PRESIDENT OF INDIA PRESENTS SPORTS AND ADVENTURE AWARDS 2023 – Recently, the President of India presided over a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan to bestow the prestigious National Sports and Adventure Awards 2023. The awards are administered by the Ministry of...
OVER TIME, THE TIGER CONSERVATION INITIATIVE HAS EVOLVED, ESTABLISHING TIGER RESERVES (55) AND IMPLEMENTING CRUCIAL WILDLIFE PROTECTION LAWS – Project Tiger is a wildlife conservation initiative in India that was launched in 1973. The primary objective of...
. INDIA-SAUDI ARABIA HAJJ AGREEMENT – India and Saudi Arabia signed a bilateral agreement under which India has been allocated a quota of 1,75,025 pilgrims for the annual Haj pilgrimage in 2024. Out of 1,75,025 pilgrims from India 1,40,020 seats being...
GSAT-20 (GSAT-N2) ABOARD SPACEX’S FALCON-9 – The commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) is set to launch GSAT-20 (GSAT-N2), aboard SpaceX’s Falcon-9 in 2024. Falcon 9 is the world’s first orbital...
X-ray Polarimeter Satellite: ISRO – Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched its first X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XpoSat) to study X-ray polarisation and its cosmic sources, like Black holes, Neutron stars, and Magnetars. The...
