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Saturday, March 10 2018, 9:51 PM

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Defence Project 75 - Submarines (6 Scorpene development by MZDL)

Education Asia Pacific Quality Network Award - NAAC

Space IceCube:
Particle detector at the South Pole
Records the interactions of a nearly mass less subatomic particle called the
neutrino.
IceCube searches for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources:
events like exploding stars, gamma-ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena
involving black holes and neutron stars.

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HAMMER Spacecraft, NASA:

Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response
deflecting giant space rocks if they happen to hit Earth.

CubeSats and Sprites:

Sprites: Miniature satellites powered by sunlight and weighing only 4 grams
CubeSats: 1000x mass of Sprites
Breakthrough Star-shot:

develop chips with ~1gm weight and propelling them through space with
a 100 billion Watt laser (to send probes beyond solar system)

Biotech HISAR GOURAV:

Cloned buffalo calf produced by Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes
Samrupa: World’s first Murrah buffalo calf cloned using Hand guided cloning
technique

BG III Cotton:
Herbicide Tolerant developed by Monsanto
Commercialised as ‘Round-up Ready Flex (RRF)’ in the USA.
Apprehension:

Emergence of super weeds: Herbicide-resistant gene could spread

through pollen into the biodiversity system

Threaten the growth and yields of all crops in future

 Increase cultivation costs and lead to health hazards.

Field Inspection and Scientific Evaluation Committee (FISEC) has been setup
by DBT(MoSnT) to investigate the matter of illegal cultivation of Herbicide
Tolerant (HT) or BG-III cotton.
Cultivation has not been approved by GEAC

Economics SWIFT:
Established in 1973; HQ in Belgium
Member-owned cooperative society that provides safe and secure financial
transactions for its members.
Uses a standardised proprietary communications platform to facilitate the
transmission of information about financial transactions.
Does not hold funds or manage accounts on behalf of customers.

Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX): World’s 1st Diamond Futures Exchange

International Relations Ashgabat Agreement:

Multimodal transport agreement for creating an international transport and
transit corridor facilitating transportation of goods between Central Asia and
the Persian Gulf.
Founders: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Oman
Members: India, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Oman, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan
India formally joined Ashgabat agreement on 2nd February 2018.
Turkmenistan is the depository state for the agreement.

Nuclear Weapon free zones in the world:

Africa (Treaty of Pelindaba)
Central Asia (Treaty of Semei)
South Pacific (Treaty of Rarotonga)
Southeast Asia (Treaty of Bangkok)
Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

Domestic Jackfruit: declared as State Fruit of Kerala

Places in News 1. KremPuri: Meghalaya — world’s longest sandstone caves

Environment Festivals:
Hakki Habba Festival Karnataka: It is a bird festival to create awareness
among people about conservation of birds.

Polity Removal of Judges:

Judges Enquiry Act (1968) regulates the procedure relating to the removal of
Judges.
 Constitution in Art 124 and 217 talks about President removing and
Parliament making procedure.

Science and Tech SurfNet: AI software that can create 3D models from 2D photographs.