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Maharashtra Bhushan Puraskar
• The Maharashtra Bhushan Puraskar will be given to legendary
playback singer Asha Bhosle for the year 2021.
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The Maharashtra Bhushan is a highest civilian award
presented annually by the government of Maharashtra.
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It was first awarded in 1996 to Purushottam Laxman
Deshpande in the field of Literature
Cyrus Poonawala - Lokmanya Tilak Award • The award was first presented in the year 1983 • The prize includes a cash prize of 1,00,000 rupees and souvenirs for the winners. santhosh @ ace current affairs • The founder of the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune, businessman Cyrus Poonawalla has been named the winner of the prestigious National Lokmanya Tilak Award 2021
• Asthana, who was serving as
Director General, Border
Security Force, will join as the
Delhi Police Commissioner
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immediate effect.
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Bhageerathi Amma (1914 – 22 July 2021)
• Bhageerathi Amma (1914 – 22 July 2021) was an Indian woman living in the
Kollam district of Kerala. She came to national attention when she returned
to education at the age of 105..
At the age of 105, Amma decided to continue her education and took
examinations in Mathematics, the Malayalam language and Environmental
Science. She scored 205santhosh
out of 275 points and was acknowledged as the
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oldest person to take the equivalency exams.
• Amma was announced as a winner of the 2019 Nari Shakti Puraskar. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi lauded her in a Mann Ki Baat episode saying: “She
is a big source of inspiration and I pay respects to her.”
Alexander Dalrymple award-2019
• The Alexander Dalrymple award has been named after the
first hydrographer of the Admiralty and was instituted in
2006.
• Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar, Chief Hydrographer to the
Govt. of India received the@Alexander
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the British High Commissioner
• Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar was conferred with the
prestigious award in 2019S.N. Ghormade
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Vice Admiral S.N. Ghormade
took over as Deputy Chief of
Naval Staff from Vice
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• The Ramayana of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji” which is written by the late Baljit Kaur Tulsi santhosh @ ace current affairs
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• Filmmaker Rakeysh
Omprakash Mehra has
announced his
autobiography,
• “The Stranger In
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The Mirror”.
• He has co-written the book
with noted author Reeta
Ramamurthy GuptaIndo bangla train route
• The Haldibari -Chilahati train route was opened in December last
year for the operation of the goods train after a gap of 55 years
during the virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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• The passenger train will also run on the same route. This route
was closed during the India-Pakistan war of 1965
• At present, five rail routes connect Bangladesh and India namely
Petrapole-Benapole , Singhabad-Rohanpur Radhikapur-Birol and
Haldibari-Chilahati.santhosh @ ace current affairs
Discovered Small Field (DSF)
santhosh @ ace current affairsDiscovered Small Field (DSF)
• Under the bid round, 75 discoveries across 32 Contract areas
in 11 basins/locations are being offered. Estimated
Hydrocarbon in place of approximately 232 MMTOE of oil and
oil equivalent gas are on offer.
santhosh @ ace current affairsBiotech-PRIDE • July 30, 2021 Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced the “Biotech-PRIDE (Promotion of Research and Innovation through Data Exchange) Guidelines” developed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology (DBT).santhosh @ ace current affairs • This guideline is to enable information exchange and promote research and innovation in many research groups nationwide. • Also launched the website of the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC).
Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR)
• Under the first phase of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR)
programme , the Government through its special purpose vehicle,
the Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited (ISPRL), has set up
petroleum storage facilities with a total capacity of 5.33 Million
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• These are namely (i) Visakhapatnam (1.33 MMT), (ii) Mangaluru
(1.5 MMT) and (iii) Padur (2.5 MMT), and all the storage facilities
have been filled with crude oil.Under the second phase
of the with a total
storage capacity of 6.5
MMT underground
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Chandikhol (4 MMT)
and Padur (2.5 MMT) in
July 2021, on PPP Mode.• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has taken a decision
for providing 27% reservation for OBCs and 10% reservation
for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in the All India
Quota (AIQ) Scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate
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medical / dental courses (MBBS / MD / MS / Diploma / BDS
/ MDS) from the current academic year 2021-22 onwardsRAJA MIRCHA :king chilli
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• In a major boost to exports of Geographical Indications (GI)
products from the north-eastern region, a consignment of
‘Raja Mircha’ also referred as king chilli from Nagaland was
exported to London via Guwahati by air for the first time.
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• It got GI certification in 2008Assam- mizoram border dispute
• Assam shares a 164km (about 101 miles) border with Mizoram,
and both states contest its demarcation.
• Under colonial rule, Lushai Hills, as Mizoram was then known,
was part of Assam. it became a separate federally administered
area. In 1987, it became a fully-fledged
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• Three districts in Assam - Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj -
share a 164km-long border with three districts of Mizoram.santhosh @ ace current affairs
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• The federal government has been trying to mediate a truce
between the states since 1994 but has failed to achieve a
breakthrough.
santhosh @ ace current affairsPhase – 2 of the Swachh Bharat
• Phase – 2 of the Swachh Bharat mission aiming at achieving
ODF Plus goal was launched last year, which focuses on ODF
sustainability and Solid and Liquid Waste Management aiming
at comprehensive cleanliness in villages.
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• The manuals pertain to key components of ODF Plus – Grey
Water Management, Plastic Waste Management, Faecal
Sludge Management and Biodegradable Waste Management.ramappa
• UNESCO inscribed the 13th-century Ramappa temple in
Palampet, Telangana as a World Heritage Site. With this,
India now has 39 sites on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List,
and the Archaeological Survey of India is now the custodian
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dholavira
• While Dholavira became the fourth site from Gujarat
• 40th from India to make the list,
• it is the first site of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) in
India to get the tag.
• After Mohen-jo-Daro, Ganweriwala
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and Rakhigarhi in Haryana of India, Dholavira is the fifth
largest metropolis of IVC.Namami gange
• The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), conceived as
a ₹20,000-crore programme in 2014 to clean up the river, has
so far been allocated ₹15,074 crore.
santhosh @ ace current affairsChaurasi Koshi Parikrama Marg
• Road Transport and Highways Ministry has issued Draft
Notification declaring ‘Chaurasi Koshi Parikrama Marg’ as
National Highway in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
• All three parikramas in Ayodhya — the 5 kos (around 15 km),
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275 km) parikramas — are
linked to Lord Ram.santhosh @ ace current affairs
NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
NRF is being envisaged as an umbrella structure that will
improve linkages between Research and Development,
academia and industry.
The total proposed outlay of NRF is 50,000 crore rupees over a
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period of five years.
One of the main objectives of NRF is to seed, grow and
facilitate research at academic institutions, particularly at
universities and colleges, where research capacity is currently
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DRINK FROM TAP
• Puri became the first city in India where people can avail high quality
drinking water directly from the tap on 24-hour basis. Henceforth, people
need not have to store or filter drinking water.
• No metropolitan city in India have such facility yet. Similar facilities are
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available only in world-class cities like London, New York and Singapore.
• The project would benefit 2.5 lakh citizens of Puri and 2 crore tourists who
visit the tourist place every year.KRISHIKARNA santhosh @ ace current affairs
KRISHIKARNA
• Mini polyhouse which is a kind of greenhouse will be built under
the “Krishikarna” project, launched in Kerala, a joint initiative of
the National Society for Agricultural Horticulture (SAHS), the
Sustainability Foundation and Qore3 Innovation
• Qore3 Innovations issanthosh
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“end-to-end support” for farms.
• Under Krishikarna, a small polyhouse will be built on a 2.5 cent
land.
• The total estimated cost of each plastic house is Rs 2,35,000.Project bold
• which stands for Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought.
• Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in collaboration
with the Border Security Force (BSF) in a first of its kind project
has launched Project Bold with the primary aim of developing
green cover in the Indian deserts of Rajasthan.
• On 4th July Project Bold was@launched
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tribal village in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan
• On 27th July, 2021 KVIC along with the BSF planted 1000 bamboo
saplings under Project Bold.
• The saplings were planted in Tanot village in Jaisalmer.John abraham
• John Abraham, a veterinary-doctor-turned-inventor, has received
the patents for inventing biodiesel from the waste of slaughtered
chicken. This biodiesel offers mileage of around 38 km a litre.
• This biodiesel costs around 40% of the current diesel price and cuts
down on pollution by half.
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• The Indian Patent Office finally granted the patent after seven years
of waiting.
• Mr Abraham works as an associate professor at the Wayanad
veterinary college under the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University.Ai for all
• Intel has collaborated with the Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) and the Ministry of Education to announce
the launch of the ‘AI For All’ initiative.
• This initiative has been launched with the aim of creating a
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in the countryIntrinsic.
• Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has announced of the
launch of a new company that will be solely focused on software
developing for robots. The company has been named Intrinsic.
• Intrinsic, the new robotic firm has been announced after years of
work within “X”, the subsidiary of Alphabet which mainly
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functions as an incubator for all entrepreneurial and innovative
ideas by putting together talents from the tech industry.Vision for Everyone
• The first-ever resolution on vision has been approved the United
Nations general assembly.
• The UN called upon its 193 member countries so that they ensure
access to eye care for each of their individual citizens.
• Following this resolution will
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of helping about 1.1 billion people who are suffering from vision
impairment and lack eye services by the year 2030.
• UN Ambassador of Bangladesh, Rabab Fatima, introduced this
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NORTH EASTERN SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE
(NESAC)
• The Union Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah, laid the
foundation stone for
• The Multipurpose Convention Centre and Exhibition Facility
of the North Eastern Space Applications Centre-NESAC,
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• in Shillong.PM CARES for Children'
• Eligibility: All children who have lost
• Both parents or
Surviving parent or
legal guardian/adoptive parents due to COVID 19 pandemic,
starting from 11.03.2020 till the end of pandemic, shall be
entitled to benefits under this
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• It enables their wellbeing through health insurance, empower
them through education and equip them for self-sufficient
existence with financial support of Rs. 10 lakh, on reaching 23
years of age.SOHRA
• The Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah, in his Meghalaya
visit, launched the Green Sohra Afforestation Campaign at
Sohra (Cherrapunji)
• Cherrapunji, also known as Sohra is a subdivisional town in
the East Khasi Hills district
santhosh @ ace current affairsI-STEM
• The Indian Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map (I-STEM), the
national web portal for sharing R&D facilities was formally launched in
January 2020 by the Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
• I-STEM project has been accorded extension for five years, until 2026 and
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enters its second phase with added features.
• The goal of I-STEM is to strengthen the R&D ecosystem of the country by
connecting researchers with resources, in part by promoting technologies and
scientific equipment development indigenously, and providing necessary
supplies and supports to researchers by enabling them an access to existing
publicly funded R&D facilities in the country through the I-STEM web portal.National Centre of Excellence for Animation,
Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics
• The Union Government has decided to set up a National Centre
of Excellence for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics
for creating a world-class talent pool in India to cater to the
Indian as well as global industry.
• It will be set up in collaboration with Indian Institute of
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Technology, Bombay.
• Despite growing at an estimated 29-30 per cent per annum, the
share of the domestic AVGC industry in the global AVGC market
was just one per cent at $2.69 billion (or Rs 20,000 crore), a CII
report says.Renewables Integration in India 2021
• A report on “Renewables Integration in India 2021” was jointly
launched by NITI Aayog and International Energy Agency (IEA).
• The report highlights that India’s power system can efficiently
integrate renewables (175 GW by 2022 and 450 GW by 2030),
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• The report is based on the outcome of three states workshops
held with the Governments of Maharashtra, Karnataka and
Gujarat to understand the specific energy transition challenges
faced by these renewable-rich statesKANDLA SEZ (KASEZ)
• Kandla becomes first Green SEZ in the country.
• Kandla Special Economic Zone (KASEZ), the oldest export zone
in the country, has become the “first green industrial city” in
India to receive a platinum rating under IGBC Green Cities
Rating for existing cities in the
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• Compared to the 25,000 trees in KASEZ in 2019, the 1000-odd
acres has 3.5 lakh trees. Most of these trees have been planted
post 2019, using the Miyawaki forestation method.armex
• The ARMEX-21 was conducted in the mountain ranges of the
Himalayan region to promote the adventure activity in the
country and the Indian Army.
• The expedition was flagged off at Karakoram Pass in Ladakh
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on 10th March and culminated at Malari in Uttarakhand on
6th of July.Indra 2021
• 12th Edition of Indo-Russia
joint military Exercise INDRA
2021 will be held at
Volgograd, Russia from 01 to
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13 August 2021.Exercise Cutlass Express 2021
• The 2021 edition involves the participation of 12 East African
countries, India, UK, US and various other international
organisations such as United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), International Maritime Organisation (IMO), European
Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR), Interpol, EUCAP Somalia and
Critical Maritime Routes Indian
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• In the maritime Exercise Cutlass Express 2021, INS Talwar is
participating. This naval exercise is being conducted from 26th July
2021 to 6th August 2021 along the Eastern Coast of Africa.• Uzbekistan hosted a high-level International Conference
titled “Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity.
Challenges and Opportunities” at Tashkent, recently.
• it may be added that an India-Uzbekistan-Iran-Afghanistan
Quadrilateral Working Group
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use of Chabahar port.Nz bans conversion therapy
• New Zealand has introduced legislation seeking to ban
conversion therapy, which refers to the practice of trying to
“cure” people of their sexuality, gender expression, or LGBTQI
identity.
• New Zealand is not the first country to impose a ban on
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conversion therapy practices.
• Other countries that have, over the years, imposed a ban on such
practices are Germany, Malta, Ecuador, Brazil and Taiwan.
• Germany passed a ban on advertising and the practice of
conversion therapy in minors, in May last year.SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE STATEMENT OF GUIDING
PRINCIPLES
• The SGP Agreement, signed in November 2014, underscores
the contribution of India-US partnership to global stability and
prosperity.
• It provides a framework for promoting cooperation between
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developmental aspirations of
partner countries, particularly in Asia and Africa
• The Second Amendment to the SGP Agreement extends the
validity of the SGP Agreement up-to 2026.UNESCAP
• India has scored 90.32% in United Nation’s Economic and Social
Commission for Asia Pacific's (UNESCAP) latest Global Survey on Digital
and Sustainable Trade Facilitation. The Survey hails this as a remarkable
jump from 78.49% in 2019.
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• After evaluation of 143 economies, the 2021 Survey has highlighted India's
significant improvement in the scores on all 5 key indicators, as follows:• Transparency:100% in 2021 (from 93.33% in 2019)
• Formalities: 95.83% in 2021 (from 87.5% in 2019)
• Institutional Arrangement and Cooperation: 88.89% in 2021 (from 66.67%
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• Paperless Trade: 96.3% in 2021 (from 81.48% in 2019)
• Cross-Border Paperless Trade: 66.67% in 2021 (from 55.56% in 2019)World Trade Organization (WTO)
• As per a report by World Trade Organization (WTO) on the trends in world
agricultural trade in the past 25 years, India and Mexico with 3.1% and
3.4% share in global Agri exports, respectively, replaced New Zealand (9th)
and Malaysia (7th) as the largest exporters across the globe.
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1995 were Thailand (38%),
India (26%), and the US (19%). In 2019, India with a lead of 33% overtook
Thailand (20%) to top the list, while Vietnam (12%) overtook the US and
climbed to the third spot.• Further, India is also the third-largest cotton exporter (7.6%),
and the fourth-largest importer (10%) in 2019.
In the largest traded Agri product, soya beans, India (0.1%)
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In the “meat and edible meat offal” category, India secured
8th rank in the world with a global share of 4%.G20 Culture Ministers’ MeetinG
• On July 29 and 30, the first G20 Culture Ministers Meeting
was held in Rome, Italy.
• This was a major two-day event that took place during the
Italian G20 presidency.
• Colosseum and Palazzo Barberini
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Rome.Global education summit
Kenya and United Kingdom are co hosting a Global Education
Summit in the city of London with the objective to raise 5
billion USD for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).
GPE funds public education in up to 90 territories and
countries.
santhosh @ ace current affairsJOGAJOG, ALAPAN
• The Bangladesh government is working to develop a social
media platform named ‘Jogajog’ as an alternative to
Facebook.
• Government is also working to develop a communication
app ‘Alapan’ as an alternative to Whatsapp
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• The government is working to enhance the capacity of the
video conferencing system ‘Boithak’ from 100 persons to 300
personsChina -world’s first clean Nuclear Reactor
• A team at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics have
developed this prototype.
• This reactor will run on liquid thorium instead of uranium and is
expected to be safer than the traditional reactor
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• an experimental nuclear reactor that does not require water for
cooling.• Molten-salt reactors, instead of using fuel rods, work by dissolving
thorium into a liquid fluoride salt before sending this mixture into the
reactor’s chamber at temperatures which is above 600 degrees Celsius
• The desert city of Wuwei has been selected as the location of the first l
reactor, and the Chinesesanthosh @ ace current
government plansaffairs
to build more such reactors
across the plains and deserts of western China.
• this testing will pave the way for building the first such commercial reactor
which is slated for construction by the year 2030Hepatitis c vaccine
• World’s first affordable as well as effective new drug for hepatitis
C has been registered by Malaysia.
• According to the World Health Organization, around 71 million
people globally are thought to be living with Hepatitis C which is a
blood-borne virus that is one of the leading causes of liver cancer
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and can lead to cirrhosis.Golden rice
• Philippines approves genetically modified ‘Golden Rice’
• Golden Rice” which is genetically modified has been given
approval for commercial production by Philippines
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• The government issued a bio safety permit which paves way for
this rice which is enriched with beta-carotene the vitamin A-
precursor and makes this rice more nutritional.JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST)
• NASA is set to launch the large infrared James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST) touted as the “premier observatory” of the coming decade
later this year.
• Considered the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST will
study various phases in the history of the universe, from the formation
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of solar systems to the evolution of our own Solar System.
• But before it launches, NASA has an important decision to make —
whether to rename the $8.8-billion telescopeJAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST)
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santhosh @ ace current affairsARTILLERY INTERCEPTION SYSTEM
• This new defence system will be designed and built specifically to
thwart attacks by rockets and long-range missiles launched by
North Korea.
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• The South Korean government had announced in June that it
would be spending approximately $2.5 billion on research and
development of this new system, with a target to deploy it by
2035.
• North Korea deploys around 1,000 artillery pieces along the
Military Demarcation Line that divides the Korean Peninsula.NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar
• India and the United States agreed to this mission during then
US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in the year 2015
• The main scientific goal of this mission is to improve
understanding of the effects of climate change on the planet’s
changing ecosystems, terrestrial and coastal processes, land
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deformation, and the cryosphere.
• Will be launched in early 2023Eos-3 satellite
• This satellite will be a geo-imaging satellite, EOS-3, which will be
capable of near-real time monitoring of various natural disasters
like cyclones, floods etc.
• It will be launched sometimes in the year 2021-22.
• Not only natural disasters but this satellite will also be capable of
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imaging the country at least 4 to 5 times in a day and will also be
able to monitor crops, water bodies, change in forest cover and
vegetation condition.Covid beep
• COVID BEEP is the country’s first cost effective indigenously made wireless
physiological parameters monitoring system for the patients who are suffering
from COVID-19.
• COVID BEEP has been developed by the ESIC Medical College Hyderabad in
association with the Department of Atomic Energy and Electronics Corporation
of India Ltd. (ECIL).
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• 40 COVID-BEEPs were supplied to the Government hospitals in Hyderabad for
feedback and deployment.
• COVID BEEP which stands for ‘Continuous Oxygenation & Vital Information
Detection Biomed ECIL ESIC Pod.
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