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1) AlphaFold: Recently, DeepMind, a company based in London, announced that it had predicted the three-dimensional structures of more than 200 million proteins using AlphaFold. AlphaFold is an Artificial Intelligence-based protein structure prediction tool. It is based on a computer system called Deep Neural Network. Neural networks use a large amount of input data andRead more

1) Bullion: Bullion refers to physical gold and silver of high purity that is often kept in the form of bars, ingots, or coins. It can sometimes be considered legal tender and is often held as reserves by central banks or held by institutional investors. 2) India International Bullion Exchange (IIBX): Prime Minister has launchedRead more

1) Google Street View: Google Street View is an immersive 360-degree view of a location captured using special cameras mounted on vehicles or on backpacks by data collectors moving around the city streets. The images are then patched together to create a 360-degree view which users can swipe through to get a detailed view ofRead more

1) Total fertility rate: Total fertility rate (TFR) in simple terms refers to the total number of children born or likely to be born to a woman in her lifetime if she were subject to the prevailing rate of age-specific fertility in the population. TFR of about 2.1 children per woman is called Replacement-level fertility.Read more

1) Light mantled albatross: Asia’s first sighting of Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrate), a species native to the Antarctic seas, was recorded in Rameswaram and adjoining islets of the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park The Light-mantled Albatross, with broad pelagic habits, maintains a circumpolar distribution in the Southern Ocean. Listed as a ‘Near Threatened’ speciesRead more

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