CURRENT AFFAIRS TRICKS

CURRENT AFFAIRS TRICKS 

yours quick revision of curent affairs in short

23 september 2019

daily current affairs 

1.INDIA-US-RELATION(HOUSTON TEXAS--HOWDY MODI)

• ARTICLE 370
• BORDER SECURITY
• TERRORISM
• COMMUNITIES -SAFE AND PROTECTED
• HOUSTON---ENERGY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD;OIL CAPITAL OF USA

2.INTERNET-OXYGEN OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Department of Telecommunications (DoT) 
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL) 

3. Garba, a dance style which originated in Gujarat

4.Cannabis legalised for medicinal and industrial use may give Manipur’s start­up dream a high

• cannabis, or marijuana
• Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
• opium poppy...Papaver somniferum....USES....
• Poppy seeds and oil,Opiates,Ornamental cultivation,Medicine.......ANALGESIC...ANALGESIA...PAIN KILLER...Turkey and India are the major producers of poppy for medicinal purposes and poppy-based drugs, such as morphine or codeine
• Manipur is on the edge of the Golden Triangle of drug trade, comprising Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and China.
• Golden CRESCENT---The Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being theGolden Triangle), located at the crossroads of Central, South, andWestern Asia. This space overlaps three nations, Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, whose mountainous peripheries define the crescent

5.BIOMINE--LANDFILLS

BIO MINING/ BIOREMIDIATION:  IS THE TREATMENT OF GARBAGE THROUGH VARIOUS PROCESSES TO REDUCE POLLUTING ELEMENTS IT INVOLVES:

• EXCAVATION OF LANDFILLS USING EARTH MOVING MACHINES
• THE DUG UP MATERIAL IS TURNED OVER,AERATED FOR DECOMPOSITION
• THE MATERIAL IS THEN SEGREGATED
• POST SEGREGATION: CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION MATERIALS CAN BE USED IN CEMENT PLANTS
• CLOTH AND OTHER DERIVATIVE MATERIALS CAN BE USED AS REFUSED-DERIVED FUEL
• REMAINING MATERIAL CAN  BE USED FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION

• WASTE TO USE .......WASTE TO VALUE

6.Aquifer Storage & Recovery for Sustainable Agriculture” (ASRA) 

FOR THIS TOPIC PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW-----

(ASRA)

7.Siddharth Zoo IS IN AURANGABAD Byculla Zoo IS in Mumbai

8.Heartburn drug...

• Zantac.......U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA.....presence of human carcinogen called NDMA, or N-­Nitrosodimethylamine in Zantac and its generic forms
• In India Ranitidine (some versions of Zantac is is also known by the generic name ranitidine) is used for treating gastrointestinal disorders and discomfort

9.UN Climate Action Summit

some recent climate change instances:

• reports that the five years since 2015 is set to be the warmest of any equivalent recorded period, sea level rise is accelerating, and oceans have become 26% more acidic since the dawn of the Industrial era
• Hurricane Dorian rendered large parts of the Bahamas unliveable; and witnessed simultaneous raging fires in the Amazon, central Africa and even Siberia
• the heat wave in France and Germany was made eight to 10 times more likely by climate change

A number of small and mid­sized countries, including the United Kingdom, have already committed to achieving the objective of making their economies net carbon neutral by 2050 (that is, the sum of emissions and uptake of carbon through ‘sinks’ such as forests is zero). 

portfolios:

•  furthering and accelerating an energy transition toward low­carbon energy, making cities more climate friendly and more resilient to climate disruption, and starting the process of turning energy intensive sectors such as steel and cement more carbon friendly. Notably, domestic objectives are central to these conversations: promoting solar energy for energy security reasons; making cities more liveable; and making industries more efficient and therefore competitive.

10.Jallianwala Bagh..... Archbishop of Canterbury’s......

• General Dyer’s brutality was justified in the racial climate of those times. He was celebrated as a hero in certain British circles. 
• The Dyer Fund was set up for his survival back in England. What is appalling is that the colonial monstrosity continued even after April 13, 1919 in Punjab.
•  Martial law was imposed from April 15. The British held summary trials, tortured prisoners and executed Indians. Punjab, which provided the largest number of recruits during World War I, was rewarded with such type of terrible punishment and brought under a rule of terror. 
• Punjab could never be the same again.  On April 19, Dyer promulgated the “crawling order” on a street in Amritsar where a lady missionary, Miss Sherwood, had been attacked. The order instructed people to crawl on all fours through the lane. They were tied to flogging posts and flogged with several stripes

11.Meghalaya ---Residents Safety and Security (MRSS) Act, 2016.......like nrc .....to stop illegal migrants to enter into meghalya....

12.Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries 

Structures comprised by the overall Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Under Article 4 CARICOM breaks its 15 member states into two groups: Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and More Developed Countries (MDCs).

The countries of CARICOM which are designated as Less Developed Countries (LDCs) are:

• Antigua & Barbuda
• Belize
• Commonwealth of Dominica
• Grenada
• Republic of Haiti
• Montserrat
• Federation of St. Kitts & Nevis
• St. Lucia
• St. Vincent & the Grenadines

The countries of CARICOM which are designated as More Developed Countries (MDCs) are:

• Commonwealth of the Bahamas
• Barbados
• Co-operative Republic of Guyana
• Jamaica
• Republic of Suriname
• Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

13. International Fleet Review....India will join Bangladesh to commemorate 100 years of ‘Bangabandhu’, the founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in 2020, and an International Fleet Review in 2021 to mark 50 years of the Liberation of Bangladesh, of­ ficial sources said. Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh is on a visit to Dhaka where these issues would be discussed along with other maritime and security issues

• proposal for a joint boat expedition with veterans from both sides to retrace the voyage of the Mukti Jodha from Khulna to Hoshangabad during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971
• proposal to bring Bangladesh into India’s coastal radar chain network
•  Navy already imparts extensive training to Bangladesh at all levels and also provides assistance in hydrography among others.

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