In News Recently, the Indian-origin and country’s former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been elected as the next Prime Minister in the UK.  He is also the UK’s first prime minister of Indian origin.  About the current crisis in UK  Britain is facing a triple whammy of: Slowing growth High inflation triggered by spiralling energy prices […]

In News Recent Lancet Report stated that over 3,30,000 people died in India due to exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel combustion in 2020. Image Courtesy: WHO  Key Findings About:  The Report is named Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels It is the seventh annual global report.  […]

In Context Recently, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog on terror financing and money laundering removed Pakistan from its grey list. Pakistan has been on the FATF grey list continuously since June 2018. About FATF decided by consensus that Pakistan has completed all substantial, technical and procedural requirements of both the 2018 and […]

In News The United States (US) is considering retrieving older HAWK air defence equipment from storage to send to Ukraine. The HAWK interceptor missiles would be an upgrade to the Stinger missile system, which is a smaller, shorter-range air defence system.  HAWK HAWK, short for ‘Homing All the Way Killer’,  It entered service with the […]

In News In Russia’s latest advocacy campaign over its invasion of Ukraine, It has focused on accusations that Ukraine might be planning to use a so-called “Dirty bomb”. What are Dirty Bombs? It is also known as a “Radiological dispersion device”.  It is a weapon that combines conventional explosives like dynamite and radioactive material such […]

In News Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest rocket Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mark 3) has successfully orbited 36 satellites of U.K.-based One Web.  The launch is also the first for LVM3-M2 to place the satellites in the Low Earth Orbit (up to 1,200 km above the earth) unlike Geosynchronous […]

In News Recently, a plant spotted in Palakkad is the second species of the genus Allmania. It is an annual herb that grows to a height of about 60 cm. About Allmania Multiflora Background: The first species, Allmania nodiflora, was originally published under the genus Celosia as Celosia nodiflora in 1753.  Specimens found in Ceylon […]

In News Recently, the Union Railway Minister and Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister signed a ‘definitive agreement’ for handing over 47.5 acres of Railway land in Dadar for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. About the project   Plan to re-build Asia’s largest slum cluster:  This is the fourth time in the last 18 years that the Maharashtra government […]

Context The beginnings of a renewable energy revolution rooted in agriculture is taking shape in India with the first bio-energy plant of a private company in Sangrur district of Punjab having commenced commercial operations recently. It will produce Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) from paddy straw, thus converting agricultural waste into wealth. Problem of Stubble It […]

The Hindu Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 2 1 Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s first non­white Prime Minister   (International Relations) Know about Rishi Sunak. What caused the UK’s economic crisis and what’s next? GS 2 1 Kerala Governor issues notices to two more V­Cs   (Polity and Governance) Know about […]