Daily Prelims notes 19 March 2023 Table Of Contents Africa’s splitting plates could give birth to a new ocean Habitat preservation in the Western Ghats can help enhance biodiversity in the hotspot Kashmir’s spring sunshine blows the cobwebs away Modi and Hasina open 131.5km oil pipeline to Bangladesh Samudrayaan Mission: India set to […]
PM Gati Shakti: 156 critical infra gap projects identified Subject :Schemes PM Gati Shakti “PM Gati Shakti — National Master Plan” for infrastructure development aims at boosting multimodal connectivity and driving down logistics costs. PM Gati Shakti is a digital platform that connects 16 ministries — including Roads and Highways, Railways, Shipping, Petroleum […]
Srinagar gears up for tourism meet Subject: International relations Section: International Organization Context: Srinagar, the summer capital of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, is all set to host a working group meeting of tourism delegates from the G20 nations in the last week of May. It will be interesting to see how Saudi Arabia and Turkey, both members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the G20 grouping, respond to the invitation Concept: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the second largest intergovernmental organization after the United Nations with a membership of 57 states. It is the collective voice […]
Magellan spacecraft records volcanic activity on Venus Subject: Science and Technology Section: Space technology Concept : Recently, NASA Magellan spacecraft captured images of Venus’ surface from different orbits. A few locations, including those suspected to have volcanic activity, were observed two or three times over two years. Findings of the Magellan spacecraft A […]
C-Veda project Subject : Science and technology Section: Health Concept : The journey from childhood to adulthood is uneven: some mental attributes surface faster than others, some are more pronounced in girls, and poverty and trauma have an outsized influence on cognitive development, says one of the largest studies of its kind, spanning […]
WHO accuses China of withholding COVID data – GISAID Subject :International Relations Section: International Organization Concept : The World Health Organisation (WHO) has criticised China for withholding data related to samples taken at a market in Wuhan in 2020 that could have provided vital information about the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins. It further called […]
Panel to look into Rajasthani as second official language Subject : Polity Section: MSc Concept : On March 16, 2023, Education Minister of Rajasthan, Dr. B.D. Kalla said in the assembly that the Minister of State for Languages has approved the formation of a committee in connection with declaring Rajasthani language as the […]
Net neutrality debate Subject : Science and technology Section: Awareness of it and computers Concept : Since November 2022, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents major telecom operators in India, has been demanding that platforms such as YouTube and WhatsApp pay a share of revenue to make up for the […]
Eklavya schools Subject: Schemes Concept : As the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs looks to finalise the recruitment rules for hiring over 38,000 teachers and support staff for 740 Eklavya Model Residential Schools across the country, the jobs of around 4,000 teachers are hanging by a thread — teachers who are already working […]