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03 Feb, 2024
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India and Iran are set to hold talks to establish "long-term cooperation framework" on Chabahar port.
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Why Chabahar port is crucial to India?
INSTC is a multi-modal transportation project linking the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea via Iran, and onward to northern Europe via St Petersburg in Russia.
Gwadar port is located in Pakistan and is less than 400 km from Chabahar by road and 100 km by sea.
Why there is delay in the development of Chabahar port by India?
NASA has re-established contact with its Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said recently.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
On April 19, it became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
It’s piloted by onboard guidance, navigation, and control systems running algorithms.Perseverance acts as a relay between the chopper and the earth.
Perseverance Rover
Converts heat from the radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity.
Rs 17,490 crore has been set aside for the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) programme, to bolster domestic electrolyser manufacturing, green hydrogen production.
About Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) Programme
It is a subcomponent of National Green Hydrogen Mission.
Aim: To bolster domestic electrolyser manufacturing and green hydrogen production.
National Green Hydrogen Mission?
Green Hydrogen
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)?
SECI was set up in 2011 to facilitate the implementation of the National Solar Mission (NSM) and to achieve the targets set forth by it. SECI was initially incorporated as a section 25 company (Not-for-profit) under the Companies Act, 1956.
Recently, the Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL) a wholly owned subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) launched India’s first indigenously developed Hepatitis A vaccine ‘Havisure’ in Hyderabad.
About Havisure vaccine
Hepatitis A
Biswanath Ghat is also known for its ghat, island, and temple built by the Ahom king.
The scientists created ReTro using a slightly modified version to create Dolly the Sheep and other mammals like the long-tailed macaque, which was the first primate to be cloned.
The event celebrated India's status as the world's third-largest domestic aviation market.
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In a first-of-its-kind model of convergence, Kanger Valley National Park is working with a coalition of various organizations and government departments to prepare a landscape-based ecological restoration plan for the national park. About Kanger Valley National Park Location: It i
A recent study has uncovered two potential new species of lamprey fish in California waters. About Lamprey Fish Lampreys are boneless, jawless fish with eel-like bodies that date back over 350 million years. They belong to a relic (primitive) group of jawless fish
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