#SnT
AmbiTAG
- Developed by Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- a first-of-its-kind IoT device called AmbiTag.
- Function: It records real-time ambient temperature during the transportation of perishable products, vaccines (like COVID vaccine), body organs and blood.
- Developed under IIT Ropar Technology Innovation Hub - AWaDH (Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub) and its Startup ScratchNest.
- AWaDH is a Govt of India project.
Key features:
- It generates an alert when the
temperature goes beyond a pre-set limit.
- It helps to know whether that particular item transported from anywhere in the world is still usable or perished.
- Shaped as USB device
- It continuously records the temperature of its immediate surroundings from -40 to +80 degrees in any time zone for
- a full 90 days on a single charge.
AmbiTAG
- Developed by Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- a first-of-its-kind IoT device called AmbiTag.
- Function: It records real-time ambient temperature during the transportation of perishable products, vaccines (like COVID vaccine), body organs and blood.
- Developed under IIT Ropar Technology Innovation Hub - AWaDH (Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub) and its Startup ScratchNest.
- AWaDH is a Govt of India project.
Key features:
- It generates an alert when the
temperature goes beyond a pre-set limit.
- It helps to know whether that particular item transported from anywhere in the world is still usable or perished.
- Shaped as USB device
- It continuously records the temperature of its immediate surroundings from -40 to +80 degrees in any time zone for
- a full 90 days on a single charge.
#Current
Indimimus Jayanti
- Indimimus Jayanti has become the twelfth subgenus, or species, of spider cricket
- It identified under the genus Arachnomimus Saussure, 1897.
- Found in the Kurra caves of Chhattisgarh
- New subgenus was named Jayanti after Professor Jayant Biswas, a leading cave explorer in India.
Difference - Indimimus subgenu is different from the Arachnomimus and Euarachnomimus subgenera because of the male genitalia structure.
- Unique: Insects have a lock-and-key model genitalia structure which is unique to each subgenus.
Significance –
1. They may be communicating by beating their abdomen or any other body part on the cave walls (Vibrational communication).
2. help in designing hearing aids for human which can capture quietest signals and amplify to an audible hearing range.
Indimimus Jayanti
- Indimimus Jayanti has become the twelfth subgenus, or species, of spider cricket
- It identified under the genus Arachnomimus Saussure, 1897.
- Found in the Kurra caves of Chhattisgarh
- New subgenus was named Jayanti after Professor Jayant Biswas, a leading cave explorer in India.
Difference - Indimimus subgenu is different from the Arachnomimus and Euarachnomimus subgenera because of the male genitalia structure.
- Unique: Insects have a lock-and-key model genitalia structure which is unique to each subgenus.
Significance –
1. They may be communicating by beating their abdomen or any other body part on the cave walls (Vibrational communication).
2. help in designing hearing aids for human which can capture quietest signals and amplify to an audible hearing range.
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CD8 T cells
- Study to better understand the immune determinants of Covid-19 deaths.
- CD8 T cells are a type of white blood cells that can kill cancer cells and other invaders.
Finding -
1. Blood cancer patients with Covid-19 who had higher CD8 T cells were more than 3 times likelier to survive than patients with fewer CD8 T cells.
2. Patients with blood cancers, in particular patients treated with anti-CD20 antibodies, had decreased B cells and antibodies compared to patients with solid cancers and patients without cancer.
CD8 T cells
- Study to better understand the immune determinants of Covid-19 deaths.
- CD8 T cells are a type of white blood cells that can kill cancer cells and other invaders.
Finding -
1. Blood cancer patients with Covid-19 who had higher CD8 T cells were more than 3 times likelier to survive than patients with fewer CD8 T cells.
2. Patients with blood cancers, in particular patients treated with anti-CD20 antibodies, had decreased B cells and antibodies compared to patients with solid cancers and patients without cancer.
#Sn #PT2021
International Nitrogen Initiative
- The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the main focus of the eighth triennial conference of the INI.
- INI was set up in 2003 under the sponsorship of Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP).
The key aims of the INI are to:
1. Optimize nitrogen’s beneficial role in sustainable food production.
2. Minimize nitrogen’s negative effects on human health and the environment resulting from food and energy production.
3. INI is coordinated by a Steering Committee led by a chair
4. 6 regional centre directors representing, Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, South Asia and East Asia.
International Nitrogen Initiative
- The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the main focus of the eighth triennial conference of the INI.
- INI was set up in 2003 under the sponsorship of Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP).
The key aims of the INI are to:
1. Optimize nitrogen’s beneficial role in sustainable food production.
2. Minimize nitrogen’s negative effects on human health and the environment resulting from food and energy production.
3. INI is coordinated by a Steering Committee led by a chair
4. 6 regional centre directors representing, Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, South Asia and East Asia.
#Current # PT2021
China’s Red Tourism
- The popularity of ‘red tourism’ is bringing in huge revenues for China.
- Launched in 2004,
- It involves visiting places that are of historical and cultural importance to the Communist Party’s history.
- It also provides an impetus to tourism and local businesses.
- It reminds people of the sacrifices made by the leaders of the Communist party to forge a modern China.
China’s Red Tourism
- The popularity of ‘red tourism’ is bringing in huge revenues for China.
- Launched in 2004,
- It involves visiting places that are of historical and cultural importance to the Communist Party’s history.
- It also provides an impetus to tourism and local businesses.
- It reminds people of the sacrifices made by the leaders of the Communist party to forge a modern China.
#Current # PT2021
China’s Artificial Sun ‘EAST’
- China’s “artificial sun” Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST).
- It has set a new record
It ran at 216 million degrees Fahrenheit (120 million degrees Celsius) for 101 seconds.
- EAST reactor is an advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device.
- Located at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, China.
- EAST is one of three major domestic tokamaks that are presently being operated across the country.
- The EAST project, operational since 2006, is part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility.
Working -
1. The EAST Tokamak device is designed to mimic the
energy generation process of the sun.
2. It replicates the process of nuclear fusion process carried out by the sun and stars.
China’s Artificial Sun ‘EAST’
- China’s “artificial sun” Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST).
- It has set a new record
It ran at 216 million degrees Fahrenheit (120 million degrees Celsius) for 101 seconds.
- EAST reactor is an advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device.
- Located at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, China.
- EAST is one of three major domestic tokamaks that are presently being operated across the country.
- The EAST project, operational since 2006, is part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility.
Working -
1. The EAST Tokamak device is designed to mimic the
energy generation process of the sun.
2. It replicates the process of nuclear fusion process carried out by the sun and stars.
#Current # PT2021
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
- ITER is the world’s largest experimental fusions reactor facility in France.
- It includes the contributions of several countries, including India, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States.
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
- ITER is the world’s largest experimental fusions reactor facility in France.
- It includes the contributions of several countries, including India, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States.
#Current #PT2021
H10N3 Bird Flu
News: A man in China’s Jiangsu province has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3.
- The WHO said while the source of the patient’s exposure to the virus was not known.
- Since no other cases were found among the local population, there was no indication of human-to-human transmission yet.
- H10N3 strain of avian influenza is a low pathogenic or relatively less severe strain of the virus in poultry.
- The risk of it spreading on a large scale was very low.
Spread –
1. Infected birds spread the virus through their saliva, mucus and poop.
2. Humans get infected when the virus gets in the eyes, nose or
mouth, or is inhaled from infected droplets or dust.
3. As long as avian influenza viruses circulate in poultry, sporadic infection of avian influenza will occur in humans.
H10N3 Bird Flu
News: A man in China’s Jiangsu province has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3.
- The WHO said while the source of the patient’s exposure to the virus was not known.
- Since no other cases were found among the local population, there was no indication of human-to-human transmission yet.
- H10N3 strain of avian influenza is a low pathogenic or relatively less severe strain of the virus in poultry.
- The risk of it spreading on a large scale was very low.
Spread –
1. Infected birds spread the virus through their saliva, mucus and poop.
2. Humans get infected when the virus gets in the eyes, nose or
mouth, or is inhaled from infected droplets or dust.
3. As long as avian influenza viruses circulate in poultry, sporadic infection of avian influenza will occur in humans.
#Current # PT2021
CIBER-2
- A NASA-funded rocket
- Aim: to look at how bright this light is to give scientists an estimate of how many of these stars are out there.
- Function: to count the number of stars that exist in the Universe.
- It improved upon to see if any stars had been undercounted in the previous counting attempts.
Working –
1. The CIBER-2 will launch aboard a suborbital sounding rocket that will carry scientific instruments on brief trips into space.
2. Once the instrument is above Earth’s atmosphere, it will survey a patch of sky that will include dozens of clusters of galaxies.
3. It will focus on a portion of the cosmic infrared background, which is emitted by some of the most common stars.
CIBER-2
- A NASA-funded rocket
- Aim: to look at how bright this light is to give scientists an estimate of how many of these stars are out there.
- Function: to count the number of stars that exist in the Universe.
- It improved upon to see if any stars had been undercounted in the previous counting attempts.
Working –
1. The CIBER-2 will launch aboard a suborbital sounding rocket that will carry scientific instruments on brief trips into space.
2. Once the instrument is above Earth’s atmosphere, it will survey a patch of sky that will include dozens of clusters of galaxies.
3. It will focus on a portion of the cosmic infrared background, which is emitted by some of the most common stars.
#Current #PT2021
Nano Urea Liquid
- Launched by The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).
- World’s 1st Nano Urea Liquid for the farmers across the World.
Developed at Nano Biotechnology Research Centre, Gujrat in line with Atmanirbhar Bharat and Atmanirbhar Krishi.
-Function: It is a nutrient to provide nitrogen to plants as an alternative to the conventional urea.
- Significance:
1. It is developed to replace conventional urea
2. it can curtail the requirement of the same by at least 50%.
3. The conventional urea is effective 30-40% in delivering nitrogen to plants, while the effectiveness of the Nano Urea Liquid is over 80%.
4. Currently, India is dependent on imports to meet its urea requirements.
Nano Urea Liquid
- Launched by The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).
- World’s 1st Nano Urea Liquid for the farmers across the World.
Developed at Nano Biotechnology Research Centre, Gujrat in line with Atmanirbhar Bharat and Atmanirbhar Krishi.
-Function: It is a nutrient to provide nitrogen to plants as an alternative to the conventional urea.
- Significance:
1. It is developed to replace conventional urea
2. it can curtail the requirement of the same by at least 50%.
3. The conventional urea is effective 30-40% in delivering nitrogen to plants, while the effectiveness of the Nano Urea Liquid is over 80%.
4. Currently, India is dependent on imports to meet its urea requirements.
#SnT #PT2021
ASPAGNII
- News: Department of Biotechnology- National Institute of Immunology (DBT-NII) receives ASPAGNII trademark.
- It is India’s First Indigenous Tumour Antigen SPAG9.
- SPAG9 was discovered by Dr Anil Suri in 1998.
- Currently, ASPAGNII is being used in dendritic cell (DC) based immunotherapy in cervical, ovarian cancer and will be used in breast cancer.
- Immunotherapy is a new approach that exploits the body’s inner capability to put up a fight against cancer.
- With this approach, either the immune system is given a boost, or the T cells are “trained’’ to identify recalcitrant cancer cells and kill them.
- In DC-based vaccine, patient’s cells called monocytes are collected from their blood and modified into dendritic cells.
- The DCs are primed with ASPAGNII and are injected back to the patient to help the ‘fighter’ cells, or T-cells, in the body to kill the cancer cells.
- DC-based immunotherapy is safe, affordable and can promote antitumor immune responses and prolonged survival of cancer patients.
ASPAGNII
- News: Department of Biotechnology- National Institute of Immunology (DBT-NII) receives ASPAGNII trademark.
- It is India’s First Indigenous Tumour Antigen SPAG9.
- SPAG9 was discovered by Dr Anil Suri in 1998.
- Currently, ASPAGNII is being used in dendritic cell (DC) based immunotherapy in cervical, ovarian cancer and will be used in breast cancer.
- Immunotherapy is a new approach that exploits the body’s inner capability to put up a fight against cancer.
- With this approach, either the immune system is given a boost, or the T cells are “trained’’ to identify recalcitrant cancer cells and kill them.
- In DC-based vaccine, patient’s cells called monocytes are collected from their blood and modified into dendritic cells.
- The DCs are primed with ASPAGNII and are injected back to the patient to help the ‘fighter’ cells, or T-cells, in the body to kill the cancer cells.
- DC-based immunotherapy is safe, affordable and can promote antitumor immune responses and prolonged survival of cancer patients.
#Current #PT2021
BIS Scheme on SDO Recognition.
News: Research Design & Standards Organization (RDSO) of Indian Railways has become the first Institution to be declared as a Standard Developing Organization (SDO)
- Under the BIS SDO Recognition Scheme.
- Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), has launched a BIS SDO Recognition Scheme.
Key points :
- To attain “One Nation One Standard” vision of Govt.
- BIS is a National Standards body under Department of Consumer Affairs.
-BIS integrates the existing capabilities and dedicated domain specific expertise available with various organizations
- Engaged in standards development in their sectors.
Aims to enable convergence of all standard development activities in the country resulting in “One National Standard for One Subject”.
- In order to become an SDO, RDSO reviewed its Standard Formulation procedures.
- Encoded in the WTO-TBT “Code of Good Practice” and
Mandated by the BIS as essential criteria for recognition as SDO.
- The scope of RDSO’s recognition as SDO, as approved by BIS is “SDO for products, processes and services for railway transportation sector in
India”.
- The recognition is valid for 3 years
- will require renewal after completion of the validity period.
Significance -
1. More faster transition from development of technology & innovation stage to actual use on ground.
2. The initiative will create a Brand India identity for quality of product manufactured inters the country.
BIS Scheme on SDO Recognition.
News: Research Design & Standards Organization (RDSO) of Indian Railways has become the first Institution to be declared as a Standard Developing Organization (SDO)
- Under the BIS SDO Recognition Scheme.
- Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), has launched a BIS SDO Recognition Scheme.
Key points :
- To attain “One Nation One Standard” vision of Govt.
- BIS is a National Standards body under Department of Consumer Affairs.
-BIS integrates the existing capabilities and dedicated domain specific expertise available with various organizations
- Engaged in standards development in their sectors.
Aims to enable convergence of all standard development activities in the country resulting in “One National Standard for One Subject”.
- In order to become an SDO, RDSO reviewed its Standard Formulation procedures.
- Encoded in the WTO-TBT “Code of Good Practice” and
Mandated by the BIS as essential criteria for recognition as SDO.
- The scope of RDSO’s recognition as SDO, as approved by BIS is “SDO for products, processes and services for railway transportation sector in
India”.
- The recognition is valid for 3 years
- will require renewal after completion of the validity period.
Significance -
1. More faster transition from development of technology & innovation stage to actual use on ground.
2. The initiative will create a Brand India identity for quality of product manufactured inters the country.
#Current #PT2021
Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority
- It is a Statutory Authority.
- Comes under the Department of Food and Public Distribution
It was constituted in 2010.
- Warehousing Act, 2007.
Function:
1. It regulates and ensures implementation of Act for the development and regulation of warehouses.
2. It implements and regulates the Negotiable Warehouse.
3. Receipt/electronic-NWR System in the country.
4. It promotes orderly growth of the warehousing business.
Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority
- It is a Statutory Authority.
- Comes under the Department of Food and Public Distribution
It was constituted in 2010.
- Warehousing Act, 2007.
Function:
1. It regulates and ensures implementation of Act for the development and regulation of warehouses.
2. It implements and regulates the Negotiable Warehouse.
3. Receipt/electronic-NWR System in the country.
4. It promotes orderly growth of the warehousing business.
#Current #PT2021
Solar Energy Corporation of India
- Set up in 2011.
- It is dedicated to solar energy sector.
- Comes under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
Aim: To build ‘Green India’ through harnessing abundant solar radiation.
Key points:
1. It was to facilitate the implementation of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.
2. It is responsible for implementation of a number of schemes of MNRE.
3. Viability Gap Fund schemes for large-scale grid-connected projects under JNNSM.
4. Solar park scheme and grid-
connected solar rooftop scheme.
Solar Energy Corporation of India
- Set up in 2011.
- It is dedicated to solar energy sector.
- Comes under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
Aim: To build ‘Green India’ through harnessing abundant solar radiation.
Key points:
1. It was to facilitate the implementation of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.
2. It is responsible for implementation of a number of schemes of MNRE.
3. Viability Gap Fund schemes for large-scale grid-connected projects under JNNSM.
4. Solar park scheme and grid-
connected solar rooftop scheme.
#Current #PT2021
Dekho ApnaDesh Campaign
- Initiated by the Ministry of Tourism
- Released the content of the pledge during a function on Mygov platform.
- Function: It promotes domestic tourism in India
Aim: To enhance tourist footfalls in places of tourist interest - to develop local economy.
- Tourism Ministry organised webinars on the overall theme of 'DekhoApnaDesh'.
- Objective of the webinars - To create awareness, provide and in-depth knowledge on and promote several tourism destinations in India.
Dekho ApnaDesh Campaign
- Initiated by the Ministry of Tourism
- Released the content of the pledge during a function on Mygov platform.
- Function: It promotes domestic tourism in India
Aim: To enhance tourist footfalls in places of tourist interest - to develop local economy.
- Tourism Ministry organised webinars on the overall theme of 'DekhoApnaDesh'.
- Objective of the webinars - To create awareness, provide and in-depth knowledge on and promote several tourism destinations in India.
#Current #PT2021
Elephant Corridor
- Elephant corridors are linear, narrow, natural habitat linkages that allow elephants to move between secure habitats without being disturbed by humans.
88 elephant corridors have been identified by the wildlife trust of India under the National elephant Corridor project.
Reasons: The elephants cross the plateau in search of food and water.
Aim: To secure a future for wild elephants it is essential that we ensure their uninterrupted movement between key habitats.
Gaj Yatra’, a nationwide campaign to protect elephants, was launched on the occasion of World Elephant Day in 2017. The campaign is planned to cover 12 elephant range states.
The elephant is part of India’s animal heritage and the Government celebrates this day to spread awareness about the conservation of the species
Elephant Corridor
- Elephant corridors are linear, narrow, natural habitat linkages that allow elephants to move between secure habitats without being disturbed by humans.
88 elephant corridors have been identified by the wildlife trust of India under the National elephant Corridor project.
Reasons: The elephants cross the plateau in search of food and water.
Aim: To secure a future for wild elephants it is essential that we ensure their uninterrupted movement between key habitats.
Gaj Yatra’, a nationwide campaign to protect elephants, was launched on the occasion of World Elephant Day in 2017. The campaign is planned to cover 12 elephant range states.
The elephant is part of India’s animal heritage and the Government celebrates this day to spread awareness about the conservation of the species
#Governmentinitiative #PT2021
National Urban Digital Mission
- Launched by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Key Features:
- It will create a shared digital infrastructure for urban India.
- It work across the three pillars of people, process, and platform.
- It Provide holistic support to cities and towns.
- It will create a shared digital infrastructure that can consolidate digital initiatives.
- It will institutionalize a citizen-centric, principles-based and ecosystem-driven approach.
- Will provide urban governance and service delivery in 2022 cities by 2022 across all cities and towns in India by 2024.
- It Inherits the technology design principles of the National Urban Innovation Stack.
National Urban Digital Mission
- Launched by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Key Features:
- It will create a shared digital infrastructure for urban India.
- It work across the three pillars of people, process, and platform.
- It Provide holistic support to cities and towns.
- It will create a shared digital infrastructure that can consolidate digital initiatives.
- It will institutionalize a citizen-centric, principles-based and ecosystem-driven approach.
- Will provide urban governance and service delivery in 2022 cities by 2022 across all cities and towns in India by 2024.
- It Inherits the technology design principles of the National Urban Innovation Stack.
#Current #PT2021
NISAR(NASA-ISRO SAR)
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- Signed a partnership in 2014
Launching NISAR (NASA-ISRO SAR) by 2022.
- It is a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that can produce extremely high-resolution images.
Significance:
1. A joint earth observation satellite mission.
2. It measure changes in Earth’s surface less than a centimetre across.
3. It will observe Earth’s land and ice-covered surfaces with 12-day regularity on ascending and descending passes,
4. Sampling Earth on average every 6 days for a baseline 3-year mission.
5. It collects data day and night in any weather.
NISAR(NASA-ISRO SAR)
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- Signed a partnership in 2014
Launching NISAR (NASA-ISRO SAR) by 2022.
- It is a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that can produce extremely high-resolution images.
Significance:
1. A joint earth observation satellite mission.
2. It measure changes in Earth’s surface less than a centimetre across.
3. It will observe Earth’s land and ice-covered surfaces with 12-day regularity on ascending and descending passes,
4. Sampling Earth on average every 6 days for a baseline 3-year mission.
5. It collects data day and night in any weather.
#Current #PT2021
EnVision
- It is a European Space Agency (ESA) led mission.
- Its orbiter will visit Venus in the 2030s.
Key points:
- Once launched on an Ariane 6 rocket, the spacecraft will reach Venus in 15 months
- It will take 16 more months to achieve orbit circularisation.
- It will follow another ESA-led mission ‘Venus Express’ (2005-2014).
- It focussed on atmospheric research and pointed to volcanic hotspots on the planet’s surface
Significance:
1. will study the planet’s atmosphere and surface
2. Monitor trace gases in the atmosphere and analyse its surface composition.
3. Radar provided by NASA will help to image and map the surface.
4. ESA’s mission is the question of how Earth and Venus evolved so differently.
EnVision
- It is a European Space Agency (ESA) led mission.
- Its orbiter will visit Venus in the 2030s.
Key points:
- Once launched on an Ariane 6 rocket, the spacecraft will reach Venus in 15 months
- It will take 16 more months to achieve orbit circularisation.
- It will follow another ESA-led mission ‘Venus Express’ (2005-2014).
- It focussed on atmospheric research and pointed to volcanic hotspots on the planet’s surface
Significance:
1. will study the planet’s atmosphere and surface
2. Monitor trace gases in the atmosphere and analyse its surface composition.
3. Radar provided by NASA will help to image and map the surface.
4. ESA’s mission is the question of how Earth and Venus evolved so differently.
#Current #PT2021
G7
- It is an informal group of seven countries - the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Origin - The G7 draws its roots from a meeting between the current G7 members, excluding Canada that took place in 1975.
Background : Russia participated in the G8 from 1998 to 2014 until its invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea caused the group to eject it.
G7 summit - The heads of these countries hold an annual G7 summit with European Union and other invitees.
News: India has been invited to the 2021 G7 summit as a special guest.
Key points:
1. It will be particularly interested in the talks related to global vaccine delivery as both a major manufacturer and consumer.
2. The presidency of G7 meetings is held by each of the seven countries in turn, each year.
3. The country holding the presidency is responsible for organising and hosting the meeting.
4. The UK holds the G7 presidency for 2021 in Cornwall.
Facts:
1. Together the member countries represent 40% of global GDP and 10% of the world’s population.
2. It has no binding impact on policy, and all decisions and commitments made at G7 meetings.
G7
- It is an informal group of seven countries - the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Origin - The G7 draws its roots from a meeting between the current G7 members, excluding Canada that took place in 1975.
Background : Russia participated in the G8 from 1998 to 2014 until its invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea caused the group to eject it.
G7 summit - The heads of these countries hold an annual G7 summit with European Union and other invitees.
News: India has been invited to the 2021 G7 summit as a special guest.
Key points:
1. It will be particularly interested in the talks related to global vaccine delivery as both a major manufacturer and consumer.
2. The presidency of G7 meetings is held by each of the seven countries in turn, each year.
3. The country holding the presidency is responsible for organising and hosting the meeting.
4. The UK holds the G7 presidency for 2021 in Cornwall.
Facts:
1. Together the member countries represent 40% of global GDP and 10% of the world’s population.
2. It has no binding impact on policy, and all decisions and commitments made at G7 meetings.
#Current #PT2021
PASIPHAE
- Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment
- It is an international collaborative sky surveying project
- launched by the Institute of Astrophysics, Greece.
- Significance:
1. It will be used in upcoming sky surveys to capture polarisation coming from very faint stars that are so far away.
2. The survey will use two high-tech optical polarimeters to observe the northern and southern skies, simultaneously.
3. Astronomers will perform a maiden magnetic field tomography mapping of the interstellar.
4. a polarimeter with high sensitivity and accuracy was needed, so WALOP was planned sometime in 2013.
PASIPHAE
- Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment
- It is an international collaborative sky surveying project
- launched by the Institute of Astrophysics, Greece.
- Significance:
1. It will be used in upcoming sky surveys to capture polarisation coming from very faint stars that are so far away.
2. The survey will use two high-tech optical polarimeters to observe the northern and southern skies, simultaneously.
3. Astronomers will perform a maiden magnetic field tomography mapping of the interstellar.
4. a polarimeter with high sensitivity and accuracy was needed, so WALOP was planned sometime in 2013.