"These examples can be cited when writing disaster management policies for the MAINS GS3." #GS3 #Disaster #management

👉The Bharat Mata Mandir 🛕, built by a freedom fighter Babu Shiv Prasad Gupta and inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1936.

👉At the centre of the temple is a map in marble of “undivided India” or “India before Independence or Partition” as its prime deity.

✅This shows the concept of Akhand Bharat holds historical and cultural significance 💯

👉 What is Moon Agreement of 1979 ?

🌊 The Moon Agreement of 1979, formally known as the "Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies," is an international treaty that was adopted by the United Nations.✅

🌊 It aims to establish a legal framework for the exploration and use of the Moon's resources and other celestial bodies beyond Earth 🌍

👉What are Artemis Accords?

🌊The Artemis Accords was created by the U.S to act as a soft-law alternative to the Moon Agreement, which limits resource extraction in celestial bodies.✅

🌊These Accords are a non-binding set of principles.✅

🌊 India became the 27th signatory to the American-led Artemis Accords.✅

#GS3 #CURRENT

Central civil services pension rules, 1972🍷

✅The government has the authority to retire any government servant "if it is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to do so" 🍻

A Transformational Moment In India’s Search For Regional Connectivity

New Delhi, which is emerging as the critical anchor in shaping regional connectivity, will have to do some heavy lifting.

https://www.orfonline.org/research/a-transformational-moment-in-indias-search-for-regional-connectivity/

Sift Kaur Samra smashes World Record to give India first individual gold at Asian Games 2023

Follow complete coverage here

From 35:00 minutes

"Beacon of courage"

👉 📰 MS Swaminathan hailed as the father of India’s Green Revolution✅ , a program under which high - yield varieties of wheat and rice 🌾 seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers.

👉Swaminathan worked with Norman Borlaug and other scientists to bring a social revolution with farmers and government policies in famine-like circumstances in the 1960s.✅

👉Swaminathan’s efforts in agriculture increased the productivity of foods like rice, wheat, gram, maize etc.✅

👉The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has described Dr Swaminathan as “the father of Economic Ecology ”✅

How MS Swaminathan helped India achieve food security 🔗
#express_explained #green_revolution #ms_swaminathan

👉 Capital Output Ratio ✅
= Capital / Output

🌊 Low Capital Output ratio is GOOD
( Low investment, high output)

🌊 High Capital Output is not GOOD
( High investment, low output )

"People often advise meditation for inner peace. I suggest you try it. Begin by concentrating on something you truly enjoy, and over time, you'll notice that when you're deeply engaged in your favorite activities, you won't feel hunger or thirst."

👉Mass fishkill is a clear indication of the deteriorating health of the lake ecosystem

🌊Fishkill often happens when the dissolved oxygen (DO) — the amount of oxygen in the water — reduces drastically, choking the fish to death.

🌊Depleting DO is caused by a higher biochemical oxygen demand (BOD, often because of a high concentration of nutrients and organic matter that decomposes in an anaerobic condition, releasing ammonia or algal blooms in the water body.

👉 Why fishkill occur at night and are sighted early in the morning ?

🌊Aquatic plants release oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis during the daytime, they also absorb oxygen at night, this creates a DO crisis in water bodies, mainly after the sun goes down. So, most fishkill occur at night and are sighted early in the morning.

🌊 Many lakes have become dumping grounds for raw sewage and other effluents which increases the concentration of nutrients and cause High BOD , leads to choking the fish to death.

#environment

👉 Manambadi / Naganathaswamy temple 🛕

🌊Built by Rajendra Chola I, situated along the southern banks of Kollidam River, Tamil Nadu✅

🌊The temple had earlier survived a demolition bid to make way for a highway.✅

🌊The temple is known for its important inscriptions belonging to the periods of Rajendra Chola I and Kulothunga I ✅

#artandculture
#prelims2024