The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo.
This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again...
This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again...
LCA Tejas: India’s Indigenous Fighter Aircraft
1. Lightweight, Multi-role Fighter: A supersonic, single-engine, multi-role combat aircraft designed for air superiority, ground attack, and reconnaissance.
2. Developed by HAL: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in collaboration with DRDO and ADA developed Tejas under India’s LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) program.
3. 4th Generation Technology: Advanced avionics, radar systems, and fly-by-wire controls, making it a cutting-edge platform.
4. Multi-role Capability: Can perform air-to-air, air-to-ground, and maritime strike roles with precision-guided munitions.
5. Stealth Features: Extensive use of composite materials reduces its radar cross-section and enhances durability.
6. Modern Avionics: Features a glass cockpit with multi-function displays (MFDs) and state-of-the-art radar systems for tracking multiple targets.
1. Lightweight, Multi-role Fighter: A supersonic, single-engine, multi-role combat aircraft designed for air superiority, ground attack, and reconnaissance.
2. Developed by HAL: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in collaboration with DRDO and ADA developed Tejas under India’s LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) program.
3. 4th Generation Technology: Advanced avionics, radar systems, and fly-by-wire controls, making it a cutting-edge platform.
4. Multi-role Capability: Can perform air-to-air, air-to-ground, and maritime strike roles with precision-guided munitions.
5. Stealth Features: Extensive use of composite materials reduces its radar cross-section and enhances durability.
6. Modern Avionics: Features a glass cockpit with multi-function displays (MFDs) and state-of-the-art radar systems for tracking multiple targets.
This article is important from GS 1 and GaGs 3 perspective #mains
🔆Ni-Kshay Poshan Yojana (NPY)
✅ Centrally sponsored scheme under National Health Mission (NHM), and all notified TB patients are beneficiaries of the scheme.
✅ launched in 2018
✅ Implemented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
✅The monetary assistance scheme is expected to aid nutritional recovery, improve response to treatment and outcomes and reduce mortality due to TB in India.
✅India has the highest burden of TB and it kills an estimated 4,80,000 Indians every year.
✅Although elimination of tuberculosis is one of the sustainable development targets to be achieved by 2030 by the world, India has set the target of 2025.
✅ Centrally sponsored scheme under National Health Mission (NHM), and all notified TB patients are beneficiaries of the scheme.
✅ launched in 2018
✅ Implemented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
✅The monetary assistance scheme is expected to aid nutritional recovery, improve response to treatment and outcomes and reduce mortality due to TB in India.
✅India has the highest burden of TB and it kills an estimated 4,80,000 Indians every year.
✅Although elimination of tuberculosis is one of the sustainable development targets to be achieved by 2030 by the world, India has set the target of 2025.
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Atmospheric rivers : those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms
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Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, altering global weather patterns significantly.
Over the past 40 years, they have moved approximately 6 to 10 degrees toward the poles, increasing activity around 50 degrees north and south while decreasing near 30 degrees
This shift exacerbates droughts in subtropical regions and intensifies flooding in higher latitudes, including the Arctic, where it accelerates sea ice melting
. Changes in sea surface temperatures, particularly during La Niña conditions, are driving this movement, which poses challenges for water resources and climate predictions.
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Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, altering global weather patterns significantly.
Over the past 40 years, they have moved approximately 6 to 10 degrees toward the poles, increasing activity around 50 degrees north and south while decreasing near 30 degrees
This shift exacerbates droughts in subtropical regions and intensifies flooding in higher latitudes, including the Arctic, where it accelerates sea ice melting
. Changes in sea surface temperatures, particularly during La Niña conditions, are driving this movement, which poses challenges for water resources and climate predictions.
On this auspicious day of Vijayadashmi, We wish that you imbibe in yourself the best of qualities and cleanse the negative energy. Lord Ram overcame his inner demons, which in fact are the actual asuras. As students, our greatest demons are lethargy, despair, impulsiveness. Hence, practise self-regulation, be ever hopeful and persevere hard. However tough might the demons appear, target the ‘navel’ of problems- root cause is always simple. May you emerge ever victorious! 🙏🏽🏹🌿
Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) Observatory
✅ It is the largest imaging Cherenkov telescope in Asia.
✅ It is the highest Cherenkov telescope in the world, situated at an altitude of ~4,300 m.
✅ It is an indigenous project built by BARC with support from ECIL and other Indian industry partners.
✅ Significance: The telescope will advance India’s role in cosmic-ray research and study high-energy gamma rays to better understand the universe’s energetic events like supernovae, black holes, and gamma-ray bursts.
✅ It is the largest imaging Cherenkov telescope in Asia.
✅ It is the highest Cherenkov telescope in the world, situated at an altitude of ~4,300 m.
✅ It is an indigenous project built by BARC with support from ECIL and other Indian industry partners.
✅ Significance: The telescope will advance India’s role in cosmic-ray research and study high-energy gamma rays to better understand the universe’s energetic events like supernovae, black holes, and gamma-ray bursts.
SUBHADRA Scheme
✅Recently, the Prime Minister of India launched ‘SUBHADRA’, the flagship Scheme of Government of Odisha, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
✅It is named after Goddess Subhadra, the younger sibling of Lord Jagannath, the presiding deity of Odisha.
✅All eligible beneficiaries between the age of 21-60 years would receive Rs. 50,000/- over a period of 5 years between 2024-25 to 2028-29.
✅An amount of Rs 10,000/- per annum in two equal installments will be credited directly to the beneficiary’s Aadhaar-enabled and DBT-enabled bank account.
✅Recently, the Prime Minister of India launched ‘SUBHADRA’, the flagship Scheme of Government of Odisha, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
✅It is named after Goddess Subhadra, the younger sibling of Lord Jagannath, the presiding deity of Odisha.
✅All eligible beneficiaries between the age of 21-60 years would receive Rs. 50,000/- over a period of 5 years between 2024-25 to 2028-29.
✅An amount of Rs 10,000/- per annum in two equal installments will be credited directly to the beneficiary’s Aadhaar-enabled and DBT-enabled bank account.