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Term of the 22nd Law Commission extended till August, 2024.
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Important Committees & Commissions:
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CAG GC Murmu selected as external auditor of ILO.
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Trick To Remember:
Tropic of Cancer Passes through eight states.
Trick: " West Me Gujarat Rajasthan, Mujhe Jharkhand Chahiye Tha ".
W- West Bengal
M- Madhya Pradesh
G- Gujarat
R- Rajasthan
M- Mizoram
J- Jharkhand
C- Chattisgarh
T- Tripura...
Mnemonics:
Important facts of 2nd 5-Year Plan (1956 - 61)
Trick: MADRAS
M: Mahalanobis Model
A: Atomic Energy Commission
D: Durgapur steel company, Tata Inst of Fundamental Research
R: Rourkela Steel Company, Rapid Industrialisation
A: Agriculture
S: Socialistic Pattern of Society.
🟢 DEFENCE APPOINTMENTS
1. Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of India
🔹Lt. General Anil Chauhan
2. Chief of the Army Staff
🔹General Manoj Pande
3. Chief of the Air Staff
🔹Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari
4. Chief of the Naval Staff
🔹Admiral R Hari Kumar
5. Vice Chief of Indian Army
🔹Lt Gen Baggavalli Somashekar Raju
6. Director General of ITBP
🔹Anish Dayal Singh
7. Add. Charge of Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal
🔹Anish Dayal Singh
8. Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
🔹Sujoy Lal Thaosen
9. Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army
🔹LG Arvind Walia
10. Vice Chief of Air Force
🔹Air Marshal AP Singh
Tribute to #AbulKalamAzad on his death anniversary
👉His Birthday Observed As #NationalEducationDay
👉He Opposed Creation Of Pakistan
👉Youngest 2 Become INC President At Age Of 35 In 1923
👉1st Minister Of Education Independent India
👉In 1992, Posthumously Awarded #BharatRatna
Trick To Remember (ASEAN Countries):
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Places In News: Israel
Located in Middle East/ West Asia.
Opens out to Mediterranean Sea in west, the Gulf of Aqaba and Red sea in the South.
Sea of Galilee is a lake in Israel.
Bordered by Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria.
[ Remember as Israel - Jels ]
Important places Occupied: Golan Heights, Gaza strip, west bank.
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Golan Heights already asked in Prelims. Located here.
Golan Heights is in Syria. However, the western two-thirds of this region are currently occupied by Israel, whereas the eastern third is controlled by Syria.
❇️ 20 February
⚖ World Day of Social Justice.
Theme23 : “Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Opportunities for Social Justice”
🔹Dikephobia - Fear of Justice
🔶Social Justice is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.
🔶The United Nations' (UN) World Day of Social Justice is annually observed to encourage people to look at how social justice affects poverty eradication. It also focuses on the goal of achieving full employment and support for social integration.
🔷Justice Dipankar Dutta Takes Oath As Judge Of Supreme Court
🔶Justice DY Chandrachud To Take Oath As 50th Chief Justice Of India
🔷Justice N Kotiswar Singh Made Chief Justice Of High Court Of J&K And Ladakh
🔶Ministry Of Social Justice Launches SMILE-75 Initiative
🔷 MoSJ&E Launches An E-Study Platform “TAPAS”
Note: 20 February - World Pangolin Day.
Best wishes to the people of Arunachal Pradesh on their Statehood Day.👆
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Marine National Parks of India:
✅Gulf of Kutch Marine National Park:
✅ It is the first national marine park of India.
✅ Famous for Coral reeves and Octopus. Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park
✅ Also called wandoor national park
✅national park of India on the Andaman Islands.
✅Famous for coral reefs.
✅Dugong a Sea mammal is found here.
✅Dugong is also called Sea Cow.
✅Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park.
✅ Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park consists of 21 small islands and coral reefs in the Gulf of Mannar in the Indian Ocean of Tamil Nadu.
✅ Dugong (Sea Cow), a vulnerable marine mammal is also found here.
Article 16 : Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of
Trick: DR RR BSC
✅D: Descent
✅ R: Residence
✅R : Race.
✅R : Religion.
✅B : Place of birth.
✅S : Sex.
✅C : Caste.
Under clause (2) of Article 16 of the Indian Constitution, the words – “descent” and “residence” were added, thereby guaranteeing that no discrimination can be made on these grounds.
■ Greater Himalayas:
◇ Aka - Inner himalayas, Central himalayas, Himadri.
◇ Main central thrust seperates the Greater Himalayas from Lesser Himalayas.
◇ Almost all lofty peaks of Himalayas like Mt. Everest, Kanchanjunga, Nanga - parbat, Dhaulagiri etc lies here.
◇ Being lofty they have little Forest are here.
◇ Physical weathering pronounced, Erosion less effective.
□ REGIONAL NAMES OF MT. EVEREST
◇ Sagarmatha - Nepal.
◇ Chomolungma - China (Tibet).
Mnemonics:
Schedules of Indian Constitution
Trick: " TEARS OF OLD PM "
T: Territories
E: Emoluments
A: Affirmation
R: Rajya Sabha (allocation of seats)
S: Scheduled area
O: Other area
F: Federal structure
O: Official language
L: Land reform
D: Anti-Defection
P: Panchayat
M: Municipality
Water bodies in Asia:
Important water bodies are:
West to East: Red sea, Dead sea, Lake Van, Lake Urmia, Persian gulf, Caspian sea, Aral sea, Lake Balkhash, Lake Baikal etc.
▪️Red sea:
✅Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti.
✅Connected by Suez canal to Mediterranean sea.
✅ It is formed because of Rifting in Arabian peninsula.
✅ Important trade route. High piracy.
✅Strait of Bab Al Mandab connects it with Gulf of Gulf of Aden
▪️Dead sea:
✅ Bordered by Jordan and Israel.
✅ It is a land locked salt lake.
▪️Lake Van:
✅ Lies in Turkey
✅ Most saline water Body in Asia.
▪️ Lake Urmia:
✅ In Iran.
✅A Ramsar site.
▪️ Persian gulf:
✅ Bordered byIran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
✅ Persian gulf and its coastal areas are World’s largest single source of Petroleum.
✅ Strait of Hormuz connects it with Gulf of Oman.
▪️ Caspian sea:
✅ Bordered by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan.
✅ Known for its Mineral wealth.
▪️ Aral sea:
✅ It is Bordered by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Afghanistan and Iran.
✅Formerly it was the fourth largest lake in world and now reduced to 1/10th of its size.
▪️Lake Baikal:
✅ It lies in Russia.
✅ It is a Rift lake.
✅ World’s largest Freshwater lake by volume.
Do You Know ?
The Andes, the world’s longest mountain range, situated in the South American continent.
The longest mountain range in the world connects seven countries. This includes Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, & Venezuela. Its total length is 7,000 km.
Australia to host Malabar naval exercise for 1st time this August
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Rhododendrons
✅As per the recent Botanical Survey of India (BSI) publication; Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalayas are home to more than one-third of all types of rhododendrons found in India
About Rhododendrons:
✅Name: Rhododendron meaning rose tree in Greek
✅Ecological Significance: It is considered an indicator species for climate change
✅Nature: Evergreen to Deciduous in nature (can be in form of dwarf shrubs to large trees)
✅Threats: Rampant construction
✅Habitat: Cold, moist deep valleys of the eastern Himalayas
State tree of Uttarakhand and the state flower of Nagaland
It’s blooming in the Garhwal Himalayas and is celebrated as ‘Phool Sankranti’, a festival of flowers.
✅It is native to many regions of the world, including Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia
Haryana To Host Northern India’s First Nuclear Power Plant
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Trick To Remember:
Kings of Ancient India who practiced Buddhism.
Trick: " BAPU KA HATH "
B – Bimbisara
A – Ashoka
P – Prasanjeet
U – Udaysen
KA – Kanishka
HATH – Harshavardhana.
International Mother Language Day
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World Pangolin Day:
Every year on the third of February, World Pangolin Day is honored. This year's date is February 18. It is a gesture, like any other international day, to remind the public of the need of bringing this endangered species back from the brink of extinction.
📰 PM Modi in News 📰
💌 PM Modi inaugurated national 15th edition of Aadi Mahotsa in New Delhi.
💌 PM Modi inaugurated the 14th edition of the Aero India show in Bengaluru, Karnataka
💌 PM Modi inaugurated the first phase of the 1,400 kilometres long Delhi-Mumbai expressway in Rajasthan’s Dausa.
💌 PM Modi inaugurated first phase of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway.
💌 PM Modi inaugurated Dayanand Saraswati’s 200th birth anniversary event in New Delhi.
Prime Minister of Inida has paid homage to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on his Jayanti.
✅About Chhatrapati Shivaji:
The founder of the Maratha Kingdom, Shivaji was born to be a natural leader and fighter on 19th February, 1630 in the prestigious Shivneri Fort.
✅He was known as the Father of Indian Navy, Shivaji was the first to realise the importance of having a naval force, and therefore he strategically established a navy and forts at the coastline to defend the Konkan side of Maharashtra.
✅The secular ruler was very accommodating of all religions. He had numerous Muslim soldiers in his army.
✅Shivaji was a dependable supporter of women and their honour. Anyone under his rule caught violating woman's rights was severely punished.
✅He had a council of ministers (Asht Pradhan) to advise him on the matters of the state but he was not bound by it.
✅He was called as the 'Mountain Rat' and was widely known for his guerrilla warfare tactics. He was called so because of his awareness in geography of his land, and guerrilla tactics like raiding, ambushing and surprise attacks on his enemies.
🔆Indian Pangolin
✅ International non-profit organization TRAFFIC recently reported that 1,203 pangolins had been found in illegal wildlife trade in India from 2018 to 2022.
✅ The Indian pangolin, also called thick-tailed pangolin and scaly anteater is native to the Indian subcontinent.
✅ It is one of the eight species of pangolins found.
✅ They are one of the most trafficked mammals in the world, despite an international ban on their trade.
✅ Scientific name: Manis crassicaudata
✅ Distribution: It lives in India (south of the Himalayas), Bangladesh, Southern Nepal, Sri Lanka, and small parts of Pakistan.
✅ Habitat: It occurs in tropical forests, open land, grasslands, and degraded habitat, including in close proximity to villages.
🔆Features
✅ Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body, which act as armor.
✅ The Indian pangolin’s armor is amongst the most effective in the mammalian world. It has about 13 rows of moveable sharp scales covering its body, which are shed periodically.
✅ The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.
✅ It can also curl itself into a ball as self-defense against predators.
✅ It is an insectivore feeding on ants and termites.
✅ It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day.
✅ Conservation status:
IUCN Red List: Endangered
✅ Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: Schedule I
✅ CITES: Appendix I
Recent Awards:
Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award - Journalist A.B.K. Prasad
Golden Book Awards 2023 - Rakhi Kapoor (For – Now You Breathe)
Hurun India award 2023 - VP Nandakumar (MD & CEO of Manappuram Finance Ltd
Mathrubhumi Book of The Year’ award 2023 - Peggy Mohan
Lifetime Achievement Honour in UK - Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh
FIH President’s Award 2023 - V Karthikeyan Pandian (Odisha)..