#Historicalbackground
◇ It empowered the Constituent Assemblies of both the dominions to legislate for their respective territories till the new constitutions were drafted and enforced.
◇ It abolished the office of the Secretary of State for India and transferred his functions to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs.
◇ It proclaimed the lapse of British paramountcy over the Indian princely states and treaty relations with tribal areas from August 15, 1947.
◇ It granted freedom to the Indian princely states either to join the Dominion of India or Dominion of Pakistan or to remain independent.
◇ It provided for the governance of each of the dominions and the provinces by the Government of India Act of 1935, till the
new Constitutions were framed.
◇ The dominions were however authorised to make modifications in the Act.
Principles of the SAARC Charter
#SAARC
🛡️ Keeping the apprehensions of both India and its smaller neighbours in mind, SAARC developed a charter which would guides its functioning based on:
🔶Sovereign equality.
🔶Territorial integrity.
🔶Political independence.
🔶 Non interference in domestic matters.
📝 SAARC Regional
1. CentresSAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), Dhaka
🔶Established in 1989 with the mandate to provide timely, relevant and universal access to information and knowledge resources to all the agricultural practitioners of the SAARC .
🔶Member Countries to achieve their respective goals through networking agricultural knowledge and information systems by adopting the appropriate information and communication technologies, management practices and standards.
Climate Change
#ClimatChange
✅Climate change means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods (100 years).
✅Climate change is usually measured in major shifts in temperature, rainfall, snow, and wind patterns lasting decades or more.
✅Humans are creating climate change by burning large amounts of fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), deforestation (when forests are cut down or burned, they can no longer store carbon, and the carbon is released to the atmosphere).
Factors that causes climate change
✅Continental Drift: The present-day continents were not the same prior to 200 million years.They have formed millions of years ago when the landmass began to drift apart due to plate displacement.This movement had an impact on climate change due to the change on the landmass’s physical features and position and the change in water bodies’ position like the change in the follow of ocean currents and winds.The drifting of the landmass is continued today. The Himalayan range is rising approximately 1 millimetre every year as the Indian landmass is moving towards the Asian landmass.
✅Variation of the Earth’s orbit:The Earth’s orbit has an impact on the sunlight’s seasonal distribution that is reaching the Earth’s surface.A slight change in the Earth’s orbit can lead to variation in distribution across the world.There are very few changes to the average sunshine. However, it causes a high impact on the geographical and seasonal distribution.There are three types of orbital variations – variations in Earth’s eccentricity, variations in the tilt angle of the Earth’s axis of rotation and precession of Earth’s axis.These together can cause Milankovitch cycles, which have a huge impact on climate and are well-known for their connection to the glacial and interglacial periods.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finding showed that the Milankovitch cycles had influenced the behaviour of ice formation.
Empowerment of Women
Increasing marrigiable age of Girls
( Current Diagram).
■ VEDAS
#Ancienthistory
◇ Vedas have the status of shruti - means that which has been heard.
◇ Word Veda comes from root word vid - meaning to know.
◇ Four vedas :-
• Rig veda - is a collection of 1028 hymns arranged in 10 books.
• Sama veda - consists of 1810 verses, mostly borrowed from Rig veda and arranged according to the need of Musical notations.
• Yajur veda - deals with the details of performance of rituals.
• Atharva veda - it contains hymns but also spells and charms which reflects aspects of popular beliefs and practices.
