Daily Prelims Notes 27 August 2023 Table Of Contents After Chandrayaan3, what are ISRO’s plans? PMJDY accounts surpass 50 crore, deposits touch ₹2 lakh cr Artists Breathe New Life into Seethakali: Reviving a Fading Folk Art Chandrayaan-3’s landing spot on Moon to be known as Shiv Shakti point India and Asian Development Bank […]
Missed childhood TB cases impede achieving 2025 goal Subject: Science and technology Section: Health Context: With childhood TB continuing to remain a “staggering problem” in India, “eliminating” TB by 2025 might be extremely challenging. Cases of TB: Globally, TB is now regarded as the leading cause of death from infectious diseases for children […]
Tropical forests may be getting too hot for photosynthesis Subject: Environment Section: Ecosystem Context: A small percentage of leaves on trees in tropical forests may be approaching the maximum temperature threshold for photosynthesis to work, suggests a study. Study findings: The study indicated a resilience of tropical forests to how warming impacts carbon […]
What Terai tigers eat and what it tells about the habitat Subject: Environment Section: Species in news Context: The poop of tigers has helped a team of scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) understand the prey selection patterns of the striped feline in the Indian part of the Terai-Arc Landscape, or […]
India and Asian Development Bank to set up climate change and health hub in Delhi Subject: Environment Section: International Conventions Context: Having bagged the first WHO Centre for Global Traditional Medicine, to be set up in Gujarat, India is now all set to open a climate change and health hub in the national […]