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HINDU NOTES-MARCH 2 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Antarctica: a lab for climate change News Measurements taken last year by Chilean scientists on Doumer Island in Antarctica’s Palmer Archipelago showed water temperature had risen to 2.5 degrees Celsius, up from its normal range of between 0 and 1.5 degrees. And at a depth of 130 feet, it was still at 2.0 degrees. Beyond News A decade ago, a thick layer of ice covered the Collins Glacier on Antarctica’s King George Island. Now, the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a laboratory for climate change. Observers can now see “rocks that we weren’t seeing five or 10 years ago, and…

Mar12018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MARCH 1 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE High Arctic temperatures break records News Arctic region is seeing record high temperatures, with the North Pole recently registering 30 degrees Celsius above normal for this time of year. Beyond News At the same time, sea ice is covering the smallest area in the dead of winter since records began more than half-a-century ago. A weather phenomenon called a “sudden stratospheric warming” has produced North Pole temperatures at or above freezing. There are no permanent sensors at the North Pole, but weather services in the U.S. and Scandinavian countries reported temperatures peaking on February 25. At the Longyearbyen weather station on the Island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean, temperatures were 10 C…

Mar12018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 28 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Climate change threatens King penguins: study News Climate change is likely to have a devastating impact on King penguins if global warming continues at its present rate, scientists warn. Beyond News The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean and not all of them are suitable to sustain large breeding colonies. Researchers said that,king penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles. The study predicts that, for most colonies, the…

Feb272018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 27 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-02 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE HC: Do not deny cover for genetic defect News In a significant judgment, the Delhi High Court termed “unconstitutional” discrimination in health insurance policies of individuals with genetic disorders. Beyond News Justice said that,a person suffering from a genetic disorder needed medical insurance as much as others. Genetic disorders have been the source of debate in the health insurance sector. China home to 241 million old people: report News China is fast turning into an aging society as the number of people aged 60 and above has reached 241 million, accounting for 17.3 per cent of the total population, according to an officials. Beyond News Since China first became an aging society in…

Feb262018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 26 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake rattles remote Papua New Guinea News A powerful earthquake rattled forest villages and a large gold mine in central Papua New Guinea , and the government sent officers to the region to assess unverified reports of fatalities and check the extent of the damage. Beyond News The magnitude 7.5 quake hit about 89 kilometers (55 miles) southwest of Porgera, the site of a large gold mine that employs more than 2,500 residents. The area also is home to a number of oil and gas operations and coffee plantations. Oil Search Managing Director Peter Botten said the company was closing down some production operations in the region as a precaution. The quake hit…

Feb242018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 24 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Primitive art: Neanderthals were Europe’s first painters News: The world’s oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. Beyond News: A high-tech analysis of cave art at three Spanish sites dates the paintings to at least 64,800 years ago, or 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa. That makes the cave art much older than previously thought and provides the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals had the cognitive capacity to understand symbolic representation, a central pillar of human culture. Some archaeologists already viewed Neanderthals as more sophisticated than their commonplace caricature, the evidence until now has been…