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  • March 11, 2023

Pritzker Architecture Prize

Tag: GS 2 Miscellaneous

In News

  • Sir David Chipperfield, a British architect and urban planner, has won the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

About

  • The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the most prestigious international award given to architects.
  • The award was created to recognise architects for their entire body of work.
  • The Prize was established by Jay A. Pritzker in 1979 and is supported by the Pritzker family and the Hyatt Foundation.
  • Sir David Chipperfield contributed to notable projects such as the 2012 Architecture Venice Biennale, The Neues Museum in Berlin, and Procuratie Vecchie in Venice’s iconic St. Mark’s Square.

Source:IE

Norway’s Sakharov Freedom Award

Tag: GS 2 Miscellaneous

In News

  • Recently, Truth Hounds, an organisation that documents war crimes in the Ukraine conflict, received the Sakharov Freedom Award from Norway.

About

  • Sakharov Freedom Award is named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
  • It was established in 1980 by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee with the support and consent of Andrei Sakharov to help people who are persecuted or imprisoned due to their opinions, beliefs, and conscience.
  • Truth Hounds is a Ukrainian rights group that was founded during the Maidan Revolution, which led to the ouster of pro-Russian former Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych.

Source:TH

Antibiotics administered on livestock cut carbon in soil

Tag: GS 3 Defence

In News

  • Recently, researchers at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) discovered that livestock grazing results in less carbon storage in soil than wild herbivore grazing.

About

  • The study was conducted in the Spiti region of the Himalayas and compared the effects of domesticated animals such as sheep and their wild relatives such as the yak and ibex on soil carbon stocks.
  • Although wild and cultivated soils shared many similarities, they differed in a crucial parameter known as carbon use efficiency (CUE). CUE measures the capacity of soil microbes to store carbon.
  • The CUE content of the soil in the livestock areas was 19% lower. When released into the soil through dung and urine, veterinary antibiotics such as tetracycline alter the soil’s microbial communities in ways that are detrimental to carbon sequestration.

Source:TH

TROPEX 2023

Tag: GS 3

In Context

  • The Indian Navy’s major Operational level exercise TROPEX 2023 recently concluded in the Arabian Sea.

About

  • It is a biennial operational-level exercise in which not only all Indian Navy units, but also Indian Army, Indian Air Force, and Indian Coast Guard assets participate.
  • Included were the Coastal Defense exercise Sea Vigil and the Amphibious Exercise AMPHEX.
  • The setting included the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
  • Approximately 70 Indian Navy ships, six submarines, and over 75 aircraft participated in TROPEX 23.
  • The exercise is being conducted in multiple phases, both in port and at sea, and includes various aspects of combat operations, including the firing of live ammunition.

Significance

  • This exercise provides an opportunity to test the combat readiness of the combined Fleets of the Indian Navy to operate in a multi-threat environment.
  • The maritime exercise also facilitates operational level interaction with the Indian Army, Indian Air Force and the Coast Guard, which will further strengthen interoperability and joint operations in a complex environment.

Source:PIB

Mimeusemia ceylonica

Tag: GS 3 Species in News

In News

  • Researchers from Tamil Nadu have discovered a rare moth species for the first time in India in the buffer zone of the Kalakkad–Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), 127 years after it was last seen in Sri Lanka, at Trincomalee in 1893.

About • Mimeusemia ceylonica is a species of moth belonging to the Agaristinae subfamily and Noctuidae family.

In 1893, English entomologist George Hampson was the first to illustrate and describe it.

The discovery of moth species in the district is further evidence of the region’s rich biodiversity.

Moths

  1. Moths are a group of insects consisting of all Lepidoptera members other than butterflies.
  2.  It is estimated that there are approximately 160,000 species of moths, the majority of which have not yet been described.
  3. The majority of moth species are nocturnal, but crepuscular and diurnal species also exist.
  4. The butterflies comprise a monophyletic group, whereas the moths make up the remainder of the Lepidoptera.

Source:TH

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