Indian Vishvaa Rajakumar Prodigy Wins Global Memory Championship: 20-year-old Vishvaa Rajakumar from India has been crowned the winner of the Memory League World Championship, as reported by The New York Times. This prestigious competition challenges participants to memorize and recall sequences of numbers, images, and words in record time. Rajakumar’s record-breaking performance saw him recalling […]
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Virat Kohli has added another historic milestone
Virat Kohli has added another historic milestone: Virat Kohli has once again etched his name in cricketing history by becoming the fastest batter to reach 14,000 ODI runs. He achieved this milestone in just 287 innings, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar (350 innings) and Kumar Sangakkara (378 innings). Kohli reached the landmark during India’s Champions Trophy 2025 […]
Shaktikanta Das Appointed Principal Secretary-2 to PM Modi
Shaktikanta Das Appointed Principal Secretary-2 to PM Modi: The government has appointed retired IAS officer and former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das as Principal Secretary-2 to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Das is the first Principal Secretary to have extensive experience in both fiscal and monetary policy, making his appointment crucial at a […]
Bank Credit to NBFCs Falls to 4-Year Low at 6.7% in 2024: RBI
Bank Credit to NBFCs Falls to 4-Year Low at 6.7% in 2024: RBI Bank lending to Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) has slowed significantly, hitting a four-year low of 6.7% in 2024, according to the latest data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). This decline is mainly due to higher risk weights imposed on such […]
HAL & DIAT Collaborate for Aerospace Innovation
HAL & DIAT Collaborate for Aerospace Innovation: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has taken a significant step in bridging the gap between industry and academia by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune. The collaboration aims to foster cutting-edge research, skill development, and technological advancements in the aerospace […]
Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin: Vietnam’s foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin. Gulf of Tonkin is referred as “Beibu Gulf”in Chinese and “Bac Bo Gulf” in Vietnamese. It is a crescent-shaped, shallow, semi-enclosed water body situated off South China and Northern Vietnam coasts in the South China Sea’s northwestern […]
Purchasing Managers’ Index
Purchasing Managers’ Index: India’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose for first time after three quarters. It is an indicator of business activity – both in the manufacturing and services sectors. It is a survey-based measure that asks the respondents about changes in their perception of some key business variables from the month before. It is […]
Palamu Tiger Reserve
Palamu Tiger Reserve: For the first time in Jharkhand, the tiger which had vacated its haunt in the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) and wandered off into the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary in Jharkhand and West Bengal’s Purulia a few months back will be brought back to its native territory It is located in the Chhota Nagpur […]
Extinction Filtering
Extinction Filtering: Recent study finds that human activities outside protected areas are driving biodiversity loss and extinction filtering is affecting sensitive species. It is the process where species sensitive to human disturbance disappear, leaving only those that can survive in degraded landscapes. It predicts that species that have evolved and survived in high-disturbance environments should […]
Perovskite Nanocrystal
Perovskite Nanocrystal: Researchers at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) in Bengaluru have developed an innovative method to minimize anion migration in CsPbX₃ perovskite nanocrystals. It is a material that has the same crystal structure as the mineral calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO3). Generally, perovskite compounds have a chemical formula ABX3, where ‘A’ […]
