Dr. B R AMBEDKAR IAS ACADEMY

2021-05-23 05:48:05 Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria. Open / Comment

2021-05-23 05:15:05 What is Non-refoulement?

It is the principle under international law that a person fleeing from persecution from his own country should not be forced to return. Open / Comment

2021-05-23 05:02:05 The Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE): The Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme is an international collaboration that measures the levels, trends and causes of elephant mortality, thereby providing an information base to support international decision-making related to conservation of elephants in Asia and Africa.
The MIKE Programme was established by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1997. Open / Comment

2021-05-23 05:01:05 Solar geoengineering is a term used to describe a group of hypothetical technologies that could, in theory, counteract temperature rise by reflecting more sunlight away from the Earth’s surface.

From sending a giant mirror into space to spraying aerosols in the stratosphere, the range of proposed techniques all come with unique technical, ethical and political challenges. Open / Comment

2021-05-23 04:29:10 The Khasi people are an indigenous ethnic group of Meghalaya in north-eastern India with a significant population in the bordering state of Assam, and in certain parts of Bangladesh.
The Khasi people form the majority of the population of the eastern part of Meghalaya, and is the state's largest community, with around 48% of the population of Meghalaya.
They are among the few Austroasiatic-speaking peoples in South Asia. A cultural tradition of the Khasi people is that they follow the matrilineal system of descent and inheritance. Under the Constitution of India, the Khasis have been granted the status of Scheduled Tribe. Open / Comment

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2021-05-22 08:47:50 The objective of Project RE-HAB (Reducing Elephant – Human Attacks using Bees) is to thwart elephant attacks in human habitations using honey bees and thus reducingloss of lives of both, humans as well as elephants. The pilot project was launched at four locations around village Chelur in Kodagu district of Karnataka on 15th March, 2021 by KVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena. These spots are located on the periphery of Nagarhole National Park and Tiger Reserve and prone to human-elephant conflicts. The total cost of the RE-HAB project is just Rs. 15 lakh.

Project RE-HAB is a sub-mission under KVIC’s National Honey Mission. While the Honey Mission is a programme to increase the bee population, honey production and beekeepers’ income by setting up apiaries, Project RE-HAB uses bee boxes as a fence to prevent the attack of elephants. Open / Comment

2021-05-22 08:47:01 What was Chipko Movement

The Chipko movement was a Gandhian form of protest against deforestation by locals in the Himalayan region. To stop deforestation, locals - primarily women - would make circles around trees and stop men from cutting them down.

The first Chipko action took place in April 1973 in Mandal village, now in Uttarakhand, and spread over the next five years to many Himalayan districts. Open / Comment

2021-05-22 08:46:01 The Union Health Ministry urged the states to make mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897. Open / Comment

2021-05-22 08:42:01 A notifiable disease means the government has to be mandatorily informed about any case that is detected. Among the other notifiable diseases in the country are tuberculosis, cholera and diphtheria.
Black fungus is the recent entry in the notifiable disease after covid-19. Open / Comment