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CURRENT AFFAIRS – 02/06/2023

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At the root of India’s manufacturing challenge Pulapre Balakrishnan is an economist The issue of manufacturing or services as the desirable path for India’s economy makes the rounds in public fora periodically. In the early part of this century, when India’s software exports were booming, it had been asked why India’s services sector should not leapfrog over manufacturing to propel the economy forward. This proposal challenged the standard model of economic development, for, in most successful economies, industrial expansion had come first. The frustration of the Indian economic policy maker can be well understood. The economic reforms of 1991 had…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 01/06/2023

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Biodiversity is us and we are biodiversity Kamal Bawa is President Emeritus of the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) and the Convener of Biodiversity Collaborative The observance of International Biodiversity Day (May 22) was yet another reminder of the pivotal role our natural world plays in resolving the climate change crisis, which, along with the decline of biodiversity, poses an existential threat to our future. Biodiversity, the rich variety of life forms and their interconnections with each other and the environment, is everywhere: inside our bodies as ubiquitous microbiomes, in our backyards, villages, towns,…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 31/05/2023

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Scientist team discovers new exoplanet with mass 13 times that of Jupiter HEMANTH C.S. BENGALURU A new Jupiter-size exoplanet with the highest density known till this date and mass 13 times than that of Jupiter, has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by Prof. Abhijit Chakraborty at the Exoplanet Research Group of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad. An exoplanet is any planet beyond the solar system and the one discovered by scientists from India, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. is with a density of ~14 g/cm3. Massive giant exoplanets are those having mass greater than four…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 30/05/2023

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Faster, stronger India must use its supercomputers beyond weather forecasts Later this year, India will have a new ‘supercomputer’ or, more correctly, an upgraded ‘high performance computing (HPC)’ system that will arguably be its fastest. This system is to be made and installed by the French corporation, Atos — an information technology service and consulting company. The Narendra Modi government signed a deal in December 2018 with France to procure high-performance computers worth ₹4,500 crore by 2025. These HPC systems will run at two institutions, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, and the National Centre for Medium Range Weather…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 29/05/2023

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Shrinking snow cover continues to haunt Himachal Pradesh Tourists arrive at koksar snow point in Lahaul and Spiti.ANI VIKAS VASUDEVA  CHANDIGARH The trend of gradual reduction in snow cover in ecologically fragile Himachal Pradesh continues to haunt the hill State. Also, the mean maximum and minimum average temperature is on the rise in the Himalayan region. In the past decade, Himachal Pradesh has been witnessing an erratic, inconsistent and decreasing trend of snowfall, besides a shift in its pattern and precipitation, triggered by climate change. In the 2022-23 winter period (October-April), there was an overall reduction of about 14.05% in…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 27/05/2023

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Sedition and its roots in rudeness as an offence Shahrukh Alam practises law at the Supreme Court of India On March 30, the Lahore High Court annulled the offence of ‘sedition’ in the Pakistan Penal code. Embarrassingly, around the same time in India, the police registered a series of complaints in Delhi and in Ahmedabad, and also arrested several people, including owners of the printing presses involved, for posting anti-government (and specifically, anti-Modi) posters across town. The detainees were not accused of ‘sedition,’ but were booked for criminal conspiracy to cause public mischief and to deface public property. The printing…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 26/05/2023-

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Bulgarian writer wins International Booker Prize ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for Time Shelter, a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia. The book beat five other finalists to the prize, which recognises fiction from around the world that has been translated into English. Time Shelter imagines a clinic that recreates the past, with each floor reproducing a different decade. Intended as a way to help people with dementia unlock their memories, it soon becomes a magnet for people eager to escape the modern world. Facts about…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 25/05/2023

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New Parliament to house sceptre that symbolised transfer of power in 1947 VIJAITA SINGH NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi will install the Sengol, a sceptre given by the British to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to represent the transfer of power in 1947, in the new Parliament building, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday. The sceptre, kept in a museum in Prayagraj, formerly Allahabad, will be installed near the podium of the Lok Sabha Speaker. “Sengol makes the spirit of August 15, 1947 unforgettable and the Parliament House is the most appropriate and sacred place to install it,”…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 24/05/2023

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India-Australia ties built on trust: Modi Strong bond: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Sydney. Getty Images PRESS TRUST OF INDIA SYDNEY Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the foundation of India-Australia relations lies in mutual trust and respect, as he along with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese addressed the Indian diaspora at a mega event here. During the event, a suburb in Australia — Harris Park — was renamed “Little India”, reflecting the strong bond between the two strategic partners. Mr. Modi also announced that India would open a consulate in Brisbane to fulfil a…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 23/05/2023

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It’s time to ensure safer skies Captain A. (Mohan) Ranganathan is a former airline instructor pilot and aviation safety adviser. He is also a former member of the Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council, India In 1997, a Bangalore-based NGO called the Environment Support Group filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Karnataka High Court. A key concern of the group was that the second runway in Mangalore airport would not be able to meet the standards required while dealing with an emergency, particularly during landings and take-offs. The court dismissed the PIL. In a new PIL in 2002, the…
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