Today's Questions
10 June 2019
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Today's Editorial (Hindi)
10 June 2019
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Today's Editorial
10 June 2019
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Today's Headlines (Hindi)
10 June 2019
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Today's Headlines
10 June 2019
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एनसीजीजी और मालदीव मे एमओयू
भारत के अग्रणी लोक सेवा प्रशिक्षण संस्थान राष्ट्रीय सुशासन केन्द्र (एनसीजीजी) ने अगले पांच वर्षों के दौरान मालदीव के एक हजार लोक प्रशासकों के क्षमता निर्माण के लिए मालदीव सिविल सर्विसेज कमीशन के साथ एक समझौता ज्ञापन पर हस्ताक्षर किया है।
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20485-2019-06-10-04-26-08
#MoU #NCGG #Maldives #SDGs #KVEapen

निजी स्कूलों के नाम से हटेंगे 'पब्लिक' शब्द
नई राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति के मसौदे पर सरकार ने यदि अमल किया, तो देश के तमाम नामी निजी स्कूलों के नाम से 'पब्लिक' शब्द हट जाएगा। नई शिक्षा नीति में निजी स्कूलों के नाम से पब्लिक शब्द को हटाने की सिफारिश की गई है। साथ ही सुझाव दिया गया है
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20484-2019-06-10-04-25-33
#Public #Governmentschool #Privateschools

मालदीव के सर्वोच्च सम्मान पीएम को
पड़ोसी देश मालदीव ने प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी को देश के सबसे बड़े सम्मान 'निशान इज्जुद्दीन' से सम्मानित किया। इस दौरान पीएम मोदी ने मालदीव की पिछली सरकार के चीन के करीब जाने की तरफ इशारा करते हुए कहा कि राष्ट्रपति इब्राहिम सोलिह के पद ग्रहण करने के बाद द्विपक्षीय सहयोग की गति और दिशा में मौलिक बदलाव आया है।
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20483-2019-06-10-04-24-45
#Maldives #NarendraModi #MarkIzzuddin #Lineoffcredits


Chandrayaan-2 mission
Chandrayaan-2, the country’s first moon lander and rover mission, is a month away. The Indian Space Research Organisation has marked mid-July for the take-off and kept the launch window open from July 9 to 16.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20489-chandrayaan-2-mission
#Chandrayaan2 #rovermission #wisdom #NASA

India, Maldives sign six key agreements
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Maldives on 8 June 2019, his first state visit abroad since being re-elected to office, was marked by the signing of six key agreements, and substantive bilateral level talks, reaffirming cooperation between the two countries.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20488-india-maldives-sign-six-key-agreements
#NarendraModis #Maldives #Mou #sixkeyagreements

Global map of where groundwater meets oceans
Scientists have created high-resolution maps of points around the globe where groundwater meets the oceans — the first such analysis of its kind that may help protect both drinking water and the seas.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20487-global-map-of-where-groundwater-meets-oceans
#Globalmap #groundwater #submarine #satellites

NCGG and Maldives sign MOU
The National Center for Good Governance (NCGG), India’s leading civil services training institution, has entered into an MOU with the Maldives Civil Services Commission for capacity building of 1000 Maldives civil servants over the next 5 years.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/20486-ncgg-and-maldives-sign-mou
#NCGG #MOU #Maldives #SDGs #KVEapen

EU nations agree Brexit delay
The European Union on 28 October 2019 agreed a 3-month flexible delay to Britain’s departure from the bloc as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushes for an election after opponents forced him to request an extension he had vowed never to ask for.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21823-eu-nations-agree-brexit-delay.html
#EU #Brexit #BorisJohnson #Britain #DonaldTusk

Scheme to save groundwater
Aimed at checking depletion of groundwater in the country, the World Bank-funded Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY) is still waiting for the Union Cabinet’s approval for more than a year after the World Bank board approved it in June 2018.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21822-scheme-to-save-groundwater.html
#groundwater #ABHY #Protection #CGWA #JalShaktiMinistry

AI model to solve engineering problems
The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) on 28 October 2019 said its researchers have developed algorithms that enable novel applications for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning to solve engineering problems.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21821-ai-model-to-solve-engineering-problems.html
#AI #IITM #AISoft #GPU #CFD #CNN #Madras

China expands footprint in Nepal, Myanmar
China is expanding its air links with South and Southeast Asia, focusing on Nepal and Myanmar, to help enlarge its regional footprint. On 27 October 2019, Himalaya Airlines — a China-Nepal joint venture — landed on its maiden flight from Kathmandu to Beijing’s brand new Daxing International airport.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21820-china-expands-footprint-in-nepal-myanmar.html
#LDC #Myanmar #XiJinping #footprint #RuiliAirlines

Good Governance Index launched
A good governance index (GGI) was launched on 25 December 2019 by the central government to assess the state of governance in the country, according to a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22412-good-governance-index-launched.html
#GGI #DoPT #GoodGovernanceIndex #UTs #CSMOP #AtalBihariVajpayee

Depleting groundwater
Nearly 1,100 scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields from 92 countries have called on the governments and non-governmental agencies to “act now” to ensure global groundwater sustainability.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22411-depleting-groundwater.html
#Depleting #groundwater #SDGs #Earth #IIT #SDGs

Govt breaks 150-year tradition
The Union Cabinet on 24 December 2019 gave approval to restructuring of the Railway board through merger of its existing eight Group A services into a central service called the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS).
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22410-govt-breaks-150-year-tradition.html
#UnionCabinet #IRMS #IRHS #HR #PiyushGoyal #Railway

India, Oman sign maritime pact
India and Oman signed a Maritime Transport Agreement during the visit of foreign minister S Jaishankar to the Sultanate. The pact – the first with any Gulf country – enables India to expand its footprint in the western Indian Ocean,
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22409-india-oman-sign-maritime-pact.html
#India #IndianOcean #MTA #PersianGulf #SJaishankar

Space Junk identification systems
Researchers in China have improved the accuracy of detecting space junk in the Earth's orbit, providing a more effective way to plot safe routes for spacecraft maneuvers.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22408-space-junk-identification-systems.html
#SpaceJunk #Earth #orbit #telescopes #Marquardt

Today's Headlines - 26 August 2023
Fukushima nuclear water release
GS Paper - 3 (Nuclear Energy)

Twelve years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, Japan is releasing the power plant’s cooling water into the ocean. Japanese officials say it’s safe, but experts are divided. It’s hard to have a purely fact-based discussion about Japan’s Fukushima water release plan. Due to several scandals and a lack of transparency, trust appears to be low in both TEPCO, the company that operated the now-defunct Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the Japanese government, with its close ties to the atomic energy industry.

Fukushima: Why is the water being released into the Pacific Ocean?

Storage tanks holding the cooling water at the ruined facility are full. Japan has had to cool the reactors at the nuclear power plant since they were destroyed during a catastrophic tsunami in 2011.
It takes 170 tons of cooling water per day to keep them cool. In addition, rain and groundwater have been seeping into the site. There are 1,046 storage tanks holding 1,343 million cubic meters of water.
Once the water has been filtered, it is considered safe and sent through a one-kilometer (0.62 mile)-long tunnel before being released into the Pacific Ocean — a process that will take an estimated 30 years to complete. The radioactive waste, meanwhile, will remain on land.
Is Japan allowed to release filtered cooling water into the sea?

Both Japan’s atomic agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have approved the plan.
The IAEA said Japan had met international safety standards and that “discharges of the treated water would have a negligible radiological impact to people and the environment.
They said it had been common practice for nuclear power plants worldwide to release used cooling water into the ocean for decades routinely.
However, environmental and fishing experts, as well as neighboring states, have accused Japan of downplaying the level of radiation in the cooling water.
They are concerned about far-reaching ocean contamination, potential environmental damage, a fall in fishing revenue and loss of reputation.
How will the water be prepared before it’s released?

Before it’s released into the ocean, the contaminated cooling water and groundwater will be sent through a filter system called the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS).
ALPS can filter 62 different radionuclides — radioactive elements — but can’t filter out the radioactive isotope tritium.
So, TEPCO wants to dilute the water until the concentration of tritium is reduced to about 1,500 Becquerel per liter or less than a fortieth of the national safety standard. A becquerel (Bq) is a unit that measures the rate at which radioactive material emits radiation or how many atoms in the material decay in a given time.
TEPCO says that if the levels of tritium remain too high after filtration, they will repeat the process before releasing the water.
How dangerous is tritium?

Tritium is a form of hydrogen that occurs naturally in Earth’s atmosphere. It is radioactive but far less dangerous than cesium-137 or strontium-90 — both of which are life-threatening.
It emits a weak beta particle that can be stopped by a sheet of plastic or human skin.
It’s a different story if strontium-90 gets into the human body: “Strontium is absorbed by the bones, and once it’s in the crystalline structure of the bones, you can’t get rid of it again.

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