GS-2 2.11TH NATIONAL VOTERS’ DAY (NVD) IMPORTANT POINTS: 25th January is celebrated as National Voters’ Day in India to mark the formation of the Election Commission of India on this day in 1950. National Voters’ Day 2021: The theme for this year’s NVD, ‘Making Our Voters Empowered, Vigilant, Safe and …

GS-2 1.NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY 24th January is celebrated as the National Girl Child Day every year in India. ABOUT THE NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY: The day is an initiative of the Ministry of Women and Child Development started in 2008. The objective behind celebrating the National Girl Child Day …

Aqua Rejuvenation Plant (ARP) is an Integrated Waste Water Rejuvenation Model which has Six-Stage purification profile for comprehensive treatment of Waste Water, based upon diverse purification parameters. The approx. 24,000 litres of Water that can be rejuvenated using ARP will be sufficient for almost 4 acres of Agricultural Land (barring …

GS-2  5.CO-WIN APP Recently, the software of Co-WIN App (also called Covid Vaccine IntelligenceNetwork) was upgraded to improve monitoring and managing of the ongoing Covid-19Vaccination programme. Description: Co-WIN, a cloud-based IT platform, is supposed to handle minute detailsfor India’s Covid-19 immunisationprogramme, including registeringbeneficiaries, allocating vaccination centres, sending text messages with …

GS-3 4.SMART ANTI AIRFIELD WEAPON The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted asuccessful trial of the indigenously developed Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW)off the Odisha coast from the Hawk-I jet of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). This was the ninth successful test of the system conducted over the last fiveyears. …

GS-1 3.SREE NARAYANA GURU The Vice President of Indiahas virtually launched “Not Many, But One”,an Englishtranslationof poems of Sree Narayana Gurudev. IMPORTANT POINTS: Sree Narayana Guru was born on 22 August, 1856to Madan Asan and hiswife Kuttiyamma in Chempazhanthy, a village near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His family belonged to the Ezhava …

GS-3 2.NEW ANT SPECIES DISCOVERED FROM KERALA Two new species of a rare ant genus have been discovered in India. The species of the ant genus Ooceraeafound in Kerala, and Tamil Nadu adds to the diversity of this rare genus. They differ from others of the same genus on the …

GS-3 1.AQUA REJUVENATION PLANT (ARP) CSIR-CMERI unveils ‘Aqua Rejuvenation Plant’ which facilitates an Organic Farming Model through treated Waste Water. CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur unveiled the first-ever Wastewater Treatment Technology Model which purifies Waste Water for Irrigation/Farming purposes. Aqua Rejuvenation Plant: Aqua Rejuvenation Plant (ARP) is an Integrated …

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Two new species of a rare ant genus have been discovered in India. The species of the ant genus Ooceraea found in Kerala, and Tamil Nadu add to the diversity of this rare genus. They differ from others of the same genus on the basis of the number of antennal …