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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, […]

Impact of Economic Sanctions on Russia

In News The economic sanctions imposed by the US, UK, and the EU on Russia for going to war against Ukraine could prove to be detrimental to the country.  Economic Sanctions About:  These sanctions can range from export restrictions to trade embargos and seizure of assets. Meaning:  Economic sanctions are penalties or bans that are […]

Iranian Nuclear Deal

In News Recently, talks to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers were mired in uncertainty following Russia’s demands. About  Russia demanded for a U.S. guarantee that the sanctions it faces over the Ukraine conflict will not hurt its trade with Tehran. The fact stated was that the Western sanctions over Ukraine had become […]

Artificial Intelligence and Judiciary

In News Recently, an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha during the first part of the Budget session of Parliament was asked with reference to artificial intelligence and its use in judicial processes to reduce the pendency of cases. Pendency of Cases Law Ministry data: The High Court’s (57.39 lakh cases) and the subordinate courts […]

Indian Express

Indian Express Subject  Pg No  Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 2 1 Global alarm bells after fire as Russia seizes n-plant; India flags safety concern at UNSC (IR) What are the recent developments in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict ?How accidents involving the nuclear facilities may have severe consequences for public health […]

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