Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan on January 8, 2018, dedicated India’s fastest and first ‘multi-petaflops’ supercomputer “Pratyush” to the nation in Pune. ‘Pratyush’, (the sun) is the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility and it has been established Read More …
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The Water Shrew found first time in Uttarakhand
-A team of researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun has first time found rare Water Shrew (Nectogale elegans) in the state of Uttarakhand. -Although its presence was recorded earlier in India from north Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, Read More …
उत्तराखंड में दुर्लभ वाटर श्रु (water shrew) की पहली बार खोज
भारतीय वन्यजीव संस्थान देहरादून के शोधकर्त्ताओं ने पश्चिमी हिमालयी क्षेत्र में जल कर्कशा (water shrew-Nectogale elegans) को पहली बार खोजा है। चूहे जैसा दिखने वाला यह जीव पहले सिक्किम एवं अरुणाचल प्रदेश में खोजा गया है। परंतु पहली बार इसे Read More …
Sammakka-Sarakka Jatara as a national festival
-The Central Government is in the process of declaring Sammakka-Sarakka/Saralamma Jatara a national festival. Recently Central Ministry of Tribal Affairs released Rs. 2 crore as Centre’s contribution towards conducting this Jatara. -Sammakka-Sarakka/Saralamma Jatara is held in Medaram village of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district, Read More …
Mankidia Tribe of Odisha will get habitat rights!
-Mayurbhanj District administration Odisha, had initiated an effort to provide Mankidia tribe a recognised habitat rights under forest right act (FRA). However state forest department latter denied the habitat right to Mankidia, on the ground of tiger attack. -Mankidia is Read More …
मानकिडिया जनजाति को पर्यावास अधिकार
ओडिशा के मयूरभंज जिला के जंगलों में रहने वाले अर्द्ध खानाबदोस आदिम जनजाति समूह ‘मानकिडिया’ (Mankidia) को वैध पर्यावास अधिकार (recognised habitat right) देने की प्रक्रिया आरंभ की गई है। हालांकि बाद में राज्य वन विभाग बाघ हमलों का बहाना बनाकर Read More …
Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme-Food poisoning increased
-According to Recent data released by the Union Health Ministry’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), 312 of the 1,649 outbreaks reported till the third week of December 2017 were due to acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) and 242 were due to food Read More …
Bharat Net Project: First phase completed
Ministry of Communication has completed the first phase of Bharat Net project. Under Phase-1, more than one lakh Gram Panchayats of the nation have related to high speed optical fibre network as per the deadline 31 December 2017. The network Read More …
भारतनेट परियोजनाः प्रथम चरण संपन्न
केंद्रीय संचार मंत्रालय भारतनेट परियोजना (BharatNet) का प्रथम चरण पूरा हो चुका है। परियोजना के प्रथम चरण, जिसके लिए 31 दिसंबर, 2017 का लक्ष्य रखा गया था, के तहत देश के एक लाख से अधिक ग्राम पंचायतों को हाई स्पीड Read More …
Current GS News in Brief (8-15 January, 2018)
The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) in New Delhi on 15 January, 2018. The two-day workshop was organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with United Nations Read More …
Falcon Heavy: World’s Most Powerful Rocket
-USA’s private space organisation, Space-X will launch ‘the world’s most powerful rocket’, ‘Falcon Heavy’ in January 2018. This rocket will be fired on Mars. -The Falcon Heavy ‘megarocket’ will be fired from Kennedy Space Centre near Cape Canaveral, Florida. It Read More …
फाल्कन हेवीः विश्व का सबसे शक्तिशाली रॉकेट
अमेरिका की निजी अंतरिक्ष कंपनी ‘स्पेश-एक्स’ के प्रमुख एलन मस्क ने जनवरी 2018 में ‘फाल्कन हेवी’ (Falcon Heavy) नामक विश्व का सबसे शक्तिशाली रॉकेट प्रक्षेपित करने की घोषणा की है। इसे मंगल ग्रह के लिए प्रक्षेपित किया जाएगा। फाल्कन हेवी Read More …
A gender gap of 10% in Jan Dhan account application
According to a World Bank paper titled, ‘Making It Easier to Apply for a Bank Account: A Study of the Indian Market’, a 10% gender gap was reported in opening accounts under the Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Jan Dhan Yojana’. Under Read More …
जन धन खाता में 10 प्रतिशत का जेंडर गैप
विश्व बैंक द्वारा ‘मेकिंग इट इजियर टू अप्लाई फॉर अ बैंक अकाउंटः अ स्टडी ऑफ द इंडियन मार्केट’ शीर्षक से जारी रिपोर्ट के अनुसार भारत सरकार के प्फ़लैगशिप कार्यक्रम ‘जन धन योजना’ के तहत खोले गये बैंक खातों में 10 Read More …
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