Flex Fuel Technology
Focus: GS III: Environment and Ecology Why in News? Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Launched Toyota’s first of its kind pilot project on Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) in India which would run on 100% petrol as well as 20 to 100% blended ethanol and electric power. Flex fuel technology A flex fuel, or flexible […]
Early Warning For Heatwaves Sees Huge Improvement
Context: Indian scientists have, for the first time, been able to predict heatwaves even one season in advance. Relevance: GS III- Environment (Climate change) Dimensions of the Article: Details About Heat Wave Criteria for Heat Waves Health Impacts Details: In a recent study, the India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences have documented for the first time […]
Graded Response Action Plan
Context: The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said that measures under ‘Stage-1’ of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) will be enforced in the NCR with immediate effect. The order came after Delhi’s AQI deteriorated to be in the ‘poor’ category . Other parts of the NCR, including Gurgaon, Noida and Greater Noida, also recorded […]
About Corbett Tiger Reserve
Context: The much-awaited tiger safari project of the Uttarakhand government is under scanner after a Forest Survey of India (FSI) report stated that over 6,000 trees were illegally cut in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) against the permission for 163 for the Pakhru Tiger Safari. Relevance: GS III: Environment and Ecology Dimensions of the Article: […]
Ranipur Tiger Reserve
Context: The UP cabinet approved the notification of Ranipur Tiger Reserve under Section 38(v) of the Wild life (Protection) Act of 1972. Relevance: GS III: Environment and Ecology Dimensions of the Article: About Ranipur WS About the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) About Ranipur WS Ranipur WS, an attraction in the Chitrakoot region of Uttar […]
Ban on Popular Front of India
Context: The central government has announced a ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI), the organisation whose leaders and offices were raided by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in states across the country. Following these actions, which were based on allegations that members of the PFI are involved in […]
India and UNSC
Context: Recently, External Affairs Minister said there is greater support for India to be a permanent member of the UN Security Council and also a broad global consensus over the need to reform the Council. Relevance: GS-III: Environment and Ecology, GS-II: International Relations Dimensions of the Article: United Nations Security Council Membership Functions and Powers […]
Who Are The Cheetah Mitras?
Context: With the arrival of African cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park has begun the process of their re-introduction, around 70 years after they went extinct in India. Concerns have been raised about whether the big cats can settle in and survive in the Indian landscape. One way the government is trying to smoothen […]
Air Pollution Target For Cities By 2026
Context The Central Government has increased the target for reducing urban air pollution (particulate matter (PM) concentrations) from 20-30% by 2024 to 40% by 2025-26. The revised target may encourage states to raise their ambitions through city-based action plans under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). Relevance GS Paper 3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, […]
Community Forest Rights
Context: Recently, residents of Karipani and Budra villages in Chhattisgarh carried out a massive afforestation drive over 100 acres, as it was the last-ditch effort of the villagers to secure rights over their forest land. As many as 10 villages in protected areas of the state received the Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) titles on Adivasi Divas observed […]