Joymoti Konwari: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Assam on January 23. The venue for Modi’s program is the historic Jerenga Pothar in Upper Assam’s Sivasagar district. Formerly known as Rangpur, Sivasagar was the seat of the powerful Ahom dynasty, which ruled Assam for six centuries (1228-1826). Jerenga Pothar, an open field in […]
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ShramShakti – National Migration Support Portal held at Goa
ShramShakti: The Union Minister of Tribal Affairs launched “ShramShakti”, a National Migration Support Portal at a program held at Panjim, Goa. It would effectively help in the smooth formulation of state and national level programs for migrant workers. The tribal migration repository, ShramShakti would be able successfully able to address the data gap and empower […]
Risa – The Signature Textile of Tripura
Risa: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has of late made it his style statement to sport the Risa. The Biplab Deb government is now eyeing to promote Risa as the signature textile of Tripura nationally. Risa is a customary handwoven cloth used by Tripura’s indigenous tribal communities. The Risa is used as a head […]
World’s Oldest Known Cave Art
World’s oldest known cave art: Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave art — a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was painted at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The Sulawesi warty pig painting was found in the limestone cave of Leang Tedongnge The cave painting uncovered in South Sulawesi consists of […]
Quantum Computing Applications Lab Being Set Up in India
Quantum Computing Applications Lab: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in India will establish a Quantum Computing Applications Lab in the country, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate quantum computing-led research and development and enable new scientific discoveries. The Lab will provide quantum computing as a service to government ministries […]
WhatsApp Updated Privacy Policy – Recent Development
Facebook-owned WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policy: Facebook-owned WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policy, triggering a mass digital migration of users from the messaging platform to its rivals. The switch gained momentum after the Elon Musk urged his followers on Twitter to install the Signal app. Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service developed […]
Urea Plant Being Set Up at Namrup
Urea plant at Namrup: Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers chaired a meeting on the upcoming 12.7 lakh MMTPA capacity urea plant at Namrup. The Namrup-IV unit is important for ensuring local development and creating job opportunities. Namrup is a small town situated close to the foothills of the great Patkai Mountain Range (Purvanchal Range […]
Alternative Anti-Cancer Therapy Using Transgenic Zebrafish
Alternative Anti-Cancer Therapy: An Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) faculty from the Department of Science & Technology (DST) is working on an Alternative Anti-Cancer Therapy (Anti-Angiogenic) using transgenic zebrafish. INSPIRE is an innovative program sponsored and managed by the DST for the attraction of talent to Science and was launched in 2008. […]
NGC 2808 – Hot Ultra Violet (UV) Bright Stars Cluster in Milky Way
Ultra Violet (UV)-bright stars: Astronomers have spotted rare hot Ultra Violet (UV)-bright stars in the massive intriguing globular cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy called NGC 2808. India’s first multi-wavelength space satellite AstroSat helped astronomers in this. Data: Scientists combined data of Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (on board AstroSat) with observations made using other space missions […]
Egypt Resumed its Severed Diplomatic and Economic Ties with Qatar.
Egypt resumed the severed diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar.: Egypt was part of an Arab quartet (other members were Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) which had accused Qatar of supporting terrorism and being too close to Iran due to which they had imposed a land, air and naval blockade on Qatar in […]
