IASbaba's Flagship Course: Integrated Learning Programme (ILP) - 2024 Read Details
(Topic: The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country)
An Indian revolutionary fighter, lawyer and journalist, who led India's freedom struggle from London
(Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation)
What: An integral component of Digital India Initiative of the Government; the scheme envisage to make 6 crore citizens digitally literate in rural India.
(Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation)
What: ‘Rally for Rivers’ is a drive to generate awareness about the need to save the country’s rivers by proposing
Why ‘Rally for Rivers’
The rally does not address the most serious problems rivers face:
Note: Criticisms – Rally for Rivers
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(Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation)
The Brahmaputra and Barak river systems which account for one-third of India’s run off, are highly prone to floods. Brahmaputra is one of the largest river systems in the world and causes considerable distress and costs on the region through frequent flooding and erosion.
The Committee would facilitate optimising benefits of appropriate water management in the form of hydro-electric power, agriculture, bio-diversity conservation, reduced flood damage erosion, inland water transport, forestry, fishery and eco-tourism.
Why: Optimum management of water resources is a cross-cutting task which requires multi-sectoral interventions and concerted strategy, including management of catchment areas in upper reaches involving concerned Central Ministries and State Governments.
The terms of reference of the Committee include:
(Topic: Awareness in the fields of Science and Space)
2017 Nobel Prize for Physics has been conferred to three scientists namely Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish & Kip S Thorne under the LIGO Project for their discovery of gravitational waves, 100 years after Einstein's General Relativity predicted it.
LIGO-India mega-science project
LIGO-India brings forth a real possibility of Indian scientists and technologists stepping forward, with strong international cooperation, into the frontier of an emergent area of high visibility and promise presented by the recent GW detections and the high promise of a new window of gravitational-wave astronomy to probe the universe. Inclusion of LIGO-India greatly improves the angular resolution in the location of the gravitational-wave source by the LIGO global network.
The LIGO-India proposal: For the construction and operation of an Advanced LIGO Detector in India in collaboration with the LIGO Laboratories, USA.
Objective: To set up the Indian node of the three node global Advanced LIGO detector network by 2024 and operate it for 10 years.
Task for LIGO-India: Challenge of constructing the very large vaccum infrastructure that would hold a space of volume 10 million litres that can accommodate the entire 4 km scale laser interferometer in ultra-high vacuum environment at nano-torrs. Indian team is also responsible for installation and commissioning the complex instrument and attaining the ultimate design sensitivity.
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Theme for the India Water Week – 2017 is “Water and Energy for Inclusive Growth”
India has avoided about 1 million (10 lakh) deaths of children under age five since 2005, owing to the significant reductions in mortality from pneumonia, diarrhoea, neonatal infections and birth asphyxia/trauma, measles and tetanus, according to study published in the latest issue of The Lancet.
India is the world's largest producer of milk, pulses and jute, and ranks as the second largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit and cotton.
Increased production and efficient distribution of food grains can move our country forward to achieve the goal of zero hunger and adequate nutrition for all – There is a need to provide an end-to-end (E2E) ecosystem comprising of “4-I s” namely ‘Irrigation’, ‘Infrastructure’, ‘Investment credit’ and ‘Insurance’. The second is Lab-to-Land (L2L) transfer of technology
Cabinet approves –
Signing and ratification of the Extradition Treaty between India and Lithuania – would provide a legal framework for seeking extradition of terrorists, economic offenders and other criminals from and to Lithuania. It will bring the criminals to justice, with a view to ensure peace and tranquility to public at large.
MoU between India and Switzerland on Technical Cooperation in Rail Sector – The MoU will enable technical cooperation in the following areas:-
Turtle Sanctuary to be set up in Allahabad – To protect the rich aquatic biodiversity of river Ganga from escalating anthropogenic pressures along with –
Gujarat –
States that have reached the milestone of making all cities and towns ‘Open Defecation Free’:
Djibouti and Ethiopia – In Africa (Locate on the map)
Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Scheme – Linked Krishna and Godavari rivers; saved Krishna delta from a drought-like situation arising from water scarcity in river Krishna
Project Monitoring Information System (PMIS) Moblie App will facilitate close, in-house monitoring of NHAI projects on a mobile phone – covering all key progress matrics such as design progress, contracting progress, construction progress, land acquisition, compensation disbursement, toll and traffic information and concession / contract information. PMIS is also enabled with Geographical Information System (GIS), which provides a geographical visualization of all NHAI projects on an India map. This is a unique feature of PMIS, which enables geo-visualization of projects rather than searching through a database.
Embryo Transfer Technology (ETT) – Has revolutionized the breeding strategies in Bovines as a tool to optimize the genetic improvement in cattle.
India – EU Joint Statement during 14th India-EU Summit, New Delhi
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