Recently, the Indian-American astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni was awarded the Shaw Prize for Astronomy in 2024 for his work on the physics of astronomical transients.

• In astronomy, a ‘transient’ is any celestial object whose brightness changes in short spans of time.
• There are many kinds of astronomical transients, all of them united by phenomena that are violent in some measure.
• Astronomers study transients to understand where their violence comes from and what that can tell us about non-transient event.

• Examples of transients
• Supernovae: When the outer layers of large stars blow up while their cores implode because the stars have run out of elements to fuse. Many a supernova has been known to become so bright that it emits light more intensely than the stars in the rest of its host galaxy combined.
• Active Galactic nucleus (AGN): The centres of massive galaxies host supermassive black holes. Sometimes, these black holes actively feast on matter in their orbit. Interactions between the black holes and the matter in this process cause the latter to acquire energy and glow with a changing brightness.
• Fast Radio Burst (FRB): It was discovered in 2007 and it can emit more than 10-times as much energy as the Sun in a few milliseconds.

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2023 - international year of millets.

Just have a cursory look at different types of millets.

Use of AI - wildlife protection
Gajraj - AI based surveillance system

Ethanol Policy of Bihar

additives and preservatives

Increasing toll tax -NHAI

✅Established four Mathas in the four corners of India at Shingeri, Puri, Dwaraka and Badrinath– for propagation of Sanathana Dharma.

✅Major Work:
●Brahmasutrabhasya (Bhashya or commentary on the Brahma Sutra).
●Bhajagovinda Stotra.
●Nirvana Shatakam.
●Prakaran Granths.

❗️He was opposed to Buddhist philosophers.

❓Read other schools of philosophy as well .

✅Additional Information

👉 Delhi-Topara pillar also known as Minar-e-zarin

👉ALLAHABAD PILLAR contains Inscriptions of
●Ashoka- schism edict, Queen edict
●Samudragupta
●Birbal Magh Mela
●Jahangir

✅Some pre-Ashokan Inscriptions
👉 Bhogaz Koi
👉 Barli pillar
👉 Bhattiprolu
👉Sohgaura

❓Read about other Inscriptions as well - Uttarmerur, Besnagar, Junagadh, Aihole etc.

✅A joint study by the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has found evidence of cultural continuity in VADNAGAR, Gujarat, even after the Harappan collapse.

✅The study challenges the notion of a "Dark Age" by providing evidence of cultural continuity in Vadnagar even after the collapse of the Harappan civilization

✅Vadnagar is described as a multicultural and multireligious settlement that included Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Islamic influences.

❗️Prepare about UNAKOTI sculptures and Modhera Sun Temple as well.

✅The excavations in the Keeladi region since 2015 prove that an urban civilisation existed in Tamil Nadu in the Sangam age.

✅This is a large-scale excavation carried out in Tamil Nadu after the Adichanallur archaeological site.

✅UN GLOBAL COMPACT is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

✅Launched in 2000, UNGC is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world.