GISAT-1 mission” . Context An ISRO GSLV-II rocket will launch the GISAT-1 mission. . About: GISAT-1 is an Indian earth observation satellite to be launched in geostationary orbit. It...
[ read more ]Genome India Project Context The government has cleared an ambitious gene-mapping project that is being described by those involved as the “first scratching of the surface of the vast...
[ read more ]‘National Mission on Quantum Technologies & Applications (NM-QTA)’ . Context The government in its budget 2020 has announced a National Mission on Quantum Technologies & Applications (NM-QTA) with a...
[ read more ]Voyager 2 . Context In an incredible feat of remote engineering, NASA has fixed one of the most intrepid explorers in human history. Voyager 2, currently some 11.5 billion miles from Earth,...
[ read more ]DAILY QUIZ / DAY-19
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[ read more ]SUTRA PIC . Context The government recently unveiled SUTRA PIC programme to research on ‘indigenous’ cows. . About: SUTRA PIC: It stands for Scientific Utilization Through Research Augmentation-Prime Products from Indigenous...
[ read more ]Mars Insight Mission . Context NASA’s Mars Lander InSight has recorded its first ‘Marsquake.’ It has recorded a quake of 2 or 2.5 magnitude which is hard to predict...
[ read more ]“spike protein” of 2019-nCoV” . Context Researchers in the United States have unveiled the structure of the “spike protein” of 2019-nCoV, the virus behind the current coronavirus disease outbreak. . About: Coronaviruses...
[ read more ]PRADAN MANTRI AWAS YOJANA
Housing for All by 2022 Scheme The Government in the President’s address in the Joint Session of Parliament in May 2014 had announced that “By the time the nation...
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