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Apr142019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-APRIL 13 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 Jallianwala Bagh shameful act in British-Indian history: British envoy News British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith termed the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, a hundred years ago, “a shameful act in British-Indian history.” Beyond News Asquith was in Amritsar to pay tribute at the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial to mark the centenary of the tragedy. On the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre - when a peaceful gathering was fired upon by British Indian Army soldiers in Amritsar in 1919 - Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said here that an "appropriate expression of apology" was needed for closure. Hindu Notes from General Studies-02 India, ASEAN vow to step up ties in…

Apr132019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-APRIL 12 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 Give info to ECI on each donor, each electoral bond in sealed covers: SC orders political parties News Refusing the government's advice to steer clear of the electoral bonds scheme of political funding, the Supreme Court passed interim directions, directing political parties to provide full information on each and every political donor and contributions made through electoral bonds in sealed cover to the Election Commission of India (ECI). Beyond News The court ordered the political parties to start providing forthwith the Election Commission of India (ECI) with details of each donor, every electoral bond through which contribution was received and the amount received on each bond till date. The parties have been given time…

Apr122019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-APRIL 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 India’s population grew at 1.2 % average annual rate between 2010 and 2019: UN report News India’s population grew at an average annual rate of 1.2 per cent between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36 billion, more than double the annual growth rate of China, according to a report by the United Nations Population Fund. Findings India’s population in 2019 stood at 1.36 billion, growing from 942.2 million in 1994 and 541.5 million in 1969. India’s population grew at average annual rate of 1.2 per cent between 2010 and 2019, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency said in the State of World Population 2019 report. In comparison, China’s population stood at 1.42 billion in 2019,…

Apr122019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-APRIL 10 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 Glaciers shrinking faster than thought News Earth’s glaciers are melting much faster than scientists thought. A new study shows they are losing 369 billion tons of snow and ice each year, more than half of that in North America. Findings The most comprehensive measurement of glaciers worldwide found that thousands of inland masses of snow compressed into ice are shrinking 18 percent faster than an international panel of scientists calculated in 2013. The world’s glaciers are shrinking five times faster now than they were in the 1960s. Their melt is accelerating due to global warming, and adding more water to already rising seas, the study found. The glaciers shrinking fastest are in central…

Apr102019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-APRIL 9 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 Nepal to remeasure Everest News Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said, hoping to quash persistent speculation that the world’s tallest mountain has shrunk. Beyond News Four government surveyors will depart for Everest, which lies on the Himalayan range straddling the border of Nepal and China. Its official height is 8,848 metres (29,029 feet), first recorded by an Indian survey in 1954. Numerous other teams have measured the peak, although the 1954 height remains the widely accepted figure. But a heated debate erupted in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015, with suggestions the powerful tremor had knocked height off…

Apr102019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-APRIL 7 and 8 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 Yellow weather warning for Himachal News The Meteorological Department issued a yellow weather warning for rain in Himachal Pradesh. Beyond News The weather department has forecast thunderstorm with hail in isolated places of mid hills, including Shimla, Mandi, Kullu, Chamba, Solan and Sirmaur. The weather office issues colour-coded warnings to alert people ahead of severe or hazardous weather which has the potential to cause “damage, widespread disruption or danger to life”. Yellow is the least dangerous of the weather warnings. Climate change blights children’s lives in Bangladesh News Environmental disasters linked to climate change are threatening the lives of over 19 million children in Bangladesh, prompting many families to push their daughters into…