Multi-Angle Imager For Aerosols Mission: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with the Italian Space Agency ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) to build and launch the MAIA mission. It is a joint mission between NASA and the Italian Space Agency ASI. This will investigate the health impacts of […]
Month: March 2023
TROPEX 2023
TROPEX 2023: Indian Navy’s major Operational level exercise TROPEX for the year 2023, conducted across the expanse of IOR for four months from Nov 22 – Mar 23, culminated this week in the Arabian Sea Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise (TROPEX 2023):Nov 2022 to March 2023. This operational level exercise is conducted biennially and witnesses […]
BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting : Virtually
BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting : Virtually The Minister of State for External Affairs participated in the 19th The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Ministerial Meeting virtually from Bangkok. During the meeting, the Ministers approved several documents including rules of Procedure for Core BIMSTEC Mechanisms, Sectoral BIMSTEC Mechanisms and BIMSTEC’s External […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 10th March 2023
Today’s Current Affairs: 10th March 2023 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Jan Aushadhi Diwas 2023
Jan Aushadhi Diwas 2023: On the occasion of ‘5th Jan Aushadhi Diwas’, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare also inaugurated ‘NaMo Day Care Centre’ and flagged off four NaMo Mobile Healthcare Units. The Department of Pharmaceuticals is celebrating Jan Aushadhi Diwas from March 1 to March 7, 2023, to create awareness about the […]
Money Laundering Provisions On Cryptocurrencies
Money Laundering Provisions On Cryptocurrencies: The government has recently imposed money laundering provisions on cryptocurrencies. The Finance Ministry said the anti-money laundering legislation has been applied to crypto trading, safekeeping and related financial services. The notification said, Exchange between virtual digital assets and fiat currencies, Exchange between one or more forms of virtual digital assets, […]
Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) Satellite
Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) Satellite: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully carried out the controlled re-entry experiment for the decommissioned Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) satellite. Due to the increasing number of objects in space (Space Debris), the international aerospace community has adopted guidelines and assessment procedures to reduce the number of non-operational spacecraft and spent rocket upper stages […]
One Nation, One Challan Initiative
One Nation, One Challan Initiative: One Nation, One Challan is a govt initiative to bring all related agencies, such as the traffic police and the Regional Transport Office (RTO), on one platform. The Gujarat government is in the process of setting up virtual traffic courts in the state under the One Nation, One Challan initiative. […]
NISAR Satellite
NISAR Satellite: The US Air Force handed over NISAR, an earth observation satellite jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, to the Indian space agency. NISAR will be used by ISRO for a variety of purposes like volcanic eruptions, agricultural mapping, landslide-prone areas etc. The 2,800 kilograms satellite consists of both L-band and S-band synthetic aperture […]
National Assessment And Accreditation Council : Facing Allegations
National Assessment And Accreditation Council : Facing Allegations The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has been facing allegations of irregularities in its functioning. There have been calls for the NAAC to adopt an Outcome-based approach (rather than a self-assessment input-based approach): In an outcome-based, the emphasis would be given to finding out if students […]
