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1) Indian Navy’s ensign: The red cross on a white background is known as the Saint George’s Cross and is named after a Christian Warrior Saint who is believed to have been a crusader during the third crusade. (This cross also serves as the flag of England) After Independence, on August 15, 1947, the IndianRead more

1) UN High Seas Treaty: is also referred to as the ‘Paris Agreement for the Ocean’. The treaty aims to deal with Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction. The proposed treaty concerns the ocean existing beyond the Exclusive Economic Zones that lie from the coast of a country to about 200 nautical miles into the sea, tillRead more

1) Full court meeting: It literally means one which is attended by all the judges of the court. There are no written rules dealing with this. As per convention, full-court meetings are called by the Chief Justice of India to discuss issues of importance to the judiciary. The senior designations of practising advocates in theRead more

1) Zorawar: The Indian Army is prioritising the procurement of the indigenous Indian light tank named ‘Zorawar’ for deployment in the mountains. The Armoured Fighting Vehicle-Indian Light Tank (AFV-ILT) ‘Zorawar’ will be deployed to outmanoeuvre the movement of Chinese forces during the standoff in eastern Ladakh. It will be designed to operate from High AltitudeRead more

1) Data Sonification: Data Sonification is the translation of astronomical data into sounds. This sonification translates the actual sound waves discovered in data from various NASA missions – such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope. There is a misconception that there is no sound in space because most ofRead more

1) Mandala art: Mandala is a geometric design or pattern that represents the cosmos or deities in various heavenly worlds. “It’s all about finding peace in the symmetry of the design and the universe,”. It is believed to be rooted in Buddhism, appearing in the first century BC in India. In Hinduism, the mandala imageryRead more

1) India’s sex ratio at birth normalizes slightly: The latest study by Pew Research Center has pointed out that “son bias” is on a decline in India and the average annual number of “baby girls missing” in India fell from approx. 4.8 lakh in 2010 to 4.1 lakh in 2019. Missing females: It refers toRead more

1) Soft release centres: Jharkhand forest officials have chalked out plans to set up soft release centres in order to ensure enough food for tigers, which will help in increasing their numbers in the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR). The soft release centres are those where animals are placed in pre-release cages located close to theRead more

1) NAFIS – National Automated Fingerprint Identification System: It was developed by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) at the Central Fingerprint Bureau (CFPB). A unique 10-digit National Fingerprint Number (NFN) will be assigned to each person arrested for a crime. It will be used for his lifetime. Different crimes registered under different FIRs willRead more

1) Resurrecting the extinct Tasmanian Tiger: Scientists in the US and Australia have embarked on a project to resurrect the thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger, a marsupial that went extinct in the 1930s, using gene-editing technology. Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), the only animal in the Thylacinidae family to survive in modern times, was a marsupial mammalRead more