Why in News: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted two successful launches of vertical launch short range surface-to-air missile (VL-SRSAM) off the Odisha coast in Balasore. About VL-SRSAM VL-SRSAM was indigenously developed and designed by DRDO Designed and …
Why in News? A recent study that was published in Environmental Research Letters looked at the rainfall pattern in the past 119 years and found that rainfall trend in Cherrapunji has decreased and Mawsynram (both in Meghalaya) is the wettest …
Why in News? NASA’s science rover Perseverance, streaked through the Martian atmosphere and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater. About the Mission The Mars 2020 rover mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort …
Why in News? An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked at the International Space Station. Cargo Ship Mission The Progress MS-16 cargo ship, which blasted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan, has delivered water, propellant and other supplies …
Why in the news? Scientists are conducting research to find some properties of element Einsteinium. About Einsteinium Einsteinium is a chemical element, named after Albert Einstein, has the atomic number 99. That means an Einsteinium atom has 99 protons and …
Why in News: Microsoft launched a new hybrid cloud solution in India for organisations to build and run cloud-native applications with seamless access to on-premise cloud services with existing tools, processes, and skill sets. What is Cloud Solutions A cloud …
Why in News: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled an ambitious 10-year space program for his country that includes missions to the moon, sending Turkish astronauts into space and developing internationally viable satellite systems. About the program Turkey planned to …
About the scheme Launched in 2015, Soil Health Card (SHC) is a Government of India’s scheme promoted by the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. It is being implemented through the Department of …
Why in News? An automated computational tool – Infectious Pathogen Detector (IPD) – developed earlier by researchers at the Mumbai-based ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, to identify the presence of 1,060 different pathogens in any genome sequence sample and perform mutation …
Why in News? The first Arab interplanetary mission- HOPE- successfully reached Mars’ orbit to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet. About the programme The unmanned probe — named “Al-Amal”, Arabic for “Hope” — was launched by the …