CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT
Focus: GS-III Environment and Ecology Why in news? The United Nations, United Kingdom and France co-hosted the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, held virtually, which marked the fifth year of adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The UN General Secretary highlighted that the international community might be able to reach the carbon neutrality which […]
Current Affairs 13 & 14 December 2020 for UPSC Exam
Contents Climate Ambition Summit Plasmodium ovale malaria Polavaram project How epigenetics alters inherited genetics’ message? Israel and Bhutan establish diplomatic ties Bringing life back to Western Ghats grasslands Using camera traps more ethically in wildlife research Rare Myristica swamp treefrog found CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT Focus: GS-III Environment and Ecology Why in news? The United Nations, […]
The Dec 14th Static Quiz on Geography (The Rock Cycle)
Dec 14th Current Affairs Quiz 2020
PIB 12th December 2020
Contents Universal Healthcare Coverage Day UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE COVERAGE DAY Focus: GS 2 ;Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources. Why in News? Universal Healthcare Coverage Day celebrated in Health Ministry About Universal Health Coverage Day (UHCD) The Universal health coverage means that all people have access to […]
14th December 2020 – Editorials/Opinions Analyses
Contents Hazardous ideas for the Himalayas WHO’S AFRAID OF WOMEN AGRI REFORMS 3: THE ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020 Editorial: Hazardous ideas for the Himalayas Context: China and India have been competing with each other to build hydroelectric dams in an ecologically fragile and seismically vulnerable area. Relevance: GS Paper 3: Environmental conservation; Environmental pollution […]
12th December 2020 – Editorials/Opinions Analyses
Contents Love on the razor’s edge Agri Reforms 2: The Farmers (Empowerment And Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 LOVE ON THE RAZOR’S EDGE Context: A flurry of FIRs against consensual inter-faith relationships and marriages have been registered in Uttar Pradesh ever since the government introduced a law against forced conversion […]