NMCG-TERI’s Centre Of Excellence (CoE) On Water Reuse: The Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and the Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launched the NMCG-TERI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Water Reuse at the TERI Headquarters in New Delhi. The CoE on Water Reuse is the first of […]
Category: Current Affairs
ABHYAS: DRDO
ABHYAS: DRDO has successfully conducted the flight test of Indigenously developed High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) ‘Abhyas’ from Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. The vehicle can be used as an aerial target for evaluation of various missile systems. This indigenous target aircraft, once developed, will meet the requirements of High-speed […]
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square Massacre: Workers at the University of Hong Kong put took down the towering “Pillar of Shame”. The 8-metre (26-foot)-tall sculpture, which was taken away in parts, remembered the victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. There is more than one Pillar of Shame. It is a series of […]
Karnataka Right To Freedom Of Religion Bill, 2021
Karnataka Right To Freedom Of Religion Bill, 2021: The Karnataka legislative Assembly passed The Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021, commonly referred to as the anti-conversion Bill, amid Opposition protests. The Bill will now go to the Karnataka Legislative Council. It prohibits conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, fraud, allurement […]
TRIFED Vandhan Chronicle
TRIFED Vandhan Chronicle: TRIFED Vandhan Chronicle was launched by Arjun Munda, Minister for Tribal Affairs on December 23, 2021. TRIFED VanDhan Chronicle is an in-depth resource on the Van Dhan Yojana and TRIFED’s activities in this important scheme. The chronicle gives an in-depth illustration of the activities undertaken by TRIFED which has impacted the life […]
INS Khukri
INS Khukri: INS Khukri, the first of the indigenously built Missile Corvettes, was decommissioned after 32 years of glorious service on 23 Dec 2021. The ship solemn ceremony was held at Visakhapatnam. The corvette was built by the Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders on 23 August 1989 and had the distinction of being part of both the […]
Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) For Copra
Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) For Copra: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for copra for 2022 season. Copra refers to the dried coconut kernels from which coconut oil is expelled. The MSP for Fair Average Quality […]
Kerala’s SilverLine Project
Kerala’s SilverLine Project: The project entails building a semi high-speed railway corridor through the state linking its southern end and state capital Thiruvananthapuram with its northern end of Kasaragod. The line is proposed to be 529.45 kms long, covering 11 districts through 11 stations. When the project is realised, one can travel from Kasaragod to […]
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR): Vodafone announced that it is auctioning the world’s first SMS as a non-fungible token (NFT). Now, the company has announced that a bidder has paid 107,000 euros for the replica of the first communication protocol of a short message, perpetuated as a NFT. Vodafone will donate them to […]
Pralay Missile: DRDO
Pralay Missile: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully conducted maiden flight test of a new indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile ‘Pralay’. The missile was tested from the Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. Pralay’ is India’s first conventional quasi-ballistic missile and is an answer to any conventional missile attack from […]
