National Mission on use of Biomass in Coal-based Thermal Power Plants

National Mission on use of biomass in coal-based thermal power plants is a proposed mission of the Union Ministry of Power, Government of India. The aim of the mission is to mitigate air pollution caused by stubble burning and to ..

Buddha Purnima

In India, Buddha Purnima is celebrated on first full moon of the Month of Vaishakha to honour the birth, nirvana (enlightenment) as well Mahaparinirvana (death) of Gautam Buddha. Importance of Full Moon of May Even though every full moon day ..

Supermoon

Super moon refers to the coincidence of a full moon (or a new moon) with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit (perigee). Thus, the technical name for Super Moon is Perigee-Syzygy of the ..

Triple lockdown

Triple lockdown is a COVID-19 control strategy experimented by Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod last year. It is a highly restrictive strategy involving focused intervention at 3 levels to restrict public movement while keeping the operations of essential sectors unhindered. ..

ALMA telescope

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. This array observes electromagnetic radiation at millimetre and submillimeter wavelengths. It has been fully operational since 2013. It had recently photographed the oldest ..

Mount Nyiragongo

Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano located inside the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The African country witnessed volcanic eruption from this mountain for the first time since 2002. The previous eruption led to 250 deaths ..

Didymocarpus vickifunkiae

Didymocarpus vickifunkiae is a new species of plant belonging to the African violet family. It was recently discovered in Mizoram and nearby areas in Myanmar. It is an endangered species found only in 3 locations in the northeastern state. The ..

LHAASO

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is a gamma-ray and cosmic-ray observatory in Sichuan Province of China. Set at an altitude of 4,410 metres above the sea level, it consists of a cluster of detectors spanning more than ..

MCA21

Initially launched in 2006, the MCA21 is the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ digital portal that provides access to all company-related information to all stakeholders and the public at large. The first phase of a data analytics-driven version of this portal ..

CRISPECTOR

CRISPECTOR is a new software tool capable of quantifying potential CRISPR-induced errors. CRISPER is a technology that is used to edit genomes by altering DNA sequences to enable modification in the gene functions. The newly developed tool analyses gene sequencing ..