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GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Context: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has emerged from its first “solar conjunction” blackout and gotten back to work on the Red Planet. Background: The car-sized Perseverance and other Mars spacecraft had to stand down for about two weeks recently when the Red Planet slipped behind the …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. Context: Environmental think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water has carried a first-of-its-kind district-level climate vulnerability assessment, or Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI). Under this, it has analysed 640 districts in India to assess their vulnerability to extreme weather events such as cyclones, floods, heatwaves, droughts, etc. …
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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important international institutions and groupings. Context: 2021 G20 Summit was held in Rome, Italy. Objectives of the summit: The Group of 20 countries, which represent more than three-quarters of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, had been looking for common ground and solid commitments on how to reduce emissions while …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Issues related to health. Context: Dengue cases in Punjab have reached 16,129 — an all-time high figure since 2016. When do cases peak? The disease has a seasonal pattern, i.e., the peak comes after monsoon and it is not uniformly distributed throughout the year. Every year, from July to …
GS Paper 1: Topics Covered: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. Context: Punjab Police has recently proposed that the birth anniversary (Gurpurab) of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev be declared as ‘World Pedestrian Day’. A written proposal in this regard may be …
