Day: July 2, 2022

Tamil Nadu’s forest man Context: Environmentalist D Saravanan’s efforts have turned over 40 hectares of barren land into a lush, indigenous forest called  Aranya Forests From once being a barren land with just a handful of trees, the forest today is home to more than 700 native plant species. The growth of the forest over …

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GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Environment Conservation Context: MoEFCC has notified Forest (conservation) Rules 2022, under the Forest (conservation) Act, 1980. New Rules says: On monitoring: Constitute an advisory committee, a regional empowered committee and a screening committee at the State/UT Integrated Regional Office: It will examine all the linear projects (e.g. roads, highways, etc) involving …

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GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Effects of liberalisation on the economy (post-1991 changes)   Context: In recent times, India’s optical fibre industry has seen unfair competition from cheap imports from China, Indonesia and South Korea. These countries have been dumping their products in India at rates lower than the market price.   What is dumping? When the goods …

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GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Indian Economy   Context: he government has transformed Banks Board Bureau (BBB) into Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) by making some amendments.   Financial Services Institutions Bureau Aim: It will make recommendations for appointments of full-time directors as well as the non-executive chairman of banks and financial institutions. Issues guidelines to …

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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: India and its neighbourhood-relations, effect of policies and politics of developing and developed countries on India.   Context: The Chinese President said Hong Kong was “in a new stage of transitioning from chaos to order” on a rare visit to the Special Administrative Region (SAR). July 1, 2022, marked the 25th …

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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Bilateral, regional and global grouping.   Context: According to its 12,000-word communiqué, the G7 has issued four other statements as well — on democracy (together with the guest countries), Ukraine, global food security, and the creation of a climate club. Taken together, this summit outcome looks weighty, even impressive. The G7 …

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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Nuclear doctrine of India, various statutory, regulatory and quasi-judicial bodies.   Context: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson said India’s policy on nuclear weapons was a manifestation of its past ideology. He said Indian civilisational ethos was “blessed with the power of assimilation of different streams of ideas and faiths, as …

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