Daily Prelims Notes 18 January 2023 Table Of Contents Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in Pune helps detect atomic hydrogen from far-away galaxy Ants can’t alter behaviour to deal with warmer climate: Report Davos 2023: Can AI make wildfire mitigation efficient? WEF’s FireAId initiative shows how Row over CoP28 president China’s population drops for […]
Russian newsprint on its way to Chennai via Iran port Subject : International Relations Section : Msc Concept : The multi-modal transport route will involve train movement through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to reach Iran’s Bandar Abbas port from where it will be take the sea route to reach Chennai. The cargo handled by […]
Will India face a recession in June? Subject : Economy Section: National Income Concept : While it is true that the economic momentum is slowing — going by the First Advance Estimates for 2022-23, GDP is likely to grow at about 4% in the January_March quarter—a recession is largely ruled out because GDP […]
Shukrayaan Mission Subject :Science and Technology Section : Space and Technology Concept : An advisor to the space science programme recently said that the Indian Space Research Organisation is yet to receive approval from the Indian government for the Venus mission and that the mission could as a result be postponed to 2031. […]
Backing Sri Lanka, India sends financing assurance to IMF Subject : International Relations Section :International Organisation Concept : India sent financing assurances to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday, becoming the first of Sri Lanka’s creditors to officially back the crisis hit island nation’s debt restructuring programme. This takes Sri Lanka one […]
SC Questions utility of living will – Passive euthanasia Subject : Polity Section: Constitutional framework Concept : More than four years after its landmark order on passive euthanasia, the Supreme Court said that it is for the legislature to enact a law for terminally ill patients choosing to stop treatment but agreed to […]