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🚨March 7 2023 | Tuesday🚨
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Salt Flat
- A natural landscape in which a large area of flat land is covered by salt.
- Most well know salt flat is
Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia)
Pre related
1. International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA)
▪️ An Indian initiative to protect and conserve 7 major cats
- Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Puma, Jaguar and Cheetah
▪️Membership to 97 'range' countries w/ natural habitat for these cats
▪️Conservation alliance unprecedented in scale, purpose and activities
▪️Structure: General Assembly, GA elected Council for 5 years (7<x<15 members), Secretariat (New Del)
▪️Major activities: advocacy, partnership, knowledge e-portal, capacity building, eco-tourism, partnerships and finance tapping
2. SWAMIH Investment Fund
▪️
Special
Window for
Affordable &
Mid-
Income
Housing
▪️Considered lender of last resort for distressed projects
▪️Social Impact Fund for completing stressed and stalled residential projects
▪️Sponsored by Finance Ministry, Managed by SBICAP Ventures Ltd. (State Bank Group company)
▪️Aim: Provide debt financing for completion of stressed, brownfield, and RERA registered residential projects falling in affordable, mid-income housing category
3. Langa Manganiyar Community
▪️Muslim folk singers from desert (in Rajasthan & Sindh)
▪️Mostly in Jaisalmer and Barmer district on Indian side
▪️Language(s) of folk art: Marwari, Sindhi, Dhatti, Thareli, Saraiki
Reading Recommendations
IE
1. Perils of go-to secularism (GS2)
2. A new trade strategy (GS3)
3. What's Hindu rate of growth? (GS3)
4. JnK court martial: How armed forces punish their personnel for crime
TH
1. A 'Zeitenwende' in the India-Germany relationship (GS2; read for details of relationship)
2. How to become a Green Hydrogen Superpower (GS3: Note 5 point way forward)
3. Reasons for recovery (see graphs and understand GDP on pg 7)
4. Is the internet as we know it going to change? (understand Section 230: 26 words that created internet)
5. Multilateral reforms as a priority in G20 (this one article will teach you all about multilateralism)
6. Why are salt flats around the world covered in a similar pattern of ridges?
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