Digital Agristack

The Government of India is working on creating a digital stack of agricultural data. That is storing data related to farmers. Apart from farmer details, the digital agristack also holds all information about which seeds to buy, weather updates, what manures and Fertilizers to use, Insurance, best agricultural practices

to maximize the yield.

Agristack has unique number for every farmer in the country. This numbered file will hold personal information of the farmer. This includes his financial data as well. Apart from farmer details, agri stack will also hold information about weather, agricultural commodity prices in the country and abroad, new science and research techniques, agricultural regulation and permissions.

Russia: White Swan Strategic Missile Bomber

The Russian DEFENCE forces recently unveiled a new Tupolev Tu-160M. It is a missile bomber. It is also known as White Swan.

The White Swan can fly at an altitude of 600 metres. The bomber has been designed to carry nuclear war heads. It is one of the most heaviest supersonic miliary aircraft.

The White Swan has been unveiled while Russia NATO tensions are at the peak due to

Ukraine crisis.

It can carry

34 tonnes of load. The bomber can deliver 24 cruise missiles. It can trace 14,000 km without refuelling.

The machine can be in the sky for more than a day during combat duties.

It is capable of delivering largest payload. They have the longest range. The heavy bombers were superseded by the strategic bombers in the latter half of 20thcentury.

Discovery of New Strange Metal

Scientists have recently discovered a new group of metals. The newly discovered Metal group is called as New Strange group of metals. The characteristics of metals like copper or iron are predictable. That is, their melting point, reaction nature, malleability, ductility are known to human. The characteristics of this new group of metals are yet to be deciphered. They still remain a puzzle. Thus, these metals have been classified as strange metals.

The strange metals are also called non Fermi

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liquids. They do not follow the traditional rules of metals. Their behavior was first discovered in cuprates, that is, copper oxides. These cuprates are high temperature super Conductors.

The strange metals do not conduct electricity as that of metals. In metals, the electrical charge is carried by electrons. In strange metals, the electrical charge is carried by Cooper pairs. These cooper pairs take the charge in wave like pattern. Electrons belong to fermion. The cooper pairs act as bosons.

18 crore tonnes of waste need to go to meet 2026 deadline

Cities and towns have a mammoth task of completing the remediation of around 18.2 crore tonnes of legacy municipal waste in the next four years to get rid of old dumpyards. The data put up on public domain by housing and urban affairs ministry on Monday indicates that so far around 4.3 crore tonnes of such waste out of the total 24.7 crore tonnes has been remediated by government agencies.

Maharashtra and have remediated around 2.9 crore tonnes of the legacy waste, which accounts for nearly 67% of such waste treated so far across urban areas.

Even after that among all the states and UTs, Maharashtra has a maximum of nearly 4.2 crore tonnes of such legacy waste at dumpsites followed by Delhi with around 2.4 crore tonnes of waste at three sites. Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Gujarat have more than 1 crore tonnes

of such waste each. Only Ladakh has completed remediation of all of its legacy waste so far. The UT had only one legacy dumpsite with 1.3 lakh tonnes of such waste.

India estimated to produce 205 lakh tonne millet in 2022-23: Govt

India is estimated to grow 205 lakh tonne nutri during the year 2022-23, Union minister of state for consumer affairs, food and public distribution Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti informed Lok Sabha earlier this week.

The government has planned to increase millet production.

For increasing the production of nutri cereals under National Food Security Mission (NFSM) program, the NFSM-Nutri Cereals is being implemented in 212 districts of 14 states, the minister informed the parliament in a written reply.

Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh are some of the major growers of nutri cereals.

Notably, the United Nations has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millet (IYOM).

The government of India notified millet as a nutritious- cereal in April 2018 and millet has also been included

in the Poshan Mission campaign.

During the last 5 years, our country produced more than 13.71 to 18 million tonnes of millet with the highest production in 2020-21.

Indian Navy gets 5th Scorpene-class submarine Vagir

The INDIAN NAVY received the fifth scorpene-class submarine Vagir ahead of its planned commissioning next month, officials said.

The induction of the submarine, built under Project-75, is set to bolster the Indian Navy’s combat capability at a time when China has been increasing its presence in the Indian Ocean region.

India has been focusing on shoring up its maritime capability with a focus on the Indian Ocean in the backdrop of concerns over China’s growing forays into the region, considered the backyard of the Indian Navy.

Project-75 includes the indigenous construction of six submarines of Scorpene design. The submarines are being constructed at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited

(MDL) in Mumbai in collaboration with the Naval Group of France.

Just Transition Initiative

To address the challenges of https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change, countries will continue to transition away from emissions-intensive energy sources and take steps to build more resilient communities and economies. The importance of achieving a just transition in the face of this transformational change has grown in recent years as both the disruptive

impacts of a changing climate and the scope and scale of the necessary transformation come more clearly into focus. Despite the growing recognition of its importance, very few Resources are available to countries, investors, civil Society, and international development institutions seeking to achieve a just transition.

The Just Transition Initiative is a new PARTNERSHIP project developed by the CSIS Energy Security & Climate Change Program and theClimate Investment Funds(CIF) to investigate how to achieve a just transition through the transformational

change necessary to address climate change.

This multi-year project will create policy recommendations and strategies informed by case study analysis, consultations, and literature review. It will also identify the variances and gapsin both the conceptual and practical understandingof a just transition and facilitate knowledge sharing and partnerships among stakeholders and scholars.

SMART Launched By India

India successfully launched Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo System (SMART) On 13 December from Abdul Kalam Island, off the Odisha coast

Highlights:

The

mission successfully demonstrated the full range capability of the missile.

The SMART system has been developed to improve anti-submarine warfare power past traditional torpedo ranges.

This was a textbook launch, in which the entire course of the test was observed by the electro-optic telemetry system and several range radars, which includes downrange instrumentation & down range ships.

SMART carried a torpedo, escape mechanisms and parachute delivery system.

It was established from a ground mobile launcher and can cover a range of distances.

The DEFENCE Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has designed the weapon for the INDIAN NAVY.

Unnati Launched By Delhi Police

It was launched under the Delhi Polices flagship scheme, YUVA, at the https://exam.pscnotes.com/all-india-council-for-technical-Education“>All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Auditorium, New Delhi.

Each Year, over 1.5 lakh people are arrested by the Delhi Police for various crimes. Quite 85 percent of them are first-timers, and only 10-15 percent are repeat offenders.

Unnati is

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an e-Learning and certificate endeavor by the Delhi Police-South West District to educate youths and impart skill training to high school dropouts from the weaker sections of Society.

Solar Hamam

A locally designed and a branded heating system called Solar Hamam gained popularity in Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Highlights:

Solar Haman aims to provide clean energy keys to households across mountainous regions.

It seeks to preserve forests, free Women from collecting fuelwood and mitigate carbon emissions.

The evolution of this technology is vital because households within the Mountains rely upon https://exam.pscnotes.com/natural-Resources“>Natural Resources to urge fuel, fodder, Health, Nutrition, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, livelihood, and EMPLOYMENT.

Effect of clear and cost-effective solar water & space heating plant was started in 2004 for rural households.

Solar Hamam

In 2008, an artisan-fabricated prototype, the Solar Hamam, was developed.

Solar Hamam was considered for performance, safety

and maintenance across rural households.

So far, quite 1,200 Solar Hamam systems have been established in Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Uttarakhand.