✅ The researchers showed that the Azores High expansion is driven by external climate forces and that the only external forcing that produces this signal in the industrial era is atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. 

✅ The study identified a robust increase in the frequency of extremely large Azores High Area (AHA) events and an overall expansion signal in the winter Azores High over the past 100 years.

✅Azores High expansion emerged after 1850 and strengthened in the twentieth century, consistent with anthropogenically driven warming, according to the report

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🌼 Points to ponder on Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha

1) Satyagraha was never used by Gandhi to score political point

2) Gandhi's Satyagraha movement was principle-centred and spiritually guided

3) Satyagraha was never aimed as a coercive tactic

4) Gandhi's language , body language and activities were dignified and always left room for dialogue and reconcilation

5) Gandhi had the courage to withdraw his movement when he realised that unprincipled elements would infiltrate and would use the base for selfish or opportunistic goals

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💫It was created in 2001.

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◾️Why we need Reform in Bail Laws : SC direction to States on bail laws

Chief Justice of India said aimless and hasty arrests, locking up undertrial prisoners in jail for long spells and making it almost impossible for them to get bail is proof that the system is in dire need of an overhaul.

The CJI said it is a “grave issue” that 80% of the 6.10 lakh prisoners across the country are undertrials.

He was speaking later at the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly on the 75 years of parliamentary democracy.

He said, the “space for Opposition is diminishing” in the country, the quality of legislative performance is in decline, Intended benefits of laws do not reach the people.

The Supreme Court judges have raised the alarm about indiscriminate arrests and the near-impossible chances of getting bail for undertrial prisoners on two separate fronts in a matter of a week.

More than Two-third of jail inmates constitute undertrial prisoners

A police state cannot exist within a democracy: The judgment underscored that a police state cannot exist within a democracy.

In a democracy, there can never be an impression that it is a police state. Both are conceptually opposite to each other,” the top court observed.

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