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Carbis bay declaration

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By G7 - to take measures to prevent future pandemics with strong WHO

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1st Telegraph line

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1851 (Calcutta - Diamond Harbour);
1853 (Bombay - Thane railway line);
1854 (Bombay - cotton mill)
1855 (Bengal - Jute mill)

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Project O2

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Office of Principal Scientific Adviser.

Under Project O2 for India,a National Consortium of Oxygen is enabling the national level supplyof critical raw materials such as zeolites, setting up of small oxygen plants, manufacturing compressors, final products, i.e.,oxygen plants, concentrators, and ventilators. Theconsortium is not only looking forwardto providing immediate to short-term relief but also workingto strengthen the manufacturing ecosystem for long-term preparedness.

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Suspension of membership of UNHRC

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Two-thirds majority in UNGA of those present and voting.

Election - Majority in UNGA, secret ballot
Tenure - 3yrs. Not eleigible for immediate re-election after two consecutive terms.

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Ol Chiki script

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Santhal language (one of the 8th schedule languages) - recently constitution was translated into this.

Santhals celebrate Karam festival

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Coalition for climate resilient investment

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CCRI is a private sector-led COP26 initiative, committed to the development and testing of solutions for the integration of physical climate risks (PCRs) in investment decision-making

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Tree cities of world

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Arbor day foundation & FAO -> Hyderabad and Mumbai

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Export of Basmati, non-basmati, Wheat

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Non-Basmati > Basmati; Non-Basmati = Nepal; Basmati = Saudi Arabia
Wheat = Bangladesh

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Bani Thani painting

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Also termed as ‘Indian Monalisa’; Kishangarh school (Rajasthan); Bani Thani was a singer;
Painting by Nihal Chand (18th century)

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Jain doctrines - Nayavada; Syadvada; Anekantvada

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Nayavada - doctrine of viewpoint

Syadvada - every argument is conditioned (true only in certain circumstances)

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Globally Imp Agriculture Heritage Sites

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By FAO - Koraput (Odisha); Pampore (Kashmir); Kuttanad (Kerala)

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FACT dialogue (Forests, Agriculture, Commodities trade)

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COP26 by Tropical Forest Alliance. India is not a member.

TFA - founded in 2012@ Rio+20. India is not a member

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Changes in Standup India

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Agriculture & allied activities included; margin requirement reduced to 15%

Facilitates loans b/w 10 lakh and 1 crore

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S-400

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Range (upto 400km), altitude (180km)
Can hit drones and fighter jets too
It can simultaneously track up to 160 objects in a 600 km range, and target 72 objects in a 400 km range.

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i-Drone

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ICMR’s Drone Response and Outreach for North East

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Matera declaration

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G20 call for investing in food security (Matera = city in Italy)
The declaration concurs with the UN’s “Zero Hunger” goal set for 2030.

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Europa clipper mission

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NASA’s mission to study Europa = Jupiter’s moon; believed to have large ocean of water.

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Blue blob

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Unusually cold patch of water in the Arctic which has halved the rate at
which Iceland’s glaciers are melting,

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Pollen calender

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Chandigarh

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Shreshta Yojana

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Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment has launched the ‘Shreshtha Yojana’ to help in
socio - economic upliftment and overall development of Scheduled Castes (SC) students by providing
quality residential education in reputed private schools

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All India Survey on Domestic Workers 2021

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Ministry of Labour and Employment

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National Supercomputing Mission

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Launched in 2015 - to connect academic institutions to network of 70 supercomputers. Jointly implemented by MeITy (CDAC), MofS&T.
PARAM Siddhi - India’s fastest supercomputer (5.1 petaflops)
World’s fastest is Frontier, USA - 1100 petaflops or 1.1 exaflops
Supercomputer speed is measured in FLOPS (Floating point operations per second)

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Health Insurance for India’s Missing Middle Class report

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NITI Ayog

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EOS 3 & EOS4

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EOS 3 failed (GSLV - Geo stationary orbit)

EOS 4 success (PSLV - Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit)

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Istanbul convention

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Violence against women (by Council of Europe). Recently Turkey withdrew

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Bridgmanite

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Bridgmanite is the most volumetrically abundant mineral commonly found between Earth‘s core and mantle.

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DIWALI

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India-Netherlands = finding solutions to water problems

Dutch India Water Alliance for Leadership Initiative

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Internet Governance Forum

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UN-led forum. India recently hosted it for first time.

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Military exercise - Lamitye, Maitree, Ekuverin

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Syechelles; Thailand; Maldives

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UNESCO creative cities network

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Srinagar - Crafts and Folk Arts (2021)
Mumbai – Film (2019).
Hyderabad – Gastronomy (2019).
Chennai- Creative city of Music (2017).
Jaipur- Crafts and Folk Arts (2015).
Varanasi- Creative city of Music (2015).
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Black Fungus

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Treated by Antifungal medicine Amphotericin B
Non communicable
People with diabetes and compromised immunity are more susceptible

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Kigali amendment

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Amendment to Montreal protocol (Only UN protocol to be ratified by all UN countries)
Legally binding. Entered into force since Jan 1 2019.
Category 1 (developed ctrs) - start 2019 -> reduce HFC by 85% by 2036
Category 2 (developing ctrs like China) - start 2024 -> reduce 80% by 2045
Category 3 (developing ctrs like India) - start 2028 -> reduce 85% by 2047.

The impact of the amendment will avoid up to 0.5 °C increase in global temperature by the end of the century.
The goal is to achieve over 80% reduction in HFC consumption by 2047.

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Best Tourism Villages initiative

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UN World Tourism Organisation

Pochampally (Telangana) - Silk city of India famous for Ikat silk (GI tag) aka Bhoodan pochampally

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UN Spotlight initiative

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End violence against women

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e-amrit.niti.gov.in

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Launched at COP-26; one stop destination for all info related to electric vehicles; hosted by NITI Aayog.

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Bhaskarabda calender

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Assam govt introduced - local ruler Bhaskara introduced long back
Luni-solar calender (months - lunar, years - solar)

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Targeted PDS related

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Priority households (5kg/person) AAY (35kg/family)
Identification of beneficiaries - NITI Aayog based on 2011 NSSO household expenditure survey.
38
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Nationalisation timeline

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1st constitutional amendment (1951) allowed for nationalisation of any business.
1953 - Air India and Indian airways
1956 - LIC & GI (1972)
1969 - banks & 1980
Coal mines - 1971-75
DIPAM (1999) became full ministry in 2001

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Jungle Mahal rebellion

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Chuar uprising (1776) in Midnapore region (W. Bengal)
Jungle mahal is now part of West Bengal
40
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Angadia system

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Angadia = courier (agent who carries goods/cash)

Parallel banking system prominent in Maharashtra/Gujarat/etc.

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Brahmos

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Short range Supersonic cruise missile
Brahmaputra and Moska river
Capable of carrying nuclear warhead
It is a two-stage (solid propellant engine in the first stage and liquid ramjet in second) missile.
Brahmos is one of the fastest cruise missile currently operationally deployed with speed of Mach 2.8, which is nearly 3 times more than the speed of sound.
Range ~300km

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Akash missile

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Akash is India’s first indigenously produced medium range SAM that can engage multiple targets from multiple directions and it can be launched from mobile platforms like battle tanks or wheeled trucks.
Range - ~30km
Speed ~ mach 3

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Agni V missile

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ICBM with range 5000km

Agni prime - surface to surface ballistic missile with range 1000km

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Missiles developed under Integrated Guided Missile Development program

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PATNA (Prithvi, Agni, Trishul, Nag, Akash)

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Anti satellite capability

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US, Russia, China & India (Mission Shakti - LEO)

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Defence Space Agency

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Setup recently in Banglore. Comprises of personnel from army, navy and airforce. It operates space warfare tech like Anti-Sat. It works under Integrated Defence Staff.

A Defence Space research agency is also setup.

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Artemis program

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NASA aims to land next man and first woman and first person of colour on moon by 2024.
Canada Japan and European space agencies also involved.
Neil Armstrong landed in 1969.

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SRIJAN portal

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Defence portal - to promote indigenization

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Global State of Democracy report 2021

Democracy Index

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International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
IDEA - intergovernmental organization with mandate to promote and advance democracy worldwide. India is a founding member.

Economist Intelligence Unit

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Global cybersecurity outlook

Global cybersecurity index

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WEF

International Telecommunication Union (India was ranked 10th ahead of China, USA was ranked 1st)

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DNA vs RNA

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The two main types of nucleic acids are Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) and Ribonucleic Acid (RNA).
Both DNA and RNA are made from nucleotides, each containing a five-carbon sugar backbone, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base.
DNA provides the code for the cell’s activities, while RNA converts that code into proteins to carry out cellular functions.
DNA - found in nucleus inside mitochondria
RNA - found in cytoplasm, nucleus and ribosome
DNA is self-replicating; RNA can’t; it is synthesised when needed from DNA

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The lone ‘floating’ constituency in India is

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Sangha (Sikkim). Created in 1958 and continued after independence too.
Floating Constituencies are reserved for a particular group to contest as well as to vote. For example- in the constituency of Sangha (Sikkim) only Buddhist monks registered with 51 monasteries within the state can contest and vote

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Global cybersecurity index 2020

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ITU (UN agency) - India was ranked 10th ahead of China. USA was 1st.

54
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Components of blood

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https://givingblood.org/about-blood/blood-components.aspx
Antigens are present on RBC
Antibodies in plasma

55
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East Kalimantan

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Proposed new capital of Indonesia

56
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Shipki la and Zoji la passes

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Shipki la in Himachal Pradesh - Sutlez enters India through this
Zoji la in J&K - connects Leh with Srinagar & Kargil

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Minimum age of marriage

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Spl marriage act 1954 - 21 & 18
Prohib of child marriage act 2006 - 21 & 18

Under Section
3(3) of the Prohibition of child Marriage Act, 2006 both the boy and the girl have the right to opt out of
marriage until two years after attaining majority, i.e. up to the age of 20 years for a girl and 23 years
for the boy

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Ramanuja - statue of equality

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Vishishtadvaita

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Namda craft

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Wool craft native to Kashmir

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SWIFT

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Setup in 1973; based in Belgium; 11000+ financial institutions, 200+ countries. It was founded to replace Telex

So far it has expelled banks related to three countries only - Iran (2012), Russia (2022), Belarus (2022).

SWIFT is overseen by G-10 central banks and a oversight forum comprising several other central banks.

Being incorporated under Belgian law it must instead comply with related EU regulation, as confirmed by the Belgian government in matters regarding sanctions.

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GST compensation cess

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Compensation cess first flows into CFI then it is transferred to PAI where GST compensation fund is created. It is non-lapsable. States are compensated bi-monthly (once every two months).

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Gene drive technology

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  • Gene drive is a genetic engineering technology that can permanently change
    the traits of a population or even an entire species. Gene drives are genetic elements that pass from parents to unusually high numbers of their offspring, thereby spreading quickly. It occur naturally but can
    also be engineered. In a breakthrough in the global fight for malaria, scientists have wiped out an entire
    population of malaria-carrying mosquitoes in lab conditions using a CRiSPR gene drive technology
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RESPOND

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By ISRO - encourage R&D in academic institutes in space sciences

64
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PSLV vs GSLV

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Oxygen liquifies at -183 deg C and Hydrogen at -253 deg C.

PSLV is designed mainly to deliver the earth-observation or remote sensing satellites with a lift-off mass of up to about 1750 Kg to
Sun-Synchronous circular polar orbits of 600-900 Km altitude. PSLV is also use to launch the satellites of lower lift-off mass of up to about 1400 Kg to the elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).

PSLV is a four-stage launch vehicle with the first and third stages using solid rocket motors and the second and fourth stages using liquid rocket engines

GSLV is designed mainly to deliver the communication satellites to the highly elliptical (typically 250 x 36000 Km) Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The satellite in GTO is further
raised to its final destination, viz., Geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) of about 36000 Km altitude (and zero deg inclination on the equatorial plane) by firing its in-built on-board engines

GSLV Mk-II has the capability to launch satellites of lift-off mass of up to 2,500 kg to the GTO and satellites of up to 5,000 kg lift-off mass to the LEO. GSLV MK-II is a three-stage vehicle with the first stage using a solid rocket motor, second stage using Liquid fuel, and the third stage, called Cryogenic Upper Stage, using a cryogenic engine

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EDISON alliance

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Essential Digital Infrastructure and Services Alliance - WEF
global movement of almost 50 leaders from the public
and private sectors

The EDISON Alliance aims to improve the lives of 1 billion people through the 1 Billion Lives Challenge by increasing affordable digital access to healthcare, finance and education by 2025

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D10 countries

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G7 + India, Australia and South Korea.

67
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VERITAS and DAVINCI

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NASA’s missions to Venus as part of its Discovery program.

68
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IndiGau

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National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (DBT, MoST)

It is India’s first Cattle Genomic Chip for the conservation of pure varieties of indigenous
cattle breeds like Gir, Kankrej, Sahiwal, Ongole etc. IndiGau is purely indigenous and the largest cattle
chip of the world

69
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Xenotransplantation

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Pig

70
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BRICS history

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2009 - 1st BRIC summit
2010 - South Africa was invited
2011 - 3rd BRICS summit onwards South Africa started participation
2014 - 6th BRICS Fortaleza summit -> NDB & CRA.

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Chismule Demchok road

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World’s highest motorable road

Located in Umling la pass (19k feet high) in Ladakh.

The road has been constructed at an altitude higher than the Mt Everest Base Camps

The road has been constructed much above the altitude of Siachen Glacier which is at 17,700 ft.

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Carmichael Mine (North Galilee basin)

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Australia (Low Sulphur high calorific value coal) -> Adani group got contract to mine and export.

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