Probable Prelims Topics #136

✅PVC SIMCARDS

CONTEXT- Bharti Airtel switches to recycled PVC SIM cards over plastic simcards to reduce green house gas emissions.

👉Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a synthetic polymer made from the polymerization of vinyl chloride.

✅Properties of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) includes-
●Chemical Resistance
●Weather Resistance
●Flame Retardance
●Electrical insulation
●Durability

❓Are you also aware of other plastic Waste management initiatives?

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Probable Prelims Topics #137

✅ The terms -
●ATTITUDE HOLD
●TERMINAL DESCENT
●ROUGH BRAKING
are related to different phases of landing of Chandrayaan 3.

❓Do You also know payloads of the important space missions like Aditya L-1 ?

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👉👉Below is the list of the CURRENT AFFAIRS topics asked in Forum IAS Simulator test 1& 2 -

1)Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

2) Cervical Cancer
3) NEST Initiative

4) Grey zone warfare
5) Dark sky Park
6) BioCredits

7) Mission Divyastra
8) Term in news- "Gerrymandering"

✅ A detailed post on the above Topics will be shared soon.

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Probable Prelims Topics #138

✅India has extended its support  for protecting the Antarctic environment and for co-sponsoring the proposal of the EU for designating East Antarctica and the Weddell Sea as Marine Protected Areas (MPA)

👉CCAMLR was established by international convention in 1982 with the objective of conserving Antarctic marine life.
👉It’s Secretariat is located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

❗️MPAs do not necessarily exclude fishing, research or other human activities; in fact, many MPAs are multi-purpose areas.

✅India's Missions @Antarctic -
●BHARATI
●MAITRI
●DAKSHIN GANGOTRI

❓Do You know the provisions of The Antarctic Treaty ?

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Prelims Probable Topics #139

✅The Indian Govt. intends to initiate a three-phase vaccination drive against human papillomavirus (HPV) for girls aged 9-14, aiming to mitigate the risk of cervical cancer.

✅The Serum Institute of India in 2023 launched an indigenous HPV vaccine known as CERVAVAC.

👉India contributes the largest share of the global cervical cancer burden; nearly 1 in every 4 deaths globally due to cervical cancer.

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Prelims Probable Topics #140

✅INDIAN GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL:
👉It is part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was formed in the year 2001.
👉It is India's Premier certification body
👉The council also organises the Green Building Congress, its annual flagship event on green buildings.
👉Member of the World Green Building Council.

HQ- Hyderabad

❓Do you know about Green Building rating standards-GRIHA and Model Building Code ?

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Prelims Probable Topics #141

✅CONTEXT- At the Raisina Dialogue 2024, military leaders including India’s Chief of Defence Staff discussed the rise of gray-zone warfare, exemplified by actions in the South China Sea and along India's northern borders.

✅Grey-zone warfare refers to a form of conflict characterised by actions that fall below the threshold of conventional war but are intended to achieve strategic objectives through ambiguity, deniability, and coercion.
👉Such as cyberattacks, economic coercion, proxy conflicts

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✅INDIA'S FIRST DARK SKY RESERVE -
👉Changthang, Hanle,Ladakh

✅INDIA'S FIRST DARK SKY PARK- 👉The Pench Tiger Reserve,Maharashtra(5th in Asia)
👉The certification was given by the International Dark-Sky Association, a global dark-sky movement to promote astronomy.

❓Do you know the key features of Pench NP ?

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Prelims Probable Topics #143

✅Biodiversity Credits or biocredits are increasingly being pushed as a means for financing work on the various targets set under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).

✅The KMGBF, established at the 15th Conference of Parties (CoP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), sets forth ambitious targets for biodiversity conservation, sustainable utilization, and equitable benefit sharing.

✅Implementation and Initiatives:
👉Ocean Conservation Commitments (OCCs)
👉Wallacea trust

❓Are you aware of key features of Biological Diversity(amend) Act 2023 ?

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Prelims Probable Topics #144

👉Mission DIVYASTRA

✅As of now, the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom are known to have MIRV-equipped missiles.

✅These missiles can be launched from land or from sea (or from a submarine).

❓Do you know the key aspects of India's INTEGRATED MISSILE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ?

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Prelims Probable Topics #145

✅Key feauture of US democracy

✅In India, political redistricting is handled by the Delimitation Commission of India which is constituted by the Central Government after the Parliament has enacted a Delimitation Act (under Article 82) after every census. It has been set up 4 times to date. Fresh delimitation has been frozen till 2026.

👉In news due to elections In India.

❓Have you read Key features of Delimitation Commission ?

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👉👉Following is the list of Topics of CURRENT AFFAIRS asked in VISION ALL INDIA TEST SERIES - ABHYAAS 2&3

1)Migration and Mobility Agreement
2) Article IV Consultations
3) Vanilla Islands

4) PM YASASVI Scheme
5) Region in news - SDEROT, DAGESTAN, LIBERVILLE

6) National Transit Pass System / One Nation One Pass
7) IPBES: Report on Invasive Alien Species

8) Lazarus Species
9) Maglev Technology 
10)Mediation Act,2023

11) Trade and Technology Council
12) Twin Cyclones
13) TSAT-1A

14) Global Summit on Extreme Heat
15) Blended Finance Facility

📌A detailed post on the above topics will be shared soon.

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Prelims Probable Topics #146

✅KEY PROVISONS-
👉Temporary Residence for Indian Students: upto 12 months
👉Reserved Quotas for Workers under Flows Decree
》》The Italian government's annual "Flow Decree" (Decreto Flussi) sets the maximum number of non-EU citizens who can enter Italy for work and self-employment.

✅The agreement will remain in force for 5 years.

❓Do you know the bordering countries of Italy ?

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✅Vanilla Islands is a grouping of six island nations in south-west Indian Ocean -Mayotte, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion and Madagascar.
👉The term ‘Vanilla’ is used because these countries are known for their export of the flavouring substance Vanilla

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Prelims Probable Topics #148

✅Eligibility:
👉Other Backward Class (OBC), Economically Backward Classes (EBC), and Denotified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNT)
👉Parents or guardians annual income is not more than Rs. 2.50 Lakhs.
👉Studying in a Top Class School in Class 9 or 11.

✅These scholarships shall be available for studies in India only and will be awarded by the Government of State/Union Territory to which the applicant actually belongs, i.e., permanently settled.

✅Entitlement: Upto Rs. 75,000 p.a. for Class 9/10, Rs. 1,25,000 p.a. for Class 11/12, covering the school tuition fee/hostel fee.

❓Are you aware of other schemes for vulnerable sections like PM Vishwakarma Scheme ?

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Probable Prelims Topics #149

✅Factual position vis-à-vis IMF's Article IV consultations with India

👉 Government Debt in India is overwhelmingly rupee-denominated, with external borrowings (from bilateral and multilateral sources) contributing a minimal amount.

👉The General Government debt (including both State and Centre) has steeply declined from about 88 per cent in FY 2020-21 to about 81 per cent in 2022-23.

👉Debt to GDP Ratio- India @81%

❓Are you aware of organisational structure of IMF ? If not, see once .

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Probable Prelims Topics #150

👉SDEROT - Israel
👉DAGESTAN- Russia
👉LIBERVILLE- Gabon

❓Do you know the surrounding countries of these places ? Map them.

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Probable Prelims Topics #151

✅It offers seamless transit permits, managing records for both inter-state and intra-state transportation of timber, bamboo and other forest produce obtained from various sources like private lands, government owned forest and private depots.

✅Transit permits will be issued for tree species which are regulated, while the users can self-generate No Objection Certificates for exempted species.

❓Are you also aware of endangered tree species?

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Probable Prelims Topics #152

✅IPBES:
👉It is an independent intergovernmental body established by States.
👉It was established in Panama City in April 2012 by 94 Governments.
👉It is not a United Nations body
👉HQ- Bonn, Germany

✅Key Highlights-

👉Most negative impacts of invasive species are reported on
● land (about 75%)
●freshwater(14%)
●marine (10%)

👉Not all alien invasive species have negative impacts.

👉Examples of invasive alien species
●The water hyacinth
●Lantana and the black rat
●The brown rat and the house mouse

❓Have you read about various Invasive Alien Species? Do read once.

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✅LAZARUS SPECIES
👉species that was thought to be extinct, until it rediscovered.

✅Examples include-
●Giant Palouse earthworm (Driloleirus americanus)
●Smoothtooth blacktip shark (Carcharhinus leiodon)
●Starry night toad (Atelopus arsyecue)
●Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus)
●New Holland mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae)
●Woolly flying squirrel

❓Read about IUCN RED List ❗️

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✅Compared with traditional vehicles running on wheels, high-speed maglev trains do not have contact with rail tracks. They have advantages in terms of efficiency and speed and produce very little noise.

❓Are you aware about National Rail Plan for 2030 ?

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