Today’s Current Affairs: 28th February 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Day: February 28, 2025
Accredited Social Health Activist
Accredited Social Health Activist: ASHA workers have been on an indefinite stir in front of the Kerala government secretariat over the last several days demanding an increase of their monthly remuneration to Rs 21,000, retirement benefit of Rs 5 lakh and other basic benefits. ASHA is a trained female community health activist. The ASHA program […]
Cholanaikkan Tribe : New Scope
Cholanaikkan Tribe : New Scope In a novel attempt to provide education to a bed-ridden girl belonging to the Cholanaikkan tribe, the Samagra Shiksha Kerala programme of the general education department has prepared 30 audio-visual texts in the tribe’s own distinct language. They are a diminishing tribe of India. With a population of less than […]
Mount Fentale
Mount Fentale: Mount Fentale volcano in Ethiopia is spewing unusually large volumes of methane from its crater, according to satellite measurements of the potent greenhouse gas. It is a stratovolcano located in Awash National Park in the Oromia Region, Ethiopia. It rises approximately 600 m from the floor of the Rift Valley, and the lavas […]
Petrification
Petrification: Geologists and forest officials recently unearthed a rare and well-preserved petrified fossil at Rajmahal Hills near Barmasia village in Pakur district, Jharkhand. Petrification (petros means stone) occurs when the organic matter is completely replaced by minerals and the fossil is turned to stone. This generally occurs by filling the pores of the tissue and […]
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault received more than 14,000 new seed samples. It is the largest backup facility for the world’s crop diversity. Svalbard is the Norwegian archipelago half way between the Northern pole and Mainland Norway. The Seed Vault’s objective is to safeguard as much of the world’s unique crop […]
Kundi Water Harvest System
Kundi Water Harvest System: The Kundi traditional Water Harvest System is an excellent example of how local knowledge and architectural ingenuity can address environmental challenges in water scarce region. The kundi (also known as a kund) is a traditional rainwater harvesting system that is predominantly found in desert regions in Rajasthan, India. This system is […]
Cali Fund
Cali Fund: The ‘Cali Fund’ was launched at the resumed 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Rome. It is a new international fund has been created to help protect biodiversity. It will collect money from private companies. These companies use genetic data from nature in their […]
SPHEREx Telescope
SPHEREx Telescope: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is tentatively scheduled to launch its new megaphone-shaped space telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope is a megaphone-shaped telescope. Tenure: 2 year It […]
National Green Financing Institution
National Green Financing Institution: The Government is working to set up a National Green Financing Institution to aggregate green finance from different sources and lower the cost of capital to support its net-zero target by 2070.NITI Aayog is evaluating models like NaBFID/NABARD, IREDA, Green InvITs, and global Green Banks for a National Green Financing Institution. […]
