Category: Prelims C A
Maa Danteshwari Temple
Prime Minister visited Maa Danteshwari Temple in Chhattisgarh.
Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF)
A cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in north Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the Teesta River basin.
Prelims Facts Corner – 04 October 2023
Sammakka- Sarakka, Staghorn coral, TIR Convention, 1975
How Tiger Reserves are notified?
Bihar to get Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary as the state’s 2nd tiger reserve after the Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR).
UN Framework to Protect Environment from Harmful Chemicals
“Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste” was adopted at Fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) in Bonn, Germany.
5G ecosystem
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has today issued a Consultation Paper on “Digital Transformation through 5G Ecosystem”.
2023 Nobel Prize in physics – Attosecond Physics
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, for their “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 – mRNA vaccines
Medicine Nobel 2023 awarded to Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman for their work in mRNA vaccines.
Prelims Facts Corner – 03 October 2023
R21/Matrix-M vaccine, FSSAI Prohibits Use of Newspapers for Food Packing, Green Ammonia, Pink Bollworm (PBW)
Sundarbans as global commons
Experts from India and Bangladesh believe that climate change triggered loss and damage in the Sundarbans, should be seen as a “global commons”.
Surety Bonds
Surety Insurance Bonds market – an alternative to bank guarantees in infrastructure projects — has failed to take off in the last three years due to technical and financial impediments.
Tera Hertz Range (THR)
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a “Consultation Paper on Open and De-licensed use of Unused or Limited Used Spectrum Bands for Demand Generation for Limited Period in Tera Hertz Range”.