What is the News? The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released a report titled 2021 State of Climate Services Report. What are the key findings of the 2021 State of Climate Services Report? Terrestrial Water Storage (TWS) Terrestrial Water Storage(TWS) has dropped at a rate of 1 cm per year in 20 years (2002-2021). Note:… Continue reading Globally, India recorded the highest loss in terrestrial water storage
Explained: Top prize for labour economics
What is the News? The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to three US-based economists: David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. The prize has been awarded – with one half to Card, and the other half jointly to Angrist and Imbens – for their work on… Continue reading Explained: Top prize for labour economics
Explained: How Jupiter Trojan asteroids will help NASA learn about evolution of solar system
What is the News? NASA is set to launch the ‘Lucy’ Mission in the next week. What is Mission Lucy? Mission Lucy is NASA’s first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Named After: The mission is named after ‘Lucy’, a 3.2 million-year-old ancestor who belonged to a species of hominins (which include humans and… Continue reading Explained: How Jupiter Trojan asteroids will help NASA learn about evolution of solar system
Attempt UPSC Prelims 2021 GS Paper 1 Questions
Dear Friends,
We are posting all UPSC Prelims 2021 questions as a quiz on our blog. You can now practice or attempt it like our daily 10 PM quiz.
You can download a PDF of the same as well by using the below-given link
Clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal right: UN Human Rights Council
What is the News? The United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC) has unanimously voted for recognising a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a universal right. What is the Right to Clean the Environment? The idea of the Right to a clean environment is rooted in the “1972 Stockholm Declaration”. The right brings together the environmental… Continue reading Clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal right: UN Human Rights Council
Drug usage and the NDPS Act – Explained, pointwise
For 7PM Editorial Archives click HERE → Introduction Recently, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for the consumption, sale and possession of illegal drugs. The pandemic saw a rise in drug-related arrests and seizures. The Home Minister of Karnataka proclaimed that as of July 2021, drug seizures in… Continue reading Drug usage and the NDPS Act – Explained, pointwise
[Download PDF] UPSC Prelims 2021 CSAT Answer Key
Dear Friends, We are releasing the answer key of the UPSC CSE Prelims 2021 CSAT Paper(Paper 2). The answer key is arranged as per Set B of the UPSC CSAT paper. [Download PDF] UPSC CSE Prelims 2021 CSAT Answer Key [Download PDF] UPSC CSE Prelims 2021 CSAT Official Answer Key Note: In case, you find… Continue reading [Download PDF] UPSC Prelims 2021 CSAT Answer Key
History Quiz: History- India in the Late Eighteen Century – 12th October 2021
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we are posting today’s prelims marathon. Under Prelims marathon initiative, we on a daily basis are posting 10 MCQs. MCQs are framed based on the predefined syllabus topic.
The idea is to keep the number of MCQ questions to a practicable level so that you do not spend an extra minute than required, and have a maximum output for the UPSC Prelims Exam 2021.
Must Read Current Affairs Articles – Oct 12th 2021
About Must Read News Articles: Must Read News Articles is an initiative by Team ForumIAS to provide links to the most important news articles of the day. It covers several newspapers such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Livemint, etc. This saves the time and effort of students in identifying useful and important articles. With newspaper websites… Continue reading Must Read Current Affairs Articles – Oct 12th 2021
10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | October 11th 2021
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We are posting the 10 PM current affairs quiz for today. Under our 10 PM current affairs quiz initiative, we are posting 10 MCQs sources from news articles, on a daily basis. MCQs in this initiative are sourced from PIB, The Hindu, Indian Express, etc.
