• UN biodiversity conference at CANADA. Parties agreed for 30 by 30 target. It is a commitment to protect 30% of land and water considered important for biodiversity by 2030, known as 30 by 30. Currently only Currently, 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas are protected. 2) The deal also calls for raising $200 billion by 2030 for biodiversity and reform subsidies that could provide another $500 billion for nature.
  • 👩🏻‍💼 Interview Q: GUJARAT HAS the “world’s first Nano Urea plant”, but farmers in the state have been hesitant to adopt the new product, even though liquid nano urea is cheaper and more efficient than powder/solid urea. What will u do as the secretary (IAS) of the agriculture department to improve the adoption?
  • Polity: Delimitation on population basis unfair to southern states because they’ve controlled population so their number of seats re not increasing: Says DMK MP
  • CONTROVERSY around actors Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s song from ‘Pathaan’ movie for obscenity and hurting religious sentiments.
  • DMK member M Kanimozhi pointed out that many aspirants could not take government recruitment examinations (such as UPSC, SSC and banking exams for more than two years due to the pandemic. “A year of preparation costs nearly Rs 3 lakh for a student… students from tier-II and tier-III towns and villages prepare for these examinations… Such students have to be given a chance and that is a fair thing to do. I urge the government to explore the possibility of providing one more chance to these candidates and increase the age limit,” the MP said.
  • Green steel is manufactured using low-carbon energy sources such as hydrogen, coal gasification and electricity instead the widely used coking coal. Government thinking of making “green steel” compulsory in government projects. India has now become the second largest steel producer in the world.
  • PIN: Sports- original World Cup trophy was called the Jules Rimet Trophy, in honour of the former FIFA president. 1983, the trophy was stolen from Brazilian Football HQ. So now winners only given replica.
  • World history: More than 600,000 African men, women and children were shipped, mostly to the former colony of Suriname, by Dutch slave traders. 2022- DUTCH PRIME Minister Mark Rutte apologised Monday on behalf of his government for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery and the slave trade. Netherland government to establish a 200million-euro ($212 million) fund for education and welfare activities in former colony.
  • ELON MUSK asked Twitter users if he should resign as Twitter CEO. 57% voted in favour of removing Musk. Musk had said he would abide by the results of the vote.
  • ⚾️📻⚾️🎙✋ Govt notifies six insurance regulations of IRDAI. Mostly technical stuff, not imp for exam.