Stranded in India’ Portal

Launched by The Ministry of Tourism

◆The portal contains numbers for the COVID-19 helpline, the Bureau of Immigration, as well as information about the control centres set up by state and Union Territory administrations, which tourists can contact for assistance

◆It will help in controlling the Fake News and enable smooth evacuation of stranded tourists in coordination with their respective Governments.

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TEMPLATES’ programme

◆It’s an acronym for Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and Their Extended Star Formation.

◆Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as a sort of time machine, a team of researchers intends to look billions of years into the past.

◆The four galaxies will be studied under this programme. The gravitational lenses to study how those galaxies are forming their stars, and how that star formation is distributed across the galaxies.

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Priority Sector Lending

◆The RBI mandates banks to lend a certain portion of their funds to specified sectors, like 
1.Agriculture, 
2.Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs),
3.Export credit,
4.Education,
5.Housing,
6.Social infrastructure,
7.Renewable energy 

◆All scheduled commercial banks and foreign banks (with a sizable presence in India) are mandated to set aside 40% of their Adjusted Net Bank Credit (ANDC) for lending to these sectors.

◆Regional rural banks, and small finance banks have to allocate 75% of ANDC to PSL.

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Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA)

◆By NITI Ayog

◆which aims to promote greater user control on data sharing.

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Hurricane: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean and the eastern and central North Pacific Ocean

Typhoon: Western North Pacific

Cyclone: Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea

Willy-willies: Australia

Different Cyclone Names

Gravitational Waves are a relatively new field of discovery.

These were proposed by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity, over a century ago.

However, the first gravitational wave was actually detected by LIGO only in 2015.

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Black Hole

It refers to a point in space where the matter is so compressed as to create a gravity field from which even light cannot escape.

The concept was theorized by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the term ‘black hole’ was coined in the mid-1960s by American physicist John Archibald Wheeler.


In April 2019, the scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope Project released the first-ever image of a Black Hole (more precisely, of its shadow).

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Most important topics of Science and Technology

Mid-Day meal scheme

◆The scheme guarantees one meal to all children in government and aided schools and madarsas supported under Samagra Shiksha

◆Students up to Class VIII are guaranteed one nutritional cooked meal at least 200 days in a year.

◆Under the Ministry of HRD.

◆launched in the year 1995 as the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP – NSPE), a centrally sponsored scheme. In 2004, the scheme was relaunched as the Mid Day Meal Scheme.

◆The cost of the MDMS is shared between the central and state governments.

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Prelims Instructions :

1) Admit Card print out + photo ID card
2) Mask - Must
3) Black Ball point pen - use BB only in OMR sheet
4) Simple wrist watch

Kesavananda Bharati case

1.Supreme Court announced the basic structure doctrine was in the case of His Holiness Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru and Ors v State of Kerala.

2.The case was primarily about the extent of Parliament’s power to amend the Constitution.

3.the court held that fundamental rights cannot be taken away by amending them

4.While the court said that Parliament had vast powers to amend the Constitution, it drew the line by observing that certain parts are so inherent and intrinsic to the Constitution that even Parliament cannot touch it.

5.However, despite the ruling that Parliament cannot breach fundamental rights, the court upheld the amendment that removed the fundamental right to property. The court ruled that in spirit, the amendment would not violate the “basic structure” of the Constitution

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MESOPHOTIC CORALS

A Mesophotic coral reef (meso meaning middle and photic meaning light) is characterized by the presence of both light dependent coral and algae, and organisms that can be found in water with low light penetration

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Coral Reefs
◆Coral reefs are large underwater structures composed of the skeletons of colonial marine invertebrates called coral
◆corals have a symbiotic relationship with an algae called the zooxanthellae
◆Known as the rainforests of the sea" for their biodiversity,


◆FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS FOR FORMATION OF CORAL REEF:

1.Warm tropical oceans with minimum temperature of 20 degree (30 degree north and 25 degree south latitudes)
2.Oceanic water free of sedimentation;
3.Transparent parts of ocean bodies;
4.Relatively low salinity ocean bodies

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Monetisation of the Deficit
-Monetising deficit means RBI purchases government bonds in the primary market and prints more money to finance the debt.

◆country's first garbage café: Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh.

◆1st Insect museums Tamilnadu

◆India’s 1st Genetic Bank ForWildlife Conservation Hyderabad

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Sangai deer

◆Known as Dancing deer,Brow antler deer(or Eld’s deer )

◆Found inKeibul Lamjao NP at Loktake lake Manipur

◆Endemic species found only in Manipur, India

◆IUCN -Endangered

◆Sangai festival— annual cultural festival

◆State animal of Manipur

◆There was plan to relocate some deers in Phumlenpat lake(Manipur)
But plan was cancelled

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