News of The Day – 13 February 2024

Sources: The Hindu, Indian Express, Live Mint, Business Standard, Economic Times, and PIB.

GS 1: Women’s Issues & Women’s Empowerment

GS3: Science and Technology

• What is Alliance for Global Good – Gender Equity and Equality? 
• What is the difference between gender equity and gender equality?
• What are Key Gender-related Issues?
• What are the Major Reasons for Gender Discrimination against Women?
• Key Government Initiatives for Gender Empowerment?

• What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)?
• What are Ocean Current Systems and Its Types?
• What are the Factors that Influence Ocean Currents?
• What are the Effects of Ocean Currents?

• Key Observation of SC in Case.
• What does the Council of Ministers (CoM) constitute?
• What is the significance of the CoM in a Parliamentary democracy?

• What is the UAPA Act 1967? 
• What are the Key Provisions?
• What are the Arguments in favour and Arguments against UAPA?
• What is the Judiciary’s View?

• Governors Address: Constitutional history
• Constitutional Provisions Related to the Governor’s Address to the Legislature
• What are the functions of the Governor concerning addressing the assembly of the state?
• Implications: If the governor refuses/fails to deliver the assembly address?
• What is the Judiciary’s View

• What is The Weimar Triangle?
• What is the Significance and Role of this Group?
• Additional Reading: Russia-Ukrain Crisis.

• What is the anti-profiteering under GST?
• National Anti-profiteering Authority
• Additional Reading: What is GST?

• What is the Key finding of the Report?
• What is wasteland and distribution of wasteland in India?
• What is Agroforestry? Rejuvenation of wasteland through Agroforestry?

• What is the Consumer Price Index?
• Types, Base Year.
• What are Trends in Retail Inflation?
• What is the Impact of Inflation on various economic activities?

• What is ‘Index for Industrial Production?
• Trends, Base Year and Significance.
• Additional Reading:  National Statistical Office (NSO) and Its Mandate.

• What is the Merchant Shipping Act 1958?
• What are the Objectives and Key Provisions?
• What are the critical Provisions of The Merchant Shipping Bill of 2016?
• What is the Need for Reform and Challenges in the Sector?

• What is the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF)?
• What is the Significance of this fund?
• Additional Reading: Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) and Convention on Biological Diversity

• What is the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) of Wild Animals?
• India and the CMS: Key Outcome of 13th COP Gandhinagar

• What is the Geographic location of  Thanthai Periyar Sanctuary?
• What are forest villages?
• What is the Forest Rights Act?
• Additional Reading: Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve of Tamil Nadu, the Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary, and the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary of Karnataka.

• What is the Black hole?
• Types of Black Holes and Their Importance in Astro-Sciences
• Additional Reading: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). 

• What is Project Smart Gram Panchayat: Key Features?
• What is the Significance of the Project?
• Additional Reading: PM-WANI

• What is the Large Hadron Collider?
• What is The Significance Of LHC in Particle Physics?
• What is Dark Matter?
• Additional Reading: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).