What is GATE?
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering is a standard evaluation test used by IITs and NITs (and some other institutes) for admission into their Master’s degree programs. A few foreign universities also accept GATE scores for admission. Also, almost all Public Sector Units such as ONGC, IOCL, BPCL, BARC, HPCL, HAL, NHAI, BHEL, NHPC, NTPC, SAIL, GAIL, AAI etc. recruit through GATE. It is conducted by IITs.
(P.S. I have not mentioned the full forms as I thought they would probably be known to the readers. Kindly google or ping me in case of any doubts.)
Exam Format: 65 questions carrying…
Every year, the UNESCO publishes the UN World Water Development Report (UN WWDR) summarizing the global water scenario, documenting conservation efforts and their varying degrees of success achieved. While there are plenty of bleak statistics to be considered to describe the serious trouble we’re headed for, let’s just focus on one simple statement from this year’s UN WWDR.
3.6 billion out of our 8 billion population currently live in places that can suffer from water scarcity for at least one month of the year. This figure will rise to 5 billion (half of the world’s predicted 10 billion population) by 2050.
Before we shrug this off with a “Meh, I’m fine now, I’ll surely be in the safe half of 2050’s population”, take a look how quickly things went from good to bad to worse in Cape Town. …
