AKASHVANI
MAITREE INAUGRATED BY PRESIDENT PRANAB MUKHERJEE:
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The channel is a unique venture of All
India Radio and is aimed at strengthening ties
between the two neighbours, India and Bangladesh.
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Channel's uniqueness lies in sharing
of content between Bangladesh Betar & Akashvani Maitree.
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Duration of the channel will be 16 Hrs
per day.
SCRAMJET
ENGINE:
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India is the fourth country to
demonstrate the
flight testing of Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engine(SCRAMJET).
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Scramet engine designed by ISRO uses Hydrogen as fuel and Oxygen from the atmospheric air as the oxidizer.
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Scramjet engines will help bringing
down launch cost by reducing the amount of oxidiser to be carried along with
the fuel.
CYBATHLON:
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The Cybathlon is an international
competition organised by ETH Zurich for disabled competitors allowed
to use bionic assistive technology.
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Other international competitions for
disabled athletes, such as the Paralympics, only permit competitors to use
unpowered assistive technology.
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The Cybathlon encourages the use of
performance-enhancing technology such as powered exoskeletons and is dubbed as
Bionic Olympics.
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The Cybathlon will feature six
disciplines – a Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) bicycle race, a Powered
Leg Prosthesis Race, a Powered Wheelchair Race, a Powered Exoskeleton Race, a
Powered Arm Prosthesis Race, and a computerised race for competitors with
paralysis using brain-computer interfaces.
INDIGENOUS
LEPROSY VACCINE:
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A vaccine, called Mycobacterium
indicus pranii (MIP), developed by the National Institute
of Immunology, New Delhi will be launched on a trial basis.
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Leprosy, the disease, caused by the
bacteria, Mycobacterium leprae , affects around 1.25 lakh people every year in
India.
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MIP can bring down leprosy cases by 60
percent in three years.
CASPOL:
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CASPOL, is a water-based
ready-to-coat and easy-to-use flame-proof coating, developed by ISRO(vikram
sarabhai space centre).
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It contains no toxic material, is eco
friendly, keeps buildings around 5-6ºc cooler in summers and is even water
seepage resistant.
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It has excellent flame retardant,
water proofing, and thermal-control properties.
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It can be applied on walls, clothes,
paper, thatched roofs, and wood.
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It has multiple applications ranging
from use in launch vehicles, household, autombiles and public transport.
EINSTEIN
RING:
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An Einstein ring is a distorted image of a very distant galaxy, which is termed
“the source”.
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In observational astronomy an Einstein
ring, also known as an Einstein-Chwolson ring or
Chwolson ring.
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The distortion is produced by the
bending of the light rays from the source due to a massive galaxy, termed “the
lens”, lying between it and the observer.
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The strong gravitational field
produced by the lens galaxy distorts the structure of space-time in its
neighbourhood, and this does not only attract objects which have a mass, but
also bends the paths of light.
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These phenomena, predicted by
Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, are quite rare but scientifically
interesting.
SUNWAY
TAIHULIGHT:
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A Chinese supercomputer named Sunway Taihu Light built using
domestic chip technology has been declared the world’s fastest supercomputer.
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The new number one is capable of
performing some 93 quadrillion calculations per second or petaflops.
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Previous record holder ,Tianhe-2 is
also from china but was made from Intel processor chips.
PACESetter
Fund:
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India and the United States of America
recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation to Establish
the PACESetter Fund.
About
the PACESetter Fund:
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The fund will be set up with a corpus
of about Rs.500 Million on 50:50 sharing basis.
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This fund is the principal funding arm
of the Promoting Energy Access through Clean Energy (PEACE),
an initiative of the US and Indian governments to harness commercial enterprise
and bring clean energy access to unserved and underserved individuals and
communities.
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The PACEsetter Fund will
provide grants to companies that sell small-scale clean energy systems to individuals and
communities without access to grid-connected power or with limited or intermittent
access to power.
RBI
LAUNCHES PORTAL TO CURB ILLEGAL MONEY:
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RBI has launched a website (Sachet-rbi-Org) to curb illegal and unauthorised pooling of
funds by unscrupulous firms.
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Provides information regarding
particular entity whether it is registered with any regulator/permitted to
accept deposits.
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Enhances coordination among regulators
and state government agencies to curb unauthorised acceptance of deposits by
unscrupulous entities.
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Incorporates regulations prescribed by
all financed regulators that different entities have to follow.
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FINANCIAL
ACTION TASK FORCE:
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It is an inter-governmental policy
making body with ministerial mandate to establish international standards for
combating money laundering and terrorist financing.
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It comprises 36 countries including
India.
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FATF secretariat is housed at the headquarters of the OECD in the Paris.
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It was expanded to act against
terrorism financing on 2001.
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Objectives:
It will promote legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering
and terrorist financing and other related threats.
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News:
Recently India approached US and European Countries part of the financial
action task force to crack terror fund trial details from Pakistan.
SCAT-SAT-1
TO HELP IN PREDICTING CYCLONES:
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India is set to acquire the capability
for more accurate prediction and tracking of cyclones with the
launch of scat - sat - 1 satellite.
Salient
features:
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Indigenously developed weather fore
casting satellite to monitor sea winds and help predict the genesis of
cyclones.
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The primary payload of Scatsat-1 is a
scatter meter - to observe speed and direction of Ocean winds that indicates
formation and strengthening of cyclones.
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Scat Sat - 1 will replace Ocean Sat-2 and data will be used
by NASA, European Organisation for the exploration of meteorological
satellites, and National Oceanic and atmospheric administration.
INDIA’S
ECOLOGICAL FOOT PRINT:
Ecological
foot print:
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The measure of impact
humans have on the environment.
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A country’s ecological foot is sum of
all cropland, grazing land, forest and fishing grounds required to produce the
food, fibre and timber it consumes, to absorb the wastes emitted when it uses
energy and to provide space for infrastructure.
·India
ranked 3rd in its ecological foot print due to its high population levels
despite a law per capita consumption of natural resources.
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Top 2 : China and USA.
UNION
GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTES DISHA FOR TIMELY IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL SCHEMES:
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Union Government has constituted the
District Development coordination and monitoring committee (DDMC) for effective development of and coordination of Central Government
Programmes. It will be known as DISHA.
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It will monitor implementation of 28
schemes and programmes of union Ministry of Rural.
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Development and other Ministries to
promote synergy and convergence for greater Impact.
Key
Facts
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The main purpose of DISHA is to
coordinate centre and State and local Panchayat Governments.
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It resulted in effective coordination
and development of Central Government’s programme for infrastructure
development / social and human resource development.
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The chairperson of the committee will
be senior most Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) elected from district,
nominated by the Union Ministry of Rural development.
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It will ensure the participation of
people’s representative at all levels and successful implementation of flagship
programme of Central Government.
MISSION
BHAGIRATHA IN TELANGANA:
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Mission Bhagiratha is a water grid project that aims to provide safe drinking water to all
even to remotest place in Telangana.
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Under this project it provides drinking
water to 2500 rural habitations & 67 urban habitations.
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Apart from providing a sustainable and
permanent solution for drinking water it also aims to rejuvenate more than
45000 water tanks.
YAAD
KARO KURBANI:
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It is a 15 day programme
aimed to commemorate 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement (QIM) and 70
years of Independence.
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It was recently launched by Prime
Minister Modi at birth place of freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad at
Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh.
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The campaign aimed at developing a
feeling in every person that nation is first and individual is secondary.
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