News of The Day – 17th August 2024 |
Sources: The Hindu, Indian Express, Live Mint, Business Standard, Economic Times, and PIB. |
| News Headline | Source | Syllabus | What To Know? |
| Kerala High Court launches state’s first virtual court in Kollam district | Indian Express | GS 2: Polity and Governance | - About-Court Integrated Mission Mode Project
- Advantages of the Project
- What Steps have the Courts Taken for Digitisation of Judiciary?
- Why is Digitisation of Judiciary a Need?
- Potential Challenges in the Digitisation of Judiciary
- Steps can be Taken to Promote the Digitisation of Judiciary
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| ‘Bangladesh Plus One’ prospect beckons India’s textiles industry | Livemint | GS 2: International Relations | - How the Bangladesh Political Crisis will impact Indian textile market
- Blessing in disguise to Indian textile manufactures
- Significance of the Indian textile sector
- Growth drivers of the textile sector
- Challenges faced by the textile sector
- Government initiatives to promote the growth of the textile sector
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| Centre’s guidelines for special assistance to states finalised, Rs 10,000 crore for land reforms | Indian Express | GS 3: Economy | - Recent Announcements For Land Reforms Under the Scheme
- Major Initiatives Undertaken for Land Reforms
- Recent Initiatives:
- Challenges and Steps That Can Be Taken for Land Reforms
- About Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) or Bhu-Aadhaar for all lands;
- About digitisation of cadastral maps
- About survey of map sub-divisions according to current ownership
- About Establishment of a land registry
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| The essence of India’s inflation problem | The Hindu | GS 3: Economy | - About core inflation
- Food Price Inflation and Disinflation in India
- About Consumer Food Price Inflation (CFPI)
- About Consumer Price Inflation (CPI)
- Causes Behind Food Price Inflation
- Government measures to control food inflation
- Impact of Food Inflation
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| ISRO’s SSLV successfully launches earth observation satellite into orbit | The Hindu | GS 3: Science and Technology | - About Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)
- About Earth Observation Satellite (EOS)
- About EOS-08 and SR-0 Demosat passenger satellite
- objectives of the SSLV-D3-EOS-08 mission
- Technological Advancements
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| World Investment Report | UNCTAD | GS 3: Economy | - About World Investment Report
- Key highlights of the report
- about the UN Conference on Trade and Development
- FDI Trend in India
- Reasons for Declining FDI Trend
- Impact on Sustainable Development Goals
- Digital Government
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| What is the Gross Environment Product Index? | The Week | GS 3: Environment | - About Gross Environment Product (GEP)
- Evolution of GEP
- Need of GEP
- Advantages of GEP
- Significance of Gross Environment Product (GEP)
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| Centre finalises tender to procure 1,000 GPUs under IndiaAI Mission | Indian Express | GS 3: Science and Technology | - About graphics processing units (GPUs)
- How does a GPU work?
- Applications
- About IndiaAI Mission
- Key components of the mission
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| How an asteroid from beyond Jupiter ended the age of dinosaurs | Indian Express | GS 3: Science and Technology | - About Asteroid
- Asteroid Classifications
- How Asteroids Get Their Names
- About ruthenium
- Impact of Collision
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| How James Webb Space Telescope has raised questions in cosmology | Indian Express | GS 3: Science and Technology | - About James Webb Space Telescope
- Features of James Webb Space Telescope
- Objectives of JWST
- Significance of JWST
- James Webb Space Telescope vs Hubble Telescope
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| The Californium that wasn’t — how ‘radioactive’ substance kept Bihar’s Gopalganj police on edge | Indian Express | GS 3: Science and Technology | - What is radioactivity?
- About Californium
- Properties
- Applications
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| Microwave ovens host thriving communities of microbes: What a new study says | Indian Express | GS 3: Science and Technology | - About bacteria Klebsiella, Enterococcus, and Aeromonas
- What’s extremophiles?
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