Today's Questions
23 May 2019
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Today's Editorial (Hindi)
23 May 2019
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Today's Editorial
23 May 2019
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Today's Headlines (Hindi)
23 May 2019
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Today's Headlines
23 May 2019
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'आरआईसैट-2 बी' का सफल प्रक्षेपण
पीएसएलवी-सी46 को उसके 48वें मिशन के साथ 22 मई 2019 पर सुबह साढे पांच बजे श्रीहरिकोटा के सतीश धवन अंतरिक्ष केन्द्र से लॉन्च किया गया। पीएसएलपी46 ने आरआईसैट-2बी को लो अर्थ ऑर्बिट में सफल तौर पर स्थापित किया।
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#RISAT2B #Pslvc46 #ISRO #ISTRAC #Telemetrytracking


उच्चस्तरीय समिति ने अपनी रिपोर्ट दी
सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के तेल और गैस उपक्रमों के बीच सामंजस्य पैदा करने के लिए कार्ययोजना तैयार करने से जुड़े मुद्दों की जांच करने; कर मामलों और सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के तेल और गैस उपक्रमों द्वारा जीएसटी से लाभ लेने के तरीकों संबंध में सरकार द्वारा गठित उच्च स्तरीय समिति ने नई दिल्ली में पेट्रोलियम और प्राकृतिक गैस तथा कौशल विकास उद्यमिता मंत्री श्री धर्मेन्द्र प्रधान को अपनी रिपोर्ट दी।
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#DharmendraPradhan #Gasenterprises #GST #Dr AnilKakodkar


8वीं भारत- म्यांमार समन्वित गश्ती
8वीं भारत-म्यांमार गश्ती (आईएमसीओआर) के उद्घाटन समारोह में हिस्‍सा लेने के लिए म्यांमार नौसेना के जहाज यूएमएस किंग टेबिन-श्‍वेलएचटी (773) और यूएमएस इनले (ओपीवी-54) 20 मई को पोर्ट ब्लेयर में अंडमान और निकोबार कमान पहुंचे।
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#IMCOR #UMSKingTabin #PortBlair #CMDE #AshutoshRidharkar

RISAT-2B launched
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) on 22 May 2019 successfully launched the RISAT-2B satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
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#SDSC #RISAT2B #ISTRAC #SCL #Dr KSivan

Brahmos Air Launched Missile fired
On 22 May 2019, IAF successfully fired the BrahMos air version missile from its frontline Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft. The launch from the aircraft was smooth and the missile followed the desired trajectory before directly hitting the land target.
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#BrahmosAir #MKIfighteraircraft #BrahMosmissile #IndianNavy

Gas layer protecting ocean inside Pluto
An insulating layer of gas beneath Pluto’s icy exterior may be protecting a subsurface ocean from freezing, scientists claim. The team from the Hokkaido University in Japan conducted computer simulations covering a timescale of 4.6 billion years, when the solar system began to form.
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#Pluto #HokkaidoUniversity #Gaslayer #solarsystem

SIMBEX-2019 concluded
The navies of India and Singapore on 22 May 2019 concluded their bilateral naval drill in the strategic South China Sea, where China is flexing its military muscles.
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#SIMBEX2019 #INSShakti #INSKolkata #IndianNavy #SingaporeNavy

How did water come on Earth?
A cosmic body that hit the Earth and led to the formation of the Moon about 4.4 billion years ago may have also delivered large quantities of water to our home planet, making it habitable, scientists have found.
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QS India rankings 2020
On 22 October 2019, the QS Indian University Rankings were released — this is the second edition of the standalone rankings for India’s higher education institutions.
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#QS #QSIndiarankings #Indiarankings #IITs


Climate change making stronger El Ninos
Climate change is making stronger El Ninos, which change weather worldwide and heat up an already warming planet, a new study finds.
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#Climatechange #ElNinos #Australia #ENSO

Chemical makeup in Titan
Scientists have found the chemical composition of organic dust dunes present on Saturn’s moon Titan, an advance that sheds more light on the mechanism by which carbon-based structures form in extreme cold environments in space.
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#Chemicalmakeup #Titan #Chemical #solarsystem

India, Saudi ink several pacts
India and Saudi Arabia inked over a dozen agreements in several key sectors including oil and gas, defence and civil aviation to bolster their ties as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held extensive talks with the Kingdom's top leadership during which a Strategic Partnership Council was established to coordinate on important issues.
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#India #NarendraModi #ISPRL #SaudiArabia #MasterCard

Miyawaki method for tree planting
West Bengal government's panchayat & rural development department has decided to create forests across the state using the Miyawaki method, a Japanese method of tree planting that helps in building dense, native forests.
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#Miyawaki #blackberry #Shibganj #ShyampurI

Hygiea in solar system
Space scientists have discovered a new celestial body which might be the smallest such planet to exist in our solar system.
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#Hygiea #ESO #IAU #SPHERE #solarsystem #Mars

'severe’ Air quality
Pollution levels continued to be in the ‘severe’ category on 30 October 2019 as a blanket of smog wrapped Delhi. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the air quantity index was 416 at 11 a.m.
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#severe #Airquality #AQI #CPCB #NAMP #Protection

India Strategy on Blockchain
A Niti Aayogdiscussion paper has made a case for using blockchain technology to resolve business and governance process inefficiencies.
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#Blockchain #IndiaStrategy #WEF #NitiAayogdiscussionpaper


SAMPRITI-IX begin
A 14-day joint military training exercise by Indian and Bangladesh armies was flagged off on 3 February 2020 in Umroi in Meghalaya.
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#SAMPRITIIX #CPX #FTX #Indianarmies #Bangladesh #MdShafiulAzam

World Cancer Report
The UN health agency on 4 February 2020 warned cancer cases would rise by 81 percent in low- and middle-income countries by 2040 because of a lack of investment in prevention and care.
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#WorldCancer #CancerReport #WorldCancerReport #WHO


Coronavirus a state calamity
After Kerala declared a health emergency following three positive cases of the new coronavirus, other states could also have a reason to worry.
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#Coronavirus #statecalamity #Kerala #WHO #MERS


NASA’s Spitzer space telescope
On 30 January 2020, NASA’s Spitzer space telescope signed off and went silent. But even during its final week of operation, the spacecraft was making one-of-a-kind observations.
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#NASAsSpitzer #spacetelescope #HubbleSpaceTelescope #solarsystem

Venus has 37 active volcanic structures
Venus is one of the hottest planets in our solar system after Mercury. Now, researchers have identified three dozen features on Venus, which they state could have been created by volcanism.
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#Venus #volcanicstructures #37active #solarsystem

Portrait of two planets around baby sun
For the first time, a telescope has captured a family portrait of another solar system with not just one, but two planets posing directly for the cameras while orbiting a star like our sun.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/24591-portrait-of-two-planets-around-baby-sun.html
#babysun #solarsystem #Portrait #ChilesAtacamaDesert

TESS completes primary mission
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), on July 4, finished its primary mission imaging about 75 percent of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey.
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#TESS #solarsystem #NASAs #primarymission #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses

Second alignment plane of solar system
A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to either the well-known ecliptic plane where the planets reside or a newly discovered 'empty ecliptic.
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#solarsystem #emptyecliptic #alignmentplane #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasse

Some planets have suitable conditions than Earth
Scientists have identified 24 planets outside our solar system that they say may have conditions more suitable for life than the Earth.
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#planets #Earth #solarsystem #WSU #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses