The Hindu
GS1: World History
- ‘General feared Trump’s Reichstag-style takeover’ The Pentagon's top general feared late last year that then-president Donald Trump would abrogate the constitution to retain power in a move resembling Adolf Hitler's 1933 Reichstag takeover, according to a new book
GS2: Statutory, Regulatory and various Quasi-judicial Bodies.
- NHRC panel seeks CBI probe into Bengal riots The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) committee formed to probe complaints of post-poll violence in West Bengal has recommended that cases of heinous crimes be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
GS2: Indian Constitution—Historical Underpinnings, Evolution, Features, Amendments, Significant Provisions and Basic Structure.
- SC to examine plea challenging sedition The petition said there is need to take into account the “march of the times and the development of the law” before dealing with Section 124-A
GS3: Indian Economy, inflation
- Growing precarity Fuel levies must be cut to ease the burden on consumers reeling under rising inflation
Indian Express
GS2: India and neighbourhood relation
- Explained: India’s Afghan investment The Taliban's possible triumph threatens not just India's diplomatic stakes in Afghanistan, but also 20 years and $3 billion worth of Indian investment in various projects — dams, roads, trade infrastructure.
GS3: Environmental degradation
- Explained: Why the Amazon forests are no longer acting as a carbon sink Not only the Amazon rainforests, some forests in Southeast Asia have also turned into carbon sources in the last few years.
GS2: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
- India drafts simpler drone rules, plans to create corridor for cargo delivery The draft rules plan to reduce drone charges to nominal levels irrespective of the size of it. There would also be no restriction on drone operations by foreign-owned companies registered in India.
GS3: Agriculture
- India’s first monk fruit cultivation exercise begins in HP’s Kullu The ‘monk fruit’ from China, which is known for its properties as non-caloric natural sweetener, was Monday introduced for field trials in Himachal Pradesh by the Palampur-based Council of Scientific Research and Industrial Technology-Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (CSIR-IHBT) in Kullu.
GS3: Science and Tech
- Explained: As monsoon advances, how Doppler radars help track, forecast weather Observing the time required for the beam to be transmitted and returned to the radar allows weather forecasting departments to "see" raindrops in the atmosphere, and measure their distance from the radar.
PIB Corner
GS2: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurates and dedicates PRASHAD projects in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh The ‘National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive’ (PRASHAD) is a Central Sector Scheme fully financed by the Government of India launched by the Ministry of Tourism in the year 2014-15 with the objective of integrated development of identified pilgrimage and heritage destinations.
DownToEarth
GS2: Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health
- COVID-19: Child immunisation pushed back by years in India during 2020 The anti-measles vaccine coverage has come down to 89 per cent for the first dose. It was 93 per cent in 2018. For the second dose, it has come down to 84 per cent. This rate is well below the 95 per cent recommended by WHO to protect against measles – often the first disease to resurge when children are not inoculated with vaccines and insufficient to stop other vaccine-preventable diseases.
