Mrunal’s Current Affairs Weekly- Environment from August Week1&2 Pollution?: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report - made up of the reports of three working groups: 1) The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change 2) Impacts, adaptation [...]
Defence: Modi and maritime security: 1) In 2015, Modi had put forward the vision of SAGAR — an acronym for “Security and Growth for all in the Region”. 2) 2021: PM Modi will chair a high-level open debate on [...]
Election: criminalisation of politics: supreme Court bench found nine political parties – Congress, BJP, JD(U), RJD, LJP, CPI(M), CPI, RLSP and NCP – guilty of contempt for not following in letter and spirit its 2020 direction to publish details [...]
6-Corona?: Vaccine Nationalism / FakeNews: Russian Cyber groups targeted audiences in India, Latin America and US to spread misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines developed by British AstraZeneca and American Pfizer on Facebook. [रशियन हैकर्स द्वारा अमेरिकी और ब्रिटिश कोरोना वेकसिन [...]
6-Rights-Issue?: Caste census: every Census until 1931 had data on caste. However, in 1941, caste-based data was collected but not published. Then every Census in independent India from 1951 to 2011 has published data on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled [...]
Appointment: Appointment: Karnataka new chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai replaces B S Yediyurappa. Books-Authors: Books: Indian-Origin British novelist Sunjeev Sahota is among 13 authors longlisted for this year's Booker Prize for fiction for China Room. [though he could not win [...]
Case-Studies?: Attitude towards post-midnight party karnewale underage rape victims: GOA Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s controversial remarks over the gangrape of two minor girls on July 25. CM said, “Ten people went to a party on the beach of which [...]
Bio-Diversity: Great Indian Bustards (GIBs): There are four bustard species in India- i) MacQueen’s bustard, ii) lesser florican iii) Bengal florican, (iv) Great Indian Bustards (GIBs). GIB are largest in size compared to other three varieties. GIB prefer grasslands [...]
1A1-Money-?: RESERVE Bank of India (RBI) has decided to allow non-bank payment system providers (PSPs), prepaid payment instruments (PPI) issuers like mobile wallets, card networks and white label ATM operators to participate in the Centralised Processing System (CPS = [...]
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Case-Studies?: Compassion towards weaker section: Rajkot District Collector Arun Mahesh Babu certified one Chirag Makwana alias Charmi as a transgender and handed her a certificate in presence of her father. This will entitle her to change her name and [...]
5-Infra-Transport⚓️: China unveiled a maglev train capable of a top speed of 600 kmph = the fastest ground vehicle globally. [चीन की मैग्लेव ट्रेन विश्व का सबसे तेज़ वाहन, जो ६०० किलोमीटर की रफ़्तार से चलेगा] 6-Corona?: Human visible [...]
Policy Governance 6-Corona?: Corona Right to life versus religious freedom: १) THE SUPREME Court asked the Uttar Pradesh government to reconsider even allowing a symbolic physical Kanwar Yatra given the fear of a third Covid-19 wave. Health of the [...]