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1) Wet Leasing of Aircraft: In efforts to boost international air traffic, the civil aviation ministry has allowed Indian airlines to take wide-body planes on wet lease for up to one year. it means renting the plane along with operating crew and engineers, while dry leasing refers to taking only the aircraft on rent. TheRead more

1) Red Planet Day: Red Planet Day commemorates the launch of the Mariner 4 spacecraft which is a robotic interplanetary probe, launched by NASA on November 28, 1964. It was the fourth of a series of spacecraft designed to fly past planets, and it became the first to fly past Mars. The gravitational pull ofRead more

1) Fujiwhara Effect : Meteorologists were mesmerized by Typhoon Hinnamnor as it provided a textbook example of a phenomenon known as the Fujiwhara Effect. it is any interaction between tropical storms formed around the same time in the same ocean region with their centres or eyes at a distance of less than 1,400 km, withRead more

1) Amarjeet Sinha committee : It will suggest (within 3 months) what changes in focus and governance structures are required to make MGNREGA more effective. It will look at changes in the cost of providing work, the reasons and recommend ways to bring in a greater focus on poorer areas and whether it should focusRead more

1) Kutia Kondh tribe : The Kutia Kondhs are a particularly vulnerable tribal groups in Kalahandi district, Odisha. These tribals worship nature. The women of this tribe, called the ‘the people of the spirit world,’ ink themselves with beautiful geometric facial tattoos. The Kondhs who live in hill top and valleys are known as KutiaRead more

1) Conrad Sangma panel : The ministerial panel formed under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime for casinos, racetracks, and online gaming is likely to recommend a uniform 28 percent tax rate for the three categories. Currently, online gaming platforms pay 18% GST on the platform fee alone, rather than the total value includingRead more

1) Gutti Koya Tribals : The Koya population is concentrated in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. it is the largest adivasi tribe of Telangana and listed as Scheduled Tribe Koyas speak the Koya language, which is a Dravidian language. Festival: Medaram Jatara is also known as Sammakka Saralamma Jatara. It is the second-largest fairRead more

1) firefighting: or fireproofing approach in foreign policy is a reaction or a response to any initiative or incident in international politics. Firefighting attaches itself to reactive responses to crises that arise from the Lack of preparedness, Lack of capacity, and Lack of national will and cohesion between different instruments of statecraft.   2) RH-200Read more

1) Great Knot: A great knot from Russia, belonging to the endangered Calidris tenuirostris (Horsfield, 1821), has found its way to Kerala’s coast, flying over 9,000 km for a winter sojourn. The Great Knot is an international migratory wading bird that travels vast distances between the northern hemisphere breeding grounds and southern hemisphere summer feedingRead more

1) POSCO Act analysis: The analysis, titled ‘A Decade of POCSO’, was carried out by the Justice, Access and Lowering Delays in India (JALDI) Initiative in collaboration with the DE JURE program at the World Bank. The analysis has found that 43.44% of trials under POCSO end in acquittals while only 14.03% end in convictions.Read more