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HINDU NOTES-SEPTEMBER 29 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 Indonesia quake-tsunami death toll jumps to 384 News Nearly 400 people were killed in the earthquake and the tsunami it caused barrelling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials said. Beyond News Hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region. The national disaster agency put the official death toll so far at 384, all of them in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned the figure was likely to rise. The tsunami was triggered by a strong quake that brought down buildings and sent locals fleeing for higher ground as a churning wall of water crashed into Palu, where there were widespread power blackouts. Indonesia is one of…

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HINDU NOTES-SEPTEMBER 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 Powerful earthquake rocks Indonesian island; tsunami warning lifted News A powerful earthquake rocked central Sulawesi in Indonesia and authorities have issued a tsunami warning. The warning was later lifted. Beyond News The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.5 quake was centered at a depth of 6 miles (10 kilometres) about 35 miles (56 kilometres) northeast of the town of Donggala. Indonesia’s disaster agency spokesman said a tsunami warning for the island of Sulawesi has been lifted. The same area was hit by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that killed one person, injured 10 and damaged dozens of houses. Hindu Notes from General Studies-02 SC opens Sabarimala temple for women of all ages News The Supreme Court,in a majority…

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HINDU NOTES-SEPTEMBER 27 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 Wetlands vanishing 3 times faster than forests: report. News Wetlands, among the world’s most valuable and biodiverse ecosystems, are disappearing at an alarming speed amid urbanisation and agriculture shifts, conservationists said, calling for urgent action to halt the erosion. Beyond News The convention, adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar nearly a half-century ago, issued its first-ever global report on the state of the world’s wetlands. The 88-page report found that around 35% of wetlands which include lakes, rivers, marshes and peatlands, as well as coastal and marine areas like lagoons, mangroves and coral reefs were lost between 1970 and 2015. Today, wetlands cover more than 12 million square km , the report…

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HINDU NOTES-SEPTEMBER 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 Propping up glaciers to avoid cataclysmic sea level rise News As global warming outpaces efforts to tame it, scientists have proposed building massive underwater structures to prevent an Antarctic glacier the size of Britain from sliding into the sea and lifting the world's oceans by several metres. Beyond News The more modest of two engineering schemes which is still on the scale of a Panama or Suez Canal to shore up Thwaites Glacier would require the construction of Eiffel Tower-sized columns resting on the seabed to support the glacier's ocean-facing edge, or ice shelf. Option Two is a 100-metre tall underwater wall, or berm, running 80-100 kilometers (55-60 miles) beneath the ice shelf…

Sep262018 by adminNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-SEPTEMBER 25 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 Supreme Court asks Parliament to frame laws to bar those accused of crimes from fighting elections News Political parties have to display the criminal record of candidates who contest on their ticket on their official websites, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court directed on September 25, 2018. Beyond News Parties should also issue a declaration on the criminal antecedents of their candidates in a widely circulated publication, said a Bench. To facilitate this transparency by parties, candidates should first give complete information about their criminal past or pending cases to the parties on whose ticket they intend to contest elections, stated the judgment. This is to ensure that the ordinary…

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HINDU NOTES-SEPTEMBER 23 and 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 Kodagu devastation aggravated by human interference: Reports News Two reports paint a clearer picture of the human interferences that aggravated the devastation in Kodagu district in August. Findings While the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has tabulated 105 landslips in human-habited areas, a team from the World Resources Institute (WRI) used satellite imagery to enumerate at least 254 various landslip instances affecting 1,060 hectares (nearly 10.6 sq km) of land. Using imagery from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites (deployed by the European Commission), a Senior Project Associate at WRI India, and Director (Hydrology), WRI, counted the changes in landscapes and the crowns (the area from where soil has slipped) to determine the number and…