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1) Kargil Vijay Diwas: observed on the 26th of July every year. Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between May-July of 1999 in the Kargil (now a district in the UT of Ladakh) district of Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control (LoC) in which India got the victory. InRead more

1) Marburg virus disease: it is a severe, often fatal hemorrhagic fever. It was earlier known as Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Marburg, like Ebola, is a filovirus; and both diseases are clinically similar. Rousettus fruit bats are considered the natural hosts for the Marburg virus. According to WHO, African green monkeys imported from Uganda were theRead more

1) India Innovation Index 2022: Karnataka has topped Niti Aayog’s India Innovation Index 2022 among major states, while Chandigarh has topped among city-states and union territories Manipur has topped among northeast and hill states. Prepared by NITI Aayog and the Institute for Competitiveness, the India Innovation Index is a comprehensive tool for the evaluation andRead more

1) Aneurysm:  is a swelling of the arteries and veins in any part of the body, and is caused by weakening of the walls. It occurs most commonly in the aorta, back of the knees, brain or intestines. If the aneurysm gets ruptured, it can even cause internal bleeding and stroke. A device called flowRead more

1) Aragalaya:  the Sinhalese word for “struggle”, is being used widely to describe the daily gathering of people at Colombo’s Galle Face Green that began with the demand that Gotabaya resign as President and make way for a new dispensation In its essential meaning, aragalaya also captures the struggle of individual Sri Lankans to findRead more

1) Sanjay Agarwal committee: centre has constituted a high-powered panel under the chairmanship of former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agarwal to make the minimum support price (MSP) mechanism more effective and transparent 2) Yield inversion: A yield curve illustrates the interest rates on bonds of increasing maturities. inversion happens when the yield on a longer tenureRead more

1) INS SINDHUDHVAJ: The Navy’s Kilo-class submarine, INS Sindhudhvaj, was decommissioned from service on Saturday at Visakhapatnam after 35 years in service. With this, the Navy now has 15 conventional submarines in service. It successfully undertook mating and personnel transfer with Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel and was the only submarine to be awarded Chief ofRead more

1) Cervavac: dev by Serum Institute of India (SII), it is India’s first quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) vaccine, and intended to protect women against cervical cancer. The vaccine is based on VLP (virus like particles), similar to the hepatitis B vaccine, and provides protection by generating antibodies against the HPV virus’s L1 protein. Worldwide,Read more

1) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): It is the most powerful infrared telescope of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It is also considered a successor of the Hubble Telescope and will extend and complement its discoveries. The telescope is the result of an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and theRead more

1) World Population Prospects (WPP): The Population Division of the UN has been publishing the WPP in a biennial cycle since 1951. Each revision of the WPP provides a historical time series of population indicators starting in 1950. According to the 2022, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country inRead more