Weekly Current Affairs Mains ( 14th to 20th JANUARY, 2020)
Topic : Carbon Storage in Evergreen Forest
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 3: Ecology & Environment
Context-
The team identified the trees, measured their girth and height in 250 square plots inside the Anamalai Tiger Reserve and used the measurements to estimate carbon storage in different forests and plantation types.
They then used satellite data from Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, Rajiv Gandhi Tiger Reserve, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary and Bhadra Tiger Reserve, along with Anamalai to assess the rate of carbon capture and how they varied across years (2000-2018)
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Topic : RBI’s Operation Twist
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 3: Indian Economy
Context:
It is the first time the RBI has conducted special Open Market Operation (OMOs) of this kind, similar to the ‘Operation Twist’ carried out in the United States in 2011.
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Topic : Death Penalty in India
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 2: Indian Governance: Judiciary
Context:
President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy plea of death row convict in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case. Delhi court subsequently issued a fresh death warrant to hang all four convicts in Tihar jail on February 1.
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Topic : Dallol Geothermal Field
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 1: Indian Geography
Content:
Geothermal energy is the heat derived within the sub-surface of the earth. Water and/or steam carry the geothermal energy to the Earth’s surface.
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Topic : Infant-Mortality-Rate
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 1: Indian Society
Context:
The J.K Lone Hospital in Kota, Rajasthan is seeing an increasing number of deaths of infants. Amid the outrage caused by the infants’ death, disturbing figures of similar deaths emerged from Jodhpur and Bikaner as well as Rajkot and Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Reports indicate that the cause for these increasing infant deaths is the poor quality of infrastructure in public hospitals. The low-quality public healthcare has a huge impact on the nation’s Infant mortality rate – the indicator of the quality of a country’s healthcare system.
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