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Mnemonics:
Bordering countries with South China Sea:
Trick: " SBI,VP(Vice President) to TMC (Trinamool Congress) "
S-Singapore
B-Brunei
I-Indonesia
V-Vietnam
P-Philippines
T-Taiwan
M-Malaysia
C-China.
🔆Important Bird Sanctuaries In India
✅ Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary - Rajasthan
✅ Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary - Haryana
✅ Salim Ali Bird Sancuary - Goa
✅ Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary - Kerala
✅ Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary - Tamil Nadu
✅ Kaundinya Bird Sanctuary - Andhra Pradesh
✅ Chilika Lake Bird Sanctuary - Orissa
✅ Mayani Bird Sanctuary - Maharashtra
✅ Kutch Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary - Gujarat
✅ Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary - Gujarat
✅ Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary - Uttar Pradesh
✅ Samaspur Bird Sanctuary Raebareli - Uttar Pradesh
✅ Bakhira Bird Sanctuary - Uttar Pradesh
✅ Thattekad Bird Sanctuary - Kerala
✅ Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary - Karnataka
✅ Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary - Andhra Pradesh
✅ Uppalapadu Bird Sanctuary - Andhra Pradesh
✅ Najafgarh Drain Bird Sanctuary - Delhi
✅ Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary - West Bengal
✅ Jawaharlal Nehru Bustard Sanctuary, Solapur - Maharashtra
✅ Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary - Gujarat
✅ Bankapura Peacock Sanctuary - Karnataka
✅ Lengteng Wildlife Sanctuary - Mizoram
✅ Keoladeo National Park - Rajasthan
✅Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary - Tamil Nadu
✅ Okhla Sanctuary - Uttar Pradesh
✅ Samaspur Sanctuary - Uttar Pradesh
✅ Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary - West Bengal.
🔆ZOJI LA
✅ Why in News: Zoji la Pass has been opened for Civilian Traffic over Ladakh from Sonamarg.
✅ Zoji La is a high mountain pass located in the Kargil district of Ladakh.
✅The pass links Leh and Srinagar and provides an important link between the Union Territories of Ladakh and Kashmir.
✅Zoji la is known as the “Mountain Pass of Blizzards”.
✅ It remains closed during winter due to heavy snowfall, cutting off the Ladakh region from Kashmir.
✅The Zoji la tunnel project was launched in 2018.
✅The tunnel is Asia’s longest and most strategic bi-directional tunnel, which will provide all-weather connectivity between Srinagar, Kargil and Leh.
Satpura Range:
The range rises in eastern Gujarat state running east through the border of MH & MP to the east till Chhattisgarh.
Highest peak: Dhupgarh (4,430 ft) Madhya Pradesh.
Rivers: Narmada, Tapti & Mahanadi
It is a Horst mountain flanked by Narmada Graben & Tapi Graben
☑️ Peasant Movements:
[Source: Lucent Gk Book]
Reliance Jio second-strongest telecom brand in world: Report
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❇️ 1 March
🦋 Zero Discrimination Day
शून्य भेदभाव दिवस
Theme23 : “Save lives: Decriminalize”
🌷On Zero Discrimination Day this year, under the theme “Save lives: Decriminalize”, UNAIDS is highlighting how the decriminalisation of key populations and people living with HIV saves lives and helps advance the end of the AIDS pandemic.
🦋The symbol of Zero Discrimination Day is a 'butterfly'.
🌷 Article 15 - Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth
🦋The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
🌷First observed in 2014 by UN.
🟢 NEWS
🔶Seattle Created History Becomes First City In US To Ban Caste Discrimination
🔷BCCI Decides To End Discrimination; Offer Equal Pay To Men & Women Cricketers
🇺🇳 UNITED NATIONS (UN)
▪️Founded - 24 OCT, 1945
▪️HQ - New York, US
▪️S.G - Antonio Guterres (Portugal)
▪️MC - 193.
KOSI RIVER:
✅ The Kosi River is a trans-boundary river, running across important cities in Bihar and Nepal.
✅Its origin is in Tibet.
✅Joins Ganga in Bihar.
✅The Koshi River System includes some rivers that have their sources in the self-governing territory of Tibet in China.
✅These rivers include the Sun, Kosi, the Arun, and the Bhote Kosi.
✅ The Kosi River is famous for being one of the biggest tributaries of the Ganga (or the
Ganges).
✅ It is also known as the “Sorrow of Bihar” as the annual floods.
✅ Its unstable nature has been attributed to the heavy silt it carries during the monsoon season, and flooding in India has extreme effects.
Tributes to India's 1st President, freedom fighter & #BharatRatna🇮🇳 Dr. #RajendraPrasad on his death anniversary.
He served as the president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted 1st constitution of the Republic of India, which lasted from 1948 to 1950.
❇️ 27 February
🤝 World NGO Day:
🧰 World NGO Day aims to inspire people to become more actively involved within NGOs (Charities, NPOs, CSOs) and encourage a greater symbiosis between NGOs and both the public and private sector.
🧰 The celebration was embarked in the UN in 2014, but after then World NGO Day was officially recognised and declared by the 12 member countries of the IX Baltic Sea NGO Forum of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in 2010.
🔶SEEDS, an Indian NGO wins ‘World No Tobacco Day Award 2020’: WHO
🔶Pratham NGO Won Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2021
🔶BRAC ( Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee ) : Best NGO in the world
🇺🇳 UNITED NATIONS (UN)
▪️Founded - 24 OCT, 1945
▪️HQ - New york US
▪️S.G - Antonio Guterres (Portugal)
▪️MC - 193.
Remembering Chandra Shekhar Azad on his Death Anniversary.
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■ Shiwalik Ranges.
◇ Lies between Great plains and Lesser himalayas.
◇ Altitude varies between 600 - 1500m.
◇ Runs for distance of 2400km from Potwar plateau (west) to Brahmaputra valley (east).
◇ Souther slope steep while Northern slope Gentle.
◇ Slopes are highly dissected by seasonal steams called Chaos.
□ FORMATION
Shiwaliks are consolidated sands, gravels, conglomerate deposits which brought by Rivers flowing from Higher ranges.
□ DIFFERENT NAMES
◇ Jammu region - Jammu hills.
◇ Arunachal pradesh - Dafla, miri, abor hills.
◇ UK - Dhang range, Dundwa range.
◇ Nepal - Churia ghat hills.
■ The Lesser Himalayas:
◇ Also called - Lower Himalayas.
◇ Lies between shiwaliks in south and Greater himalayas in North.
◇ 60 - 80km wide.
◇ 2400 km length.
◇ Southern slopes - steep and bare and Northern slopes - Gentle and forest covered.
□ IMPORTANT RANGES
◇ Pir panjal range - J & K.
◇ Dhaola dhar range - HP.
◇ Mussorie range and Nag tibba range - UK.
◇ Mahabharat range - Nepal.
Assam's Moidams soon to be include in UNESCO heritage list
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🔆Nehru Report:
✅ By Motilal Nehru in 1928.
✅ As a challenge to Indians to draft own constitution.
✅ It was a reaction to Simon commission.
✅Jinnah Voted against this report but INC supported it.
The main points of the Nehru report were as follows:
✅India would be given Dominion status. This means independence within the British Commonwealth.
✅India will be a federation which shall have a bicameral legislature at the centre and Ministry would be responsible to the legislature.
✅Governor General of India would be the constitutional head of India and will have the same powers as that of British Crown.
✅There will be no separate electorate.
✅The draft report also defined the citizenship and fundamental rights.
🔆CTBT:
✅The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is the treaty banning all nuclear explosions - everywhere, by everyone.
✅India is not signatory.
✅The United States and China are the only remaining NPT Nuclear Weapon States that have not ratified the CTBT.
✅ It is not necessary for a country to sign CTBT before signing NPT.
🔆United Nations Conference on Trade & Development ( UNCTAD )
✅UNCTAD is a permanent intergovernmental body established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1964
✅Headquarters -Geneva
✅established - 1964
✅ UNCTAD helps developing countries participate more equitably in the global economy
✅It also supports developing countries' efforts to use trade, investment, finance, & technology as vehicles for inclusive and sustainable development.
▪️Functions
✅Comprehend options to address macro-level development challenges
✅Achieve beneficial integration into the international trading system
✅Diversify economies to make them less dependent on commodities
▪️Reports Published UNCTAD
✅The Trade & Development Report
✅World Investment Report
✅The Least Developed Countries Report
✅Economic Development in Africa Report
✅Digital Economy Report
✅Review of Maritime Transport
✅Technology & Innovation Report
✅Commodities & Development Report
✅Inclusive Growth Index
Climate Justice
🧤A group of 16 countries, led by Vanuatu, is seeking an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on “What are the legal consequences for states that have caused significant harm to the climate system and vulnerable states”.
🧤Also, The Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law has also sought the advisory opinion of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on the specific obligations of countries about preventing, controlling, and reducing pollution of the marine environment.
🧤Climate justice is a concept that addresses the just division, fair sharing, and equitable distribution of the burdens of climate change and its mitigation and responsibilities to deal with climate change
🧤Usage: These examples can be used as an effort for Climate Justice esp. for small Island states and vulnerable countries.
Steel and Mines Minister Prafulla Mallik informed the state parliament on Monday that gold mines have been discovered in a number of locations across three districts of Odisha. "The studies of the Directorate of Mines and Geological Survey Of India (GSI) revelation the presence of Gold reserves in three districts namely Deogarh, Keonjhar, and Mayurbhanj.
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Karakattam Dance:
✅Recently, the Prime Minister of India congratulated Karakattam dancer and recent Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar awardee V Durga Devi.
📍About Karakattam Dance:
✅Karakattam is a form of folk dance performed at festivals, conferences, road shows, and primarily at Mariamman festivals.
✅It is one of the many creative traditions that owe their existence to Mariamman, the rain goddess.
✅While the dance form is not dying, it has undergone radical change and adaptation in recent years.
✅Karakattam and agriculture have a link. It is because the Mariamman pooja is held in the month of Medam after Makarakkoythu (harvest season) in Kerala.
✅Karakattam is mostly famous in Tamil Nadu, it’s performed in different parts of Kerala as well.
📍What are the characteristics of Karakattam?
✅Karakattam performances are characterised by a lot of swaying movements and joyous banter.
✅It requires a lot of practice and dedication. Three tiers of flower arrangements of different colours sit on top of a container filled to the brim with either water, rice, or soil.
✅All of this is balanced on the head of a Karakattam dancer while he or she dances.”
✅Other highlights include blowing fire, inserting needles into eyes, and keeping balance while holding a bottle parallel to the ground on the performer’s back.
📊 CENSUS FACT for CGL 2022
•Henry Walter is known as the father of the Indian Census.
• The Census was first started under British Viceroy Lord Mayo in 1872.
• The first synchronous census was taken under British rule on February 17, 1881, by W.C. Plowden, Census Commissioner of India.
• During that time Lord Ripon was Viceroy of India.
• The first census of Independent India was conducted in 1951, which was the seventh census in its continuous series.
• Census 2011 was the 15th National Census of the country since 1872 and the 7th after Independence.
📈 Most Repeated Question
• The year of the Great Divide - 1921
• State with the highest population density – Bihar (1102)
• State with the lowest population density – Arunachal Pradesh (17)
• Union territory with Highest population – New Delhi (11320)
• Union territory with least population – Lakshadweep
• State with the highest population – Uttar Pradesh
• State with the lowest population – Sikkim
• State with the highest sex ratio – Kerala
• State with the lowest sex ratio – Haryana
• State with the highest literacy rate – Kerala
• State with the lowest literacy rate – Bihar
• State largest rural population –
Up> Maharashtra> MP>Punjab
• The most populous tribe - Bhil
• Literacy Rate in India (Category)
• 74.04 % is Overall
• 82.14% for Males
• 65.46% for Females
• 16.68% diffrence between M & F
❇️ 28th February
🧬 National Science Day
Theme23 : “Global Science for Global Wellbeing"
🔮 The first National Science Day was celebrated on February 28, 1987.
🔮 On this day, world renowned scientist CV Raman invented the 'Raman Effect' in 1928. He won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1930 for the historic invention.
🔮 The purpose behind the day is to encourage the youth to develop interest in science & realize its importance.
🟢NEWS
🔶Science Center And Planetarium To Be Constructed In Kota By NCSM
🔶30th National Child Science Congress Organized In Ahmedabad
🔶Union Minister Anurag Thakur Inaugurates Sports Science Center In Karnataka
🔶8th India International Science Festival 2022 To Be Held In Bhopal
🔶First Science Documentary Made In Sanskrit ‘Yanam’ Screened At The 53rd IFFI.
■ Trans - Himalayas:
◇ Lies immediately north of Great himalayan ranges.
◇ also known as Tibetan Himalaya because lies in Tibet.
◇ Average elevation - 3000m.
◇ Average width - 40km in extremities and about 225km in Central part.
◇ Distance of about 1000km in east - west direction.
◇ This contain Tethys sediments. Rocks of this region contain fossil marine sediments but underlain by Tetitiary granite.
◇ The Zaskar, Ladakh, Kailash and Karakoram are main ranges.
◇ K2 lies here.
What is the Pink Bollworm ?
✅The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) recently approved confined field trials for Pink Bollworm-resistant GM cotton in Hisar, Haryana
📍About Pink Bollworm:
✅It is one of the most destructive pests of cotton.
✅Scientific name: Pectinophora gossypiella
📍Distribution:
✅Originally native to India, it is now recorded in nearly all the cotton-growing countries of the world.
📍Description:
✅The adults are small moths about 3/8 inch long and are dark brown with markings on the fore wing.
✅The larval stage is the destructive and identifiable stage.
✅The larvae have distinctive pink bands and can reach a length of ½ inches right before they pupate.
📍Ecological Threat:
✅Pink bollworms are major pests of cotton.
✅Adults only last for 2 weeks, but females will lay 200 or more eggs.
✅Adults lay eggs on cotton bolls; once hatched, the larvae eat the seeds and damage the fibers of the cotton, reducing the yield and quality
✅When the larvae mature, they cut out the boll and drop to the ground and cocoon near the soil surface.
✅It has also been observed to attack hibiscus, okra, and hollyhock plants.
Australian Women's Won T20 World Cup 2023:
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LIST OF ACIDS & THEIR SOURCES
Acetic acid : Vinegar
Citric acid : Citrus fruits
Oleic Acid : Olive Oil
Hydrochloric Acid : Gastric juice
Formic Acid : Bees & Ant
Lactic Acid : Sour milk
Maleic Acid : Apples & Grapes
Uric Acid : Urin
Stearic Acid : Fats
Oxalic Acid : Tomatoes, Spinach
Do You Know ?
Most Grand Slam Single Titles Winners
🚶♀️WOMEN’S 🏃♀️
⚡ Margaret Court : 24
⚡ Serena Williams : 23
⚡ Steffi Graf : 22
🚶♂️MEN’S 🏃♂️
⚡ Rafael Nadal : 22
⚡ Novak Djokovic : 22
⚡ Roger Federer : 20
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