Environment
QUESTIONS: 09/11/2013 In layman’s terms differentiate between El Nino and El Nino Modoki? (100 Words) Differentiate between Bio-accumulation, Bio-concentration and Bio-magnification with examples. (150 Words) “Marine pollution is multi dimensional”. Comment on the efforts of government to tackle the problem. (200 Words) ARCHIVES REFERENCES Question 1 Link 1 Link 2 Question 2 Link
QUESTIONS: 07/11/2013 Why Bedaquiline was in news recently? (100 Words) Discuss the role of silver Nanoparticles in water purification? (100 Words) What is the New National Antibiotic Policy? How far this policy will curb the menace of increasing antibiotic resistance? (150 Words) What is Bio-terrorism? Explain with examples (150 Words) ARCHIVES REFERENCES Question 1 Link …
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QUESTIONS: 05/11/2013 What is Minamata Convention? Discuss on the backdrop of the related disaster.(150 Words) What is the difference between TFR and NFR? (100 Words) What is Cable TV Digitization? Discuss its implications on consumers, industry and Government. (150 Words) ARCHIVES REFERENCES Question 1 Link 1 Link 2 Question 2 Link Question 3 Link
QUESTIONS: 02/11/2013 Short answer type (50 Words) Salinity ingress He La cells CD-4 cells CCI- Satellite Grey Field project Li-Fi 3D printing Cherenkov Telescope Array Genome Editing NEEMO Write about the following in 20 words Tokkamak GSLV-mk-III JENVEC Upsalite Truvada treatment 2 ARCHIVES
QUESTIONS: 30/10/2013 (Topics – S&T in India, Space) Discuss the salient features of New Science, Technology and Innovation policy, 2013? (250 Words) Describe the achievements of ISRO in the last few years. What are the challenges for India in Space research technology?(250 Words) 100 words What are designer babies? Describe the various issues associated with …
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QUESTIONS: 29/10/2013 (Topics – Biotechnology; Climate Change; IPR; R&D) “The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill, 2013, if passed, will adversely affect agriculture, health of humans and animals, and the environment, causing unparalleled harm”. Critically examine. (200 Words) “Too many international conventions and agreements on climate change have perplexed and disappointed the world”. Comment. (200 World) “India …
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QUESTIONS:26/10/2013 (Biodiversity and Environment) What are the specific provisions contained in the environment related international instruments regarding Transfer of Technology? Discuss the tussle between developed and developing nations for TOT. (250 Words) “The lack of scientific certainty should not be a reason to postpone cost effective measures to prevent climate change”. Critically comment. (200 Words) …
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QUESTIONS:25/10/2013 Discuss the critical aspects of National Telecom Policy-2012?(250 words) Critically evaluate the nuclear programme of India?(250 words) Comment on the significance of LHC experiments.(100 words) “Gene Therapy offers wide range of prospects for humans”. Comment.(100 words) By – Tauseef Ahmad ARCHIVES REFERENCES Question 1 Link Question 2 Link Link 2 Question 3 Link Question …
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QUESTIONS:23/10/2013 (Topics – Space; Biotechnology) “The dark energy and dark matter has proved to be elusive for physicist around the world”. Comment. (200 Words) Highlight the issues associated with the increased patenting in the biological domain especially in the light of recent controversies and verdicts? Do you think patenting biological forms is desirable? Substantiate. (250 …
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QUESTIONS: 22/10/2013 (Topics: Nanotechnology, Environment) “The core of nanotechnology lies in its interdisciplinary nature”. Comment (250 Words) “There is an urgent need to adopt technologies for gainful utilization and safe management of fly ash.” Discuss. (250 Words) By – Tauseef Ahmad ARCHIVES REFERENCES Question 1 New Scientist Question 2 Fly ash is eco-friendly_ scientists – …
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QUESTIONS: 21/10/2103 (Topics – Biotechnology; Environment) The government’s nod for shale gas extraction is in violation of India’s effort to abide by the international and national environmental laws? Critically analyse. (250 Words) “ Promoter cannot be regulator”. Discuss on the validity of the statement based on the Pesticides Management and Regulations in India? Suggest improvements …
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From tomorrow we will start a new section on Science and technology, Environment and Biodiversity. In recent years the importance of these topics has increased substantially in both prelims and mains. For many aspirants these topics are like black hole. One can not expect from where questions might come. So, to be prepared, one must …
QUESTIONS: DAY 69 (GENERAL STUDIES PAPER IV, Topics: issues relating to intellectual property rights; environmental pollution and degradation – current events als0) To date, India has issued compulsory licenses or revoked patents for eight advanced pharmaceuticals. Do you think these measures will affect investors and undermine research into the innovative cures of tomorrow? Critically comment. (250 Words) IPCC’s …
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UPSC Civil Services Mains syllabus actually has less topics on Environment. One should not study a whole book on environment for Mains (I recently mentioned a book on Facebook, but that is for Prelims). Fortunately, topics are clearly mentioned in the syllabus. They are: Conservation Environmental Pollution and Degradation Environmental Impact Assessment Disaster and Disaster …
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Guest Article – V.Paulraj (Aspirant) Some Info Regarding the Nuclear Plant / Power production options. You may be aware of the following statistics: Japan which always lacked natural resources imports almost 95% percent of the energy needs.(Petroleum products/ Coal etc) US and China produce almost 70 % of their energy needs. India imports almost 70% …
(From PIB) Manish Desai* UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee inscribed the Western Ghats of India as a world heritage site on July 1. The tag came at the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) in St Petersburg in Russia. Altogether 39 sites that dot the Western Ghats landscape will be part of the region that …
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NAGOYA PROTOCOL A Backgrounder on ICNP – 2 The Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ICNP-2) is being held in New Delhi from 2-6 July, 2012. The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is a new international treaty adopted under the auspices of the Convention …
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Carbon tax is a fixed fee that domestic emitters must pay to the government on every tonne of CO2 they release into the atmosphere. This measure is resorted to discourage people and industries from using fossil fuels and decrease GHG emission. This will encourage people to switch on to cleaner forms of energy.
THE RIO DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (1992) Preamble The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Having met at Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992, Reaffirming the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, adopted at Stockholm on 16 June 1972, and seeking to build upon it, With …
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