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This file contains the detailed solutions, along with the sources, for the above current affairs based questions of 31st of May, 2024

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31st May, 2024

Current Affairs Notes (Prelims):

🔹1.Agnibaan SOrTeD- World’s first rocket with 3D Printed Engine -
- The Chennai-headquartered space start-up Agnikul Cosmos Private Ltd. launched the world’s first rocket — Agnibaan Sub Orbital Technology Demonstrator (SOrTeD) — with a single-piece 3D-printed engine from Sriharikota.
- Agnibaan SOrTeD is India’s first launch from a private launchpad, called ‘Dhanush’, established by Agnikul.


🔹2. Simultaneous Arrival of Monsson -
- In an unusual turn, the monsoon simultaneously set in over Kerala and northeastern India.
- The monsoon system has two branches — the Arabian Sea branch and the Bay of Bengal branch.
- The onset of the monsoon is defined with the Arabian Sea branch setting in over Kerala, which is usually June 1 and the other, setting in by June 5.

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This file contains the detailed solutions, along with the sources, for the above current affairs based questions of 1st of June, 2024

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1st June, 2024 Current Affairs Notes (Prelims):

📈GDP Growth at 8.2%:
India’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for FY24 is estimated to have grown by a faster-than-projected 8.2%, quickening from FY23’s 7% pace, the National Statistical Office’s (NSO) provisional estimates. The NSO had in its first advance estimates projected real GDP growth for FY24 at 7.3%. The divergence in GDP and GVA growth in Q3 has continued, with net taxes growing by 22% in Q4. In the manufacturing sector GVA has recorded healthy growth supported by lower input cost, while robustness seen in the services sector has continued.


🦧Canopy Bridges in Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary:
The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has earmarked funds to construct canopy bridges for India’s only ape Hoolock Gibbon to move across a railway track bifurcating its prime habitat in eastern Assam’s Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Jorhat district. The sanctuary has the largest concentration of the Hoolock gibbon, one of 20 species of apes on earth. The Hoolock gibbon, a tailless ape known for its vocalisation, spends much of its time on the upper canopy of tall trees, mostly the hollong (Dipterocarpus macrocarpus).


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