In News Recently, the Centre has completed transactions worth Rs 96,000 crore under the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) in 2021-22, surpassing the ambitious programme’s first-year target of Rs 88,000 crore. Major Highlights of the Achievements Ministry of Coal: In Financial year 2022, the Ministry of Coal was the biggest contributor to the asset monetisation pipeline, […]
In News Recently, the Army has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for canister-launched anti-armour loiter ammunition (CALM) for its mechanised forces. About Earlier, the Indian Army had issued a RFI for the supply of Articulated All-Terrain Vehicles to be deployed in Ladakh and Kutch.The Army has specified that it intends to procure 150 such […]
In News NITI Aayog has launched the State Energy & Climate Index-Round I. About The State Energy & Climate Index (SECI) Round I ranks the states’ performance on 6 parameters, namely DISCOM’s Performance Access, Affordability and Reliability of Energy Clean Energy Initiatives Energy Efficiency Environmental Sustainability New Initiatives. The parameters are further divided into 27 […]
In News An Anti-Tank Guided Missile ‘HELINA’ was successfully launched from an indigenously-developed helicopter at high-altitude ranges as part of user validation trials. The flight-test was jointly conducted by the teams of scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Indian Army and Indian Air Force (IAF). The missile is guided by an Imaging Infra-Red […]
In News ?Pinaka Mk-I (Enhanced) Rocket System (EPRS) and Pinaka Area Denial Munition (ADM) rocket systems have been successfully flight-tested by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Army at Pokhran Firing Ranges. A total of 24 EPRS rockets were fired for different ranges. About Pinaka Rocket System The ?Pinaka rocket system has been […]
In Context The Centre’s move to make Hindi a compulsory language in schools across the eight states in the northeast has annoyed various organisations in the region. Background The Home Minister earlier said Hindi would be made a must up to Class 10 in the region’s schools describing Hindi as “the language of India”. He […]
In News The year 2022 marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana. About Har Gobind Khorana Born: January 9, 1922, Raipur, India [now Raipur, Pakistan] Early Life and Education: He was born into a poor family and attended the University of Punjab at Lahore, India (now in Pakistan), and the University […]
In Context According to recent research, ‘Micro-swimmers’ may soon help with drug delivery. The research aims at moving microbots into the bloodstream to deliver drugs. The technique makes use of light as a fuel to induce the tiny robots to move in simulations About ‘Micro-swimmers’ Made from the two-dimensional compound poly (heptazine imide) carbon nitride […]
In News The Union Home Minister inaugurated the ‘Nadabet Indo-Pak Border’(Seema Darshan Project’) tourism project in Banaskantha in Gujarat . ‘Nadabet Indo-Pak Border Darshan’ Project About: It has been started jointly by the Gujarat government’s Tourism Department and the Border Security Force (BSF), where tourists can get acquainted with stories of BSF personnel and also […]
In Context The Earth is losing species at unprecedented rates, with thousands likely to go extinct within decades. This marks the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch, a self-aggrandising nomenclature that highlights our disproportionate and irreversible impacts on the surroundings. What is Mass Extinction ? A mass extinction is a short period of geological time in […]
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