Zonal committees of land resources department
Ministry of rural development has set up four zonal monitoring committees, headed by a joint secretary level officer, to undertake comprehensive monitoring and impact assessment of key programmes of department of land resources under the ministry as progress under the schemes remains slow.
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#DILRMP #MinistryofRuralDevelopment #PMKSY #NCT #Uttarakhand #UT

Brown to Green Report 2019
Extreme weather events led to around 16,000 deaths and economic losses of $142 billion in G20 nations on average every year during 1998-2017 with India reporting the highest number of deaths among them and figuring in the list of top five countries in terms of economic losses during the period, said a global report that analysed the climate action track records of the global economic power group.
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#GreenReport2019 #G20 #NDC #CO2 #NGOs

Panel for Dal Lake
The Jammu and Kashmir government has set up a ten-member committee to declare Srinagar's famous Dal Lake and its surrounding areas as an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ), following concerns over its shrinking size.
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#DalLake #DCI #ESZ #SMC #MoEFCC #WildlifeSanctuaries #Srinagar

IOA rejects draft National Sports Code
India will incur the International Olympic Committee’s wrath and may even be suspended if it goes ahead with administrative reforms suggested in the draft National Sports Code 2017, the Indian Olympic Association has warned, rejecting the proposed document completely.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21967-ioa-rejects-draft-national-sports-code.html
#IOA #NationalSportsCode #KirenRijiju #GOI #MYAS #NSFs #CEOs

SpaceX launches 60 more mini satellites
SpaceX launched 60 mini satellites, the second batch of an orbiting network meant to provide global internet coverage. The Falcon rocket blasted into the morning sky, marking the unprecedented fourth flight of a booster for SpaceX.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21966-spacex-launches-60-more-mini-satellites.html
#SpaceXlaunches60 #satellites #Starlink #ElonMusk #orbit


How old is Nile river
The Nile river flowing through Egypt could be six times as old as previously thought, according to a study which estimated it to have originated at least 30 million years ago.
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#Nileriver #UT #Earth #NatureGeoscience #Yangtze

X-ray burst detected
NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)telescope on the International Space Station (ISS) has detected the brightest X-ray burst so far that was caused by a massive thermonuclear flash on the surface of a pulsar.
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#Xray #NICER #ISS #NASA #J1808 #NeutronStar

Third batch of Starlink satellites
SpaceX launched its third batch of 60 mini-satellites into orbit, part of its plans to build a giant constellation of thousands of spacecraft that will form a global broadband internet system.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22584-third-batch-of-starlink-satellites.html
#Starlink #FCC #satellites #ITU #LEO #spacecraft #SpaceX

New amendment in IBBI
A secured creditor cannot sell assets of a company undergoing liquidation process to any person barred from submitting an insolvency resolution plan, as per a new amendment made to the norms by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI).
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#IBBI #amendment #Bankruptcy #stakeholder #insolvency

Another Earth found
NASA said on 6 January 2020 that its planet hunter satellite TESS had discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22582-another-earth-found.html
#NASA #TESS #satellite #Earth #TOI700d #Hawaii #KeplerSpaceTelescope

IOA disaffiliates KAI
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has disaffiliated the Karate Association of India (KAI) for violating its constitution and guidelines.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22581-ioa-disaffiliates-kai.html
#IOA #KAI #WKF #AGM #Olympic #LikhaTara

India's ambitions for Starlink
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been working on bringing the internet from space with Starlink, which will use satellites in the lower Earth orbit for this task.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/27160-india-s-ambitions-for-starlink.html
#Starlink #TRAI #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses #ksgnews

More Starlink satellites launched
Elon Musk-run SpaceX on 25 November 2020 launched another successful mission carrying 60 more Starlink satellites onboard a Falcon 9 rocket into low-Earth orbit that will join the rest in becoming affordable Internet.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/27272-more-starlink-satellites-launched.html
#Starlink #satellites #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses #ksgnews

KSG Podcast - How many satellites are orbiting Earth | Exam Oriented Edited Editorial
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KSG Podcast - Broadband in India | Short Crisp Concise and Exam Oriented Edited Editorial #podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQuWkQLJag&list=PLCUwtp5IghZmJBi1h7xiAhsORKmmumVsR&index=5
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KSG Podcast - How many satellites are orbiting Earth | Exam Oriented Edited Editorial
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KSG Podcast - How many satellites are orbiting Earth | Exam Oriented Edited Editorial
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KSG Podcast - Broadband in India | Short Crisp Concise and Exam Oriented Edited Editorial #podcast
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Today's Headlines - 24 July 2023
India’s first ‘satellite network portal site’
GS Paper - 3 (Space Technology)

The Gujarat government through its Department of Science and Technology (DST) signed a memorandum of understanding with OneWeb India Communications Pvt Ltd for setting up a ‘satellite network portal site’ — a first for India — at Mehsana in Gujarat.

What is the Satellite network portal site?

Satellite broadband technology or satellite telephony is not a new concept and with satellite constellations in the low Earth orbit (LEO) gaining traction with StarLink, Kuiper and OneWeb among many others, the world is increasingly moving towards relying on LEO satellite communications.
LEO satellites operate at an altitude of 500 to 1,200 km, making it ripe for high-speed and low latency — a lower time lag between a user seeking data, and the server sending that data, compared to geostationary Earth orbit positioned satellites.
OneWeb has 648 satellites orbiting at 1,000-1,200 km making 13 orbits per day, covering the entire globe.
The satellite network portal (SNP) site will serve as a signal and data downlink and uplink terminal or base station on the ground, an intermediary for data transmission through satellite tracking antenna systems.
OneWeb India Communications plans to invest up to Rs 100 crore in this project, which would, according to the Gujarat government, create 500 direct and indirect jobs, including jobs requiring telecom, electronics and instrumentation engineers.
Apart from civil infrastructure, setting up an SNP like this will also require a slew of regulatory approvals from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) and spectrum allocation from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Earlier, HCIPL and OneWeb, in January 2022, announced a strategic six-year Distribution Partner agreement to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity services across India, to deliver services to enterprises and government with OneWeb capacity, especially in areas outside the reach of fibre connectivity.

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