Dravida Nadu’, its evolution […]

    Assam cabinet approves 5 Muslim communities as ‘Indigenous’ Subject: Polity Five Assamese Muslim sub-groups are Gorias, Moriyas, Jolhas, Deshis and Syeds The ‘indigenous’ status to Assamese-speaking Muslim communities will distinguish them from Bengali-speaking Muslims, who migrated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to Assam.

    Nigeria’s latest lithium find: some key questions answered Subject: Geography The Geological Agency described the lithium as high grade because what’s been found has between 1-13 per cent oxide content. Normally exploration begins at levels as low as 0.4 percent. Grade (in per cent) is a measure of concentration of the lithium in the […]

    Can planting trees mitigate climate change? Subject: Environment While trees are important carbon sinks, there is significant data that shows that the global potential for trees to mitigate climate change is grossly overestimated. Low survival of saplings, unsuitable planting sites, lack of good quality seeds, wrong trees planted in the wrong places and […]

    Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests Subject: Environment Context: Disappearing Kelp forest What are kelp forests? Kelp forests grow along more than one-quarter of the world’s coastlines, and are among the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But these critical habitats are disappearing due to warming oceans and other human impacts. Kelp forests […]

    SC refuses to interfere with HC order on holding Goa panchayat polls Subject: Polity High Court of Bombay  in its June 28 order quashed the state’s decision to postpone the polls. This is the fourth instance in the last two decades when the state government and the SEC (State Election Commission) have avoided […]