Daulatabad Fort : Fire A fire at Daulatabad Fort in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district has prompted the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to initiate damage assessment and plan disaster management.Originally called Devgiri (Hill of Gods), it was renamed Daulatabad by Muhammad bin Tughlaq when he shifted his capital there in the 14th century.It served as […]
Month: April 2025
Mahavir Jayanti : 10th April 2025
Mahavir Jayanti: 10th April 2025 Prime Minister inaugurated Navkar Mahamantra Divas to mark Mahavir Jayanti (10th April 2025), emphasizing that Lord Mahavir’s teachings of non-violence, truth, and compassion offer contemporary solutions to global challenges and align with the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat’. Mahavir Jayanti, also known as Mahaveer Janma Kalyanak, is one of the significant religious […]
One-Horned Rhinoceros : Plan For Translocation
One-Horned Rhinoceros : Plan For Translocation The Wildlife Institute of India has proposed a national action plan for translocation of one-horned rhinoceroses to reduce habitat pressure in Assam’s Kaziranga and Pobitora, through reintroduction in new protected areas across five states.One-Horned Rhinoceros Scientific Name: Rhinoceros unicornis.IUCN Status: Vulnerable.Proposed Translocation Sites under New Action Plan: Assam: […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 10th April 2025
Today’s Current Affairs: 10th April 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Himalayan High Altitude Atmospheric and Climate Research Centre
Himalayan High Altitude Atmospheric and Climate Research Centre: India has inaugurated the Himalayan High Altitude Atmospheric and Climate Research Centre at Nathatop, Jammu & Kashmir, marking a major milestone in global climate science. Himalayan High Altitude Atmospheric and Climate Research Centre is located at an altitude of 2,250 meters above sea level in Nathatop, chosen […]
Adenium obesum
Adenium obesum: Tiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu is making inroads in cultivating Adenium obesum, more popularly known as ‘desert rose’, a unique flowering plant that has drawn major attention for its novelty as an ornamental houseplant. The Adenium obesum, commonly known as the Desert Rose, is a succulent shrub in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae). It […]
Akash Air Defence Missile System
Akash Air Defence Missile System: India recently offered the indigenous Akash air defence missile system to the UAE. Akash Air Defence Missile System is a Short Range Surface to Air Missile System to protect vulnerable areas and points from air attacks. It was indigenously designed and developed by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) […]
Arctic Biome
Arctic Biome: The 2024 Arctic Report Card by the US NOAA confirms this trend, noting that frequent fires and fossil fuel pollution are turning the Arctic tundra into a carbon source. The Arctic tundra is a treeless plain with permafrost within a meter of the soil surface. Summers cause only the top layer to thaw, […]
Rafale-M Jets
Rafale-M Jets: The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by the Prime Minister, approved a ₹63,000-crore deal for procuring 26 Rafale-M fighter jets from France for the Indian Navy. Initially, under the MMRCA tender (2007), India planned to acquire 126 jets with technology transfer, which was shelved in 2015. A direct deal in 2016 led […]
Matter and Anti-matter : New Study
Matter and Anti-matter : New Study Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment reported confirmed evidence of Charge-Parity (CP) violation in a class of particles called baryons. This is the first statistically significant confirmation of CP violation in baryons, marking a potential breakthrough in understanding the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Matter is […]
