Important Points @ Glance – Part 1
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Indian Oil Corporation has inked an MoU with
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation to
examine the possibility of jointly working on setting up a LPG (liquefied
petroleum gas) import terminal at Chittagong port and other downstream
infrastructure in that country. The agreement would help India use the
Chittagong port for importing LPG and then transporting it to Tripura through pipeline for use in
northeastern states.
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Scientists have
identified three new species of mouse lemurs in Madagascar, taking the total
number of known mouse lemur species to 24. Mouse lemurs are small,
nocturnal primates, which are only found in Madagascar – and they all look
very similar with their brown fur and large eyes. The three new discovered
species are named- Ganzhorn’s mouse lemur, Microcebus manitatra and Microcebus
boraha. According to the “Red List” of the International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN) more than 100 known species of lemurs are threatened by
extinction and represent the world’s most endangered group of mammals.
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Reliance Jio has announced the launch of its 8,100-km Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG)
offering direct connectivity to South East Asia and the Middle East. The undersea cable
landing facility is housed in Chennai. BBG connects India to South
East Asia and the Middle East, with onward connectivity to Europe, Africa and
Far East Asia via connections to other cable systems. It has an initial
capacity of 9
Tbps, based on 100-Gbps wavelengths. Other members of the consortium
include Dialog Axiata, Etisalat, Omantel, Telecom Malaysia, and Vodafone. The
consortium awarded a construction contract for the submarine cable systems in
2013 to Alcatel-Lucent. BBG uses high-speed broadband fibre optic technology; dense
wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) which allows the capacity to be
increased without any additional submarine intervention.
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The Government
has released a Rs.200
commemorative coin and a Rs.10 circulation coin on the occasion of the
Martyrdom day of Tatya Tope, one of the outstanding Indian leaders
of the 1857 revolt against the British. Tatya tope fought during 1857 revolt
along with Jhansi ki Rani and Nana Sahib. He was defeated by General Napier’s
British Indian troops at Ranod and after a further defeat at Sikar abandoned
the campaign. He was executed by the British Government at Shivpuri on April
18, 1859.
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Maharashtra
government has decided to make it mandatory to have a hologram on every alcohol
bottle manufactured and sold in the state in order to check sale of spurious
liquor.
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With about 30,000
soldiers in action, the Indian Army recently conducted a major Exercise called SHATRUJEET
in deserts of Rajasthan. During the exercise, the capability to Strike deep in
enemy territory in an integrated Air-Land battle environment was tested. The
operationally oriented exercise is focusing on validating integrated theatre
battle fighting concept incorporating new age technologies, weapon platforms
and systems as well as long range precision targeting vectors. Indian Army
undertakes such exercises at regular intervals at different levels to ensure
forces are provided real war like situations and are kept in high state of
battle readiness.
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Built at a cost
of over Rs 2 crore, northeast has got its fastest supercomputer with a peak
computing power of 15 Teraflops. Housed at the National Institute of
Technology Sikkim’s campus, near Gangtok, the supercomputer, ‘PARAM Kanchenjunga’
is a collaboration between Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C—DAC)
and the Ministry of Communications and IT.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, has collected and analysed dust
coming from beyond our solar system. Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit
Saturn and the first to enter orbit.
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The Water
Resources Department in Maharashtra has started releasing water to Karnataka
from its Kalammawadi dam across the Dudhganga river, a tributary of the Krishna
river in Kolhapur district. Dudhganga river rises in Sindhudurg district of
Maharashtra in the Western Ghats and flows eastward through Kolhapur district
and Belgaum district in Karnataka before joining the Krishna. The river is
dammed to form the Kalammawadi reservoir in the west of Kohlapur district.
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The Delhi
government has banned the sale, purchase and storage of all forms of chewable
tobacco, including gutka, pan masala, khaini and zarda, in the Capital for one
year.
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