• Extinction Rebellion is an international socio-political movement which uses nonviolent resistance to avert climate breakdown, halt biodiversity loss, and minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.

It has three core demands:

1. For the government to "tell the truth about climate change"
2. To reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025
3. To create a citizens' assembly to oversee progress.

• PMJJBY offers coverage for death due to any reason and is available to people in the age group of 18 to 50 years (life cover up to age 55) having a savings bank account who gives their consent to join and enable auto debit.
• A life cover of Rs. 2 lakhs is available for a one year period at a premium of Rs.330/- per annum per member and is renewable every year.
• It is administered through LIC and other Indian private Life Insurance companies.

• The East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) is a network of partners within the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF).
• It aims to protect migratory water birds, their habitat and the livelihoods of people dependent upon them.
• The Flyway is one of 9 major migratory routes recognised globally.
• It was adopted in the list of the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a Type II initiative which is informal and voluntary. (It is not a part of UN)
• There are currently 37 Partners including 18 countries, 6 intergovernmental agencies, 12 international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and 1 international private enterprise.

• The Global Deal for Nature is a time-bound, science-based plan to save the diversity and abundance of life on Earth. 
• Scientists has recently proposed this plan to prevent another mass extinction event on the planet.

The three overarching goals of the GDN are

1. To protect biodiversity by conserving at least 30 per cent of the Earth’s surface by 2030
2. Mitigate climate change by conserving the Earth’s natural carbon storehouses
3. Reduce major threats

• The main objective of National Bamboo Mission (NBM) is to increase the area under bamboo plantation in non-forest Government lands and private lands to supplement farm income and contribute towards resilience to climate change as well as availability of quality raw material requirement of industries.
• The bamboo plantations will be promoted predominantly in farmers’ fields, homesteads, community lands, arable wastelands, and along irrigation canals, water bodies etc.
• The NBM will be a sub scheme of National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) under the umbrella scheme Krishonnati Yojana.

• Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR) works by sending radio signals towards an object and receiving the signals that are reflected by the object.
• The reflected signals can be seen on a screen.

Applications

• In airports it is used to help planes land safely
• Weather forecasters use it to locate rain and snow clouds
• Ships’ captains use radar while travelling through fog and mist
• On land, policemen use radar to detect speeding cars
• In geophysics, radars so called GPR-Systems, are used to analyze the ground to create soil profiles

• The East Asia/Australasia Flyway is one of 9 major migratory routes recognised globally.
• The Flyway extends from Arctic Russia and North America to the southern limits of Australia and New Zealand.
• It encompasses large parts of East Asia, all of Southeast Asia and includes eastern India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Researchers have recently discovered that for the first time, East Asian birds have made the Great Nicobar Island as their stopover for a few week rest before they can fly along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF).