Project Navlekha
Google's Project Navlekha to Help Indian Publishers
Take Their Content Online. India is important market for Google as it
has second largest population of internet users in the world.
Horizon 2020’
The
European Union and India will collaborate in research and innovation for
developing a next generation influenza
vaccine to protect people worldwide. The EU is funding is under its programme for research and
innovation ‘Horizon 2020’.
1st
biofuel powered aircraft in India
India
has now joined the small league of nations with the US and Australia to have
flown a biofuel-powered aircraft. SpiceJet
flew the Bombardier Q400 (VT-SUI) on biofuel from Dehradun to Delhi.
Corbett National Park
Corbett
National Park is situated in the foothills of the Sub- Himalayan belt in Nainital
districts of Uttarakhand state in India. Corbett
is one of the richest bird regions of the Country and has been declared as
an ‘Important Bird Area’ (IBA) by Birdlife
International.
Established in the year 1936 as Hailey National Park.
The Project Tiger was first launched from here in 1973.
Indian Ocean Conference
The third edition of Indian Ocean
Conference is being held at Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The Indian
Ocean Conference initiated by India Foundation
along with its partners from Singapore, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh is an annual
effort to bring together Heads of States/Governments, Ministers, Thought Leaders,
scholars, diplomats, bureaucrats and practitioners from across the region.
Bombay Natural History
Society
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), one of India’s
premier avian research institutes, has started operating its first regional centre on the campus of Wetland Research and
Training Centre near Chilika Lake.
Chilika ---------- as the 1st “Ramsar Site” of India.
Chilika
Lagoon is the largest coastal lagoon in India & 2nd largest lagoon in the
world after The New Caledonian barrier reef in New Caledonia.
Bureau of Indian
Standards
The
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the national Standards Body of India
working under the aegis of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food &
Public Distribution.
It
is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986.
Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and
Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC):
Union Government has constituted a new 21-member advisory panel on
science, technology and innovation called Prime Minister’s Science, Technology
and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC). It will replace earlier Scientific
Advisory Committee to Prime Minister and to Cabinet.
Headed by - Principal
Scientific Advisor to the government of India.
Total Members - 9 members, including Chairperson
E-cigarettes-
e-cigarettes
contain nicotine and not tobacco.
It
works by heating up a nicotine liquid,
called “juice.”
e-liquid
is composed of five ingredients: vegetable glycerin (a material used in all
types of food and personal care products, like toothpaste) and propylene glycol
(a solvent most commonly used in fog machines.) propylene glycol is the
ingredient that produces thicker clouds of vapor.
United Nations
Environment Programme –
Founded
by Maurice Strong, its first director, as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm
Conference) in June 1972.
Headquarters
in the Gigiri neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya.
UNEP has overall responsibility for environmental problems among United
Nations agencies.
Important Short News
Ø Meghalaya has
made it mandatory for married people to produce marriage certificates for all
official purposes.
Ø NASA’s Spitzer Space
Telescope, the youngest member of the “Great Observatory” programme, has
completed 15 years in space. launched in 2003 to study the universe in
the infrared.
Ø The Centre has signed
MOU with Uttarakhand, UP, HP, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi for Construction of
Lakhwar Multipurpose Project on Yamuna Near Dehradun.
Ø Vostok-2018 is a military
exercise that will be held in the month of September by Russia.
Ø G20 is made up of European Union(28)
&19 countries.
Ø The Tourism Ministry
had launched ‘Swadesh Darshan’ scheme with an objective to develop theme-based tourist circuits in the country. These tourist
circuits will be developed on the principles of high tourist value,
competitiveness and sustainability in an integrated manner.
Ø The European Space
Agency (ESA) has successfully launched Aeolus satellite that will measure winds around the globe and help
improve weather forecasting. The Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite was launched into polar
orbit on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Ø A panel headed
by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba, which deliberated on measures to check incidents of
lynching, submitted its report to a Group of Ministers headed by Home Minister
Rajnath Singh.
Ø The Reserve Bank of India’s second annual report shows that since demonetisation cash
transactions have increased.
Ø Cheetah reintroduction project;-{in
Nauradehi sanctuary,MP} Nauradehi was found to be the most suitable area
for the cheetahs as its forests are not very dense.
Ø K Vijay Raghavan, is the principal scientific adviser to the
Government of India.
Ø The fourth edition of Asian
electoral stakeholders forum (AESF-IV) was held in Sri Lanka to discuss
the state of elections and democracy in the region. It was jointly organised by
Election Commission of Sri Lanka and Asian network for free elections (ANFREL).
Ø Satya S Tripathi, an
Indian development economist and lawyer, has been appointed assistant secretary
general of the United Nations and will head the New York office of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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