- “STRIDE” to boost research culture in India
The University Grants Commission (UGC) approved a new initiative – Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for India’s Developing Economy (STRIDE).
- Japan officially resumes commercial whaling after more than 30 years
- Japan officially resumed commercial whaling for the first time in more than three decades after Tokyo’s controversial decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
- Aparna Kumar becomes the first civil servant & IPS Officer to conquer the ‘Seven Summits’ challenge.
- Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer and DIG (Deputy Inspector General of Police) in Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Aparna Kumar has scaled Mount Denali (the highest peak in Northern America stands at 20,310 feet) in Alaska, USA (United States of America).
- Indian Railways conducting trials of Tri-Netra technology
Modern technology TRI-NETRA (Terrain Imaging for Drivers Infrared, Enhanced, Optical & Radar Assisted) for detecting obstructions on tracks during fog.
It will assist Loco pilots to identify obstructions on tracks by using Infrared Camera, Optical Camera and Radar assisted imaging system(Tri-Netra).
It will help in reducing the accidents and help to maintain a high speed of the train.
- NASA’s TESS space telescope
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a new planet called L 98-59b. It is roughly around 80 percent the size of Earth.
- NASA to send ‘Dragonfly’ drone mission to Titan for looking origins & signs of life
- America’s space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned to send a flying multi rover vehicle, ’Dragonfly’ to Saturn’s moon Titan to search for signs of life.
- Dragon fly: It will be for the first time NASA will fly multi-rotor vehicle, which has eight rotors and flies like a large drone for science on another planet.
- Titan: It is Saturn’s largest moon and the second largest moon in the solar system after Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
- NASA’s PUNCH mission has selected Indian Scientist Dipankar Banerjee as its co-investigator
- PUNCH is an acronym for “Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere“, which will image the Sun.
- The objective of the mission is to understand the transition of particles from the Sun’s outer corona to the solar wind that fills interplanetary space.
- Corona is the atmosphere of the Sun connecting with the interplanetary medium.
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