News of The Day: 25th January 2024

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

• What are Gallantry awards?
• Who is Eligible for the Awards?
• What is the Wartime Highest Gallantry Award?
• What are the Peacetime Highest Gallantry Awards?

• About Lake Rebta
• Why does the water turn pink?
• About halophilic green algae Dunaliella salina.
• Recommendations to preserve the lake

• About Gilgit-Baltistan:
• What is India’s stand?

• What is the VAIBHAV Fellowship Scheme?

• Key Features of the Scheme

• What is the Doctrine of Separation of Powers?
• What are the Constitutional provisions about the separation of powers between India’s three state organs?
• What are the Instruments of Checks & Balances?
• What are the present challenges with the Separation of Powers?
• What are the various judicial pronouncements

• National Voters’ Day 2024: Date, history, significance, theme of  this year

• Who are the Arambai Tenggol group?
• Why did the group ‘summon’ Manipur’s political representatives?

• What is the Need for UN Reforms?
• What are India’s Proposals to Reform of the UN?
• What are the Major Challenges to Reform of the UN?
• What is the Relevance of the UN in the 21st Century?

• What are the NATO and its Alliances?
• What are the Objectives of NATO?
• How does NATO Function?

• What are the Geneva Conventions?
• What are the provisions for PoWs?

• What is the UN’s Genocide Convention?
• Why did South Africa act against Israel?
• Additional Reading: What is the ICJ and its Mandate?

panchayats’ total revenue: RBI report

• Key Findings and Recommendation of Report
• What is the financing mechanism at local self-government?
• Additional Reading: State Finance Commision, composition and Mandates

• What is VRR and its Significance
• Additional Reading: What is the role of RBI and 
• What are various Monetary Policy instruments?

GS 3: Science and Technology

• What is the ‘Doomsday Clock’?
• What happens if the clock reaches midnight?

GS 3: Science and Technology

• About Leprosy
• Steps Taken by India to Eliminate Leprosy
• World Health Organisation’s Global Leprosy Strategy (2016)

~8K cr for Coal 

Gasification

• What is Coal Gasification?
• What are various Methods  of Coal Gasification?
• What are Need for Coal Gasification?
• Challenges in Coal Gasification:

• What is  melanistic tiger safari?
• Location
• Associated Diversity

GS 3: Internal Security 

• About  Exercise ‘Desert Knight
• What is Significance?