Content for Mains Enrichment: Source: IE Context: Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sentenced to six months in jail by a Bangladesh court for violating labour laws. Why is Yunus facing judicial cases? Yunus faces charges, including corruption and fund embezzlement. The court found his company, Grameen Telecom, guilty of labour law violations. …
Context: The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and the other half to Giorgio Parisi. The Nobel Prize Committee said the Physics Prize this year was given for “ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems”. This is the first-time climate scientists …
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GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology. Context: U.S. scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. They will …
