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HEPATITIS
HEPATITIS
Source- the Hindu
Introduction
July 28th is celebrated as World Hepatitis Day.
World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting the need to bring hepatitis care closer to the peopl...
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28-Jul 2022
CONSERVATION OF ECOSYSTEM
CONSERVATION OF ECOSYSTEM
Source: indianexpress
Context:
The World Nature Conservation Day celebrated on 28th July, highlights preserving the environment, and the planet.
Driven by wasteful, ...
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28-Jul 2022
LION’S FUTURE CHEETAH’S PAST
LION’S FUTURE CHEETAH’S PAST
Source: indianexpress
African Cheetahs will be imported from Namibia and another 12 from South Africa, for a soft release in a compartmentalized enclosure ready at ...
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28-Jul 2022
DISCOMS
DISCOMS
Context:
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedo) filed a general retail power tariff revision petition with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission proposing to...
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27-Jul 2022
MYANMAR EXECUTIONS
MYANMAR EXECUTIONS
Source: Hindu
Myanmar’s Junta executed four pro-democracy activists. The Junta spokesperson called the executions “lawful” and said it was” justice for the people”
WHAT HAS...
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27-Jul 2022
STEM
STEM
Source- IndianExpress
Context
Problems and solutions to the gender gap in STEM-Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics; are discussed through data from reports and first-hand experie...
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27-Jul 2022
TiHAN
TiHAN
Source: indianexpress
Why in News?
Union Minister of State inaugurated the first of it's kind, state of art "Autonomous Navigation" facility to develop unmanned ground and aerial vehicles ...
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27-Jul 2022
FROM BABUS TO CIVIL SERVANTS
FROM BABUS TO CIVIL SERVANTS
Source: indianexpress
Background
The term babus were frequently used derisively to refer to civil servants and other government officials and the Indian bureaucrac...
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26-Jul 2022
PSYCHE
PSYCHE
Source: NASA
Why in News?
NASA delayed the Psyche mission to the asteroid because of the late software delivery
What is Psyche?
Psyche is an asteroid and it is unique because it appe...
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26-Jul 2022
System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
1. About
System of Rice Intensification (SRI) was first developed in Madagascar in the 1980s and since then several countries in the world have been practis...
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26-Jul 2022
India's Private sector Space industry
India's Private sector Space industry
Source: Hindu
Backdrop:
Principal Scientific Adviser stated earlier this month that the government may soon come up with a new space policy to increase priv...
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26-Jul 2022
LATEST GUIDELINES ON ARRESTS AND BAIL ORDERS
LATEST GUIDELINES ON ARRESTS AND BAIL ORDERS
Source: indianexpress
On July 11, a division bench of the Supreme Court of India in Satendra Kumar Antil vs. CBI laid down fresh guidelines on arre...
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26-Jul 2022
ADITYA L1 MISSION ADITYA L1
1. Context
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) released images of the Aditya-L1 mission — the space agency’s first attempt to study the Sun. Although the launch date of the m...
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26-Jul 2022
WHITE DWARF
WHITE DWARF
Source: indianexpress
Why in News?
Astronomers have observed a Phenomenon called "Cosmic cannibalism" for the first time, A dead star is ripping apart its planetary system.
A star i...
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26-Jul 2022
Wastewater Surveillance
Wastewater Surveillance
Introduction:
Sewage or wastewater can tell us about the health of a community.
Most pathogens like bacteria, viruses, and Protozoa remain viable in the sewage environme...
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25-Jul 2022