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Feb272019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 24 and 25 2019 [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 India-built houses handed over to Sri Lanka estate workers News As many as 155 houses, build as part of India’s ongoing housing project in Sri Lanka, were handed over to estate workers in Hatton, located in the Central Province. The effort is part of India’s pledge to help construct 63,000 houses in Sri Lanka including 46,000 homes built in the war-hit north and east with a grant of $350 million, the largest Indian grant assistance project in any country abroad. Beyond News The houses have come up at a cost of about LKR 10 lakh each (roughly ₹4 lakh). Of the 14,000 houses coming up in the hill country with Indian aid, 1,000 have been…

Feb252019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 23 2019 [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 Pakistan says its not concerned over India’s plan to stop flow of water News Pakistan is not concerned over India’s plan to stop the flow of its share of water to Pakistan from the Ravi, Sutlej and Beas rivers under the Indus Waters Treaty. Beyond News The response came hours after Union Minister said in New Delhi that India has decided to “stop” the flow of its share of water to Pakistan from rivers under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) after the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. According to Pakistan’s Commissioner for Indus Waters Syed Mehr Ali Shah, as the IWT has already given a right to India…

Feb252019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 22 2019 [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 Modi receives Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 News Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 for his contribution to international cooperation and fostering global economic growth. Beyond News The award was presented to him by the Seoul Peace Prize Foundation at a grand ceremony in Seoul. While conferring the award on Mr. Modi, the award committee recognised his contribution to the growth of Indian and global economies, crediting ‘Modinomics’ for reducing social and economic disparity between the rich and the poor. The committee also pointed to his contribution to regional and global peace through a proactive policy with countries around the world. Modi is the 14th recepient of…

Feb212019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 20 2019 [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 2 of Ecuador s 7 glaciers News Ecuador could lose two of its seven glaciers over the next few years, a phenomenon that worries experts because it would alter the paramo ecosystem and its effect on the nation’s water supply and humidity, media reported. Findings The most imminent threat concerns the glaciers of Carihuairazo, in Chimborazo province, and the southern Iliniza, between those of Pichincha and Cotopaxi. Ecuador has seven glaciers: Antisana, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Cayambe, the Ilinizas (north and south), El Altar and Carihuairazo, all located on volcanic craters affected by the greenhouse effect. In the case of Carihuairazo, 96 per cent of the glacier surface has melted, which means…

Feb202019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 19 2019 [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 Aussie mammal the first ‘climate change extinction’ News Australia officially declared a Great Barrier Reef rodent extinct, making it the first mammal believed to have been killed off by human-induced climate change. Beyond News The rat-like Bramble Cay melomys whose only known habitat was a small sandy island in far northern Australia has not been spotted in a decade. Researchers determined a key factor in its disappearance was “almost certainly” repeated ocean inundation of the cay a low-lying island on a coral reef over the last decade, which had resulted in dramatic habitat loss. Australia’s environment ministry said it had officially transferred the animal to the “extinct” list. The researchers completed a wide-ranging survey…

Feb192019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 17 & 18 2019 [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 The Himalayan glaciers are melting away News The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, an intergovernmental organisation focussed on environmental and social change in Hindu Kush Himalaya, findings of a report. It warned that one-third of the glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region could disappear by the end of the century even if the world limits the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C. And if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current levels, the region could lose as much as two-thirds of its ice. Findings Seventy per cent of the earth’s surface is water. Of the remaining 30%, 20% is land and 10% is ice. Most of the ice is in the…