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Today's Headlines - 25 November 2024

‘Peak oil’ and renewable energy

GS Paper - III

The term “peak oil” used to mean the point when global production would top out, before entirely running out. But as the world begins a shift to renewables, will the end of oil production come sooner than we think? In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a US geoscientist working for fossil fuel giant Shell, projected — based on statistical modeling of known oil reserves at the time — that global crude oil production would peak around the year 2000, before diminishing and eventually stopping altogether.

Chhattisgarh’s newest tiger reserve

GS Paper - III

The Chhattisgarh government notified the Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla in the state as India’s 56th tiger reserve. The reserve is expected to help Chhattisgarh improve its tiger population, which has been dwindling in recent years. It also opens an avenue to the state’s ambition of reintroducing cheetahs at the reserve — the last cheetah was spotted here in the 1940s.

Indoor air quality

GS Paper - III

The more privileged among us spend most of the day indoors — in homes, offices, gyms, and air-conditioned vehicles — where air quality can be controlled. Outdoor exposure is typically limited to commutes or errands, during which a properly fitted N95 mask is the only reliable way to reduce exposure to harmful pollutants.

Ruckus in UP’s Sambhal

GS Paper - II

The Sambhal district in Uttar Pradesh saw stone pelting and torching of vehicles on 24 November 2024 morning as a team of surveyors reached Chandausi town to carry out a second survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid.

 

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