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Prelim Bits 29-09-2017

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September 29, 2017

New species in Western Ghats

  • Scientists have described a new species of non-venomous endemic snake “Aquatic Rhabdops” from the Western Ghats.
  • It is 3 foot long nocturnal snake hunts for prey underwater.
  • The new species is named after its aquatic nature since the adults are mostly associated with freshwater forest streams.
  • All Rhabdops snakes are endemic to India.
  • The Aquatic Rhabdops is found only in the laterite plateaus of the Northern Western Ghats in Goa, Southern Maharashtra and Northern Karnataka.

INS Tarasa

  • INS Tarasa, a Water Jet Fast Attack Craft was commissioned into the Indian Navy.
  • It is primarily designed for extended coastal and offshore surveillance and patrolling.

Information Utility

  • India’s first Information Utility (IU) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was launched recently.
  • The IBC regulator Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBC) granted the National e-Governance Services Ltd (NeSL) renewal registration for Information Utility till 2022.
  • IU will serve as a store of information on all financial transactions of lenders and authenticated by borrowers and creditors.
  • It store details of borrowers, defaults and security interest with safeguards.

Mega Internal Security Scheme

  • Cabinet committee on Security gave its approval for implementation of the umbrella scheme “Modernisation of Police Forces” for 2017 to 2020.
  • This is the biggest ever internal security scheme in the country.
  • Ministry of Home affairs is the nodal ministry.
  • The expenditure for the scheme will be shared by both the central and state government.
  • Special provisions have been made for internal security, law and order, women security, mobility of police forces, CCTNS, e-prison etc.,

Fourth Gravitational Wave

  • A fourth gravitational wave has been detected with help from Italy-based equipment Virgo detector.
  • The latest space-time ripples were detected two giant black holes about 1.8 billion light-years away.
  • The Virgo detector is an underground L-shaped instrument that tracks gravitational waves using the physics of laser light and space.
  • The underground stations are known as interferometers, do not rely on light in the sky, but instead sense vibrations in space created by a gravitational wave.
  • Previously, gravitational waves have been found using two U.S.-based detectors known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

 

Source: The Hindu, Business Line

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Arushi 7 years

Please post an editorial on 'The Unilateral Vote' from The Hindu dated 28th Sept.

It talks on referendum, its implications, history, use, and also on Catalonia and Kurds issue.

Will be much help. Thanks.

IAS Parliament 6 years

Many aspects of the issue are already available under https://www.iasparliament.com/article/catalonias-cry-for-secession?q=catalonia and https://www.iasparliament.com/article/kurdistan-independence-vote?q=kurds

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