GK & CA
Collection of weekly GK & CA since year 2016.
August, 2022
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Jagdeep Dhankhar
Jagdeep Dhankhar is an Indian politician, who is the 14th vice president-elect of India. He served as the Governor of West Bengal. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He won the 2022 election with 72.8% votes and recorded a poll-victory margin highest since the 1992 election (Source: Wikipedia)
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Whale stuck in River Seine to get vitamin boost
French officials desperately trying to rescue a beluga whale trapped in the River Seine have come up with a new strategy - a vitamin cocktail.
Authorities hope that injecting with vitamins will stimulate its appetite and help it to make journey back to Arctic habitat (Source: bbc.com)
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World’s largest floating solar power plant
With an aim to increase the power generation capacity of the central state of Madhya Pradesh and address the electricity problems in the region, a floating solar power plant is going to be built in Khandwa which will generate 600 Megawatt power by 2022-23 (Source: The Print)
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Century-old astronomical lab
Century-old Bihar astronomical lab and the observatory, the first of its kind in eastern India, was established in the college in 1916 to impart astronomical knowledge to the students in detail. This has been now included on the UNESCO list of important endangered heritage observatories of the world (Source: dnaindia.com)
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Letters To Self
‘Letters to Self’, the English translation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Gujarati book of poetry, will hit the stands in August. Written over many years, the collection of poems, ‘Aankh Aa Dhanya Chhe’, originally released in 2007, is translated into English by film journalist and historian Bhawana Somaaya. (Source: The Indian Express)
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Hellfire R9X
Also called the "ninja bomb," the missile has become the US weapon of choice for killing leaders of extremist groups while avoiding civilian casualties. The missile is fired from a Predator drone. It has no warhead, but deploys six blades which fly in at high speed, crush and slice the targeted person. (Source: The NDTV)
Sun, 07 Aug, 2022