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🔆Caspian Sea
📍In news?
✅The Caspian Sea has been shrinking since the mid-1990s, but the rate at which it's disappearing has sped up since 2005.
✅It is the world’s largest inland body of water, covering a total surface area of about 386,400 sq km .
✅It is located between Asia and Europe.
✅It lies to the east of the Caucasus Mountains and to the west of the vast steppe of Central Asia.
✅Bordering countries: It is bordered by Russia and Azerbaijan on the west, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan on the north and east, and Iran on the south.
✅The sea was named for the Kaspi, ancient peoples who once lived on its western shores.
✅Three major rivers—the Volga, the Ural, and the Terek—empty into the Caspian from the north.
✅Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is the largest city on the Caspian. Another important city along the Caspian is Iran’s Nowshahr.
✅It is the source of most of the world’s caviar.
#mapping
#Places_in_news
📍In news?
✅The Caspian Sea has been shrinking since the mid-1990s, but the rate at which it's disappearing has sped up since 2005.
✅It is the world’s largest inland body of water, covering a total surface area of about 386,400 sq km .
✅It is located between Asia and Europe.
✅It lies to the east of the Caucasus Mountains and to the west of the vast steppe of Central Asia.
✅Bordering countries: It is bordered by Russia and Azerbaijan on the west, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan on the north and east, and Iran on the south.
✅The sea was named for the Kaspi, ancient peoples who once lived on its western shores.
✅Three major rivers—the Volga, the Ural, and the Terek—empty into the Caspian from the north.
✅Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is the largest city on the Caspian. Another important city along the Caspian is Iran’s Nowshahr.
✅It is the source of most of the world’s caviar.
#mapping
#Places_in_news
🔆AI Pioneer's Regrets: The Need for Responsible Development
📍AI's Potential Dangers :
✅AI poses significant risks, including job displacement and misuse.
✅Experts like Geoffrey Hinton and Elon Musk have expressed concerns.
✅There is a need for responsible development and regulation of AI.
📍The Role of Corporations :
✅Corporations prioritize profitability over safety and ethics.
✅OpenAI's internal power struggle highlights this issue.
✅Regulating AI development is crucial to prevent harmful consequences.
📍Lessons from History :
✅The Manhattan Project serves as a cautionary tale.
✅The development of nuclear weapons led to devastating consequences.
✅Despite good intentions, scientific advancements can have unintended consequences.
📍The Need for Responsibility:
✅Scientists and developers must consider the ethical implications of their work.
✅Regulating AI is essential to ensure its safe and beneficial use.
📍AI's Potential Dangers :
✅AI poses significant risks, including job displacement and misuse.
✅Experts like Geoffrey Hinton and Elon Musk have expressed concerns.
✅There is a need for responsible development and regulation of AI.
📍The Role of Corporations :
✅Corporations prioritize profitability over safety and ethics.
✅OpenAI's internal power struggle highlights this issue.
✅Regulating AI development is crucial to prevent harmful consequences.
📍Lessons from History :
✅The Manhattan Project serves as a cautionary tale.
✅The development of nuclear weapons led to devastating consequences.
✅Despite good intentions, scientific advancements can have unintended consequences.
📍The Need for Responsibility:
✅Scientists and developers must consider the ethical implications of their work.
✅Regulating AI is essential to ensure its safe and beneficial use.
🔆Asiatic Golden Cat:
✅It is a medium sized cat with relatively long legs.
✅Other names:They are known as the “fire cat” in Thailand and Burma, and as the “rock cat” in parts of China.
✅Appearance: Their fur ranges in color from cinnamon to various shades of brown, and also gray and black (melanistic).
✅They are solitary and territorial. Once considered nocturnal, a radio-tracking study showed them to be diurnal and crepuscular.
✅These are polygynous (mating with multiple females) with no breeding season.
✅Habitat: This cat is known to occur across a wide range of habitats, including dry deciduous forests, subtropical evergreen forests, tropical rainforests, temperate and sub-alpine forests, and at elevations ranging from 0 m to 3,738 m.
✅Conservation Status:
IUCN: Near threatened
CITES: Appendix I
Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972: Schedule 1
#species
#prelims
#environment
✅It is a medium sized cat with relatively long legs.
✅Other names:They are known as the “fire cat” in Thailand and Burma, and as the “rock cat” in parts of China.
✅Appearance: Their fur ranges in color from cinnamon to various shades of brown, and also gray and black (melanistic).
✅They are solitary and territorial. Once considered nocturnal, a radio-tracking study showed them to be diurnal and crepuscular.
✅These are polygynous (mating with multiple females) with no breeding season.
✅Habitat: This cat is known to occur across a wide range of habitats, including dry deciduous forests, subtropical evergreen forests, tropical rainforests, temperate and sub-alpine forests, and at elevations ranging from 0 m to 3,738 m.
✅Conservation Status:
IUCN: Near threatened
CITES: Appendix I
Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972: Schedule 1
#species
#prelims
#environment
🔆Space Docking Experiment (SPADEX):
✅It is one of ISRO's most significant steps towards developing autonomous docking technology.
✅The mission involves two vehicles—‘Chaser’ and the ‘Target’—coming together and connecting in space.
✅Docking systems allow two spacecraft to connect in orbit, enabling critical operations like assembling space stations, refueling, or transferring astronauts and cargo.
✅It will also test how well the combined spacecraft maintains stability and control after docking, ensuring smooth operations for future missions.
✅India’s SPADEX experiment is unique because it focuses on developing indigenous, scalable, and cost-effective docking technology.
✅This experiment involves two spacecraft docking autonomously in orbit, demonstrating precision, navigation, and control capabilities critical for future missions.
✅Significance: It is key to achieving India's long-term space exploration goals, including manned spaceflight, satellite maintenance, and future space station construction.
✅It is one of ISRO's most significant steps towards developing autonomous docking technology.
✅The mission involves two vehicles—‘Chaser’ and the ‘Target’—coming together and connecting in space.
✅Docking systems allow two spacecraft to connect in orbit, enabling critical operations like assembling space stations, refueling, or transferring astronauts and cargo.
✅It will also test how well the combined spacecraft maintains stability and control after docking, ensuring smooth operations for future missions.
✅India’s SPADEX experiment is unique because it focuses on developing indigenous, scalable, and cost-effective docking technology.
✅This experiment involves two spacecraft docking autonomously in orbit, demonstrating precision, navigation, and control capabilities critical for future missions.
✅Significance: It is key to achieving India's long-term space exploration goals, including manned spaceflight, satellite maintenance, and future space station construction.
🔆 "Bharatiya Antriksh Station"
✅India will have its own Space Station by 2035, which will be known as "Bharatiya Antriksh Station"
✅ISRO and Department of Biotechnology Sign Landmark MoU, Ushering in New Era of Space and Biotech Innovation
✅A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite featuring habitation facilities.
✅The first space station was Salyut 1 (1971), hosting the first crew, of the ill-fated Soyuz 11. Consecutively space stations have been operated since Skylab (1973) and occupied since 1987 with the Salyut successor Mir. Uninterrupted occupation has been sustained since the operational transition from the Mir to the International Space Station (ISS), with its first occupation in 2000.
✅Currently there are two fully operational space stations – the ISS and China's Tiangong Space Station (TSS), which have been occupied since October 2000 with Expedition 1 and since June 2022 with Shenzhou 14.
#gs3
#prelims
#science_technology
✅India will have its own Space Station by 2035, which will be known as "Bharatiya Antriksh Station"
✅ISRO and Department of Biotechnology Sign Landmark MoU, Ushering in New Era of Space and Biotech Innovation
✅A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite featuring habitation facilities.
✅The first space station was Salyut 1 (1971), hosting the first crew, of the ill-fated Soyuz 11. Consecutively space stations have been operated since Skylab (1973) and occupied since 1987 with the Salyut successor Mir. Uninterrupted occupation has been sustained since the operational transition from the Mir to the International Space Station (ISS), with its first occupation in 2000.
✅Currently there are two fully operational space stations – the ISS and China's Tiangong Space Station (TSS), which have been occupied since October 2000 with Expedition 1 and since June 2022 with Shenzhou 14.
#gs3
#prelims
#science_technology
🔘NEW SPECIES OF GECKO
In News
Scientists have discovered a new species of ground-dwelling gecko.
About
◾️The Chengodumala or Coastal Kerala Geckoella is a small, nocturnal species found among leaf litter and rocks in forests, orchards and other areas with canopy cover in north Kerala.
◾️The gecko is known from scattered localities a maximum of 120 km apart in Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, and Thrissur districts
In News
Scientists have discovered a new species of ground-dwelling gecko.
About
◾️The Chengodumala or Coastal Kerala Geckoella is a small, nocturnal species found among leaf litter and rocks in forests, orchards and other areas with canopy cover in north Kerala.
◾️The gecko is known from scattered localities a maximum of 120 km apart in Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, and Thrissur districts
#Places_in_news
FORDOW FUEL ENRICHMENT PLANT (FFEP)
According to satellite images, Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordow amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic programme.
Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is an Iranian underground uranium enrichment facility located 20 miles northeast of the Iranian city of Qom, near Fordow village.
It is the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility, the other one being that of Natanz.
Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction at Fordow, whose discovery by the West in 2009 came in an earlier round of brinkmanship before world powers struck the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.
While the purpose of the building remains unclear, any work at Fordow will likely trigger new concern in the waning days of the Trump administration before the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.
FORDOW FUEL ENRICHMENT PLANT (FFEP)
According to satellite images, Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordow amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic programme.
Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is an Iranian underground uranium enrichment facility located 20 miles northeast of the Iranian city of Qom, near Fordow village.
It is the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility, the other one being that of Natanz.
Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction at Fordow, whose discovery by the West in 2009 came in an earlier round of brinkmanship before world powers struck the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.
While the purpose of the building remains unclear, any work at Fordow will likely trigger new concern in the waning days of the Trump administration before the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.
■ UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE
#Salientfeaturesofconstitution
◇ The Indian Constitution adopts universal adult franchise as a basis of elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies.
◇ Every citizen who is not less than 18 years of age has a right to vote without any discrimination of caste, race, religion, sex, literacy, wealth and so on.
◇ The voting age was reduced to 18 years from 21 years in 1989 by the 61st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1988.
#Salientfeaturesofconstitution
◇ The Indian Constitution adopts universal adult franchise as a basis of elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies.
◇ Every citizen who is not less than 18 years of age has a right to vote without any discrimination of caste, race, religion, sex, literacy, wealth and so on.
◇ The voting age was reduced to 18 years from 21 years in 1989 by the 61st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1988.