Page-11 of Current Affairs - July, 2024

NASA Discovers Six New Exoplanets

July 20, 2024

NASA has made big strides in its study of exoplanets by confirming six new ones, bringing the total number of them to 5,502. This is an important step toward knowing the universe and the possibility of life beyond Earth. Poltergeist ..

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IIT Guwahati Researchers Explore African Swine Fever Virus Protein

July 20, 2024

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have made great progress in understanding the biochemistry of the African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV). They have focused on the p30 protein, which is very important for the virus to enter animals. ..

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Two Flower Fly Species Reported from Kerala for the First Time

July 20, 2024

The genus Mesembrius Rondani,1857 is an Old World genus comprising about 58 species across various regions such as the Oriental, Australasian, and Afrotropical regions, and the Mediterranean Basin of the Palaearctic Region. They belong to the subfamily Eristalinae within the ..

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Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals function

July 20, 2024

The Assam government told its Border police on July 5, 2023, not to send cases of non-Muslims who came to India illegally before 2014 to Foreigners Tribunals (FTs). This comes after the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019, which gives non-Muslims ..

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Asia’s First Pre-Clinical Network Facility Inaugurated in Faridabad

July 20, 2024

Asia’s first Pre-clinical Network Facility for health study was opened in Faridabad, Haryana by Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Science and Technology. This building is part of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and its goal is to ..

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Von Der Leyen Re-elected as EU Commission President

July 19, 2024

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was re-elected and will serve for another five years. 401 votes from the European Parliament supported her election, showing a large group of people who agree with her in the ..

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Why is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Shrinking?

July 19, 2024

The biggest storm in our solar system, the Great Red Spot (GRS) on Jupiter, is getting smaller right now. Some scientists think that this change might be linked to fewer small storms that normally help keep the GRS running. The ..

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Andhra Pradesh Wins 2024 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity

July 19, 2024

The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity was given to the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) project in 2024 for its work on sustainable farming in India. This award shows how important Andhra Pradesh is to eco-friendly farming around the ..

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