Category: Prelims C A
Kolleru Lake
Andhra Pradesh Forest Department to prepare an inventory of land use adjacent to the Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary for declaring it an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) for conservation of the Kolleru Lake ecosystem.
National Turmeric Board
Centre recently notified the constitution of the National Turmeric Board, a long-standing demand of turmeric farmers across the country.
2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Quantum Dots
The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
Prelims Facts Corner – 05 October 2023
Gravity battery, Greenwashing, SAMPRITI-XI Exercise
Critical Minerals
The first-ever International Energy Agency (IEA) Critical Minerals and Clean Energy Summit held at Paris, France recently.
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.”