A-76-the world’s biggest iceberg has broken off of Antarctica, the European Union’s Copernicus Sentinel satellite shows. The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 170 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide, was spotted by satellites as it calved from the western side Read More …
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Atlas V launches SBIRS Geo-5
United Launch Alliance (ULA) on May 18, 2021 launched an Atlas V rocket into space, marking the first launch of the year for the company. Atlas V rocket launched “Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 5” (SBIRS Geo-5) which is a Read More …
Just 20 companies are the source of 55 per cent of the world’s single-use plastic waste
GS TIMES STAFF According to a research carried out by a consortium including the London School of Economics, just 20 petrochemical companies are the source of 55 per cent of the world’s single-use plastic waste thrown away globally. The report Read More …
Nuklu Phom wins Whitley Award 2021
GS TIMES STAFF Nagaland’s conservationist Nuklu Phom along with five others have won Whitley Awards 2021, also known as the Green Oscar. The Whitley Award recognises Phom’s efforts at establishing a new biodiversity peace corridor changing the fate of Amur Read More …
China’s first Mars rover ‘Zhurong’ lands on the Red Planet
China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft has dropped its lander and rover — named Zhurong on May 15, 2021. It is China’s first mission to Mars, and makes it only the third nation — after Russia and the United States — to have Read More …
Al-Aqsa mosque complex
According to BBC, at least 163 Palestinians and six Israeli police officers were hurt in clashes in Jerusalem in May 2021. Most were injured at the Al-Aqsa mosque. Al-Aqsa mosque site The Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem’s Old City is Read More …
पद्मकुमार मंगलम नायर-बैड बैंक के प्रथम सीईओ नियुक्त
GS TIMES STAFF केंद्र सरकार ने पद्मकुमार मंगलम नायर को प्रस्तावित नेशनल ऐसेट रीकंस्ट्रक्शन कंपनी लिमिटेड (National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited- NARCL) यानी बैड बैंक (Bad Bank) के प्रथम सीईओ नियुक्त किया है। पद्मकुमार नायर अभी भारतीय स्टेट बैंक के Read More …
Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR)
GS TIMES STAFF The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on May 10, 2021 issued a circular notifying new disclosure norms on Business Responsibility and Sustainability reporting for the top 1,000 listed companies by market cap by FY23. Such Read More …
Rupsi airport-Commercial operation
GS TIMES STAFF Rupsi airport in Assam, built for warplanes in 1939 for World War-II , became operational on May 8, 2021 with the landing of a commercial flight of the Flybig airline. Rupsi airport near Gauripur, about 15 km Read More …
Oxitec releases genetically modified mosquitoes
GS TIMES STAFF The Oxitec technology-a Bill Gates-funded biotech firm, has released genetically modified mosquitoes in the Keys- a chain of tropical islands in the southernmost tip of Florida to combat insect-borne diseases like dengue fever and Zika virus. Oxitec has Read More …
Panga ya Saidi cave: The earliest known human burial in Africa
GS TIMES STAFF The earliest known human burial in Africa has been found Kenya which belongs to a child laid carefully to rest in a grave nearly 80,000 years ago. A cluster of bones remains belong to a Middle Stone Read More …
Indian Railways inducts 100th 12000 HP WAG 12 B Locomotive
GS TIMES STAFF The 100th 12000 HP WAG 12 B has been inducted in Indian Railways fleet. The loco is named WAG 12 B with number 60100. The locomotive is manufactured by Madhepura Electric Locomotive Pvt. Ltd. (MELPL). These locomotives Read More …
Maratha quota verdict by the Supreme Court
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India on May 5, 2021 struck down the Maharashtra law granting reservation to the Maratha community in admissions and government jobs in the state. Indra Sawhney v Union of India case In a Read More …
Tianhe module- first module of China’s new space station
China has launched a key module of a new permanent space station from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on a Long March-5B rocket. The Tianhe module contains living quarters for crew members which will be operational by 2022. The missions Read More …
Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet
GS TIMES STAFF The US space agency NASA has announced that on April 20, 2021, a device aboard the Perseverance rover was able to produce oxygen from the thin Martian atmosphere for the first time. The rover has converted some Read More …