The 351 km stretch of EDFC & Operation Control Centre (OCC) was inaugurated at Prayagraj.Data technology used in OCC has been prepared in India. The 1,856-km Eastern DFC starts at Sohnewal (Ludhiana) in Punjab and ends at Dankuni in West Bengal.
The total length of DFC is 3360 route km.
Inaugurated by Peter Smetacek, the park, spread over 4 acres in Haldwani in Nainital district, aims to conserve various pollinator species, create awareness & promote research. Endemic species of honeybee Apiscerana indica is also reared in the park.
Pollinators impact 35% of global agricultural land
96th Tansen Music Festival began in Gwalior & will conclude at Behat village on December 30. Pt Satish Vyas was conferred upon the prestigious Tansen Samman. Bhopal-based institution Abhinav Kala Parishad was honoured with Raja Mansingh Tomar award.
Festival pays tribute to Tansen, one of 9 gems in Akbar's court.
It will be a one stop-solution for all ocean data related needs & is expected to bring a sea-change in how the oceanographic data is served. It will play a central role in sustainable management of the oceans & expanding India's ‘Blue Economy’ initiatives
INCOIS:
Established - 2007;
Location - Hyderabad
Hailed for his avant-garde styles,Cardin set up his own fashion label in 1950. In 1959, he created one of the first ready-to-wear collections for women. He created the legendary bubble dress & "Space Age" collection remains a landmark in fashion history.
First designer to sell clothes collections in department stores
Located at a height of 3500 meters, Meteorological Centre Leh will be the highest meteorological centre in India. It will cater to the various kinds of weather & climate needs of people & administration of Ladakh.
Dr Harsh Vardhan - Union Minister of Earth Sciences
MESPL offers an online school management platform. Post investment, ICICI Bank will hold 9.09 per cent stake through acquisition of 100 equity shares & 1,04,890 cumulative compulsorily convertible preference shares on fully diluted basis.
Ajay Sakhamuri - Founder and CEO - MyClassboard
Aim of the action report is to create a sense of scientific social responsibility & lay down imperatives for the future of technology in India.The report is a follow-up of TIFAC's white paper on "Focussed Interventions for Make in India: post COVID-19"
TIFAC is an autonomous organization set up in 1988 under DST.
Partnership will enable Cashaa to access United's regulatory licenses,physical branches & overall banking infrastructure.Users can transact in cryptocurrency & fiat from one account. Unicas is initially opening its services online & through 14 branches.
CEO:
Cashaa - Kumar Gaurav (Founder);
Unicas - Dinesh Kukreja.
Mumbai based DYSL-QT has developed QRNG which has the ability to detect random quantum events and convert those into a stream of binary digits. This comes days after successful testing of the Quantum Key Distribution technology by DRDO.
DYSL-QT is one of the five YSLs of the DRDO
Set up under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems, it has an essential focus on R&D of interdisciplinary technologies in the specific domain area of Autonomous Navigation and Data Acquisition Systems.
Rs.135 crore was sanctioned for TiHan Foundation.
BARC has developed an eye cancer therapy in the form of Ruthenium 106 Plaque for the treatment of ocular tumours.It is acknowledged to be at par with international standards, surgeon friendly and a simpler, cost-effective option for the patients
BARC:
Location - Mumbai;
Established - 3 January 1954.
Indira Joseph Venniyoor was a renowned broadcaster, All India Radio veteran & first English news announcer of Travancore Radio when its English service began in 1949. She was the wife of well-known literary scholar & art critic the late E.M.J. Venniyoor
First news bulletin in India went on air in 1927.
He will be representing the South East Area Regional Office/ Western Pacific Regional Office constituency on the board.The seat is currently held by Mr. Myint Htwe of Myanmar. Vardhan will be representing India from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2023.
GAVI:
Founded - 2000;
HQ - Geneva, Switzerland
Report says positive but lower economic growth post COVID-19 pandemic & the country’s large market will continue to attract investments. Growth was mainly driven by India's FDI inflows which accounted for 77% of total inflows in the region.
Report: 'FDI Trends & Outlook In Asia And The Pacific 2020/2021'
Instituted in 2005 to celebrate & commemorate the memory & legacy of Mother Teresa.
Awardees this year included Dr Anthony Fauci,Fr. Dr. Pradeep Kumar, Sanjay Pandey (IPS) KK Shailaja (Minister of Health Kerala),Vikas Khanna, Fr Fabio Stevenazzi etc.
Theme - Celebrating Compassion In Times Of Covid
As part of Mission Sagar III it will deliver 15 Ton Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Stores for the flood-affected people of Cambodia.Mission is part of India’s HADR assistance to Friendly Foreign Countries during the ongoing pandemic.
Mission Sagar:
I -5 Indian ocean nations;
II -4 African nations.
Kalam-5 is a demonstrator solid rocket propulsion stage with exactly the same propellant, materials, and interfaces as the three solid propulsion stages of their Vikram-1 launch vehicle, which is expected to be launched in December 2021.
Skyroot founders - Pawan Kumar Chandana & Naga Bharath Daka