🏆RECENT IMPORTANT AWARD 2024

🎖Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize – Ashok Gopal (for A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B R Ambedkar)

🎖Indira Gandhi Prize for 2023 – Daniel Barenboim, and Ali Abu Awwad (for Peace, Disarmament, and Development)

🎖Green World Awards 2024 in London – Coal India Limited

🎖73rd Miss Universe (2024) – Victoria Kjaer Theilvig (Denmark); Second- Chidimma Adetshina (Nigeria); Third – Maria Fernanda Beltran (Mexico)s

🎖First Indian to win Miss Grand International 2024 – Rachel Gupta (from Jalandhar)


✍ Credit- pihu kaur

❇️ 30 November

🛡 National Computer Security Day
राष्ट्रीय कंप्यूटर सुरक्षा दिवस

🖥 It reminds everyday, computers become faster and more advanced. Protecting the resources, tools, and information on them protects the people who use them, too.

🖥 First time celebrate in 1988

🖥 Charles Babbage, Inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.

🟢 PYQs
▪️India's 1st super computer PARAM 8000 was launched in year 1991

💠FOUNDER
World Wide Web (WWW) - Tim Berners-Lee
Bluetooth - Jaap Haartsen
Java - James Gosling
Microsoft - Paul Allen
Mouse - Douglas Engelbart

💠ABBREVIATIONS
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding

🟢 NEWS
🔷Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's El Capitan is the world's fastest supercomputer by USA.

🔶PM Modi Launches Three PARAM Rudra Supercomputers

🔷Microsoft And OpenAI Unveil $100 Billion ‘Stargate’ AI Supercomputer

✍ Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ⛥

🟢 Summits & Conferences 2024

1. Olympic (2028) -Los Angeles, USA (34th)
2. BRICS(2024) - Kazan, Russia
3. G20(2024) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4. G7(2024) - Fasano in Apulia, Italy
5. COP29 (2024) - Baku, Azerbaijan
6. Asian Buddhist Summit - New Delhi
7. 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - Bhubaneswar, Odisha
8. SCO Summit - Islamabad, Pakistan
9. 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits - Vientiane, Laos
10. 1st BIMSTEC Business Summit - New Delhi

🔶BRIEF ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONVENTIONS { Part-2}

🪴 Bonn Convention
• Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals.
• Adopted in 1979.
• In force since 1983.

🪴 Vienna Convention
• Protection of the Ozone Layer.
• Adopted in 1985.
• In force since 1988.

🪴 Montreal Protocol
• Focus: Substances depleting the Ozone Layer.
• Adopted in 1987.
• In force since 1989.

🪴 Kyoto Protocol
• Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
• Adopted in 1997.
• In force since 2005.

🪴 UNFCCC
• Governs actions to combat Climate Change (GHG emissions).
• Adopted in 1992.
• In force since 1994.


✍ Credit- pihu kaur

❇️ 1 December

🎗 World AIDS Day
विश्व एड्स दिवस

Theme24 : "Take the rights path: My health, my right!'

🧬World AIDS Day is celebrated every year to raise awareness about the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) disease. This disease is caused by the pandemic disease known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

🧬 This pandemic disease HIV is found in the tissues and that is transmitted through blood, semen, breast milk, etc.It is a sexually transmitted disease .

🔹The day is being celebrated since 1988.

🔸GFTAM : Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria.

🟢 SSC PYQs
▪️HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
▪️AIDS – Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome
▪️AIDS is caused due to - Virus
▪️Therapy used to control the spread of the HIV Virus - Antiretroviral therapy
▪️ELISA’ test is employed to diagnose AIDS.

Note : World AIDS Vaccine Day - 18 May

🏢 Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
▪️ Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda
▪️ Constituency: Gujarat

✍ Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ⛥

❇️ 3 December

🧑‍🦽 International Day of Persons with Disability
विकलांग व्यक्तियों का अंतर्राष्ट्रीय दिवस

Theme24 :  'Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future,

🧑‍🦼This day has been promoted by UN since 1992

🟢 NEWS
🔶NADA India To Host Inclusion Conclave For The First Time To Focus On Athletes With Disabilities

🔷Swarajability: India’s 1st AI-Based Job Platform For Persons With Disabilities

🔶OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM:
It's a social impact venture aimed toward rehabilitating individuals with disabilities through adjustive journey sports.

🔷European Space Agency Is Set To Hire & Launch World's First Physically Disabled Astronaut

🔶Mysore University to set up separate Department of Disabilities and Rehabilitation Studies

🔷Centre for disability Sports: Gawalior, MP

🔶First regional edition of “Divya Kala Shakti Event” was held in Chennai

✍ Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ✪

✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 03.12.2024


1. REPUDIATE (VERB): (अस्वीकार करना): reject
Synonyms: renounce, abandon
Antonyms: embrace
Example Sentence:She has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders.


2. TEMPORAL (ADJECTIVE): (लौकिक): secular
Synonyms: non-spiritual, worldly
Antonyms: spiritual
Example Sentence:The Church did not imitate the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain.


3. DISMAY (NOUN): (अचरज): alarm
Synonyms: shock, surprise
Antonyms: pleasure
Example Sentence:Much to the dismay of her fans, she announced her retirement very soon.


4. DISMAL (ADJECTIVE): (शोकयुक्त): gloomy
Synonyms: glum mournful
Antonyms: cheerful
Example Sentence:His dismal mood was not dispelled by finding the house empty.


5. DESICCATE (VERB): (सुखा देना): dried
Synonyms: dry, dehydrated
Antonyms: moist
Example Sentence:Both the old and the new vegetation were desiccated by months of relentless sun.


6. RELENTLESS (ADJECTIVE): (सतत): persistent
Synonyms: continuing, constant
Antonyms: short-lived
Example Sentence:We bore the relentless heat of the desert.


7. DISPEL (VERB): (दूर करना): banish
Synonyms: eliminate, dismiss
Antonyms: engender
Example Sentence:The brightness of the day did nothing to dispel my sadness.


8. MERITORIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (सराहनीय): praiseworthy
Synonyms: laudable commendable
Antonyms: worthless
Example Sentence:I got a medal for my meritorious conduct.


9. EXPLICATE (VERB): (समझाना): explain
Synonyms: clarify, spell out
Antonyms: obscure
Example Sentence:An attempt was made to explicate the relationship between crime and justice.


10. IGNOMINY (NOUN): (अपयश): shame
Synonyms: humiliation, embarrassment
Antonyms: honour
Example Sentence:He had to face ignominy due to his son.

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🔶BRIEF ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONVENTIONS { Part-3}

🪴 Rio Summit
• United Nations Conference on Environment & Development.
• Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1992).

🪴 UNCCD
• Convention to Combat Desertification.
• Adopted in 1994.
• In force since 1996.

🪴 Basel Convention
• Focus: Control of Hazardous Wastes Movement & Disposal.
• Adopted in 1989.
• In force since 1992.

🪴 Cartagena Protocol
• Focus: Biosafety (CBD).
• Adopted in 2000.
• In force since 2003.

🪴 UN-REDD
• Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Degradation.
• Created in 2008.

✍ Credit - pihu kaur

❇️ 5 December

🎍World Soil Day
विश्व मृदा दिवस

T-:24 “Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage.” 

🌳To focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources.

🌲The first World Soil Day was celebrated on 5 December, 2014.

🔶 Six Different Types of Soils Found in India
1. Alluvial Soils
2. Black Soils
3. Red Soils
4. Laterite Soils
5. Mountain Soils
6. Dessert Soil

🟢 NEWS
🔶Gujarat Government Inked An Agreement With Isha Outreach To Conserve Soil

🔶ICAR Wins 2020 King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award

🔶Karnataka Government Launches Krishi Sanjeevani Vans To Test Soil, Water

🟢 SSC PYQs
🔸Chemozem group does the black cotton soil of India belong.

🔸Alluvial Soil is the largest and most important soil-group in India.

🔸Black Soil Best for cotton cultivation

🔸Study of Soil: Pedology

🏢 Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
▪️ Bhupender Yadav

Note : 19February:Soil Health Card Day

✍ Credit: Arvιnd Kυмar ✪

📉Recent index

📁Henley Passport Index 2024 (Oct 2024): India at 83rd; topped by Singapore
📁World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2024 – India at 79th; topped by Denmark
📁First Global Nature Conservation Index 2024 – India ranks 176th with a score of 45.5 out of 100; Luxembourg ranked 1st with a score of 70.8
📁Global Innovation Index 2024 – India at 39th; topped by Switzerland
📁Asia Power Index – 1st USA; 2nd China; 3rd India; 4th Japan; 5th Australia

✍ Credit- pihu kaur

❇️ 6 December

⛏ National Miner's Day
राष्ट्रीय खान दिवस

⛏ National Miners Day, December 6, was established in 2009 to remember miners who died working in the mines and to honor the hard work and commitment of today’s miners.

🔶 World's Biggest Pink Diamond Mine in Australia Stops Production

🔷 TOP MINERAL PRODUCING STATE
URANIUM - Jharsuguda, Jharkhand
DIAMOND ( Panna ) - MP

🔷IRON MINES
Pathikonda - Karnataka
Mayurbhanj - Odisha
Ratnagiri - Maharashtra

🔷GOLD - Karnataka
COAL - Chhattisgarh

🟢NEWS
🔶Khanan Prahari App Helping To Curb Illegal Coal Mining Activities Through Public Participation

🔷Adani Enterprises To Deploy Hydrogen-Powered Trucks For Mining

🔶 Tata Steel Mining Signs MoU With GAIL To Get Clean Fuel

🏢 Ministry of Mines
▪️Prahalad Joshi (Dharwad , Karnataka)

Note :
🔶 4 April : International Day for Mine Awareness
Theme23: "Mine Action Cannot Wait”

✍ Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ✪

📉Recent index

📁Henley Passport Index 2024 (Oct 2024): India at 83rd; topped by Singapore
📁World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2024 – India at 79th; topped by Denmark
📁First Global Nature Conservation Index 2024 – India ranks 176th with a score of 45.5 out of 100; Luxembourg ranked 1st with a score of 70.8
📁Global Innovation Index 2024 – India at 39th; topped by Switzerland
📁Asia Power Index – 1st USA; 2nd China; 3rd India; 4th Japan; 5th Australia

✍ Credit- pihu kaur

📊Best State/Union Territory Category

📂Best Marine State- Kerala
📂Best Inland State- Telangana
📂Best Himalayan and Northeastern State- Uttarakhand
📂Best Union Territory – Jammu and Kashmir

📊Best District Award
📂Best Marine District- Kollam, Kerala
📂Best Inland District- Kanker, Chhattisgarh
📂Best Himalayan and Northeastern District-Darrang, Assam
📂Best Union Territory – Kulgam , Jammu and Kashmir.

✍ Credit- pihu kaur

🔶BRIEF ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONVENTIONS { Part-4 }

🪴 Nagoya Protocol
• Access to Genetic Resources (CBD).
• Adopted in 2010.
• In force since 2014.

🪴 COP24
• 24th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC).
• Held in 2018.

🪴 COP21
• 21st Conference of Parties (UNFCCC).
• Held in 2015.

🪴 Kigali Agreement
• Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
• Adopted in 2016.
• In force since 2019.

🪴 Minamata Convention
• Protection against Mercury’s adverse effects.
• Adopted in 2013.
• In force since 2017.

🪴 Rotterdam Convention
• Focus: Hazardous Chemicals & Pesticides (PIC Procedure).
• Adopted in 1998.
• In force since 2004.

🪴COP25
• 25th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC).
• Held in 2019.

🪴Environmental Action = Global Responsibility!

✍ Credit - pihu kaur

❇️ 9 December

💰 International Anti-Corruption Day
अंतर्राष्ट्रीय भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी दिवस

Theme24: “Uniting with Youth Against Corruption: Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity”

💸 To raise awareness on the importance of a corruption-free society. The day also provides us an opportunity to recommit to collective action in preventing and addressing corruption.

💸The 2024 IACD also marks the start of efforts to mark the 22nd Anniversary of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).

💸The Convention entered into force in December 2005.

🟢 NEWS
🔷Sumathi Dharmawardena Named New ICC Anti-Corruption Unit Chair

🔶India Joins Leadership Of Global Anti-Corruption Alliance

🔷Nikhil Dey Named ‘2023 International Anti-Corruption Champion’ By The US Government

🔶Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami Launched ‘1064 Anti-Corruption Mobile App’

🔷Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2023: India Ranks 93rd

✍Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ⛥

🔶BRIEF ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONVENTIONS { Part-4 }

🪴 Nagoya Protocol
• Access to Genetic Resources (CBD).
• Adopted in 2010.
• In force since 2014.

🪴 COP24
• 24th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC).
• Held in 2018.

🪴 COP21
• 21st Conference of Parties (UNFCCC).
• Held in 2015.

🪴 Kigali Agreement
• Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
• Adopted in 2016.
• In force since 2019.

🪴 Minamata Convention
• Protection against Mercury’s adverse effects.
• Adopted in 2013.
• In force since 2017.

🪴 Rotterdam Convention
• Focus: Hazardous Chemicals & Pesticides (PIC Procedure).
• Adopted in 1998.
• In force since 2004.

🪴COP25
• 25th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC).
• Held in 2019.

🪴Environmental Action = Global Responsibility!

✍ Credit - pihu kaur

❇️ 10 December, 2024

🙌🏻 International Human Rights Day (76th)
अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार दिवस

Theme24 : "Equality for All: Reducing Inequality and Advancing Human Rights."

🔷 This day the United Nations (UN) adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and ever since then on this date we observe Human Rights Day across the world. Human Rights Day outline the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS of all human beings that need to be protected universally.

💠 President of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) - Omar Zniber

🔶UN Human Rights Body Launches Iran Human Rights Probe

🔶Nobel Peace Prize 2024 : Nihon Hidankyo, an organisation of survivors from the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

🔶A H R L : Asian Human Right Commission

🔷International Year of Human Rights Learning : 2009

🔳National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
▪️Formed : 12 October, 1993
▪️HQ : New Delhi
▪️Chairperson - Vijaya Bharathi Sayani

✍ Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ⛥

✅ IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR COMING EXAM

♻️ Where is the headquarter of BRICS Bank located - Shanghai, China

♻️Where is the poet of modern Hindi - Bhartendu Harishchandra

♻️Which Article of the Indian Constitution mentions the Hindi language - Article 343 (The official language of the Union shall be 'Hindi' written in Devanagari script)

♻️ Where did Savitri Baiphle start the first school – Pune, 1848

♻️When was the 42nd constitutional amendment - in 1978

♻️When was the 52nd Constitutional Amendment - 1985 (the goal of curbing political defection was set by this constitutional amendment)

♻️The Preamble is mentioned in the Constitution of India- Article 368

♻️ Article 110 of the Constitution of India mentions- Money Bill has been defined.

♻️What is mentioned in Article 267- Parliament can by law establish a Contingency Fund.

♻️Article 266 refers to the Consolidated Fund of India, in which all the monetary resources of the government will be collected.

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♻️ब्रिक्स बैंक का मुख्यालय कहां स्थित हैं- शंघाई, चीन

♻️आधुनिक हिंदी का कवि किसे कहां जाता है- भारतेंदु हरिशचंद्र

♻️भारतीय संविधान किस अनुच्छेद में हिंदी भाषा का उल्लेख हैं- अनुच्छेद 343 (संघ की अधिकारिक भाषा देवनागरी लिपि में लिखी गई ‘हिन्दी होगी)

♻️सावित्री बाईफले ने पहला स्कूल कहां शुरू किया – पुणे, 1848

♻️ 42वां संविधान संशोधन कब हुआ- 1978 में

♻️52वां संविधान संशोधन कब हुआ- 1985 (इस संविधान संशोधन के द्वारा राजनीतिक दल-बदल पर अंकुश लगाने का लक्ष्य रखा गया)

♻️भारतीय संविधान में प्रस्तावना का उल्लेख किया गया है- अनुच्छेद 368

♻️भारतीय संविधान के अनुच्छेद 110 में उल्लेख हैं- धन विधेयक को परिभाषित किया गया हैं।

♻️अनुच्छेद 267 में किसका उल्लेख हैं- संसद विधि द्वारा एक आकस्मिक निधि स्थापित कर सकती हैं।

♻️अनुच्छेद 266 में किसका उल्लेख हैं- भारत की संचित निधि, जिसमें सरकार की सभी मौद्रिक अविष्टियाँ एकत्र रहेंगी।


✍ Credit- pihu kaur

💠 Jharkhand [Assembly Seat 81]
Jharkhand [Assembly Seat 81]
• Chief Minister Hemant Soren [4th time] oath was administered by Governor Santosh Gangwar.
• Governor Santosh Gangwar administered the oath of Chief Minister to Hemant Soren.
• There are 6 seats in Rajya Sabha and 14 seats in Lok Sabha.
• There are 6 seats in Rajya Sabha and 14 seats in Lok Sabha.

💠 Maharashtra [Assembly Seat 288]
Maharashtra [Assembly seat 288]
• 21st Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis [3rd time] was sworn in by Governor C. P. Radhakrishnan.
Governor C P Radhakrishnan administered the oath of Chief Minister to Devendra Fadnavis.
• Deputy Chief Minister: Eknath Shinde, Ajit Panwar
• Deputy Chief Minister: Eknath Shinde, Ajit Panwar
• Rajya Sabha has 19 seats and Lok Sabha has 48 seats.
• There are 19 seats in Rajya Sabha and 48 seats in Lok Sabha.

💠Haryana [Assembly Seat 90]
• 11th Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini [2nd time] was administered the oath of office by Governor Bandaru Dattatreya.
• Rajya Sabha has 5 seats and Lok Sabha has 10 seats.
There are 5 seats in Rajya Sabha and 10 seats in Lok Sabha.

❇️ 12 December

🕊 International Day of Neutrality
तटस्थता का अंतर्राष्ट्रीय दिवस

🕊 Neutrality is a legal status of a country that arises when it abstains all participation of war between other countries and maintains an attitude of impartiality towards the belligerent countries.

🔹According to the resolution the day aims at promoting neutrality among states so as to strengthen peace and security and also to develop mutual and beneficial relations among countries of the world.

🕊First observed on December 12, 2017

🔸The day was first introduced in Turkmenistan after the UN permanently declared it as a neutral state since 12 December 1995.

🕊 Article 51
Promotion of international peace and security The State shall endeavour to
(a) promote international peace and security
(b) maintain just and honourable relations between nations

🇺🇳 UNITED NATIONS (UN)
▪️Founded - 24 October, 1945
▪️HQ - New York
▪️S.G - Antonio Guterres
▪️MC - 193

✍Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ⛥