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Indian Express

Indian Express Subject  Pg No  Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 2 3& 15 Hoping for rescue ‘any minute’, Indian students wait in Sumy India’s difficult evacuation challenge in Sumy (IR) Know about India’s evacuation efforts,Challenges for evacuation and what lies ahead ? GS 2 12 Autocrates and oil  (IR)   What will be […]

The Hindu

The Hindu Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 2 1   15,920 evacuated so far, but it’s a long wait for 700 in Sumy (IR) What is ‘Operation Ganga’ ?and its objectives  GS 2 8 In sanctions bite, Nord Stream 2 in the cross hairs (IR) Why did Russia attack Ukraine […]

Boltzmann Medal

In News Recently, Deepak Dhar (Indian physicist) and John J. Hopfield (American physicist) have been chosen for the Boltzmann medal. Boltzmann Medal About: Initiated in 1975 Nobel laureate (1982) K.G. Wilson was the first recipient.  It has been given to one or two persons, once in three years.  The award consists of the gilded Boltzmann […]

No-Fly Zone

In News  Recently ,the President  of Ukraine has urged US President Joe Biden and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) members to impose a “no-fly zone” over “significant parts” of the country to counter the threat from Russian military aircraft.  What is a No-Fly Zone? It is an area established by the military of a […]

Shirui Lily Festival

In News Manipur celebrates four-day fest featuring dance, food, music, traditional games and much fanfare, at its heart, is the beautiful Shirui Lily, a unique species of ground lily that is found only in Manipur.  About the Festival  Discovery: It was English botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward who discovered the three-foot tall, bluish-pink bell-shaped lily in Manipur […]

Karewa Deposits

In Context  Kashmir’s highly fertile alluvial soil deposits called ‘karewas’ are being destroyed in the name of development, much to the peril of local people About Karewa The word Karewa in Kashmiri dialect means, “elevated table-land.”  This term was first used by Godwin-Austin (1859) and later by Lydekker (1878) for an unconsolidated to semi – […]

HANSA-NG

In Context  Recently, HANSA-NG has successfully completed the sea-level trials in Puducherry from February 19 to March 5.  The objectives of sea level trials were to evaluate handling qualities, climb / cruise performance, balked landing, structural performance including positive & negative G, power plant and other systems performance.  All the objectives of the sea level […]

Theyyam: Ritual Art Form of Kerala

In News Kerala Tourism will stream live an annual temple festival, Theyyam,  as part of its efforts to promote cultural tourism. About Theyyam It is a popular ritual form of dance worship in Kerala and Karnataka. It consisted of thousand-year-old traditions, rituals and customs. The people consider Theyyam itself as a channel to a god […]

Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature

In News  Recently, the study, titled ‘Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature?’  produced by the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute  at the University of Gothenburg. About the study  V-Dem produces the largest global dataset on democracy  with over 30 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2021.  Involving over 3,700 scholars and other […]

Retention of Pakistan in FATF’s “Grey List”

In News Recently, Financial Action Task Force (FATF)  has retained Pakistan on its terrorism financing “grey list” and asked to address at the earliest the remaining deficiencies in its financial system. About  Pakistan has been on the grey list of the FATF since June 2018 for failing to check money laundering, leading to terror financing, […]