Exercise Orion: Four Rafale fighter jets of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will soon depart to France to take part in multilateral exercise Orion at Mont-de-Marsan, an Air Force base of the French Air and Space Force (FASF). Exercise Orion is a multinational exercise hosted by the French government. It is reportedly the largest ever […]
Month: April 2023
India’s Tallest Ambedkar Statue
India’s Tallest Ambedkar Statue: Telangana Chief Minister will unveil a 125-feet-tall statue of Dr B R Ambedkar on the banks of Hussainsagar, marking the latter’s 132nd birth anniversary. India’s tallest Ambedkar statue On the banks of Hussainsagar near the new Secretariat complex in Hyderabad. It is claimed to be the tallest statue in the country […]
Gond Painting : GI Tag
Gond Painting : GI Tag The famous Gond painting of Madhya Pradesh has received the prestigious Geographical Indication (GI) tag. Gond Painting is a famous folk art of the Gond tribal community of central India. It is done to preserve and communicate the culture of the Gond tribal community. Gond tribes are highly interlinked with […]
Animal Health System Support For One Health
Animal Health System Support For One Health: Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying will launch the “Animal Pandemic Preparedness Initiative (APPI)” Animal Health System Support for One Health (AHSSOH) project under the aegis of National One Health Mission on 14th of April 2023 at India Habitat Center, New Delhi. Animal Health System Support […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 14th April 2023
Today’s Current Affairs: 14th Apr 2023 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza: A stone scoreboard used in an ancient soccer-like ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The circular piece, measuring just over 32 centimetres in diameter and weighing 40 kilograms displays hieroglyphic writing surrounding two players standing next to a ball that was […]
Bishnoi Community : Protest
Bishnoi Community : Protest People from the Bishnoi community are protesting against the “widespread” felling of Khejri trees for setting up solar power plants in Rajasthan. Bishnoi community belong to a Hindu religious sect found in the Western Thar Desert and some northern states of India. They trace their origins to the teachings of Guru […]
National Career Service Portal
National Career Service Portal: Around 35.7 lakh vacancies have been reported by employers on the National Career Service portal during the year 2022-23 compared to around 13 lakh vacancies in 2021- 22. National Career Service portal is one of the mission-mode projects under the umbrella of the E-Governance Plan. It was launched in the year […]
Juice Mission : European Space Agency
Juice Mission : European Space Agency The European Space Agency is set to launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission to explore Jupiter and its icy moons, namely Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. Juice Mission launched from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 launcher. The mission is set to reach Jupiter in 2031. The spacecraft […]
Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider: Currently, engineers are warming up the LHC for its third season of operations,with upgrades. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest science experiment that smashes tiny particles called hadrons together at really high speeds. It uses protons as the particles and has a long circular pipe where they’re accelerated. LHC is […]