Avoid Controversy, but don't avoid the historical facts 😁

Here are the facts 😁 🚨

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Total Solar Eclipse: A Celestial Event 🌑

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Mt Etna blow volcanic vortex rings

Kuch nahi bhai bss vo volcano 🌋 challe banane sikh gaya hai jese chapri jab nayi nayi cigarette 🚬 pina sikhte hai to challe bana ke show bazi karte hai vese hi ye 🌋 volcano bhi chapri pana karne laga hai 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↕️

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Mt Etna 🌋 blow volcanic vortex rings

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40 Years of Operation Meghdoot: India's Bold Military Response in the Siachen Glacier 🏔️🗻

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Drainage Systems of India.

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Global Gender Gap, 2024
✅ Released by the World Economic Forum on 12 June, 2024
✅ Top 5 Countries: Iceland (1st) was followed by Finland (2nd), Norway (3rd), New Zealand (4th) and Sweden (5th)🏆.
✅ Globally, Sudan was ranked last on the index of 146 countries.
✅ India has slipped two places to the 129th position (127th last year).
✅ Within South Asia, India ranked 5th after Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan, with Pakistan ranked last (145th).
✅ Despite the drop, India showed strong gender parity in secondary education enrollment and political empowerment, securing the 10th position for the number of years with female/male 👩‍💼👨‍💼 heads of state in the last 50 years.
✅ However, India’s overall gender gap closure stands at 64.1 per cent in 2024, a slight decline from 64.2 per cent last year.

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World Sickle Cell (WSC) Day 2024

✅ Every year on June 19,WSC Day is observed.
✅ The theme for 2024 is "Hope Through Progress: Advancing Sickle Cell Care Globally."

✅ Gov. of India embarked on the ‘Mission for Elimination of SCD by 2047’, with PM Narendra Modi launching the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission from Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh on 1st July, 2023.
✅ The mission entails awareness creation, universal screening of 7 crore people in the age group of 0-40 years in the affected tribal areas.
✅ The focus is on tribal dominated districts of 17 states with higher prevalence of the disease.
✅ The National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission is a sub mission of National Health Mission.

✅ Gujarat was the first state in the country to launch a sickle cell anemia control program in 2006.

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👉113 Countries Have Never Had Female Heads Of State Or Govt

✅ In 1893, New Zealand became 1st country to grant voting rights to women, and 47 years later, in 1940 Khertek Anchimaa Toka of the Tuvan People's Republic became the 1st female head of state.
✅ Despite progress, 113 countries have never had a female head of state or government.
✅ Currently, only 26 countries are currently led by a woman.
✅ According to a UN Women's global data on Women Political Leaders 2024, female political leaders represent 23.3% of Cabinet members heading Ministries in 2024, a slight increase from 2023.
✅ Women are primarily leading portfolios related to women and gender equality, family and children affairs, social affairs, and indigenous and minority affairs.
✅ Male dominance extends to Permanent Missions to the UN, with women holding only 25% of Permanent Representative posts in New York, 35% in Geneva, and 33.5% in Vienna.

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Major cities of India , their contribution to the GDP and major challenges these cities face and what can be done.

Article link 🔗

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/fifteen-urban-hubs-can-propel-indias-growth-we-must-unlock-this-potential-10106963/

UPSC in the past has asked questions on this theme :

Q1. The growth of cities as I.T. hubs has opened up new avenues employment but has also created new problems. Substantiate this statement with examples (2017)

Q2.What are the main socio-economic implications arising out of development of IT industries in major cities of India (2021)

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