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MALERKOTLA: MALERKOTLA: Why in the news ● The Punjab government declares the only Muslim-majority Sikh state of Malerkotla as the 23rd district on May 14th, the day of Eid. A demand of the Muslim majority for over two decades. ● As per the 2011 census report, Muslims form the majority numbering around 92,765 forming 68.50% […]
OSIRIS-REx Origins: OSIRIS-REx Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security- Regolith Explorer To buy our online courses: Click Here The mission ● NASA’s most ambitious sample collection program left Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sep 8th, 2016. Headed for an asteroid called Bennu ● The mission was to Collect 60 grams of pristine regolith samples (a layer […]
2-DG Inhibits SARS-COV-2 Growth and Cyto-Pathic Effect: 2 DEOXY-D-GLUCOSE 2-DG released The first batch of the indigenously developed anti-Covid drug, 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose oral powder or ‘2-DG’ released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday (May 17). Developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), New Delhi, […]
New Shrew like mammal discovered: New species of mammal belonging to the shrew family discovered by Indian scientists of the Zoological Survey of India from the Andaman Islands. Species named Crocidura Narcondamica. Two individuals (a male and a female) were captured from the same location using the pitfall method. Preserved in 70% molecular grade ethanol […]
‘Black’ and ‘white’ in the greys of pandemic: Recovering from Covid-19 may not be the end of sufferings for all infected people. The use of steroids in treatment and weak body immunity may result in a life-threatening disease which can rapidly spread in the body. This is ‘black fungus’ or mucormycosis, a rare but serious […]
Arab Israel Conflict: Q1. Who are the Jewish people? Ans. Jews are an ethnic group that originally believed in the religion of Judaism. Their origin dates back to the 2nd millennium BCE in the West Asian Levant region. They trace their ancestry to a group of Iron Age Semitic-speaking (an Afro-Asiatic family of language) tribes […]
Narendra Modi Stadium Narendra Modi Stadium is the world’s biggest cricket stadium in Sardar Patel Sports enclave located at Navrangpura locality in Ahmedabad. In February 2020, Gujarat Cricket association unveiled Motera Stadium after being under construction for 5 years and was renamed Narendra Modi Stadium on 24th February 2021 in the honor of the current […]
NATIONAL RECRUITMENT AGENCY With rising unemployment due to recent turn of events, India is pushing to fill the void created by covid-19 pandemic. From losing jobs to salary cuts, poor class has seen the worst. Post lockdown, people of different classes are now worried that will they get their livelihood back or not? Although economy […]
Covid-19: Causing and Reducing class inequalities. The world has seen the unprecedented. The Covid-19 pandemic that hit the entire world and brought every difficulty that no country was ever preparing for. The world is seeing first recession triggered by non-economic factor- a health emergency and a sharpest decline in per capita income since 1870. But, […]
The mangrove-dominated Ganges Delta – the Sundarbans – is the largest mangrove ecosystem in the world extending across India (40%) and Bangladesh (60%). It provides a unique ecosystem and a rich wildlife habitat. Sundarbans mangroves are home to the famous Royal Bengal Tigers; Indo-Pacific region’s largest terrestrial predator. Sundarbans is an excellent example of the […]