Vikram Current Affairs, GK & News
Why the Lunar Mission has gained traction?
India has successfully launched its lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 and the mission is expected to make soft-landing on the lunar surface with Vikram and its rover Pragyan on a site between two large craters in the South Polar Region. Why the South Pole has become the area of Focus? The South Pole has become an area ..
Topics: Lunar Mission • Lunar South Pole • Luxembourg • NASA • Outer space treaty • Peaks of Eternal Light • Pragyan • Shackleton Crater • Solar Energy • UAE • US • Vikram • Von Karman crater
India’s Lunar Mission: Chandrayaan-2
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has called off the Chandrayaan-2 at the last movement since technical snags were noticed while fuelling the rocket with cryogenic fuel. About the Mission Chandrayaan-2 Mission is India’s first moon lander and rover mission. ISRO will be soft-landing the lander at the lunar craft in the south pole – a ..
Topics: Indian Space Research Organisation • ISRO • lander and rover mission • Pragyan • Vikram
Vikram Patel won John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
Professor Vikram Patel has been awarded with 2019 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award for his world-leading research in global mental health, generating knowledge on the burden and determinants of mental health problems in low-and-middle-income countries. The Gairdner Foundation has awarded this to Boston-based Vikram Patel for his research career raising the global profile ..
Topics: Canada Gairdner Global Health Award • Gairdner Foundation • Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award • Global health • Global mental health • Health • Mental disorder • Mental health • Psychiatry • Vikram • Vikram Patel
Indian-American Vikram Singh appointed to a key Pentagon position
Indian-American Vikram Singh has been appointed to a key Pentagon position to look after entire South and Southeast Asia. Vikram J Singh has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service and is assigned as deputy assistant secretary of defence for south and Southeast Asia. Singh was a close associate of late Richard Holbrooke, the Special ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2012
Topics: American diplomats • American International Group • Atlantic Council • Quebecor • Richard Holbrooke • United States Department of State • United States federal executive departments • Vikram • Vikram Singh