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Feb172019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 16 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 Great Indian hornbills can adapt to modified habitat News Amid a changing environment, with natural homes of birds getting depleted as natural forests make way for plantations and other such modified terrain, comes the good news of how the great Indian hornbill (Buceros bicornis) adapts to such change. A group of researchers observed eight hornbill nests, three located in contiguous forests and five located in modified habitats such as coffee plantations. Findings They found that the birds followed similar nesting behaviour but adapted to the changed environment. The team chose to study the great Indian hornbills nesting in the Anamalai hills. For comparison, the researchers located the study in the modified habitat in…

Feb172019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 15 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 revokes Most Favoured Nation status granted to Pakistan News India announced that it had decided to withdraw the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) statusgranted to Pakistan and would also take all possible steps to isolate the country at the international level after car bomb attack in which at least 37 CRPF men were killed in the Kashmir Valley. Beyond News Minister Arun Jaitley said outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence that the Ministry of External Affairs would announce the diplomatic steps to be taken against Pakistan. A notification would be issued by the Commerce Ministry withdrawing the MFN status. The government would call for an all-party meeting after Home Minister Rajnath Singh returned from…

Feb152019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 14 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 could wipe out Bengal tigers News Sundarbans, the iconic Bengal tiger’s last coastal stronghold and the world’s biggest mangrove forest, could be destroyed by climate change and rising sea levels over the next 50 years, scientists say. Spanning more than 10,000 sq km, the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India is the biggest mangrove forest on Earth, and also the most critical area for the endangered Bengal tiger. Findings Fewer than 4,000 Bengal tigers are alive today. That’s a really low number for the world’s biggest cat, which used to be far more abundant but today is mainly confined to small areas of India and Bangladesh. Most terrifying is that analyses…

Feb142019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 13 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 Rajasthan introduces 5% quota bill for Gujjars, four other communities News The Rajasthan government introduced a bill in the Assembly to give 5% quota in jobs and educational institutes for Gujjars and four other communities. Beyond News The Rajasthan Backward Classes (Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutes in the State and of Appointments and Posts in Services under the State) Amendment Bill, 2019, was presented by Energy Minister . The bill seeks to increase the backward classes’ reservation from the present 21% to 26% with 5% reservation for Gujjars, Banjaras, Gadia Lohars, Raikas and Gadaria The statement on the objective and reasons of the bill says that the five castes are most backward and require…

Feb132019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 12 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 Global warming and climate change are affected air, water, soil, seasons and eventually plant and animal life. News Plants absorb carbon dioxide and give out oxygen during photosynthesis. Some of this carbon is transferred to soil as plants die and decompose. Plants and soil absorb roughly a quarter of the greenhouse gases that humans release into the atmosphere. Findings Recent research has found that under a warming climate they may start absorbing less greenhouse gases. As the climate warms, soils across much of the planet gradually gets drier. When the soil is dry, plants are stressed and cannot absorb as much CO2. Further, microorganisms in the soil are more productive when it’s warm.…

Feb132019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-FEBRUARY 10 & 11 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 Moving continents created new centipede species News Continental drift (the moving apart of continents) almost 100 million years ago created many species of Ethmostigmus centipedes in the world's tropics. In the Indian peninsula, these centipedes first originated in the southern and central Western Ghats, and then spread across the ranges here. Findings India is home to six, fairly large Ethmostigmuscentipedes: four dwell in the Western Ghats, one in the Eastern Ghats and one in north-east India. Africa, south-east Asia and Australia are also home to other species of Ethmostigmus Using genetic data of 398 Ethmostigmus centipedes from published studies, they constructed a species ‘time-tree’ a network that reveals how species are related to each other and when new species…