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KAVACH Technology in Railways

February 3, 2022

During the budget presentation, the finance minister Smt Nirmala Sitaraman announced that the safety of the Indian trains is to be increased through the KAVACH technology. The railways were allocated Rs 1,37,000 crores. Along with Kavach technology, government is to ..

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Working of e – Passports

February 3, 2022

The Government of India is to launch e – passports from 2022 – 23. This is to increase the convenience of the citizens. This was announced by the Finance Minister Smt Nirmala Sitaraman during budget presentation. Working of e – ..

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Plastic snowfall in the Alps

February 2, 2022

The researchers from Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland have found that trillions of plastic particles fall along with snow in Switzerland. These particles travel 2000 kilometres through air. What did the study find? About 43 trillion plastic particle land in Alps ..

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Humbertium covidum: New hammerhead flatworm species

February 2, 2022

Scientists recently discovered Humbertium covidum. These are new flat worn species. They look like a mini cobra. The new species were found hunting snails in Italy and France. They have been named after COVID pandemic. About H.covidum H.covidum are not ..

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SpaceX Italian Earth-observation satellite

February 2, 2022

On February 1, 2022, SpaceX launched the Italian Earth-observation satellite, Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2) after scrubbing the scheduled lift-off for fourth consecutive time. It was launched from a station in Florida, US. Key Facts Latest call-off was because of ..

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New Leprosy Cases during 2020-21 in India

February 1, 2022

Though India was declared “leprosy-free” in 2005, it still accounts for around 60 per cent of world’s new leprosy patients. Key Points According to data of ‘National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP), Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya ..

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NASA HERMES Mission

February 1, 2022

On January 27, 2022, NASA’s HERMES mission passed a critical mission review. Highlights HERMES mission is a four-instrument suite, which will be mounted outside NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway. The review, called Key Decision Point C, evaluated the preliminary design and program ..

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NASA Study: Water on Mars

February 1, 2022

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found that Mars had water two billion years ago. But today all the water in the planet are evaporated. This was confirmed by MRO with the help of salt deposits on the surface of the ..

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COVID: IIT-J AI-based Chest X-Ray

January 31, 2022

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based chest X-Ray technique was recently developed by researchers from Indian Institutes of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-J). This chest X-Ray technique will be used for Covid-19A screening. Key Points Team of researchers have proposed a deep learning-based ..

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Aditya-L1 mission – Key Facts

January 31, 2022

ISRO is likely to launch “Aditya-L1 mission” to study the sun, in year 2022. Key Points The Aditya-L1 mission will be placed into a point called L1 Lagrange point. This mission will be ISRO’s 2nd space-based astronomy mission after AstroSat. ..

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