Caltoris bromus sadasiva

A group of lepidopterists discovered a butterfly subspecies from the peripheries of Akkulam and Vembanad lakes in Kerala. The newly-discovered taxon is named Caltoris bromus sadasiva, and it is the first record of the species Bromus swift from the Western ..

Tags: Chief Minister of Kerala • New Species • Western Ghats • Western Ghats Conservation

Month: Current Affairs – April, 2023

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Basohli Painting and GI Tag

The world-famous Basohli Painting from the Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir has obtained the Geographical Indication (GI) Tag. This is the first time in the history of GI registration that the Jammu region got a GI tag for handicrafts. ..

Tags: GI handicrafts • GI tag • GI Tags • Jammu and Kashmir

Month: Current Affairs – April, 2023

Category: States Current Affairs

Who is Christina Koch?

In a significant moment for space exploration, astronaut Christina Hammock Koch has been announced as the first woman to circle the Moon. The US space agency, NASA, has declared that Koch will be the mission specialist when four humans board ..

Tags: Artemis 2 • Lunar Mission • NASA

Month: Current Affairs – April, 2023

Category: Persons in News • Science & Technology Current Affairs

Penrose Tiling Problem and the “The Hat” Shape

In the world of mathematics, there are problems that have been around for centuries, or even millennia, waiting to be solved. One such problem is the Penrose tiling problem, named after the British mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose. The Penrose ..

Tags: Fields of mathematics • Mathematics

Month: Current Affairs – April, 2023

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Cope India Exercise

India and the United States are set to conduct the next edition of their bilateral air exercise called ‘Cope India’. This is aimed at enhancing the interoperability between the air forces the two countries. The air exercise will take place ..

Tags: Bilateral Exercise • India-US • Indian Air Force • Indian Air Force (IAF) • United States

Month: Current Affairs – April, 2023

Category: Defence Current Affairs

3rd General Sundarji Memorial Lecture

On the 8th of February 1999, India lost one of its foremost military thinkers, General K Sundarji. He was the 13th Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988 and introduced a number of technology ..

Tags: Centre for Land Warfare Studies • General Sundarji Memorial Lecture

Month: Current Affairs – April, 2023

Category: Defence Current Affairs • Events Current Affairs