After Chandrayaan success, Midhani is ready for ISRO’s Gaganyaan
Midhani:
- Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited
- Defence public sector unit specialising in making special steels and alloys for the strategic sector
Researchers studying the findings of the Solar Orbiter Aircraft recently announced the detection of picoflare jets.
Picoflare Jets:
- Small jets of charged particles expelled from the sun’s outer atmosphere.
- Picoflare jets may be a source of solar winds, which have important effects on the solar system at large as well as on the earth’s magnetic field.
- “Pico” is an order of magnitude that denotes 10-12, or one trillionth of a unit. These jets from the sun are named so because they carry approximately one-trillionth the energy of the largest flares the sun is capable of producing
Solar Orbiter Aircraft:
- An international cooperative mission between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA
- Objective – To study how the Sun creates and control the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system.
RBI has decided to discontinue the Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio (I-CRR) in a phased manner to absorb surplus liquidity generated by various factors such as return of ₹2000 notes etc.
What is I-CRR?
- Banks are typically required to maintain a certain % (current CRR – 4.5%) of their Net Demand and Time Liabilities as CRR with the RBI.
- Cash Reserve Ratio is a percentage of Net Demand and Time Liabilities that banks must keep with the central bank (RBI) to control liquidity.
- In periods of excess liquidity, RBI asks banks to maintain even more liquid cash. It is referred to as I-CRR.
INS Sumedha has recently docked in Egypt to take part in ‘Exercise BRIGHT STAR-23.
BRIGHT STAR-23 –
- A multilateral U.S. Central Command exercise.
- India participated in this exercise for the 1st time.
Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) Vadodara and Airbus signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for aerospace teaching and research.
GSV –
- A Central University in Vadodara (Gujarat)
- India’s 1st University in the Transportation and Logistics sectors.
- It subsumes the previously-existing National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI).
- Sponsored by – Ministry of Railways.
Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh becomes India’s 1st solar city.
Importance of Sanchi –
- Known for its Buddhist Monuments (Stupa)
- UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Located near the Tropic of Cancer makes it ideal for harnessing solar power.