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Daily Prelims Notes 12 November 2023 Table Of Contents Centre to unveil PM Kisan Bhai to end traders’ monopoly Health benefits of functional foods Scientists pull paper from journal over Arunachal mention Drug smugglers find new route via Mizoram, evade clashes-hit Manipur Grindavik ICC should probe Israel war crimes’: Arab leaders Uttarakhand to […]
Uttarakhand to hold special session of assembly for UCC Subject: Polity Section: Constitution Context: Uttarakhand to hold special session of assembly for UCC More about the news: The Uttarakhand government plans to hold a special Legislative Assembly session after Diwali to discuss and pass the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill. Emphasizing gender equality […]
ICC should probe Israel war crimes’: Arab leaders Subject: IR Section: International Organisation Context: Arab leaders call for immediate Gaza ceasefire More about the news: Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations, in an extraordinary summit in Riyadh, called for an immediate halt to military operations in Gaza, rejecting Israel’s self-defense justification. The summit […]
Grindavik Subject: IR Section: Places in news Context: State of emergency declared after 800 tremors in 24 hours in Grindavik More about the news: A state of emergency is declared in Iceland following a swarm of 800 earthquakes in under 14 hours, with a magnitude of 5.2 near Reykjavík. Over 24,000 quakes have […]
Drug smugglers find new route via Mizoram, evade clashes-hit Manipur Subject: Geography Section: Places in news Context: Indian smugglers and their local contacts on either side of the international border used excavators to carve out a 10-km “jeepable road” in Myanmar for the ‘Dawn’ of a new drug route through Mizoram. Details: Mizoram […]
Scientists pull paper from journal over Arunachal mention Subject: Environment Section: Species in news Context: Indian scientists were forced to withdraw a paper in an international peer-reviewed journal published from China on the grounds that it could not mention Arunachal Pradesh. Details: Indian scientists Dr Mukesh Thakur, Lalit Kumar Sharma, and Avijit Ghosh […]
Health benefits of functional foods Subject: Science and Tech Section: Health About: Functional foods are defined broadly as foods that provide more than simple nutrition they supply additional physiological benefit to the consumer. Some examples are oats, and millets like bajra, ragi, jowar, and soya proteins, besides the fruits. A brief about Millets: Millet is a collective term that includes several small-seeded grasses such as sorghum, pearl millet, finger […]
Centre to unveil PM Kisan Bhai to end traders’ monopoly Subject: Schemes Section: Agriculture Context: To help small and marginal farmers, who do not have the capacity to hold their produce in warehouses and wait for better prices, the Centre plans to incentivise them under a scheme likely to be named PM Kisan […]
NHAI’s Use of Insurance Surety Bond in Monetisation Bid Subject: Economy Section: Monetary Policy Introduction: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has adopted an innovative approach by accepting an insurance surety bond for the Toll Operate Transfer (TOT) Bundle 14 monetisation program. Nature of Instrument: An insurance surety bond serves as a […]
Rupee’s decline Subject :Economy Section: Monetary Policy Context: RBI probing Refinitiv’s forex outage Details: The Indian rupee plunging to a life-time low of ₹83.33 against the US dollar may partly be on account of massive volatility caused by an outage in Refinitiv, an electronic trading platform authorised to offer forex products. Refinitiv is […]