August'25

Quotes that awaken! Examples for Essay

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Question of the month

• Who all recognise Palestine?
• members of SCO

• Himgiri, u/Nilgiri class → Project-17A
• Malaria vaccines (refer)
• Bio-fortified potatoes
• Sairang railway connectivity (Mizo’s Aizwal) → act east policy
  • Agartala-Akhaura railway project: Tripura to kolkata via bangladesh
  • Kaladan Multi-modal transit transport project, Myanmar
  • Siang (SUMP), Arunachal
• ¹Thoothukudi (TN)- 1st indian port to produce green H & over 1MW rooftop power gen.
• Vizhinjam International Seaport- India’s 1st deep water container trans-shipment port, Kerala
• SC ➡️ restitutionary powers to Pollution Control boards, impose/collect for compensation
• Agnishodh ➡️ joint project b/w Army & IITm - self reliance in defence tech
• Asian giant tortoise, critically endangered, Zeliang Community reserve- Nagaland
• modernise maritime laws: Carriage of goods by sea bill’25, merchant & shipping bill’24
  • Indian Port bill’25 → state maritime boards for non-major ports
• Fishing gear→ major src ➡️ ²microplastic contamination; by MoES
• Darfur → Sudan
• hemophillia-A: inherited, rare bleeding failing to clot
• Philippines→1st export destination of BrahMos; AITIGA’09:ASEAN-Ind trade in goods agreement
• PM eDRIVE - 2028; e-buses, ambulances,trucks
• red corridor-180 disricts (LWE)
• India has 15 species ➡️ cat family; Fishing Cat →vulnerable
• Env Protection(Management of contaminated sites)Rules’25
  • hazardous waste; legal codification u/ capacity building prog for Industrial Pollution management’2010
• immunity against dengue
• virus → EDE like antibodies
• Section-152 BNS: 124(sedition); Kedarnath singh case
• Semiconductor plants (odisha, punjab, Andhra)
• 80% of world COBOLT by DRC ➡️ rechargeable batteries
• 7 sutras for AI adoption in finance sector by RBI
• Jan Vishwas act
• China’s Ejiao kiils 6mn donkeys a year → traditional med; impact on africa
• NAVYA scheme- adolescent girls(16-18y) by MoWCD & Skill dev&Entrepreneurship ministry
  • vocational training
• Boards of multi-state coop➡️ 1 seat-SC/ST; 2 seats-Women reserved
• Dal Lake-1st ever khelo India water games
• Lion-tailed macaques, endangered-IUCN-2020
• ³Govt on Wheels: closed doors review→onsite problems solving (by DelhiGovt)
• CEREBO-non-invasive diagnostic tool, ICMR, brain scan|India-highest head injuries
• 9 satellites of IRNSS→ NAVIC: indianGPS; GLONASS-Russia
• Brihaddeshi- Sanskrit text on Indian claasical music
• Adi Karmayogi app- tribal leaders; Adi Vaani app- tribal lang translate
• Digi Kerala - digital literacy prog, bottom-up, ⬇️digital divide; in all ages(100)
  • National Digital Literacy Mission - uptil 60yr
  • part of KFON- internet for ALL
• ChatGPT Sora recently banned generation of videos featuring ex US presidents
• Quasi Moon-Orbits the sun but appears to travel with a planet
• Grey Rhino Event (Monsoon related extreme weather events)
  • Wayanad landslides were Grey Rhino event
  • Means, highly probable, high impact yet neglected systemic disruption
  • They’re NOT random surprises like BLACK SWAN
• National Policy on Geothermal Energy

Footnotes

1. Salt capital of Tamil Nadu ↩

2. 1 micro to 5 milli meters ↩

3. building culture of solution oriented governance where visible improvements replace paperwork & excuses. ↩