01.08.17 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Current Affairs

Andhra Pradesh   State stands second in human trafficking in India.   Andhra Pradesh stands second in the country in human trafficking with 14.73% of sex workers operating in about 12 States and territories across the country, according to a recent survey conducted by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).   West Bengal … Read more

DESERT ECOSYSTEM

  Deserts are formed in regions with less than 25 cm of annual rainfall, .or sometimes in hot regions where there is more rainfall, but unevenly distributed in the annual cycle. Lack’ of rain in the mid latitude is often due to stable high pressure zones; deserts in temperate regions often lie in “rain shadows”, … Read more

Evolution of Varna, Jathi/caste system

Caste ,Class & Occupation The caste system is a classification of people into four hierarchically ranked castes called varnas. They are classified according to occupation and determine access to wealth, power, and privilege. The Brahmans, usually priests and scholars, are at the top. Next are the Kshatriyas, or political rulers and soldiers. They are followed … Read more

23.07.17 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Current

Andhra Pradesh Social forestry planters on the warpath in Ongole   Farmers who switched to social forestry plantations such as eucalyptus and subabul from traditional commercial crops such as tobacco and cotton in the 1990s now rue their fate with the prices hitting a new low this month. The latest trigger for the price fall … Read more

Newspapers/Magazines/Weeklies

    Harijan Bandhu, Harijan Sevak   Mahatma Gandhi Samvad Kaumudi, Mirat-al-Akhbar   Raja Ram Mohun Roy Tattvabodhini Patrika   Maharishi Devendranath Tagore Indian Mirror   Maharishi Devendranath Tagore Banga Darshan   Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Maratha (English) & Kesari (Marathi) Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak The Punjabi, ‘The Pupil’ (English)   Lala Lajpat Rai New India … Read more

09 & 10.09.17 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH   Amazon India opens largest fulfilment centre, in Hyderabad   Amazon opened its largest fulfilment centre in India on the outskirts of Hyderabad, near the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad.   The 400,000 sq feet centre with close of 2.1 million cubic feet of storage space is the 5th such centre in Telangana. … Read more

25.07.17 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Current Affairs

Andhra Pradesh   Masula port project: land pooling becomes a tough task   Barely 550 acres of land was spared by the farmers and private land owners for the proposed Machilipatnam deep sea port project as against required 2,300 acres of private land (patta land), signalling further delay in execution of the project. The port … Read more

09.08.17 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Current Affairs

Andhra Pradesh   63 labs to ‘tinker’ with learning to come up in Telangana & AP schools.   Students in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will soon have a dedicated space to push the bar on innovation with 63 tinkering laboratories coming up in several schools as part of the Atal Innovation Mission. Realising the need to create scientific temper and … Read more

Amendments to the Constitution

  Amendments to the Constitution are made by the Parliament, the procedure for which is laid out in Article 368. An amendment bill must be passed by both the Houses of the Parliament by a tw o-thirds majority and voting. In addition to this, certain amendments which pertain to the federal nature of the Constitution … Read more

Height and Distance

  This topic has many practical application in day to day life. In engineering stage it is used in surveying. The basic purpose is to find the unknown variables by observing the angle of the line of sight. This is done by using some the fact that in a right angled triangle the ratio of … Read more