Current Affairs - May, 2024

Reliance, Tata, SII in TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies 2024

May 31, 2024

The Tata Group, Adar Poonawalla’s Serum Institute of India (SII), and Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) were named by TIME magazine as some of the most important companies in the world in 2024. This recognition shows how important these ..

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Agnikul Cosmos Launches First 3D Printed Rocket Engine

May 31, 2024

A company called Agnikul Cosmos, which was started at IIT Madras, made history on May 30, 2024, by safely launching “Agnibaan – SOrTeD,” the world’s first rocket powered by a fully 3D-printed engine. This important event happened at Sriharikota from ..

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Exploring the Potential of Personalized Cancer Vaccines

May 31, 2024

Cancer vaccines are a type of immunotherapy. Unlike vaccines that are meant to avoid cancer, these are used to treat cancer by helping the immune system find and kill cancer cells. Using technologies like DNA sequencing and artificial intelligence to ..

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OSIRIS-APEX Safely Navigates Close Sun Approach

May 31, 2024

The OSIRIS-APEX project has changed since its start as OSIRIS-REx, which successfully took samples from the asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft is now on a longer mission that includes a move to visit the asteroid Apophis. In this new phase, the ..

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Nvidia Stock Hits Record High, Approaches Apple’s Value

May 31, 2024

New Rise in the Price of Nvidia’s Stock market value rose sharply on May 28, when its stocks hit a new high. They are now worth almost as much as Apple’s. The value of the company’s shares went up by ..

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Mangroves in South India, Sri Lanka Labeled ‘Critically Endangered

May 31, 2024

Coastal mangroves in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives were recently rated as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN). According to the IUCN’s first global assessment of mangrove ecosystems, this scary classification shows that these ..

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IIT Bombay Study Explores Non-Geographic Speciation Mechanisms

May 31, 2024

A major study from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) that was released in NPJ Systems Biology and Applications has shed new light on how sympatric speciation works. Researchers have seen speciation, or the creation of new species, ..

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RBI Releases Final Guidelines for Fintech SRO

May 31, 2024

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finished the rules for setting up a self-regulatory organization (SRO) for the growing fintech industry in 2023. This is better than the draft guidelines that were first suggested in January, after hearing from people ..

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