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News: The 44th annual ISO COPOLCO Plenary will take place in India from May 23–26, 2023, in New Delhi. COPOLCO: The International Organisation for Standardization’s Committee on Consumer Policy The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), India’s national standards authority, is in charge of organising this event. The ISO COPOLCO Plenary is expected to have a …
Read MoreNews:The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is prepared to launch the navigation satellite NVS-01 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) of the NVS-01 navigation satellite is what the GSLV-F12/NVS-01 mission is intended to achieve. The ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru is developing …
Read MoreNews: On the sidelines of the FIPIC Summit in Papua New Guinea, the Prime Minister of India meets with the leaders of Pacific Island countries. Today’s FIPIC Summit, the third meeting for cooperation among the islands of the Indo-Pacific, was co-hosted by Papua New Guinea. The summit was co-chaired by the prime ministers of India …
Read MoreNews: A Pangenome Reference Map has been developed utilising the genomes of 47 anonymous individuals, mostly from Africa but also from the Caribbean, the Americas, East Asia, and Europe (19 men and 28 women), according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. Scientists utilise a reference genome or reference map, which is similar …
Read MoreNews: Five significant announcements were made by the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, with a focus on green shipping and port digitization. The ‘Panch Karma Sankalp,’ which stands for the five significant announcements made by the ministry, was introduced by Sarbananda Sonowal during the Chintan Shivir. The following five significant announcements …
Read MoreContext Scientists have suggested using Calcium-41 for Radiometric Dating as an alternative to Carbon-14 for determining the age of fossilized bones and rocks. Background Since its invention in 1947, carbon dating has revolutionised many fields of science by allowing scientists to estimate the age of an organic material based on how much carbon-14 it contains. …
Read MoreContext Recently, a five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court upheld the amendments made by the legislatures of Tamil Nadu to The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960, allowing bull-taming sport like jallikattu. About Jallikattu Jallikattu is a traditional sport that is popular in Tamil Nadu. The sport involves releasing a wild bull into …
Read MoreQ. What is Sudden Stratospheric Warming? Illustrate its impact on atmospheric phenomena. An unusual warming event known as Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) has been observed over Antarctica which is also found to be linked with an ozone hole shrinking over the pole. The term sudden stratospheric warming refers to what is observed in the stratosphere; …
Read MoreCryptocurrencies based on Block chain technology have gained global attention in recent years, after the US agencies cracked on Silk Road, an organization using Bitcoin and dealing with RBI banned the RBI regulated entities (which includes Scheduled Commercial Bank after from dealing with any business entities dealing with Cryptocurrencies. In a recent Supreme Court, this …
Read MoreSince Richard Feynman’s famous quote – “There is a lot of space at the bottom”, nanotechnology has come a long way. Nanotechnology involves manipulation of matter at the scale of 1-100 nanometers (nm). Matter behaves very differently at this scale as compared to the macro scale. This offers great opportunities in fields like agriculture and …
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