SOCIAL MEDIA USE

Smog Eating Photocatalytic Coating:

Delhi government has partnered with IIT Madras to test “smog-eating” photocatalytic coatings on urban surfaces to neutralize severe urban air pollutants across the city's infrastructure.

The project focuses on deploying photocatalytic coatings powered by Titanium dioxide (TiO₂), a stable, relatively inexpensive, and commercially available material.

Working Mechanism:
When sunlighthits the coating, it triggers a catalytic reaction that oxidizes harmful pollutants into inert nitrate salts, which are subsequently washed away by rain.

Large-scale use of “smog-eating” coatings may lead to nitrate runoff into urban drainage systems ---> may trigger eutrophication (algal blooms).

Strategic petroleum reserves
Present capacity 5.53mt : VISHAKHAPATNAM + MANGLORE + PADUR

Approved : 6mt : chandikhol(4mt) in odisha and padur (2mt)

Plans for other 6mt : Bikaner + Rajkot

IEA members - obligated 90days of strategic petroleum reserves
India - associate member of IEA

INDIA - import dependent - imports 88% of crude oil needs

Desalination plants works on the principle of RO and heat based methods


Done

Gulf War raises concerns over helium supplies which are critical for MRI Machines[ Helium in its liquid state is used to cool the intensely powerful superconducting magnets that are at the heart of these machines]


Done

Proposed seats - 816

Delimitation before 2029 elections based on 2011 census to implement NARI SHAKTI VANDAN ADHINIYAM

FDI OUTFLOW

Sangeet kalnidhi

Done

Semaglutide