Indian Navy’s Sandhayak class Hydrographic Survey Ship, INS Jamuna (J16) arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 06 Feb 20. The ship has been deployed to Sri Lanka based on a mutual agreement to carry out Joint Hydrographic Survey off the Read More …
Category: International
Wold Radio Day 2020 Theme
The World Radio Day was observed on February 13, 2020. The day is observed every year on this date to raise greater awareness among the public and the media of the importance of radio and to encourage decision makers to Read More …
Thanatotheristes- a new species of dinosaur closely related to Tyrannosaurus
Scientists from the Dinosaur Palaeobiology at Canada’s University of Calgary has discovered a new species of dinosaur closely related to Tyrannosaurus rex that strode the plain of North America some 80 million years ago. The new species named Thanatotheristes degrootorum – Greek for “Reaper Read More …
Second Bimstec disaster management exercise carried out at Ramachandi
Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Nityanand Rai on February 12, 2020 inaugurated the Field Training Exercise of 2nd BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise on flood rescue at the Ramachandi Beach, Puri (Odisha). Participants: Delegates & rescue teams of five Read More …
Cabinet approves MoU between India and Iceland in the field of Sustainable Fisheries Development
The Union Cabinet on February 12, 2020 approved thea Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between India and Iceland in the field of Fisheries. The MoU was signed on September 10, 2019. The salient features of the MoU are: Creation of Read More …
New name of novel Coronavirus disease is Covid-19
The World Health Organization has said that the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19. The new name is taken from the words “corona”, “virus” and “disease”, with 2019 representing the year that it emerged. Read More …
Safer Internet Day 2020 Theme
February 11, 2020 was organised as Safer Internet Day (SID) by the Insafe/INHOPE network. Theme This year, the theme was “Together for a better internet”. Objective The Safer Internet Day (SID) initiative aims to increase awareness about emerging online issues, Read More …
US govt to sale Integrated Air Defense Weapon System (IADWS) to India
The United States of America on February 10, 2020 announced clearing the sale of an Integrated Air Defense Weapon System (IADWS) to India. Facts The estimated cost of this system is $1.87 billion. It is a government-to-government sale cleared by Read More …
India will Host Conservation of Migratory Species COP-13
The 13th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), an environmental treaty under the aegis of United Nations Environment Programme, is going to be hosted by India during 17th to Read More …
AJEYA WARRIOR-2020: 5th edition of Joint Military Exercise between India and UK
The 5th edition of Joint Military Exercise AJEYA WARRIOR-2020 between India and United Kingdom will be conducted at Salisbury Plains, United Kingdom from 13 to 26 February 2020. The exercise will comprise of 120 soldiers each from Indian and United Read More …
UN World Pulses Day 2020
The UN World Pulses Day was celebrated on February 10, 2020 across the world. In New Delhi, Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the celebration and said that initiatives of the Government in increasing Read More …
Kaamya becomes the youngest girl to summit Mount Aconcagua in South America
Kaamya Karthikeyan, a class VII student of Navy Children School (NCS), Mumbai, became the youngest girl in the world to summit Mt. Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America and outside of Asia. She summited the mountain peak of 6962 Read More …
Oscars 2020 Winners
The Oscar award ceremony 2020, also called 92nd Academy awards, was held on February 10, 2020 (Indian Standard Time). Bong Joon-ho’s comedy-drama “Parasite”, which is about an impoverished family who infiltrate the household of a wealthier one, made Oscars history Read More …
Scientists sequence the genome of two basmati rice varieties: Basmati 334 and Dom Sufid
The researchers in New York University (NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology have mapped the complete genome of two basmati rice varieties, including one that is drought tolerant and resistant to bacterial disease. The two varieties: Dom Sufid and Read More …
Remdesivir: Medicine being tested for coronavirus treatment
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, China Academy of Sciences had filed a patent application to use remdesivir to treat the novel coronavirus (2019 nCoV) on January 21, 2020, which has sparked debate on China’s social media about intellectual property issues. Read More …