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2022-05-13 07:14:23 Battle of the Ten Kings or Dasarajna Yuddha #GKbyMilitaryChoice @militarychoiceblog Battle of the ten kings is mentioned in the Rig Vedas. This battle is older than the Ramayana. King Sudas was the 16th generation of Emperor Bharata. The battle of the ten… ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-11 18:13:30 Battle of the Ten Kings or Dasarajna Yuddha #GKbyMilitaryChoice @militarychoiceblog

Battle of the ten kings is mentioned in the Rig Vedas. This battle is older than the Ramayana. King Sudas was the 16th generation of Emperor Bharata.

The battle of the ten kings was fought between the Vedic kingdoms of Bharatas and Trtsu-Bharata Sudas in the 14th Century BCE.

The battle took place near River Ravi (Parushni River) in Punjab. The battle leads to the victory of Trtsu-Bharatas. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-09 04:27:28 Important Articles of Constitution of India 2022 #GKbyMilitaryChoice @militarychoiceblog

The Constitution of India has 395 articles contained in 22 parts. It also has 12 schedules. Since its adoption in 26 November, 1949, the constitution has been amended for about 103 times. The total number of Amendment Bills that have been introduced till now in parliament is 126. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-07 05:52:55 GISAT-2 mentioned in a list of planned acquisitions by Indian Navy for year 2022-23 - https://military-choice.blogspot.com/2022/05/gisat-2-mentioned-in-list-of-planned.html ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-06 05:48:55 France’s Naval Group pulls out of India’s P-75I submarine project #GKbyMilitaryChoice

French company Naval Group said it is unable to participate in India's P-75I project, under which six conventional submarines are to be domestically built for the Indian Navy, due to conditions mentioned in the request for proposal (RFP) related to air independent propulsion (AIP) system. Best Book for Current Affairs & General Knowledge Preparation

AIP system allows a conventional submarine to stay submerged in water at higher speeds for a longer period of time.

In June last year, the Defence Ministry had cleared the P-75I project and subsequently, RFPs were issued to two shortlisted Indian companies – private company Larsen and Toubro and State-run Mazagon Docks Limited.

The two Indian companies [called strategic partners] have to tie up with one of the five shortlisted foreign companies – ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (Germany), Navantia (Spain) and Naval Group (France), Daewoo (South Korea) and Rosoboronexport (Russia) – and then respond to the RFP.

Laurent Videau, Country and Managing Director, Naval Group India, said, "Due to certain conditions in the RFP, the two strategic partners could not forward the request to us and few other FOEMs (foreign original equipment manufacturers) and thus we have not been able to place an official bid for the project."

"However, the present RFP requires that the fuel cell AIP (air independent propulsion) be sea proven, which is not the case for us yet since the French Navy does not use such a propulsion system," he said.

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2022-05-05 07:06:43 State of the World’s Forests 2022
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The 2022 edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO), was released on 2nd May 2022. “The State of the World’s Forests” (SOFO) is the flagship publication of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), published every two years. Best Book for Current Affairs & General Knowledge Preparation

The world has lost 420 million hectares (mha), approximately 10.34% of its total forest area in the last 30 years (between 1990 and 2020) due to deforestation.

Though the rate of deforestation was declining, 10 mha of forests were lost every year between 2015 and 2020.

Forests cover 4.06 billion ha (31%) of the earth’s geographical area.

The report stated that 30% of new diseases, reported since 1960, can be attributed to deforestation and land-use change.

Deforestation, particularly in the tropics, has been associated with an increase in infectious diseases such as dengue fever and malaria.

The report suggested three interrelated pathways to achieve green recovery and tackle environmental crises:

• Halting deforestation and maintaining forests
• Restoring degraded lands and expanding agroforestry
• Sustainably using forests and building green value chains.

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2022-05-04 06:38:29 Tribal Freedom Fighters:

Birsa Munda:
• He was born on 15th November 1875. He belonged to the Munda tribe. #GKbyMilitaryChoice @militarychoiceblog

• He spearheaded an Indian tribal religious Millenarian movement during British rule in the late 19th century across the tribal belt of modern-day Jharkhand and Bihar.


Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh: 
• He is considered the Pride of Sonakhan in Chhattisgarh, he looted trader’s grain stock and distributed them amongst the poor after the 1856 famine.

• The sacrifice of Veer Narayan Singh made him a tribal leader and he became the first martyr from Chhattisgarh in the independence struggle of 1857.


Shri Alluri Seetha Ram Raju: 
• He was born on 4th July, 1897 in a village called Mogallu near Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh.

• Alluri is best remembered for leading the Rampa Rebellion against the British in which he organised the tribal people of Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts to revolt against the foreigners.

• He was inspired by the revolutionaries of Bengal to fight against the British government.


Rani Gaidinliu: 
• She was a Naga spiritual and political leader who led a revolt against British rule in India. At the age of 13, she joined the Heraka religious movement of her cousin Haipou Jadonang.

• For her, the Naga people’s journey to freedom was part of India’s wider movement for freedom. She also spread the message of Gandhi ji in Manipur region.


Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu: 
• On 30th June 1855, two years before the Great Revolt of 1857, two Santhal brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu organised 10,000 Santhals and proclaimed a rebellion against the British.

• The tribals took an oath to drive away from the British from their homeland. The Murmu brothers’ sisters Phulo and Jhano also played an active part in the rebellion. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-04 06:35:51 Nilgiri Tahr #GKbyMilitaryChoice @militarychoiceblog

The Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) is the only mountain ungulate in southern India amongst the 12 species present in India.

The Nilgiri tahr is a congener of the Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), found in Kashmir and Bhutan and the Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari), found in Oman and United Arab Emirates.

It is also the state animal of Tamil Nadu.

It is an endemic species of the Western Ghats.

The Nilgiri tahr, which used to be found along the entire stretch of Western Ghats, is presently found only in small fragmented pockets.

Existing populations are under severe stress due to habitat loss and hunting ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-04 06:35:35 Eravikulam National Park #GKbyMilitaryChoice @militarychoiceblog

Rajamala is among the finest Hill Stations in Idukki, Kerala.

Rajamala hills houses the Eravikulam National Park.

The Eravikulam National Park is situated in the Kannan Devan Hills of the southern Western Ghats with an area of 97 sq. km.

The Eravikulam National Park has the highest density and largest surviving population of Nilgiri tahr, the endangered mountain goat.

The park is built mainly with the aim of conserving Nilgiri tahr.

Every twelve years, this place will be carpeted with blue due to the mass flowering of Neelakurinji flowers ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-03 20:00:42 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) #GKbyMilitaryChoice

At the 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a five-fold strategy — termed as the panchamrita — to achieve this feat. These five points include: 

• India will get its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 gigawatt (GW) by 2030

• India will meet 50 per cent of its energy requirements from renewable energy by 2030

• India will reduce the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now onwards till 2030

• By 2030, India will reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by less than 45 per cent

• So, by the year 2070, India will achieve the target of Net Zero ओपन / कमेंट