NASA’s Cassini spacecraft: Findings: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made the following discoveries in the moons of Saturn by flying through their plumes: Titan has methane in its atmosphere. Enceladus has a liquid ocean with erupting plumes of gas and water. Researchers have concluded that there may be unknown methane-producing processes on Enceladus that await discovery. […]
Month: July 2021
Authorised Economic Operators Programme:
Authorised Economic Operators Programme: The Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) has inaugurated the online filing of Authorised Economic Operators (AEO). The new version (V 2.0) of the web application is designed to ensure continuous real-time and digital monitoring of physically filed applications for timely intervention and expedience. Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Programme: […]
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund: The Union Cabinet gave its approval to the various modifications in Central Sector Scheme of Financing Facility under ‘Agriculture Infrastructure Fund’. Eligibility has now been extended to State Agencies/APMCs, National & State Federations of Cooperatives, Federations of Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs) and Federations of Self Help Groups (SHGs). For APMCs, interest subvention […]
Madurai Malli
Madurai Malli: Consignments of Geographical Indications (GI) certified Madurai malli and other traditional flowers such as button rose, lily, chamanthi and marigold were exported to USA and Dubai from Tamil Nadu. Indian community in Dubai and USA would be able to offer freshflowers to Hindu deities both at home and temples while celebrating religious and […]
Emvolio
Emvolio: DBT-BIRAC supported startup Blackfrog Technologies has developed Emvolio. Emvólio is a portable, battery-powered medical-grade refrigeration device that improves the efficiency of the immunization by strictly maintaining preset temperature for up to 12 hours, thus enabling the safe and efficient transportation of vaccines to the last mile. Emvólio has a 2-litre capacity, enabling it to […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 8th July 2021
Today Current Affairs: 8th July 2021 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Kappa And Lambda Variants : Corona Virus
Kappa And Lambda Variants : Coronavirus Kappa and Lambda variants have been labelled as Variants of Interest (VoI) by WHO. Kappa was first detected in India and more than 3,500 of the close to 30,000 cumulative samples submitted by the country to the GISAID initiative are of this variant. In the last 60 days, the […]
National Centre For Biological Sciences (NCBS)
National Centre For Biological Sciences (NCBS): A research paper by scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), announcing a breakthrough in the field of chemical biology, and published in the prestigious Nature Chemical Biology (NCB), has been retracted as its key findings were manipulated. National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, […]
INS Tabar Conducts Military Exercise With Italian Navy
INS Tabar Conducts Military Exercise With Italian Navy: INS Tabar joined Italian Navy and entered Port of Naples on July 3 as part of ongoing deployment in Mediterranean. Commanding officer Captain Mahesh Mangipudi called on senior officers of Prefect of Naples Authority, regional Italian navy headquarters and coast guard headquarters during the stay. While returning, […]
Matsya Setu
Matsya Setu: The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has launched the Online Course Mobile App “Matsya Setu” for fish farmers. The app was developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIFA) and National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB). It aims to disseminate the latest freshwater aquaculture technologies to the […]
