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Prelims 2020-Important Facts Regarding Environment(Compilation)

  Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Governing the movements of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology from one country to another.     Supplementary agreement to CBD. Advance Informed Agreement (AIA) procedure Applies to the first intentional transboundary movement of an LMO for intentional introduction into the environment of the Party of import. Supplementary agreement to CBD. Nagoya Protocol On Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS).   Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House (ABS Clearing-House).   Supplementary agreement to CBD. Geneva Protocol For the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. It is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biolog...

Prelims 2020-Modern History till 1885 .Timeline and Important Facts (Compilation)

  Year Events Governor-General & Viceroy 1600-1650   1600- Charter by queen solely right to commerce in the east.   1608- Captain William Hawkins Reached Surat- Request Jahangir to give permission to business.   1609- Jahangir issued a Farman permitting English to establish a factory permanently at Surat.   1613- The English East India Company's factory was set up at Surat   1615- Sir Thomas Roe obtained two farmans from the Mughal Court confirming free trade with exemption from inland toll.   1616- The East India Company established its branch factory at Masulipatnam.   1632-Golden Farman issued by Sultan of Golkunda- with the right to trade in the kingdom of Golkunda for a fixed customs duty   1633- The eastern branch factory of East India Company was established in Hariharpur, Balasore   1639- The local king of Mad...

How To Stay Motivated !

Imagine you are playing tennis. If you try to play a serious match against a four-year-old, you will quickly become bored. The match is too easy. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you try to play a serious match against a professional tennis player like Roger Federer or Serena Williams, you will find yourself demotivated for a different reason. The match is too difficult. Compare these experiences to playing tennis against someone who is your equal. As the game progresses, you win a few points and you lose a few points. You have a chance of winning the match, but only if you really try. Your focus narrows, distractions fade away, and you find yourself fully invested in the task at hand. The challenge you are facing is “just manageable.” Victory is not guaranteed, but it is possible. Tasks like these, science has found, are the most likely to keep us motivated in the long term. Human beings love challenges, but only if they are within the optimal zone of difficulty. Task...

Public Funding Of Elections

What is state or public funding of elections? This means that government gives funds to political parties or candidates for contesting elections. Its main purpose is to make it unnecessary for contestants to take money from powerful moneyed interests so that they can remain clean. Why public funding is good?  Political parties and candidates need money for their electoral campaigns, to keep contacts with their constituencies, to prepare policy decisions and to pay professional staff. Therefore, public funding is a natural and necessary cost of democracy.  Public funding can limit the influence of interested money and thereby help curb corruption.  Public funding can increase transparency in party and candidate finance and thereby help curb corruption.  In societies where many citizens are under or just above the poverty line, they cannot be expected to donate large amounts of money to political parties or candidates. If parties and candidates recei...