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News: ‘Phosphorous’ is found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus by NASA’s Cassini mission. It is the brightest of all Saturn’s moons and the second closest of its major regular moons. It was named after one of the Giants (Gigantes) from Greek mythology and found in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. It is a dynamic …
Read MoreNews: Seventy-two percent of the almost 18,000 first-time job searchers who were skilled under the Skill Impact Bond (SIB) initiative were women. India’s first development impact bond for skilling and employment is called the Skill Impact Bond (SIB). by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), with the assistance of international partners The goal is to …
Read MoreNews: A draught set of instructions outlining the effectiveness information and trial results needed for the registration of several categories of bio-stimulants under Schedule VI of the FCO Amendment order 2021 has been released by the Agriculture Ministry. In contrast to pesticides and plant growth regulators covered by the Insecticides Act of 1968, bio-stimulants are …
Read MoreContext: Following reports that CoWIN data had been accessed by a Telegram bot, the Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the nodal cyber security agency, had reviewed the alleged breach and has found that the CoWIN portal was not “directly breached”. The data – …
Read MoreContext: Recently Global Slavery Index 2023 was published. According to it, on any given day in 2021, as many as 50 million people were living in “modern slavery”. Among these 50 million, 28 million suffer from forced labour and 22 million from forced marriages. Of these 50 million, 12 million are children. What is modern …
Read MoreNews: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has approved Cholederm, an innovative wound care product created by the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), as a Class D medical device. Cholederm is a tissue-engineered, membrane-based scaffold used to treat wounds that is made from the extracellular matrix of decellularized pig …
Read MoreNews: The Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) 2023 was produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) 2023 measures biases against women by enumerating how people feel about the roles that women play. It examined how people felt about women in four areas: politics, education, the economy, and physical …
Read MoreNews: The Central Government recently stopped selling rice and wheat to State governments through the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS). The Food Corporation of India (FCI) sells excess stocks of rice and wheat in the open market via e-auction at pre-set rates as part of OMSS. During the lean season, it is important to increase …
Read MoreNews: After a laborious overhaul that lasted about two and a half years, INS Vikramaditya was recently put into service. A modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier named INS Vikramaditya joined the Indian Navy in 2013 and is already operational. It has been given a new name in commemoration of the fabled Indian ruler Vikramaditya. Prior to …
Read MoreNews: The Mizoram parachute gecko is a new species of gliding gecko that was just found by scientists. A recently discovered species of gliding gecko is called the Mizoram parachute gecko. One of the 14 geckos known to fly is the Mizoram parachute gecko, or Gekko mizoramensis. The Arakan Mountains are likely to have caused …
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