Wednesday, November 8, 2017

PIB and THEHINDU facts for PRELIMS-08/11/17




1.GATT's ---Most Favouree Nation provision---

tarrif concession agreement signed between 2 countries will be automatically extended to others

2.Travel and Tourism Competitive Report--World Economic Forum

3.Most Polluted Capital City in World---New Delhi


4.Fiji hold the presidency of Bonn COP,(conference of parties) 23

5.Emission Gap Report---by UN

6.India commitment---lower the emission intensity of its GDP by 33-35% by 2030 from 2005 level


7.Musa paramjitiana---Wild Banana species discovered in Andaman and Nicobar Island


8.Travancore Natural History Society---NGO associated with species research


9.Country's Ant man--Musthak Ali

10.Indomalayan bioregion---extend from southern India and Sri Lanka to soutg east Asia

11.New Ant specie---Tyrannomyrmex alii---found in Western Ghat

12.Periyar Tiger Reserve--Western Ghat

13.Kambala---traditional buffalo slush track race in Karnataka

14.Belgium---member of EU


15.SHe Box--

-online complaint management system for women in Public and Private organisation for women to lodge complaint of sexual harrasment at workplace.

-to ensure effective implementation of Sexual Harrasment of Women at Workplace Act,2013


16.Nirbhay--

India's first long range sub-sonic cruise missile

--Can be deployed from.multiple platform

--has the capability to loiter and cruise at .7 mach and at altitude as low as 100 m

17.AstroSat---

India's multi-wavelength space telescope

18.Power subject is in Concurrent List




Tuesday, November 7, 2017

PIB and THEHINDU facts for PRELIMS-07/11/17




1.Jauhar---self immolation among Rajputs in early times.


2.Independent India first voter---Shyam Saran Negi--voted in Kalpa in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh


3.Pulicat Lake---Andhra Pradesh

4.Brown Planthoppers---Pest that attack paddy plant


5.Largest oil exporter of world--Saudi Arabia

6.Nelapattu bird sanctuary ----- Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh

-Migratory Birds--Grey Palicans, Nught herons, open billed storks


7.Peahens frolic bird---found in Delhi

8.India's theme at conference on parties,23 at bomn,Germany is "Conserving now, Preserving future"

9.Conference of parties,22 held at Marrakesh

10.East Asia Summit----in Philippines in 2017


11.Commonwealth head of government meeting will be held in London next year

12.Mysuru gets Best Non-Motorised Transport Award for its Public Bicycle Sharing

Kochi wins Best Urban Transport Initiative Award for fastest completion of its integrated Metro Rail
Hyderabad commended for Traffic Management; Chittor for accident reduction initiative
Awards for Best Urban Transport Practices announced by Central Government at UMI Conference in Hyderabad


Madhya Pradesh: Commendable Urban Mass Transit Initiative for implementing Cluster Based Bus
                                  Transit System
Bhopal : Commendable Initiative for introducing Public Bicycle Sharing  
Noida and Greater Noida: Commendable City Bus Service Project initiative
Andaman        : Commendable Initiative for introducing Special Bus Services for women
Lucknow  Metro Rail Project : Commendable Urban Mass Transit Initiative

13.Shakti---Indian army exercise with France army

14.Garuda---Indian Air Force exercise with France air force




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Qustn
1.Communalism came to world stage with October revolution and it fall off fron the stage with the collapse of Soviet Union. Discuss(12.5)



Monday, November 6, 2017

Newspaper of the day

PIB and THEHINDU facts for PRELIMS-06/11/17




1.East Asia Summit---Will be held ----Philippines in 2017

2.Nagarahole National Park

State--Karnataka

Animals found----Tiger, Elephant

3.GI tag to
-Banaganapalle mangoes of Andhra Pradesh
-Tulaipanji rice of West Bengal
-Darjeeling Tea
-Tirupati Laddu
-Kangra painting
-Nagpur orange
-Kashmir pashmina
-Pochampally ikat of Telangana
-Gobindobhig rice of West bengal
-Durgi stone carvibg of AP
-Etikoppaka toys of AP
-Chakshesang shawl of Nagaland

Given to
1.Agriculture
2.Natural
3.Manufactured

--Granted by--Indian patent office


4.Classical language status to
-1-Tamil
-2-Sanskrit
-3-Kannada
-4-Odia
-5-Telugu
-6-Malayalam


5.Taekwondo---Korean martial art

6.INS Vikrant---India's first domestic carrier---under construction

7.National River of India--Ganga declared in 2008



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