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: […]
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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 […]
De-Extinction of Dire Wolf
De-Extinction of Dire Wolf: A U.S.-based biotech firm, Colossal Biosciences, claimed the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups, marking the first-ever attempt at “de-extinction” of the extinct dire wolf species after 12,500 years.De-extinction refers to the process of reviving extinct species using advanced biotechnological methods such as: Gene editing (e.g., CRISPR-Cas9). Ancient DNA sequencing […]
Palna Scheme
Palna Scheme: The 7th edition of Poshan Pakhwada began on April, with a spotlight on early childhood nutrition, and the government’s Palna Scheme is being promoted as a key childcare intervention under Mission Shakti.Palna is a centrally sponsored scheme that provides quality crèche services for children aged 6 months to 6 years, especially for working […]
