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UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE COP28

The Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host the 28th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 28) starting from 30 November. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the group of nations that have signed the UN Fr…

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Guidelines to take down ‘fake news’

Context: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology recently amended the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The amendment empowers the Union Government to design…

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U.P. Halal certificate ban

Context: Recently, the Uttar Pradesh Government’s Food Security and Drug Administration banned the “manufacture, sale, storage and distribution of halal­certified products with immediate effect”. Halal, an Arabic term, means ‘perm…

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Rat­hole mining

Context: Two scientific methods of mining vertical drilling and auger or horizontal drilling were employed to rescue 41 workers on November 28 after 17 days of being trapped in the partially­collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhan…

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RISING PULSES PRICES

Recently, Prices of commonly used dals are soaring to all time highs. CURRENT STATUS OF PULSES IN INDIA: Consumers in India use a whole variety of pulses, including tur (pigeon pea), masoor (lentils), chana (gram), urad (black gra…

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Unseasonal rains and lightning strikes in Gujarat

Context: Unseasonal and sudden heavy rainfall, accompanied by thunderstorms, hailstorms and lightning strikes, have so far claimed 27 lives in Gujarat on November 26. What explains the unseasonal rainfall in November? The India Me…

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Parthenon Sculptures

Context: A diplomatic row sparked between Greece and the UK on Monday after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the status of the Parthenon Sculptures housed a…

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GPS Spoofing: Working, Risks and Countermeasures

GPS spoofing transmits deceptive navigation signals so that a receiver calculates a false position or time. It can disrupt aviation, shipping, telecommunications, financial systems and military operations, making resilient positio…

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KAMBALA

WHY IN NEWS: Recently Bengaluru hold its first Kambala race, with 159 pairs of buffaloes and their jockeys racing through the specially made slush tracks in the city’s Palace Grounds. It is a folk sport practised in coastal Karnat…

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FIBRE OPTIC CABLES

Optical fibres are made of thin cylindrical strands of glass. The diameter of a typical fibre is close to the diameter of a human hair. These fibres can carry information, such as text, images, videos, telephone calls, and anythin…

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Village Defence Committees

Why in news: With heightened terror activity in Jammu, the CRPF is reviving Village Defence Committees that were disbanded in the early 2000s. The committees had been disbanded in the early 2000s amid allegations of crimes, includ…

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Fitch downgrades US rating

Context: Global credit rating agency Fitch has downgraded US Sovereign rating from AAA to AA+ citing expected fiscal deterioration over next three years. Standard and Poor had downgraded US sovereign credit rating to AA+ in 2011.…

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Ahom burial sites

Why in news: The Centre has decided to nominate Assam’s Charaideo Maidams — the Ahom equivalent of the ancient Egyptian pyramids — for the UNESCO World Heritage Site status this year. There is currently no World Heritage Site in t…

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Erra Matti Dibbalu

These are basically coastal red sand dunes. They are minimum 18,500 to 20,000 years old and they can be related to the last glacial period. With the height of up to 30m, they exhibit badland topography with different geomorphic la…

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Sickle cell breakthrough

Both sickle cell disease and thalassaemia are caused by errors in the gene for haemoglobin, a protein in the red blood cells that carry oxygen to organs and tissues. The therapy uses the patient’s own blood stem cells, which are p…

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COP 28: India’s equity demand

Context: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC AR6), every 1,000 billion tonnes of CO2 in emissions causes an estimated 0.45 degrees Celsius rise in the global surface temperatu…

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