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Every Monday, UPSC Current Affairs Pointers successful UPSC Essentials purpose to spell beyond the headlines and supply contented applicable to your UPSC Prelims, State PCS, and different competitory examinations.
Report
— According to a caller survey published successful Nature Journal, Carbon commercialized has been mostly ineffective till now, and lone a precise tiny fig of projects person resulted successful existent emissions reduction.
— The survey looked astatine thousands of projects that unneurotic generated c credits worthy 1 cardinal tonnes of c dioxide equivalent, and recovered that lone 16 per cent of these credits represented existent reductions successful emissions.
— Carbon markets let for commercialized successful c credits by incentivising emissions reductions. An concern portion that outperforms its emanation standards, meaning that it produces little emissions than it is mandated to, tin gain c credits. Another unit, which is struggling to conscionable its emissions standards, tin bargain these credits.
— The Nature survey recovered that the most effectual emissions reductions happened successful projects that progressive the abatement of HFC-23 chemicals.
— HFC-23, besides known arsenic trifluoromethane, is produced during the manufacture of a communal refrigerant state called HCFC-22, belonging to the hydrochlorofluorocarbon family. HFC-23 has 14,800 times much imaginable to origin planetary warming arsenic compared to c dioxide.
— According to a caller study by Global Carbon Project, an organisation that quantifies the world’s greenhouse state (GHG) emissions, India’s c dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels are expected to summation by 4.6% successful 2024, the highest among large economies.
— Globally, fossil-based CO2 emissions are acceptable to interaction a grounds precocious of 37.4 cardinal tonnes this year, a emergence of 0.8% from 2023.
— At this rate, determination is “a 50% accidental planetary warming volition transcend 1.5 grade Celsius consistently successful astir six years”.
Event
India has the sixth-highest fig of sites globally. Having 42 World Heritage Sites, it boasts 34 cultural, 7 natural, and 1 mixed. (Taj Mahal, Source: X/@Blwetorch)
— Every year, November 19 to November 25 is celebrated arsenic World Heritage Week 2024, nether the taxable “Discover and Experience Diversity.”
— This yearly planetary observance marks the practice sites recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
— The roots of this week were created by UNESCO successful 1945 to beforehand motivation and intelligence unity pursuing 2 catastrophic satellite wars arsenic a mode to enactment enduring satellite peace.
International Cooperation
— Nigeria has conferred its second-highest nationalist award, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, connected Prime Minister Narendra Modi, making him the 2nd overseas dignitary to person the favoritism aft Queen Elizabeth, who was conferred the grant successful 1969.
— The PM is successful Nigeria connected the archetypal limb of his three-nation sojourn astatine the invitation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This sojourn is the archetypal by an Indian PM to Nigeria successful 17 years.
— Three MoUs — the Cultural Exchange Programme, Customs Cooperation and Survey Cooperation — were signed during the visit.
— Nigeria is referred to arsenic the “Giant of Africa” due to the fact that its system is the fourth-largest successful the continent and its colonisation the largest.
— Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred ‘The Order of Excellence’ by Guyanese President Irfaan Ali.
— He was awarded the highest nationalist grant of Guyana for his exceptional work to the planetary community, statesmanship, and publication to deepening India-Guyana ties.
— Modi is the 4th overseas person to beryllium conferred the highest nationalist grant successful Guyana.
Before this, the premier curate was conferred the “Dominica Award of Honour” by President Sylvanie Burton of Dominica connected the sidelines of the India-CARICOM Summit here. (PTI Photo)
— Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred the “Dominica Award of Honour” by President Sylvanie Burton of Dominica connected the sidelines of the India-CARICOM Summit.
— The grant is simply a designation of PM’s statesmanship and publication to Dominica during the COVID-19 pandemic and his committedness to strengthening India-Dominica ties.
- India-Barbados
— Barbados besides conferred the honorary Order of Freedom, its apical grant connected Prime Minister Modi, bringing his tally of planetary honours to 19.
— Brazil launched the Global Alliance for Hunger and Poverty connected Friday astatine the G20 Summit successful Rio with an archetypal 41 participating members.
— The members person pledged to assistance 500 cardinal radical retired of poorness done currency transfers and societal extortion systems.
— The inaugural brings unneurotic developed nations, NGOs, and fiscal institutions to donate wealth and expertise to countries successful need.
— The initiatives see expanding currency transportation programs to scope 500 cardinal people, providing schoolhouse meals to an further 150 cardinal children and assisting 200 cardinal children up to property 6 and large women with wellness programs.
— It volition supply a level for countries to enactment each others’ nationalist policies aimed astatine eradicating hunger and poverty.
— Donors see Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Spain, the European Union, and institutions specified arsenic the World Bank, FAO, and the World Food Programme.
— The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his erstwhile defence curate Yoav Gallant for “crimes against humanity and warfare crimes”.
— The ICC, headquartered successful The Hague, Netherlands, was established nether a 1998 pact called the “Rome Statute”. It “investigates and, wherever warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of interest to the planetary community: genocide, warfare crimes, crimes against humanity and the transgression of aggression.”
— At present, 124 countries are enactment to the Rome Statute, including Britain, Japan, Afghanistan, and Germany. India is not a member, nor are China and the US.
— The ICC was established to prosecute the astir heinous offences lone erstwhile a country’s ineligible machinery was incapable oregon unwilling to act.
— India and Italy person announced the Joint Strategic Action Plan 2025-29 outlining their imaginativeness for collaboration successful a scope of cardinal sectors, including defence, trade, energy, and space.
Environment
The Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla is the 4th tiger reserve successful Chhattisgarh aft Achanakmar, Indravati, and Udanti Sitanadi. (Source: Getty images/Thinkstock)
— The cardinal authorities has notified Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve of Chhattisgarh arsenic the 56th Tiger Reserve successful the state and the 3rd largest tiger reserve successful India.
— With this Chhattisgarh has 4 tiger reserves, the different 3 are Achanakmar, Udanti Sitanadi, and Indravati.
— The constituent units of the Tiger Reserve, Guru Ghasidas National Park and Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary, are dispersed implicit 1,44,000 hectares (1,440 sq km) and 60,850 hectares (608.5 sq km) respectively.
— It is dispersed crossed 4 districts, Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur (MCB), Korea, Surajpur, and Balrampur successful the bluish tribal Sarguja portion of Chhattisgarh.
— The Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla falls betwixt 2 different important tiger reserves located successful Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Palamau, Jharkhand. It is adjacent to Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve, besides successful MP.
— Guru Ghasidas National Park was the past known situation of the Asiatic cheetah successful the country. There are 5 to six tigers astatine the Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve arsenic of now.
— Andhra Pradesh’s Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve is the country’s largest tiger reserve, covering 3,296.31 sq km. Manas Tiger Reserve successful Assam is the 2nd largest with an country of 2,837.1 sq km. Both person 58 tigers.
— One of the issues astatine COP 29 is regarding the close attack for this year’s statement connected the Global Stock Take (GST) which was taken successful Dubai past year.
— Several countries, including India, are objecting to 1 peculiar paragraph mentioned successful the GST which had asked each countries to modulation distant from fossil fuels, triple renewable vigor by 2030, trim emissions of non-CO2 gases including methane, and phase-down coal, among different things.
— Global Stock Take is simply a five-year exercise mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement to instrumentality banal of the advancement being made successful the combat against clime alteration and suggest measures to marque people corrections. The archetypal of these exercises was held successful Dubai past year.
Science and technology
— Scientists person captured an utmost close-up of the dying star WOH G64 that is 1,60,000 airy years away, dwelling successful different galaxy.
— WOH G64 has been imaged with singular sharpness by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). The latest representation reveals that the prima emanates particulate and gas, a motion that it is successful its past stages earlier becoming a supernova triggered by a almighty detonation towards the extremity of a star’s life.
— The WOH G64 is simply a elephantine prima that dwells successful the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf oregon outer postulation that orbits our Milky Way, which besides happens to beryllium 1 of the closest galaxies to us. It was discovered successful the 1970s by Bengt Westerlunds, Olander, and Hedin.
Art and Culture
— The sculpture of Tanesar Mother Goddess was among the 1,400 antiquities valued astatine $10 cardinal returned to India by the US authorities this week.
— It is carved from green-gray schist, and looted from the colony of Tanesara-Mahadeva successful Rajasthan.
The youngest MP successful Parliament, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, made headlines erstwhile she led a accepted haka show successful Parliament connected November 14. (Screenshot from X)
— Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a 22-year-old Maori Party MP, performed a almighty Maori haka successful parliament successful protestation of a contentious Bill.
— The haka is of heavy taste value to Maori individuality and is traditionally performed by warriors connected the battlefield oregon to invited different tribe.
— The Haka traces its roots to the Maori people, the indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of Aotearoa (the Maori sanction for New Zealand). Traditionally, the haka was a ceremonial creation oregon situation performed by warriors earlier battle.
— It was designed to intimidate opponents with synchronised movements, almighty chants, and piercing expressions.
Defence
— India has successfully test-fired the archetypal long-range hypersonic missile disconnected the seashore of Odisha which was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
— It is designed to transportation assorted payloads for ranges greater than 1,500 km. The word “Hypersonic” refers to a velocity astatine slightest 5 times the velocity of dependable (also called Mach-5).
— The 2 types of hypersonic weapons systems are Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) and Hypersonic Cruise Missiles. The HGVs are launched from a rocket earlier gliding to the intended people portion HCMs are powered by air-breathing high-speed engines oregon ‘scramjets’ aft acquiring their target.
- Poorvi Prahar
— A associated workout of the Army, Navy, and Air Force was organised successful Arunachal Pradesh’s Shi-Yomi district.
— This exercise, being conducted from November 10-18, aims to hone the combat effectiveness of the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force successful executing Integrated Joint Operations successful the challenging mountainous terrain of the region.
— In a large escalation of the warfare connected its 1,000th day, Russia connected Tuesday alleged that debris from a US-made ATACMS rocket has fallen successful the Bryansk portion of the country.
— Weeks earlier leaving the White House, Joe Biden provided authorisation to Kyiv to usage the Army Tactical Missile System, besides known arsenic ATACMS, wrong Russia.
— It is simply a surface-to-surface ballistic rocket susceptible of hitting targets astatine up to 300km (186 miles). This scope means that Ukraine whitethorn present beryllium capable to deed targets wrong Russia, including Russian-annexed Crimea.
— The missiles are fuelled by coagulated rocket propellant and travel a ballistic way into the ambiance earlier coming backmost down astatine a precocious velocity and precocious angle, making them hard to intercept.
— In a televised address, Putin said Moscow struck a Ukrainian subject installation with a caller medium-range, hypersonic ballistic rocket known arsenic “Oreshnik” (the hazel).
— Ballistic missiles usage projectile question to present warheads connected a target. They are powered for a comparatively little time, aft which they fto the laws of physics instrumentality them to their target.
— The experimental intermediate-range ballistic rocket (IRBM) was based connected Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) model, and Russia apt possesses lone a fistful of these missiles astatine present.
— According to Western sources, the rocket fired by Russia boasts a scope of arsenic overmuch arsenic 5,500 km, capable to efficaciously people each European metropolis from Russian territory.
Persons successful News
(Just FYI: Noting humanities personalities’ anniversaries immunodeficiency UPSC prep. UPSC often includes specified personalities successful questions, truthful revisiting their lives refreshes your static syllabus.)
— S M Khan, a retired Indian Information Services serviceman and Press Secretary to erstwhile President A P J Abdul Kalam, passed distant successful New Delhi astatine the property of 67.
— He has written a publication titled “The People’s President”, narrating his experiences moving with Dr Kalam.
A 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) serviceman from the Himachal Pradesh cadre, Murthy succeeds Girish Chandra Murmu, who demitted bureau connected Wednesday
— K Sanjay Murthy, a 1989-batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer, volition beryllium the adjacent Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
— He volition win incumbent Girish Chandra Murmu, who is retiring connected November 20.
— Article 148 of the constitution provides for the assignment of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India who shall beryllium appointed by the President and shall lone beryllium removed from bureau successful similar mode and connected similar grounds arsenic a Judge of the Supreme Court.
Places successful News
(Just FYI: The determination of the spot is important, considering that UPSC has asked respective questions astir places that were successful the news, specified arsenic Aleppo and Kirkuk, successful the 2018 UPSC Prelims. The champion mode to retrieve them is to crippled them connected a satellite map.)
— A tiny colony successful Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district, Dhudmaras has been selected by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) for its Best Tourism Village Upgrade programme, highlighting its imaginable for sustainable tourism development.
— Under this, it volition person enactment to heighten tourism infrastructure, beforehand taste heritage, and amended the prime of beingness for residents.
— This year, 55 villages crossed the satellite received the designation of Best Tourism Village nether the UNWTO initiative.
— Dhudmaras is situated successful the bosom of Kanger Valley National Park. Nestled successful dense forests with the Kanger River flowing done it, Dhudmaras offers an idyllic mounting for eco-tourism.
Diljit visits Abu Dhabi arsenic a portion of his DIL-LUMINATI TOUR. (Source: @diljitdosanjh/Instagram)
— Pictures of Diljit Dosanjh from the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque––dressed successful accepted attire––are making rounds connected the Internet.
— It is the largest mosque successful the United Arab Emirates, and 1 of the largest places of worship successful the world.
— The mosque was envisioned by the precocious Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding begetter of the United Arab Emirates.
— The archetypal considerations to physique the Mosque began successful the precocious 1980s, the operation began connected November 5th, 1996, and it opened for worship connected Eid Al Adha successful the twelvemonth 2007.
Sports
(Just FYI: With the unpredictability of the UPSC examinations and questions similar the ICC World Test Championship question 2021, you can’t beryllium definite of anything. It is omniscient to cognize what it is and not spell into excessively overmuch detail.)
Deepika scores arsenic India observe retaining the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 rubric (Hockey India photos)
— India retained the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy rubric with a constrictive 1-0 triumph implicit China aft a hard-fought triumph successful the finale against China.
— Deepika made the lone extremity successful the final. She finished arsenic the tournament’s apical extremity scorer with a tally of 11.
This was India’s 3rd Women’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey title, with this India is present leveled with the Republic of Korea arsenic the astir palmy federation successful the competition’s history.
Terms making buzz
— 3zero club: Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and Pope Francis jointly launched a ‘Pope Francis Yunus 3Zero Club’ successful Rome successful an effort to “usher successful a transformative and inclusive aboriginal for humanity,” it was announced connected Saturday. The 3 Zs basal for zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero nett c emissions.
— Peak Oil: The word “peak oil” utilized to mean the constituent erstwhile planetary accumulation would apical out, earlier wholly moving out.
Test Your Knowledge
(Note: The champion mode to retrieve facts for UPSC and different competitory exams is to callback them done MCQs. Try to lick the pursuing questions connected your own.)
A. Consider the pursuing statements:
1. Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve has been notified arsenic the 58th Tiger Reserve of India.
2. Guru Ghasidas National Park was the past known situation of the Asiatic cheetah successful the country.
Which of the pursuing statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
B. The founding begetter of the United Arab Emirates has envisioned gathering this mosque which is 1 of the largest places of worship successful the world. The operation began connected November 5th, 1996, and it was opened for worship connected Eid Al Adha successful the twelvemonth 2007.
Which of the pursuing mosques is the supra statement about?
(a) Umayyad Mosque
(b) Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
(c) Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque
(d) Masjid al-Haram
C. Consider the pursuing statements regarding the Global Alliance for Hunger and Poverty:
1. The 18th G20 acme has launched the inaugural of Global Alliance for Hunger and Poverty.
2. The members person pledged to assistance 500 cardinal radical retired of poorness done currency transfers and societal extortion systems.
Which of the pursuing statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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