Virgin Galactic: SpaceShip Unity Test Flight fails

Recently, the test flight of the SpaceShip Two Unity was aborted by the Virgin Galactic. This was because the Virgin Galactic Space Ship Two Unity spacecraft that was released from the mother ship lost connection. This was detected by the computers as the fail-safe scenario and the rocket did not continue. It was a crewed ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Space tourism • Spacecraft • United States of America • Virgin Galactic

What is CinemaSCOpe?

CinemaSCOpe is a movie series launched by the Indian Embassy in Beijing exclusively for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries. The embassy will be screening more than two dozen Indian movies dubbed in Russian language on monthly basis. This will be done until India’s chairmanship of the SCO ‘Council of Heads of State’ meeting in ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: CinemaSCOpe • RATS • SCO-RATS Meeting • Shanghai Cooperation Organisaiton (SCO)

India-Myanmar Bilateral Meeting on Drug Control Operation

The fifth India-Myanmar Bilateral Meeting on Drug Control Operation was recently held. During the meet, the Narcotics Control Bureau of India and the Central Committee on Drug Abuse Control of Myanmar agreed to exchange timely information to conduct follow up investigation on new psychotropic substances, drug seizures. Also, they agreed to conduct regular field level ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: Act East Policy • ASEAN • drug trafficking • Golden Triangle • India-Myanmar • neighbourhood first policy • North East India

First mRNA vaccine of India

The HGC019 Vaccine was developed by the Pune based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals. It is the first indigenously produced mRNA vaccine of the country. The phase I and phase II clinical trials of the vaccine was recently approved by Drug Controller General of India. The vaccine uses the same platform as that used by COVID-19 vaccines developed ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: COVID-19 vaccine • Drug Controller General of India • Ind-CEPI • Moderna • mRNA • Pfizer

India-Qatar Energy Task Force

India and Qatar are to establish a task force on energy. The task force will be represented by a senior officer from petroleum Ministry of India and the vice president of Qatar petroleum. The task force is to identify projects in the Indian energy sector for Qatari investments. These announcements were made after the telephone ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • International Current Affairs

Topics: crude oil • Energy Sector • India-Qatar • Kafala system • Oil Imports