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Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology (SEXTANT)

NASA has invented a new type of autonomous space navigation that could see human-made spacecraft heading into the far reaches of the Solar System, and even farther –...

April 24, 2018

Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP)

The Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP) is a disease surveillance scheme under the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs in India, assisted by the World Bank. The scheme...

April 24, 2018

SFOORTI

In a major digital initiative to help plan the traffic flows and optimize freight operations, Ministry of Railways have launched Smart Freight Operation Optimisation & Real Time Information (SFOORTI) App for Freight Managers which provides...

April 24, 2018

International Dam Safety Conference – 2018

India hosted the International Dam Safety Conference – 2018 at Thiruvananthapuram. Dam safety conferences are organized as an annual event under the Dam Safety Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) project being run...

April 24, 2018

Indian Accounting Standards (IND-AS)

Indian Accounting Standard (abbreviated as Ind-AS) is the Accounting standard adopted by companies in India and issued under the supervision of Accounting Standards Board (ASB) which was constituted as a body in...

April 24, 2018

Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 was India’s second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was designed as a more advanced successor to Chandrayaan-1, with the ambitious...

April 24, 2018

Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)

The spacecraft, known as the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is a new NASA-funded space telescope and will be launched in 2021. It will monitor the flares...

April 24, 2018

Vajra Prahar

In line with the increasing military cooperation between India and the US, yet another edition of the joint military exercise ‘Vajra Prahar’ was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord...

April 24, 2018

Article 329A

Article 329A was a short-lived constitutional provision inserted during the Emergency period by the Constitution (Thirty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1975, to create special rules governing the elections of the...

April 24, 2018

Kala-azar

Kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as black fever and Dumdum fever is most severe form of leishmaniasis. It is slow progressing indigenous disease caused by single-celled...

April 24, 2018

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