Hofmann transfer orbit

-The transfer orbit is the orbit used to break out of the parking orbit and break into the geosynchronous or geostationary orbit.

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♠️Topic of the Day♠️

What is Virtual Water ?

🔺Virtual Water (VW) is water involved in production & trade of food & non-food commodities & services.

🔺Virtual water is that “invisible” water that has been consumed in the entire lifecycle of product or service.

🔺Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati have found way for better water management policies in India through Virtual Water analysis.


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🔺National Road Safety Council🔹

-It is an advisory body which was established under section 215 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 with the objective of improving road safety aspects in the road transport sector.

-The Council is chaired by the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways.

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📣Important organisation in News: 📣

💡Organization Of The Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 💡

●What is it ?: It is a permanent, intergovernmental organization, created at the Baghdad Conference in 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.

● Headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

● Members: here are 14 member countries in OPEC. They are Iraq, Iran, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, Gabon, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador, Angola and Venezuela.
● Ecuador suspended its membership in 1992. It re- joined in 2007 and again withdrew its membership in 2020. In 2018, Qatar left OPEC

●OPEC membership criteria: is open to any country that is a substantial exporter of oil and which shares the ideals of the organization.


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Zeroing in on malaria elimination Report:

● Released by: World Health Organization (WHO)

● Purpose: The report provides the progress made by 21 malaria eliminating countries as part of the “E-2020 Initiative”.

E-2020 Initiative:

● WHO had launched the E-2020 initiative in 2017.The initiative has supported 21 countries in their efforts to get to zero malaria cases within the 2020 timeline.

E-2025 Initiative:

● Building on the successes of the E-2020, WHO has launched the E-2025 initiative.

● As part of this initiative, WHO has identified 25 countries that have the potential to stamp out malaria within a 5-year timeline.

● These countries will receive specialized support and technical guidance from WHO as they work towards the target of zero malaria.

World Malaria Day:
● It is observed on April 25 every year by the WHO.

● 2021 Theme: “Reaching the Zero Malaria target".


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Leaky Pipeline Problem:

-Women across the world face the ‘leaky pipeline’ problem.

-The leaky pipeline is a metaphor for the way that women disappear from some careers especially pertaining to STEM fields.

-Women leave the workforce, due to the absence of supportive institutional structures during pregnancy, safety issues in fieldwork and workplace.

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Final Results of CSE-2020 will be announced later this evening.

We wish you all the very best.
Always remember, no matter what this is not the end of your journey, either a new beginning or a new beginning.

Best wishes

Result.


All the best

CSE 2020 Topper Shubham Kumar(AIR 1) Interview Transcript

Board- TC Anant
Date- 09/09/2021, forenoon
B.Tech (Civil), IIT Bombay
IDAS, Table Tennis, Anthropology
Katihar (Bihar)

Chairperson

Read my DAF.

Where are you from in Katihar. Have your childhood spent in village, are you still staying in village?

1. Tell me about Katihar
2. As DM of Katihar, tell me what you will do for next 2 years

Member 1

1. Tell me height of TT net
2. Difficulty in construction activity in black soil
3. Why black soil swells? Is it due to any compound/chemical?
4. Asked me about some principle related to CE (haven’t heard of)

Member 2 (lady member)
1. From where govt collects revenue- tell me the percentage wise bifurcation
2. Counter questions

Member 3
1. Tell me some govt schemes being implemented in your village and their success, failures
2. Purdue Univ vs IIT Bombay (DAF)
3. Do you play sports? TT- name some players and olympians.
4. In recent para olympics, a civil servant participated. Tell me the sport and name
5. OFB corporatisation
6. Afghan issue- what is happening there and India’s interest

Member 4
1. DAP2020 vs DPP 2016 (DAF)
2. earlier offset clause in defence procurement was an issue for MSME. Tell me the reasons
3. Why separate accounts department for defence?
4. Why Civil services after IIT

💡Enforcement Directorate (ED)💡

History: an ‘Enforcement Unit’ was formed, in the Department of Economic Affairs, for handling Exchange Control Laws violations under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 (FERA ’47).

Renamed: In the year 1957, this Unit was renamed as ‘Enforcement Directorate’.

Ministry: part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.

Mandate: Organization is mandated with the task of enforcing the provisions of two special fiscal laws – Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) and Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA).

Special Courts:
— For the trial of an offence punishable under section 4 of PMLA, the Central Government (in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court), designates one or more Sessions Court as Special Court(s). The court is also called “PMLA Court”.
— Any appeal against any order passed by PMLA court can directly be filed in the High Court for that jurisdiction.


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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report “Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development-Demonstrating the Interconnections”

#prelims2021

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