GK & CA
Collection of weekly GK & CA since year 2016.
March, 2021
5035
Ingenuity Mars helicopter from NASA
The US space agency says it expects now to fly the first helicopter on Mars in early April. The little chopper was carried to the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover, which made its dramatic landing in Jezero Crater just over a month ago. (Source: bbc.com, cnn.com)
5034
Teesta River
Teesta River, is a 315 km (196 mi) long river that rises in the eastern Himalayas, flows through the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal through Bangladesh and enters the Bay of Bengal - Teesta -V dam, Rangit III hydroelectric are the major completed projects (Source: Wikipedia)
5033
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bangladeshi politician and statesman. He is called the "Father of the Nation" in Bangladesh. He served as the first President of Bangladesh and later as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 17 April 1971. He is considered to be the driving force behind the independence of Bangladesh. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 28 Mar, 20215032
Suez Canal Blocked
The Ever Given, a 400-meter (1,300-foot) container ship got stranded in Egypt's Suez Canal on Tuesday and has since been blocking the vital maritime passageway between Asia and Europe. (Source: Indian Express)
5030
Mars: Vast amount of water may be locked up on plane
The Red Planet could have held enough water to cover its entire surface in a layer measuring between 100m and one kilometre deep.
Around a billion years later, Mars had made the transition to the colder, desolate planet we recognise today (Source: bbc.com)
5029
Gelignite
Gelignite, also known as blasting gelatin or simply jelly, is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of guncotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate. Invented in 1875, by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who also invented dynamite (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 21 Mar, 20215028
Kalanamak Rice Festival
The U.P state government on Saturday launched a kalanamak rice festival in Siddharth Nagar district. The event was organised to promote, market and branding of selected products as One District One Product (ODOP) under ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ and ‘Local for Vocal’ campaign (Source: The Times of India)
Sun, 21 Mar, 20215027
Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Inter-Parliamentary Union is an international organization of national parliaments. Its primary purpose is to promote democratic governance, accountability, and cooperation among its members. Established in 1889, headquarter Geneva, Switzerland (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 21 Mar, 20215026
India has world’s fourth strongest military
China has the strongest military force in the world while India stands at number four. The USA, comes in 2nd place with 74 points, followed by Russia with 69, India at 61. (Source: The Hindu)
5024
Quad Summit
U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga participate in a virtual Quad summit - covering areas like vaccines, climate change, and emerging technologies (Source: The Hindu)
5023
Women Will Web
Google India launched the Women Will Web platform for women entrepreneurs that will help them understand how to run a business & more for free. This will be complemented by community support, mentorship and accelerator programs for rural women entrepreneurs. (Source: Republic World)
Sun, 14 Mar, 20215022
Hubble telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.It is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 14 Mar, 20215021
Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav from Gujarat to commemorate 75 years of India's Independence. Mahatma Gandhi led the Dandi March, or Salt March, in 1930 from the Sabarmati Ashram till Dandi in Navsari as a non-violent protest against the British salt monopoly. (Source: Times of India)
Sun, 14 Mar, 20215020
DUSTLIK II
Indian Army troops and Uzbekistan Army troops at Chaubatia on Saturday practised firing on the newly inducted weapon by India, Sig Sauer 716 assault rifles, at the ongoing joint military exercise DUSTLIK II. The exercise is based on counter-terrorist operations and aims at enhancing military cooperation. (Source: ANI)
Sun, 14 Mar, 20215018
CiX platform
The City Innovation Exchange (CiX) platform was launched by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Designed on the philosophy of ‘everyone is an innovator’, the platform will bring together Citizen Organisations-Academia- Businesses- Government to co-create for the future of Urban India in a transparent and sustainable manner.
Sun, 07 Mar, 20215017
Perseverance rover begins its exploration of Mars
NASA's Perseverance was put down in a near-equatorial crater called Jezero, to search for evidence of past life. This will involve roving some 15km over the coming Martian year ~ roughly two Earth years (Source: bbc.com)
5016
Bhabhatron-II
India has donated an advanced telecobalt machine for cancer treatment, developed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, to the island nation of Madagascar. The advanced digital cobalt therapy machine 'Bhabhatron-II' was inaugurated at the Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona Hospital (HJRA) in Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar (Source:theweek.in)
Sun, 07 Mar, 20215015
Land Ports Authority of India
The Land Ports Authority of India or LPAI is a statutory body working under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing border infrastructure in India. It manages several Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) all across Borders of India. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 07 Mar, 20215014
TIC2 walks out into the wild
A three-year-old adult tigress, T1C2 was about a year old when her maneater mother T1, nicknamed Avni was shot dead. Now TIC2 completing her “re-wilding” lessons, has walked out into the wild (Source: Indian Express)