Page-22 of Current Affairs - June, 2024

NHCX Platform Streamlines Health Insurance Claims

June 4, 2024

The National Health Authority (NHA) along with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has developed a digital platform named NHCX. This initiative falls under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, which aims to make the process of filing a ..

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Preston Curve Links Income and Life Expectancy

June 4, 2024

The Preston Curve is a well-known empirical relationship that shows how the life expectancy of a country’s people is related to its per capita income. The sociologist Samuel H. Preston first noticed the curve in 1975. It shows that people ..

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Indian Forces Join US-Hosted Multinational War Games

June 3, 2024

The Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Indian Navy are both taking part in military drills with other countries that are being held by the US. In Alaska, the Indian Air Force is taking part in the aerial combat training ..

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James Webb Telescope Discovers Earliest Giant Galaxy

June 3, 2024

The JADES-GS-z14-0 galaxy, which was seen by NASA’s most advanced space camera to date, was studied in a way that has never been done before by the James Webb Space Camera (JWST). This discovery is very important because it gives ..

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New Blue Ant Species Discovered in Eastern Himalayas

June 3, 2024

In the Siang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh, scientists have recently found an amazing new type of ant in the Eastern Himalayas. A group of entomologists from the University of Florida in the USA and the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology ..

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India’s Supreme Court Reconstitutes Gender Sensitisation Committee

June 3, 2024

The Supreme Court of India has made a big change by changing how its Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) is set up. This step is in line with the 2013 regulations on Gender Sensitization and Sexual Harassment. It ..

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IAV Develops Safe Nipah Virus-Like Particles for Research

June 3, 2024

Scientists at the Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV) in Thonnakkal, Thiruvananthapuram, have come up with a new way to make Nipah virus-like particles (VLPs) that are not contagious but look like the wild-type Nipah virus (NiV). This new discovery makes ..

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ISRO Extends Support to Boost India’s Space Startup Ecosystem

June 3, 2024

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has recently started to help the country’s business space industry grow. This became clear after the successful launch of Agnibaan SOrTeD into suborbital space by the Indian start-up M/s Agnikul Cosmos. ISRO gave a ..

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