Bar Kokhba Revolt

Bar Kokhba revolt was an armed uprising of Jews against the Roman Empire in ancient Israel. It is also known as the 3rd Jewish Roman War. It took place between 132 and 136 AD, during the reign of Roman Emperor ..

The Cave of Horror

The Cave of Horror is a desert cave in Israel. It refers to the cave 8 in the Judean Desert where skeletons of 40 people- men, women and children- were discovered since 1960. It is an archaeological site where artefacts ..

Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea scrolls or Qumran Cave scrolls are a collection of religious manuscripts that were discovered in desert caves in West Bank above Dead Sea. Between 1947 and 1956, some 900 manuscripts bearing Jewish texts dating back to a period ..

Protein subunit vaccine

Protein subunit vaccines or acellular vaccines are vaccines developed using specific isolated proteins from the target virus. As these vaccines triggers the development of immunity in the body using just pieces of the pathogen (as opposed to the entire pathogen ..

Orunodoi

Orunodoi is a women centric scheme that was announced in the Budget 2020-21. It is a direct benefit transfer scheme that provides monthly assistance of 830 INR to it beneficiaries. The money is transferred to the female head of the ..

J0437+2456 blackhole

J0437+2456 blackhole is a supermassive blackhole inside the Galaxy J0437+2456 which is 228 million light years away from the Earth. It is the 1st known wandering supermassive blackhole. It has a mass about 3 million times that of the Sun. ..

Project RE-HAB

Project RE-HAB is an initiative by KVIC (Khadi and Village Industries Commission) to reduce man-animal conflict. It is a sub-mission under the National Honey Mission. RE-HAB or Reducing Elephant – Human Attacks using Bees makes use of ‘bee fences’ i.e. ..

Tele law program

Tele law program is an initiative to provide legal services to the marginalized and disadvantaged sections of the society. It was launched in 2017 as a collaboration of the ministry of law and justice and the ministry of electronics and ..

National Cyclone Risk Mitigation project

The National Cyclone Risk Mitigation project or NCRMP is a project to address the cyclone risk in the country. The project is implemented by the National Disaster Management Authority under the home affairs ministry in coordination with the state governments ..

Automatic Weather Station

Automatic Weather Station (AWS) is the automated type of conventional weather station and it is sued to monitor weather in remote areas or when man power is insufficient. The Indian Meteorological Department recently installed AWSs in the north-eastern states as ..