GES Reporter September 2021
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October 2021
Current Affairs October 30 , 2021
Why is conflict between Taiwan and23 china? The U.S. wants to deepen its relationship with Taiwan, the self-ruled island that has become a major point of conflict in the strained U.S.-China relationship, and will work to counter Beijing’s “malign” influence The U.S. support for Taiwan comes as tensions between China and the island are now …
Current Affairs October 29, 2021
Parent Company Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced that the parent company’s name is being changed to “Meta” to represent a future beyond just its troubled social network. When one company controls another, this is known as a parent company subsidiary relationship. Typically, a parent company is created when a company purchases a controlling amount of …
Current affairs October 28, 2021
Welfare vs Freebies A neoliberal economy encourages private capital and the market, while forcing the state to withdraw from welfare. The state is limited in taking concrete and constructive efforts to fulfil the aspirations of the people. Even as the poor perceive the state as an arbitrator of their well-being and a facilitator for their …
Current affairs October 27, 2021
India and Net zero emission As the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made it clear, limiting the increase in the world’s average temperature from pre-industrial levels to those agreed in the Paris Agreement requires global cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide to be capped at the global carbon budget. It is a …
Current Affairs October 26, 2021
Mullaperiyar dam The Supreme Court on October 25 directed the Supervisory Committee to take an immediate and firm decision on the maximum water level that can be maintained at the Mullaperiyar dam, amid torrential rain in Kerala. Kerala said the water level should not go above 139 feet, the same as what the court had …
Current Affairs October 25, 2021
Is genetically modified rice grown in India? GM foods are derived from plants whose genes are artificially modified, usually by inserting genetic material from another organism, in order to give it a new property, such as increased yield, tolerance to a herbicide, resistance to disease or drought, or to improve its nutritional value. Probably the …
Current Affairs October 22 and 23, 2021
Pakistan in FATF grey list The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) retained Pakistan in the ‘greylist’ yet again, observing that it needed to further demonstrate that investigations and prosecutions were being pursued against the senior leadership of UN-designated terror groups, which include the Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed ( JeM), al-Qaeda and the Taliban. “The Pakistan …
Current Affairs October 21, 2021
GM in India Bt cotton is the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been approved for commercial cultivation in 2002 by the Government of India. Long term studies were conducted by ICAR on the impact of Bt cotton which did not show any adverse effect on soil, microflora and animal health. However, the Parliamentary …