IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 18 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 18 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE World's first female spacewalking team makes history News The world’s first female spacewalking team made history high above Earth, floating out of the International Space Station to fix a broken part of the power network. World’s first female spacewalking team As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir emerged one by one, it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that a woman floated out without a male crewmate. Meir, making her spacewalking debut, became the 228th person in the world to conduct a spacewalk and the 15th woman. It was the fourth spacewalk for Koch, who is seven months into an 11-month mission that will be the longest ever by a woman. IASTODAY DAILY…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 17 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 17 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Global Hunger Index 2019: India ranked lower than Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh News India is ranked 102 of 117 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2019, behind its neighbours Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Global Hunger Index Seventeen countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Cuba and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI scores of less than five. In 2018, it was ranked 103 out of 119 countries. In 2000, the country was ranked 83 out of 113 countries. Now, with 117 countries in the fray, it has dropped to 102. It’s GHI score has also decelerated from 38.9 in 2005 to 32 in 2010 and then from 32 to 30.3 between 2010 and 2019. The GHI score is calculated…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 16 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 16 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Malnutrition behind 69% deaths among children below 5 in India: UNICEF report News Malnutrition caused 69% of deaths of children below the age of five in India, according to a UNICEF report released. Malnutrition The State of the World’s Children 2019, UNICEF said that every second child in that age group is affected by some form of malnutrition. This includes stunting (35%), wasting (17%) and overweight (%). Only 42% of children (in the age group of 6 to 23 months) are fed at adequate frequency and 21% get adequately diverse diet. Timely complementary feeding is initiated for only 53% of infants aged 6-8 months. Women at a higher risk About Indian women’s health, it said every second…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 15 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 15 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Farmers continue to burn stubble despite ban News Burning stubble, the rice chaff left over after harvesting, is linked to winter air-pollution in Punjab as well as down-wind Delhi. Air-pollution In 2013, the National Green Tribunal issued a directive to Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh asking them to ban such stubble burning. The Centre has spent about ₹600 crore in subsidising farm equipment via village cooperatives to enable farmers to access them and avoid stubble burning. In 2018, Punjab had disbursed about 8,000 farm implements to individual farmers and set up 4,795 custom hiring centres, from where such machinery could be leased. The cost of hiring these machines was about ₹5,000 an acre. The success of these efforts has been…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 13 & 14 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 13 & 14 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-02 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Pre-school children should learn in mother tongue: NCERT curriculum News Children between the ages of three and six years should begin their educational journey in their own mother tongues, learn through play and not be subjected to tests of any kind, says the NCERT's first-ever preschool curriculum. Mother tongues Teaching through a child's mother tongue or home language is internationally recognised as most appropriate in the early years, the NCERT guidelines also acknowledge the challenge of language diversity in India. In case there are more than one language as mother tongue, teachers may allow as many languages as are in the classroom to be used for expression with gradually exposing the child to school language.Children need a…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 12 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -OCTOBER 12 2019 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-02 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Tamil Nadu, Fujian Province to establish 'sister-state relations' News India and China decided to establish “sister-state relations” between Tamil Nadu and Fujian Province. Sister-state relations This followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi coming up with a number of ideas on the connect between the Indian State and the Chinese Province during his discussion with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the second India-China “informal summit,” now called “Chennai Connect.” The two leaders also agreed to explore the possibility of establishing an academy to study links between Mamallapuram and the Fujian Province on the lines of the experience between Ajanta and Dunhuang, besides conducting research on maritime links. U.S., China inch closer to trade deal News S. President Donald Trump outlined the…
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