DPN Topics
LOST GOLDEN CITY Subject: Geography Context: Egypt announced the discovery of what is being touted as the most important find since the unearthing of King Tutankhamun’s tomb almost 100 years ago. Concept: A three-millennia-old “lost golden city” from the era of 18th-dynasty king Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt from 1391 to 1353 […]
DOOMSDAY GLACIER Subject: Geography Context: Ice shelves including Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ at risk of collapse. Concept: Thwaites or Doomsday Glacier is 120 km wide glacier at its broadest, fast-moving and melting fast over the years. Because of its size (1.9 lakh sq.km.), it contains enough water to raise the world sea level by […]
REMDESIVIR Subject: Science & tech Context: India Bans Export of Anti-Viral Drug Remdesivir amid Surge in Covid Cases Concept: Remdesivir is designed to obstruct the stage of replication, when the virus creates copies of itself, followed endlessly by the copies creating copies of themselves. Once the virus enters the human cell, it releases […]
ASHA Subject: Governance Context: ASHA workers, campaigns on WhatsApp help Rajasthan fix vaccine story. Concept: Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) ASHA is a trained female community health activist. Selected from the community itself and accountable to it, the ASHA will be trained to work as an interface between the community and the public […]
SUO MOTU COGNIZANCE OF PIL Subject: Polity Context: ‘Health emergency’: Gujarat HC initiates PIL over covid situation Concept: Suo Moto Cognizance A Suo Moto cognizance is a Latin term which means an action taken by a government agency, court or other central authority on their own apprehension. A court takes a Suo Moto […]
PARIS CLIMATE DEAL Subject: Environment Context: New research: Many endemic species can go extinct unless Paris pact goal is met. Climate change will negatively affect most native and endemic species — those that are only found in very specific places. Concept: Paris Climate Agreement: Paris Agreement is an international agreement to combat climate […]
SECURITIES APELLATE TRIBUNAL Subject: National Organisations Context : The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has asked markets regulator Sebi to pass final order in six months in a case related to CG Power and Industrial Solutions, wherein the company’s ex-chairman GautamThapar and three other former officials were banned from the securities market. Concept: SAT […]
CURIOSITY ROVER Subject: Science & tech Context: Using observations made by ChemCam instrument on Curiosity rover at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars, a French–US team of scientists has deduced that water did not disappear from Mars at one go, but that it alternated between dry and wet conditions before drying up […]
CORALS Subject: Environment Context: New findings from Rutgers University say corals will survive climate change. This is owing to their capacity to form rock hard skeletons, the study finds. Concept: Coral are made up of genetically identical organisms called polyps. These polyps have microscopic algae called zooxanthellae living within their tissues. The corals […]
INDUS & GANGES RIVER DOLPHIN Subject: Environment Context: Detailed analysis of South Asian river dolphins has revealed that the Indus and Ganges River dolphins are not one, but two separate species. Concept: Indus Dolphin Scientific Name: Platanista minor. Habitat: Indus river dolphins are one of only four river dolphin species and subspecies in […]