United Nations Peacekeeping: The United Nations peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix is undertaking a visit to India, among the largest troop contributing countries for its operations. Jean-Pierre Lacroix will visit India, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Japan starting from October 6. He will participate in a two-day meeting organised by the Challenges Forum, the event […]
World’s Largest Producer And Consumer Of Sugar
World’s Largest Producer And Consumer Of Sugar: India emerges as the world’s largest producer and consumer of sugar and world’s 2nd largest exporter of sugar. In Sugar Season (Oct-Sep) 2021-22, a record of more than 5000 Lakh Metric Tons (LMT) sugarcane was produced in the country. Out of this, 35 LMT sugar was diverted to […]
Nobel Prize In chemistry 2022
Nobel Prize In chemistry 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” Sharpless was the first scientist to work on ‘click chemistry’ – a branch of science that explores the assembly of molecules. Meldal and […]
Prachanda : Light Combat Helicopter
Prachanda : Light Combat Helicopter The Indian Air Force formally inducted the indigenously developed multi-role Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), Prachanda which is suitable for operating in high-altitude battlefields. The LCH is the only attack helicopter in the world which can land and take off at an altitude of 5,000 meters with a considerable load of […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 6th October 2022
Today Current Affairs:6th October 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Nansen Award
Nansen Award: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently received the Nansen Refugee Award. Ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the UNHCR Nansen Award for providing asylum for refugees while in office. While Merkel was the Chancellor in 2015 and 2016, Germany welcomed more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers, especially from Syria. The UNHCR recognized […]
herSTART Initiative
herSTART Initiative: herSTART was recently launched by President of India, Draupadi Murmu. herSTART is an initiative implemented by the Gujarat University Startup and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC). It is supported by the state government of Gujarat, the Central Government and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal […]
World Space Week 2022
World Space Week 2022: World Space Week is observed from October 4 to 10 every year. World Space Week is observed to create awareness about space activities, inspire next generation to contribute to those activities and promote international cooperation in space outreach and education. “Space and Sustainability” is the theme for this year’s World Space […]
International Year Of Millets (IYOM)-2023
International Year Of Millets (IYOM)-2023: A MOU was signed between the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited to promote Millets towards celebration of the International Year of Millets 2023. Key areas: Facilitating advisory support: To manufacturers/processors of millet-based products to develop value-added millet-based commodities On-boarding […]
Nobel Prize In Physics
Nobel Prize In Physics: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Two of the laureates—John Clauser and Alain Aspect—worked on firming up the concept of quantum entanglement and developing more […]
