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HINDU NOTES-MARCH 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 Excavations in Kutch shed light on early Harappan custom News Archaeological excavations undertaken by a group of researchers in Kutch (Gujarat) have shed light on the custom and burial rituals that were prevalent during the early Harappan phase. Beyond News The 47-member team, which camped in Khatiya village of Kutch for a month-and-a-half, unearthed several skeletal remains from a cemetery-like burial site where 26 graves out of the nearly 300-odd ones were excavated. The rectangular graves, each of varying dimensions and assembled using stones, contained skeletons that were placed in a specific manner. They were oriented east-west with the heads positioned on the eastern side. Next to the legs on the western side,…

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HINDU NOTES-MARCH 9 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 ‘reviewing’ Pakistan request for opening an air route News India is "reviewing" Pakistan's request to open an air route from Mumbai to Karachi and northwards for flights towards Europe. Beyond News It has been more than ten days since Pakistan shut its airspace for civilian flights following military tensions. It is reliably learnt that following international pressure Pakistan also sought permission to open another east-bound route from Karachi, to enter India near Ahmedabad, via Muscat (for flights towards South East Asia and beyond). India, however, rejected this proposal as there was no reciprocal permission for traffic exiting the country in the opposite direction. Pakistan says it attempted to open one eastbound and…

Mar92019 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-MARCH 7 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 Women rights activists release list of demands News Women rights activists released a manifesto and appealed to political parties to endorse it as well as ensure that at least 33% of party tickets are given to women during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Beyond News Their 44-point list of demands include free sanitary napkins, free treatment for survivors of sexual assault and acid attack, criminalisation of marital rape, land deed in the joint names of wife and husband. The activists also urged the Election Commission to bring electoral reforms to encourage participation of women in politics. They have made at least four representations to the EC in the past five years. They also…

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HINDU NOTES-MARCH 6 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 Warming imperils stratocumulus clouds News Marine clouds that protect us from hothouse Earth conditions by reflecting sunlight back into space could break up and vanish if CO2 in the atmosphere triples, researchers warned. Findings So-called stratocumulus clouds cover about 20 percent of subtropical oceans, mostly near western seaboards such as the coasts of California, Mexico and Peru. When they disappear, Earth warms dramatically, by about eight degrees Celsius in addition to the global warming that comes from enhanced greenhouse concentrations alone. A temperature increase of that magnitude would melt polar ice and lift sea levels tens of metres. The last time the planet was that hot, some 50 million years ago during the…

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HINDU NOTES-MARCH 5 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 Fifteen of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India News Fifteen of the top 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in India, according to an analysis of air quality in several cities around the world. Findings Gurugram, in Haryana,topped the list with an average annual particulate matter (PM 2.5) quality of 135 g/m3 (micrograms/cubic metre), in 2018. Delhi a frequent fixture on global pollution hotspots was only the 11th most noxious city behind Lahore, Pakistan (10th) and Hotan, China (8th). The other cities in India that made the list of 20 were Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Bhiwadi, Noida, Patna, Lucknow, Jodhpur, Muzaffarpur, Varanasi, Moradabad, Agra, Gaya and Jind. When…

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HINDU NOTES-MARCH 3 and 4 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 Achieving Paris climate target could add billions in fisheries revenue News Achieving the Paris Agreement global warming target could protect millions of tonnes in worldwide fisheries catch, as well as billions of dollars of annual revenues. Findings The study, compared the ecosystem and economic impacts of the Paris Agreement warming scenario of 1.5 degrees Celsius to the current “business as usual” 3.5 degrees Celsius warming scenario. The researchers concluded that achieving the Paris Agreement would result in benefits for 75% of maritime countries, with the largest gains being made in developing countries. Achieving the Agreement’s target could increase global fishers’ revenues by USD 4.6 billion annually, seafood workers’ income by USD 3.7 billion,…