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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…

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HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 23 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 U.S. announces new H1-B visa approval policy,Indian firms to be hit News The United States administration has announced a new policy that makes very tough the procedure of issuing H-1B visas to those to be employed in one or more third-party worksites, a move that will hugely impact Indian IT companies and their employees. Beyond News Under the new policy, a company will have to go an extra length to prove that its H-1B employee at a third-party worksite has specific and non-qualifying speculative assignments in a speciality occupation. Indian IT companies, which are among the major beneficiaries of H-1B visas, has a significant number of its employees deployed at third-party worksites. A…

Feb222018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 22 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 Cycas circinalis: ‘living fossil’ with a deadly twist News A plant species that has outlived the dinosaurs, the Cycas circinalis, a ‘living fossil’ found only in the Western Ghats, faces the threat of extinction due to the over-harvesting of its leaves for commercial purposes. Beyond News While there are nine species of Cycas found across the country, almost all of which are classified as being endangered, the Cycas circinalis, found at altitudes between 1,500 and 1,800 meters, has traditionally been used by tribal communities for a variety of purposes. In the Nilgiris and other parts of the Western Ghats, where the plant is found, the seed is sometimes soaked in water (to remove a strong…

Feb212018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 21 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 History uncovered from underwater cave News: Archaeologists explored the world’s largest underwater cave recently discovered in Mexico, presented findings, including fossils of giant sloths and an elaborate shrine of the Mayan god of commerce. Beyond News Researchers discovered last month that two large networks of underwater caves in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the Sac Actun and Dos Ojos networks, are in fact connected, forming the largest such structure on Earth. Diving with SCUBA gear, they have been exploring the ancient relics left in the caves over the millenia, in a project sponsored by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Researchers believe that the water level in the caves has fluctuated over time,…

Feb202018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 20 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 Ban imposed on new borewells in 67 villages News Srikakulam district administration in Andhra Pradesh imposed a ban on new borewells in 67 villages which come under five mandals of Laveru, Ranasthalam, Etcherla, Pondu and G.Sigadam where groundwater was exploited indiscriminately in the last few years. Beyond News Farmers and others will not be given permission for new borewells with the implementation of ban under the Water, Land and Tree Act-2002. Several major panchayats were affected in Ranasthalam mandal. The ban assumed significance in Pydibhimavaram which is the hub for industries in Srikakulam. Other prominent villages have also come up in red zone where water levels have fallen below 100 feet. Srikakulam Groundwater…