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2021-07-02 08:17:28 What is a heat dome? @militarychoiceblog

According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of US department of commerce, a heat dome occurs when the atmosphere traps hot ocean air like a lid or cap.

The phenomenon begins when there is a strong change (or gradient) in ocean temperatures. In the process known as convection, the gradient causes more warm air, heated by the ocean surface, to rise over the ocean surface, according to NOAA.

As prevailing winds move the hot air east, the northern shifts of the jet stream trap the air and move it toward land, where it sinks, resulting in heat waves.

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2021-07-01 05:09:46 21 - 27 Jun 2021 Weekly Current Affairs Notes @militarychoiceblog

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1 Sardar Sarovar Dam is providing irrigation water in summer for the first time in history. It is a terminal dam built on the Narmada river at Kevadia in Gujarat’s Narmada district.

2 NTPC has been recognised as a 'Great Place to Work' for the 15th year in a row by the Great Place to Work Institute. NTPC is the only PSU to consistently feature in India's Top 50 Best Workplaces. This year NTPC ranked 38th, up from 47th position last year.

3 POWERGRID has fully commissioned India’s First Voltage Source Convertor (VSC) based High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) System.

4 The GoI has constituted an Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Professor Ajit Mishra on fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Wages to the Government.

5 The ace Indian archer Deepika Kumari, created a new world record as she claimed three back-to-back gold medals in a single day, during the Archery World Cup Stage 3, held in Paris.

6 Indian Naval Ship Trikand, participated in the maiden IN – EUNAVFOR Joint Naval Exercise in the Gulf of Aden. A total of five warships from four navies participated in the exercise on 18th and 19th June 2021 coordinated by European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR). Read Top 50 Defence Current Affairs here

7 Journalist Palagummi Sainath has been awarded the Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021.

8 New Zealand defeated India to win the first ICC World Test Championship. New Zealand chased down the target of 139 to win the first-ever World Test Championship final with eight wickets in hand.

9 Nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Agni-P (Prime), an advanced version of the ‘Agni-1’ missile, was successfully test-fired by the DRDO. The ‘Agni-P’ is a short-range surface to surface missile that will have a range of 1000 km to 1500 km.

10 Sajan Prakash becomes the 1st Indian swimmer to qualify for Tokyo 2020 in men’s 200m butterfly.

11 The GoI has extended the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India Phase II (FAME Phase II) by 2 yrs. Launched in April 2019 for 3 years, the scheme is extended till 2024.

12 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, Indian pioneer industrialist and founder of the Tata Group, has topped the inaugural, EdelGive Hurun Philanthropists of the Century list, which ranks the world’s 50 most generous individuals in the last century.

13 Shafali Verma became the youngest Indian cricketer to make her debut across formats after being picked for the 1st ODI against England Women. She became the 5th youngest cricketer in the world.

14 The world’s first genetically modified (GM) rubber sapling was planted in Rubber Board’s Sarutari research farm in Guwahati in Assam. It was developed by the Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), Kottayam, Kerala.

15 Indian archer Abhishek Verma won a gold medal in the men's individual compound event in Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris, France. He is the first Indian man to win two World Cup gold medals in an individual compound event.

16 The ultra-conservative cleric and judiciary chief of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has been elected as the 8th president of the country.

17 The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has expanded the definition of Small and Medium-sized companies (SMCs). Now, an SMC is an unlisted company with sales of up to Rs 250 crore and borrowings up to Rs 50 cr. Except, Banks and financial institutions.

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2021-06-30 05:39:20 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee or Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838 – 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet and journalist. @militarychoceblog

• He is known as Sahitya Samrat (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali. He wrote fourteen novels and many serious, serio-comic, satirical, scientific and critical treatises in Bengali.

• He also received the title of Rai Bahadur in 1891.

• One of his brothers, Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay was also a novelist and is known for his book "Palamau". 

• Chattopadhyay's earliest publications were in Ishwar Chandra Gupta's weekly newspaper Sangbad Prabhakar.

• Durgeshnandini (Daughter of the Feudal Lord) is a Bengali historical romance novel written by Indian writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865.

Durgeshnandini is the first Bengali novel written by him as well as the first major Bengali novel in the history of Bengali literature.

• Anandamath is a Bengali fiction, written by him and published in 1882. It is inspired by and set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century. Vande Mataram as the Motherland was published in this novel.

• Vande Mataram (also pronounced Bande Mataram) is a Bengali poem, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee , originally in Sanskrit, in 1870s, which he included in his 1882 novel Anandamath.

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2021-06-29 21:02:27 Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972) @militarychoiceblog

He is considered the father of modern statistics in India, founded the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), shaped the Planning Commission (which was replaced by the NITI Ayog on 1st January 2015) and pioneered methodologies for large-scale surveys.

He introduced innovative techniques for conducting large-scale sample surveys, calculated acreages and crop yields, using the method of random sampling.

◦ He also devised a statistical method called ‘Fractile Graphical Analysis’, used to compare socio-economic conditions of varied groups.

Timeline:

◦ 1930: Proposed the Mahalanobis Distance for the first time, which is a measure of comparison between two data sets.

• The formula is used to find the distance between a point and a distribution, based on measurements in multiple dimensions. It is widely used in the field of cluster analysis and classification.

◦ 1932: Founded the ISI in Kolkata which was declared as an institute of national importance in 1959.

◦ 1933: Launched ‘Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics’.

◦ 1950: Established the National Sample Survey and set up the Central Statistical Organisation to coordinate statistical activities.

◦ 1955: Became a member of the Planning Commission and continued in that capacity till 1967.

• He was instrumental in formulating India’s second five-year-plan (1956-1961), which laid the blueprint for industrialisation and development in India.

◦ 1968: Honoured with the Padma Vubhushan.

• He was also conferred a large number of awards by international organisations.

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2021-06-29 07:53:58 Project Seabird-Phase II: @militarychoiceblog

◦ Project Seabird involves construction of a naval base over an area of 11,169 acres.

◦ Phase I comprised construction of a deep-sea harbour, breakwaters dredging, a township, a naval hospital, a dockyard uplift centre and a ship lift. It was completed in 2005.

◦ Phase-II of Project Seabird was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security in 2012. It envisages expanding facilities to house additional warships and set up a new Naval Air Station, among other plans.

◦ INS Kadamba is currently the third-largest Indian naval base, and is expected to become the largest naval base in the eastern hemisphere after completion of expansion Phase II.

◦ The Navy’s lone aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is based at Karwar. The base also has the country’s first sealift facility, a unique “shiplift” and transfer system for docking and undocking ships and submarines.

◦ The project involves several technical and environmental challenges.

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2021-06-29 04:45:08 Geographical Location of Black Sea: @militarychoiceblog

◦ The Black Sea, also known as the Euxine Sea, is one of the major water bodies and a famous inland sea of the world.

◦ This marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

◦ It is surrounded by the Pontic, Caucasus, and Crimean Mountains in the south, east and north respectively.

◦ The Turkish straits system - the Dardanelles, Bosporus and Marmara Sea - forms a transitional zone between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

◦ The Black Sea is also connected to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.

◦ The bordering countries of Black Sea are: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.

Anoxic Water:

◦ There is a significant absence of oxygen in the water.

◦ The Black Sea happens to be the largest water body with a meromictic basin, which means the movement of water between the lower and upper layers of the sea is a rare phenomenon to find anywhere in the world.

◦ The anoxic condition is also caused due to the presence of the process of Eutrophication in sea.

Anoxic Waters

Anoxic waters are areas of sea water, fresh water, or groundwater that are depleted of dissolved oxygen and are a more severe condition of hypoxia.

This condition is generally found in areas that have restricted water exchange.

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2021-06-29 04:44:53 Geographical Location of Black Sea: @militarychoiceblog

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2021-06-27 07:01:52 21 - 27 Jun 2021 Weekly Current Affairs Notes @militarychoiceblog

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1 NTPC has been recognised as a 'Great Place to Work' for the 15th year in a row by the Great Place to Work Institute. NTPC is the only PSU to consistently feature in India's Top 50 Best Workplaces. This year NTPC ranked 38th, up from 47th position last year.

2 The GoI has constituted an Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Professor Ajit Mishra on fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Wages to the Government.

3 Indian Naval Ship Trikand, participated in the maiden IN – EUNAVFOR Joint Naval Exercise in the Gulf of Aden. A total of five warships from four navies participated in the exercise on 18th and 19th June 2021 coordinated by European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR). Read Top 50 Defence Current Affairs here

4 New Zealand defeated India to win the first ICC World Test Championship. New Zealand chased down the target of 139 to win the first-ever World Test Championship final with eight wickets in hand.

5 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, Indian pioneer industrialist and founder of the Tata Group, has topped the inaugural, EdelGive Hurun Philanthropists of the Century list, which ranks the world’s 50 most generous individuals in the last century.

6 The world’s first genetically modified (GM) rubber sapling was planted in Rubber Board’s Sarutari research farm in Guwahati in Assam. It was developed by the Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), Kottayam, Kerala.

7 The ultra-conservative cleric and judiciary chief of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has been elected as the 8th president of the country.

8 The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has expanded the definition of Small and Medium-sized companies (SMCs). Now, an SMC is an unlisted company with sales of up to Rs 250 crore and borrowings up to Rs 50 cr. Except, Banks and financial institutions. 

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2021-06-24 19:26:47 Recently, the Ramgarh Vishdhari wildlife sanctuary received a nod from the National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) technical committee to become the 4th Tiger reserve of Rajasthan. @militarychoiceblog

Other Three Tiger Reserves:
Rajasthan has three tiger reserves with over 90 big cats at Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Sawai Madhopur, Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) in Alwar, and Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve (MHTR) in Kota.

Other Protected Areas in Rajasthan:
Desert National Park, Jaisalmer
Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur
Sajjangarh wildlife sanctuary, Udaipur
National Chambal Sanctuary (on tri-junction of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh). ओपन / कमेंट

2021-06-24 19:25:12 Project Tiger @militarychoiceblog

It was launched in 1973 with 9 tiger reserves for conserving our national animal, the tiger.

It is an ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

Currently, the Project Tiger coverage has increased to 51 Tiger reserves, spread out in 18 tiger range states which amounts to around 2.21% of the geographical area of our country.

The tiger reserves are constituted on a core/buffer strategy. The core areas have the legal status of a national park or a sanctuary, whereas the buffer or peripheral areas are a mix of forest and non-forest land, managed as a multiple use area.

The NTCA was launched in 2005, following the recommendations of the Tiger Task Force. It is a statutory body of the Ministry, with an overarching supervisory/coordination role, performing functions as provided in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

M-STrIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers - Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) is an app based monitoring system, launched across Indian tiger reserves by the NTCA in 2010.

Protection Status of Tiger

Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: Schedule I

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List: Endangered.

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Appendix I.

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