Probable Prelims Topics #193

✅In hydroponic environments, eSoil is a low-power bioelectronic growth substrate that can electrically stimulate the root system and growth environment of plants.
✅This novel substrate is not only environmentally friendly( consumes very less water ), being derived from cellulose and a conductive polymer called PEDOT.

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Probable Prelims Topics #194

✅Kallakkadal refers to coastal flooding caused by swell waves during the pre-monsoon season (April-May) and sometimes during post monsoon along the southwest coast of India.

✅RELATED TOPICS
👉INCOIS
●under Ministry of Earth Science
●HQ- Hyderabad

❓Read once about How they differ from Tsunami ?

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Probable Prelims Topics #195

✅In the new research, Glucosinolates are synthesised in the leaves and pod walls of mustard plants.

✅The researchers have edited 10 out of the 12 GTR genes in ‘VARUNA’, a high-yielding Indian mustard variety.

‼️Prepare GM crops and Associated bodies - GEAC with it.

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Probable Prelims Topics #196

✅The sea slug is described as a small invertebrate, with a maximum length of up to 7 mm.

✅It has a brownish-black colouration with a distinctive ruby-red spot located at the hind end.

✅The species is hermaphroditic, meaning individuals possess both male and female reproductive organs.

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Probable Prelims Topics #197

✅The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has rolled out an indigenous star-rating system for crash testing cars.

✅the rating system will be voluntary and will come into effect from October 1, 2023.

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Probable Prelims Topics #198

✅Kinmen Island, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed by Taiwan.

✅Location:
👉In reference to China: At the southeastern coast of the People’s Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay.
To the east of Xiamen.
👉In reference to Taiwan: On the west from the closest shoreline of the island of Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait.

‼️ Map the area carefully.

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Probable Prelims Topics #199

✅It is known for its gold mineralisation and for its KOMATIITES, an unusual type of ultramafic volcanic rock named after the Komati River that flows through the belt.

✅The Makhonjwa Mountains make up 40% of the Baberton belt.

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Probable Prelims Topics #200

✅There are three main group of islands:
👉Amindivi Islands
👉Laccadive Islands
👉Minicoy Island.
Amindivi Islands are the northernmost while Minicoy island is the southernmost.

✅Lakshadweep has a tropical climate and it has an average temperature of 27° C – 32° C.

✅The Blue Flag Certification has been accorded to two new beaches
👉 Minicoy Thundi Beach and
👉Kadmat Beach

‼️ Prepare the 8° and 9° Channels
along with Mapping of Maldives !

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Following is the list of the IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS TOPICS from NEXT IAS ALL INDIA MOCK TEST- 1,2 & 3

1) UNESCO Creative Cities Network
2) Electrified flex fuel vehicles
3) Kyasanur Forest Disease Virus

4) High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite
5) PRITHVI Scheme
6) UN World Restoration Flagship
7) Econonic Railway Corridors

8) Esequibo River
9) Urban Infrastructure DEVELOPMENT Fund
10)Project Cheetah

11)SHRESHTHA Scheme
12)PM JANMAN
13)VAIBHAV Fellowship

14)L69 group
15)Self reliant India Fund
16)PM VISHWAKARMA

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

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Probable Prelims Topics #201

✅The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004.

✅UNESCO designates the creative cities in seven fields: craft, folk art, media arts, film design, gastronomy, literature, and music.

✅The applications in India are routed through the Ministry of Culture.

✅Other Indian cities which are added to this network
👉Srinagar and Jaipur: in the field of crafts and folk arts
👉Mumbai: Film category
👉Chennai and Varanasi: Music category
👉Hyderabad: Gastronomy category.

‼️UNESCO is an important international organisation . Prepare sincerely.

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Probable Prelims Topics #202

✅An Electrified Flex Fuel Vehicle has both a Flexi Fuel engine and an electric powertrain.

✅Flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) have an internal combustion engine and are capable of operating on gasoline and any blend of gasoline and ethanol up to 83%.

✅India is the fifth largest manufacturer of ethanol, following the US, Brazil, the European Union and China.

❓Prepare EV initiatives like FAME , Green Hydrogen Mission along with this. Becomes very important.

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Probable Prelims Topics #203

✅It is a zoonotic disease.

✅It is also known as “monkey disease/monkey fever” because of its association with monkey deaths.

✅Transmission: It is transmitted through the bite of ticks and bonnet.

👉👉No specific treatment for KFD is available.

❓Prepare other viruses- Zika virus, Nipah Virus as well.

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Probable Prelims Topics #204

✅CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) has successfully tested an unmanned aerial vehicle, called High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) at Challakere, Karnataka.

✅HAPS are aircraft positioned above 20 km altitude, in the stratosphere, for very-long-duration flights counted in months and even years.

❓Prepare Indigenous drones - Mini, Micro and Macro well.

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Probable Prelims Topics #205

✅IT is a comprehensive initiative aimed at bolstering research across various domains of Earth sciences, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.

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Probable Prelims Topics #206

✅The World Restoration Flagship is part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – led by the 👉UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and
👉 the Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Probable Prelims Topics #207

✅Forty thousand normal rail bogies will be converted to Vande Bharat standards for enhanced safety, convenience, and passenger comfort.

❓Prepare Rail Modernization key targets and initiatives .

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Probable Prelims Topics #209

✅Essequibo River

👉 a river in east central Guyana, is the largest river between the Amazon and the Orinoco.

👉 It rises in the Acarai Mountains on the Brazilian border and flows northward for approximately 630 miles (1,010 km) through savannas and forests to the Atlantic Ocean

👉Chief tributaries, the Rupununi, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni, its system drains more than half of Guyana.

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Probable Prelims Topics #210

✅It will be established on the lines of the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)
👉RIDF was set up by the Government in 1995-96
👉maintained by NABARD.

❓Prepare other Infrastructural Initiatives including NATIONAL INVESTMENT PIPELINE, NATIONAL MONETISATION PIPELINE .

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Probable Prelims Topics #211

✅The project authorities are talking of additional sites being prepared for releasing the cheetahs such as the Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary and Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary, both in Madhya Pradesh.

✅SASHA, UDAY, DAKSH : Names of Leopards, dead at Kuno Palpur.

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Probable Prelims Topics #212

✅Under the SHRESHTA Scheme, a total of 2,564 students from Scheduled Castes have enrolled in 142 private residential schools affiliated with CBSE/State Boards for the academic session 2023-24

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Probable Prelims Topics #213

✅Under Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology

✅ELIGIBILITY for APPLICANTS
👉The applicant should be a Non-Resident Indian (NRI), Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), currently living abroad.
👉The applicant must have obtained a Ph.D/M.D/M.S degree from a recognized University.

✅Fellowship would include a fellowship grant (INR 4,00,000 per month), international and domestic travel, accommodation and contingencies.

✅75 fellowships to be awarded.

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