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May252018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MAY 24 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 EC to launch app to help voters share malpractice proof News The Election Commission will launch a multi-lingual mobile application empowering people across the country to share evidence of malpractice by political parties, their candidates and activists ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, directly with the electoral body. Beyond News Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat told that such an application, called Model Code of Conduct Violation Reporting App, was made available for the first time in Bengaluru in the run-up to the recently concluded Karnataka Assembly polls. The application registered a total of 780 downloads and complaints were received from the users. Accordingly, action was taken by the officials concerned in all…

May232018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MAY 23 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 Graffiti taking its toll on prehistoric rock paintings. News Like many important monuments across India, the prehistoric rock paintings in Telangana’s Jayashankar Bhupalpally district are prey to confessions of undying love and names etched for posterity. Beyond News Increasing defacement, including instances of scraped graffiti and smeared oil paints, are a cause for grave concern at the millennia-old rock paintings of Pandavulagutta, which trace the evolution of human knowledge. Pandavulagutta is home to painted rock shelters dating to 10000 BC-8000 BC, an 8th century inscription of the Rashtrakuta period, and painted frescoes from the 12th century Kakatiya empire. The pre-historic rock paintings resemble those at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh, with flora, fauna and…

May222018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MAY 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 Indonesia's most active volcano rumbles, public ordered to stay News Indonesia's most active volcano, Mount Merapi on densely populated Java island, has shown danger signs with a series of small eruptions, and authorities have ordered villagers living on its slopes to leave and hikers to stay clear. Beyond News A series of eruptions at Mount Merapi in 2010 killed more than 350 people and authorities are taking no chances after plumes of smoke and ash billowed into the sky late. There can be no public activity within a 3 km radius. Hiking is also temporarily prohibited, a spokesman for the national disaster mitigation agency said. The agency raised the alert level a notch.…

May212018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MAY 21 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 India-China ties: Gold mine may become flashpoint News: China has begun large-scale mining operations on its side of the border with Arunachal Pradesh, where gold, silver and other precious minerals valued at about $60 billion have been found, a media report said. Beyond News: The mine project is being undertaken in the Lhunze county adjacent to the Indian border, which is under Chinese control, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post Projecting the mining operations as part of China’s move to take over Arunachal Pradesh, the report said, “people familiar with the project say the mines are part of an ambitious plan by Beijing to reclaim south Tibet.” China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part…

May192018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MAY 19 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 Urbanisation on the rise in India News About 34% of India's population now lives in urban areas, the N. World Urbanization Prospects 2018 reporthas said. Beyond News This is an increase of about three percentage points since the 2011 Census. One way to look at the growth in urbanisation is by studying the size of urban agglomeration, which denotes contiguous territories with an urban population density. The number of megasized urban clusters (above 50 lakh population) has remained almost constant over the years. However, the number of smaller urban clusters has been increasing rapidly. The chart shows the number of urban agglomeration clusters of varying population over the years. Hindu Notes from General Studies-02…

May192018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MAY 18 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 Section 144 in Assam district after clash over building toilet News Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was promulgated in southern Assam’s Hailakandi district after a clash over the construction of a pay-and-use toilet. Nb: Section 144 restricts unlawful assembly of people. Beyond News Trouble started when members of the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) clashed near the toilet’s construction site – a garden outside the government-run district hospital in Hailakandi town, about 310 km south of Guwahati. The toilet was being constructed by the State’s Public Health Engineering (PHE) department. The district hospital was named after former Congress MLA Santosh Kumar Roy. The Congress and the…