Instant Messaging Platform: The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has launched an instant messaging platform called Sandes on the lines of WhatsApp. NIC is under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It provides network backbone and e-Governance support to the Central Government, State Governments and UT Administrations. Sandes App: It is a […]
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New Guidelines For The Geo-Spatial Sector In India
New Guidelines For The Geo-Spatial Sector In India: The Ministry of Science and Technology has released new guidelines for the Geo-spatial sector in India, which deregulates existing protocol and liberalizes the sector to a more competitive field. The new guidelines: The sector will be deregulated and aspects such as prior approvals for surveying, mapping and […]
What is Digital Intelligence Unit? Objective
Set Up Of Digital Intelligence Unit: The Ministry of Communications has decided to set up a Digital Intelligence Unit (DIU) as a nodal agency to deal with complaints of unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) and cases of financial fraud, especially in the digital payments space. Apart from the DIU a Telecom Analytics for Fraud Management and […]
Mars Missions of NASA and China : Two More Rovers set to Land
Mars Missions: Two more rovers — NASA’s Perseverance and China’s Tianwen-1 — are set to land on Mars on February 18 and in May 2021 respectively. NASA’s Perseverance Rover: The most sophisticated mission from an engineering standpoint, NASA’s Perseverance Rover, is en route to Mars and is set to land on Thursday at Jezero Crater, […]
MK-1A Arjun Main Battle Tank : Key Points
Arjun Main Battle Tank: Prime Minister Modi handed over the indigenously developed Arjun Main Battle Tank (MK-1A) to the Indian Army at a ceremony in Chennai. The army will get 118 units of the Main Battle Tank, indigenously designed, developed and manufactured by CVRDE and DRDO along with 15 academic institutions, eight labs and several […]
Dickinsonia : Fossils Of The Earliest Known Living Animal
Dickinsonia: Researchers have discovered three fossils of the earliest known living animal, the 550-million-year-old ‘Dickinsonia’ on the roof of the Bhimbetka Rock Shelters. The fossils were found in the roof of the Auditorium Cave at Bhimbetka Rock Shelters About Dickinsonia: In September 2018, an international team of researchers claimed to have discovered the world’s oldest […]
What is Bhuvan National Geo-Portal?
Bhuvan: The Department of Space (DoS), under which ISRO comes, has signed an MoU with geospatial technology company CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd. The collaboration will enable them to jointly identify and build a holistic geospatial portal utilizing earth observation datasets, ‘NavIC’, Web Services, and APIs (application programming interface) available in MapmyIndia. The geospatial portals […]
Parliamentary Panel Report On 5G In India : Key Findings
Parliamentary Panel Report On 5G In India: Key findings by the panel: Despite the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) having submitted a report on the steps to make India 5G ready as early as August 2018, there was very little progress on the ground. Challenges: Lack of various approvals around spectrum such as uncertainty around […]
Tianwen-1 : Successfully Entered Orbit Around Mars
Tianwen-1: A Chinese spacecraft named Tianwen-1 has successfully entered orbit around Mars on February 10, 2021. The probe entered the MARS Orbit after making the journey of 6 and a half months from the Earth. This mission is China’s first independent mission on the red planet. After reaching near the orbit, the robotic probe initiated […]
Einsteinium : Properties Of Element 99 In The Periodic Table
Einsteinium: A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab has reported some of the properties of element 99 in the periodic table called “Einsteinium”, named after Albert Einstein. With this new study published in the journal Nature last week, for the first time researchers have been able to characterize some of the properties of the […]
