1st March – Editorials/Opinions Analyses
Contents Explained | Why is COVID-19 not a pandemic yet? NPR 2020 skids Explained: Why snow in Antarctica is turning blood-red EXPLAINED | WHY IS COVID-19 NOT A PANDEMIC YET? Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? On February 26, for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began in China on December 8, […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 1 March 2020
Contents U.S. strikes a deal with Taliban to end 18-year-long Afghan war No NSG waiver for India, says New Zealand Deputy PM All benefits reaching right persons: PM J&K uses 2011 data for delimitation Govt.’s total receipts at Rupees 12.82 lakh cr. in April-January NCBS method to detect virus associated with a rare skin cancer […]
EXPLAINED: WHY SNOW IN ANTARCTICA IS TURNING BLOOD-RED
Focus: GS-III Environment and Ecology Why in news? Snow around Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base, located off the coast of Antarctica’s northernmost peninsula, has started to take on a red tinge, courtesy of an algae that thrives in freezing weather. Because of the red tinge, the snow is often dubbed “watermelon snow”. Why is the snow […]
NPR 2020 SKIDS
Focus: GS-II Governance Why in news? On February 25 2020, the Bihar Assembly passed a unanimous resolution stating that there is no need for a National Register of Citizens in the State and that the implementation of the National Population Register (NPR) would be done strictly according to the 2010 format. What is the National […]
HEALTH OUTCOMES OF DISPLAYING ART IN HOSPITALS
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? Art creates an atmosphere where patients feel safe, socialise, connect with the world outside. A highly cited research report published ago by a group of Danish researches (Nielson et al, “How do patients actually experience and use art in hospitals? The significance of interaction: a user-oriented experimental […]
EXPLAINED | WHY IS COVID-19 NOT A PANDEMIC YET?
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? On February 26, for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began in China on December 8, the number of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) cases reported in a single day was more outside mainland China than within the country. All about the Spread of Corona Virus Coronaviruses are […]
SHANGHAI LAB THAT FIRST SEQUENCED CORONAVIRUS GENOME SHUT DOWN
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? A Shanghai-based lab — Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & School of Public Health — at Fudan University which was the first to sequence the whole genome of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and publicly share the data on January 11 was shut down on January 12 for […]
NCBS METHOD TO DETECT VIRUS ASSOCIATED WITH A RARE SKIN CANCER
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology, Prelims Why in news? A team from National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has developed a diagnostic system to detect the presence of Merkel cell polyomavirus in Merkel cell carcinoma tumours. The researchers have developed a test using the CRISPR-CAS12 technology. This is an important development, both, from the point […]
GOVERNMENT’S TOTAL RECEIPTS AT RUPEES 12.82 LAKH CRORES IN APRIL-JANUARY
Focus: GS-III Indian Economy and Economic Development, Prelims Why in news? The government’s total receipts during the April 2019-January 2020 period of the current fiscal stood at Rupees 12.82 lakh crore, while total expenditure for the same period was Rupees 22.68 lakh crore. Tax revenue stood at Rupees 9,98,037 crore, while non-tax revenue stood at […]
J&K USES 2011 DATA FOR DELIMITATION
Focus: GS-II Governance Why in news? The new Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir ( J&K) will be the only place in the country to undergo a delimitation exercise based on the population figures recorded in the 2011 census. Delimitation was last done in J&K in 1995. The latest readjustment of boundaries of constituencies in […]